Externally Funded Project - Completed

Department of rice
S.No Title of the project Sponsoring agency Project Leader Duration of the scheme
1. CPBG/CBE/PBG/11/15 
Marker assisted gene pyramiding for resistance to Blast and BLB in parental lines of hybrids in rice 
DBT Dr. S. Manonmani
Professor (PBG)
Jun 2011 to May 2014
2. CPBG/CBE/PBG/12/S10 
“Generation of virus resistant rice for India diversifying transgenic resistance to popular varieties- II phase”
DBT Dr.Rabindran
Professor(PBG)
Dr.S. Robin
Professor (PBG)
2011 to 2014
3. CPBG/CBE/PBG/12/S32(DBT)
Rice biofortification with enhanced iron   and zinc in high yielding non-basmati cultivars through marker assisted breeding  and transgenic approaches – Phase II
DBT Dr.S. Robin
Professor (PBG)
Dr. S. Rajeswari
Professor (PBG)
Feb 2012 to Feb 2017
4. UGC/CPBG/CBE/RIC/2013/R003 
Molecular approaches towards
identification of zinc deficiency
tolerance under aerobic rice ecosystem
UGC Dr.K.Amudha
Assistant Professor(PBG)
April 2013 to March 2017
5. DBT/ CPBG/ CBE/ RIC/2013/ R005
DBT-BBSRC (Indo-UK Joint Project on  Wild rice MAGIC
DBT Dr.S. Robin,
Professor (PB&G)
Dr. P. Jeyaprakash, Professor (PB&G) 
June 2013 to Feb 2017
6. DBT/ CPBG/ CBE/ RIC/2013/ R006 – Indo Australia Project on Comparative transcriptomics between rice and resurrection plants and exploitation of novel genes for dehydration tolerance for improvement of drought tolerance in rice DBT Dr.S.Robin, Professor (PB&G)
Dr.M.Raveendran, Professor (Bio-tech)
2013 to 2016
7. ICAR/ CPBG/ CBE/ RIC/2014/ R009
Incentivizing research in agriculture – Molecular genetic analysis of resistance / tolerance to different stresses-Phase I
ICAR Dr.S. Robin,
Professor (PB&G)
Dr.A.Ramanathan, Professor (Pl.Patho)
Dr.S.Manonmani
2014 to 2017
8. ICAR/CPBG/CBE/RIC/2015/R010
Consortium Research Platform (CRP) on hybrid rice
ICAR Dr.R.Saraswathi, Professor (PB&G) Dr.S.Manonmani, Professor (PB&G)
Dr.D.Kumaresan
Associate Professor(PBG)
April 2015 to March 2017
9. ICAR/CPBG/CBE/RIC/2015/R011 
Consortium Research platform (CRP) on Agro biodiversity
ICAR Dr.P.Jeyaprakash, Professor (PB&G) Dr.A.Ramanathan, Professor(Pl.Patho)
Dr.K.Amudha, Asst.Professor (PB&G)
2015 to 2017
10. ICAR-EM/ CPBG/ CBE/ RIC/2016/ R014Development of pre- breeding genetic stocks in rice for yield, heterotic potential and resistance to BPH and stem borer ICAR Dr.S.Robin
Professor(PBG)
Dr.S.Manonmani 
Professor (PB&G) 
2015 to 2017
11. DST/CPBG/CBE/RIC/2016/R015
DST project on Improvement of lodging resistance in rice cultivars through introgression of “SCM2”gene conferring culm strength
DST Dr.G.Subashini, PI 2016 to 2019
12. Field testing of IRRI stress tolerant rice for Africa and South Asia STRASA- IRRI STRASA- IRRI P.Jeyaprakash & K.Amudha 2016 to 2019
13. ICAR- CRP on Agro biodiversity ICAR P.Jeyaprakash&K.Amudha 2015-16 to 2016-17
14. ICAR – NICRA ICAR – NICRA P.Jeyaprakash&K.Amudha 2017 to 18
15. ICAR fully financed scheme on FLD
IIRR,  Hyderabad
ICAR All scientists 2015 to 2019
16. CPBG/CBE/PBG/12/S7
Stress tolerant rice for poor farmers in Africa and South Asia – Phase II
IRRI Dr. S. Robin
Professor (PBG) (upto April 2017)
Dr.P.Jeyaprakash
Professor(PBG)
Dr.K.Amudha
Asst. Professor(PBG)
2012 to 2019
17. ICAR/CPBG/CBE/RIC/2015/R012
ICAR Consortia for Research Platform (CRP) on Rice – Biofortification in selected crops for nutritional security
ICAR Dr.S. Robin,
Professor (PB&G)
(upto April 2017)
Dr.D.Sudhakar, Professor(Bio Tech)
Dr.M.Raveendran, Professor (Bio-tech)
Dr.S.Rajeswari, Professor (PB&G)
Dr.K.S.Subramanian, Professor (SS&AC)
2015 to 2017