Indian Institute of Pulses Research

Profile of Dr. A K Srivastava

Name	:	Dr. A K Srivastava
Designation	:	Senior Scientist
Email	:	bhu.avinash@gmail.com
Telephone (Office)	:	+91 0512-2580994-95, Ext 6101
Mobile No.	:	+91 87569 95677
Date of joining ICAR	:	7th January, 2008
Discipline and specialization	:	Plant Breeding.
Training/advance exposure in the area of work	:	Training on Advanced Experimental Designs and Statistical Analysis for Breeding and Agronomic Trials at IASRI, New Delhi. Training on Molecular characterization of potato germplasm in the area of work at CPRI, Shimla. Training on Modern Techniques on potato research and development at CPRI Campus, Modipuram, Meerut.

Developed desi chickpea variety Keshav (IPC 2011-112) released for cultivation in Uttar Pradesh by the SVRC (UP) in 2019.
A mobile based decision support system software “CHANA MITRA” developed for dissemination of information about improved chickpea production technologies among farmers.
Novel R gene homologues of genes RB/Rpiblb1, Rpi-ber1, R1 and R3 were identified from eleven Solanum wild species and the nucleotide sequences (KP347781 to KP347844) were submitted to the NCBI database.
Development of potato Aeroponics in North eastern hill region for soil less production of quality seed of potato varieties.

GP Dixit, AK Srivastava and NP Singh (2019). Marching towards Self-sufficiency in Chickpea. Current Science, 116 (2): 239-242.
AK Srivastava, GP Dixit and Narendra Kumar (2017). Milling properties of desi and kabuli chickpea (Cicer arietinum) varieties released in India. Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 87 (10): 1350-1357.
AK Srivastava, GP Dixit and NP Singh (2017). Assessing chickpea yield gaps in India: A tale of two decades. Outlook on Agriculture. 46(3): 230–235.
AK Srivastava, SK Chaturvedi and NP Singh (2017). Genetic base of Indian chickpea (Cicer arietinuml) varieties revealed by pedigree analysis. Legume Research 40 (1): 22-26.
AK Srivastava, GP Dixit, SK Chaturvedi, NP Singh and Mohammad Nisar (2016). Genetic relatedness among desi and kabuli chickpea varieties of India. Journal of Food Legumes 29(1): 7-9.

Best Poster Award at 72nd Annual Conference of Agricultural Statistics on Statistics informatics and Engineering Interventions- A Road Map to Transform Indian Agriculture towards Prosperity, held at ICAR-CIAE, Bhopal from 13-15 December, 2018.
Best Poster Award at National conference on “Bringing self-sufficiency in pulses for eastern India” at Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour, Bihar from 5-6 August, 2016.
Best Poster Award at National symposium on “Impact of climate change on plant microbe interactions and its implications” held at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi during 18-19 December, 2015.
CSIR-NET (2005), CSIR-NET JRF (2006), ICAR-NET (2006), ICAR-NET (2007).