Dr. Debjyoti Sen Gupta is Senior Scientist at ICAR-Indian Institute of Pulses Research in Kanpur, India. He was one of the ICAR International Fellow and received his Ph.D. at North Dakota State University (NDSU), Fargo, USA in 2015. He bred 10 varieties of urdbean and lentil and many are in breeding pipeline. He also has developed several registered donors in mungbean and urdbean for many important agronomic traits. He has authored more than 40 research articles; several review articles and many book chapters in the peer-reviewed journals and books from Wiley, Springer, CABI, Elsevier. He is also Fellow of Indian Society of Pulses Research and Development and many professional associations.

Biofortification research in pulses including urdbean, chcickpea and pigeonpea are ongoing. Besides regular pedigree based selection for high-yield is very common after post-rainy among the segregating generation.

• Sen Gupta, D., Kumar, J., Lamichaney, A., Parihar, A.K., Das, S.P., Kumar, A., Katiyar, P.K. and Gupta, S., 2023. Genetics for seed traits and Mungbean yellow mosaic India virus reaction in urdbean (Vigna mungo Hepper). Legume Science, p.e180.
• Lamichaney, A., Hazra, K.K., Katiyar, P.K., Parihar, A.K., Gupta, D.S., Kumar, A. and Singh, F., 2023. Influence of seed and pod biophysical characters on pre-harvest sprouting tolerance in urdbean (Vigna mungo). Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, 45(3), p.48.
• Sen Gupta, D*., Basu, P.S., Souframanien, J., Kumar, J., Dhanasekar, P., Gupta, S., Pandiyan, M., Geetha, S., Shanthi, P., Kumar, V. and Pratap Singh, N., 2021. Morpho-physiological traits and functional markers based molecular dissection of heat-tolerance in urdbean. Frontiers in Plant Science, 12, p.719381.
• Sen Gupta*, D., Basu, P.S., Souframanien, J., Kumar, J., Dhanasekar, P., Gupta, S., Pandiyan, M., Geetha, S., Shanthi, P., Kumar, V. and Pratap Singh, N., 2021. Morpho-physiological traits and functional markers based molecular dissection of heat-tolerance in urdbean. Frontiers in Plant Science, 12, p.719381.
• Kumar J, Gupta DS*, Kesari R, Verma R, Murugesan S, Basu PS, Soren KR, Gupta S, Singh NP. Comprehensive RNAseq analysis for identification of genes expressed under heat stress in lentil. Physiol Plant. 2021 Dec;173(4):1785-1807. doi: 10.1111/ppl.13419.