• Generated large-scale genomic SSRs, genic SSRs, Indels and SNPs markers and demonstrated the utility of these markers in genetic diversity, germplasm characterization, transferability, phylogenetics and high-density physical and QTL mapping studies for biotic and abiotic stresses in chickpea.
• Developed Recombinant Inbreed Lines (RIL) population for fusarium wilt, salinity and seed size and nested association mapping (NAM) populations for traits mapping in chickpea.
• We introgress “QTLs hotspot” in background of DCP 92-3 as recurrent parent through marker assisted backcross breeding and developed several improved MABC lines for enhance drought tolerance.
• Phenotyped 3000 chickpea composite germplasm lines for 12 agronomic traits and became partners in re-sequencing of these lines in collaboration with ICRISAT, Hyderabad.

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• Trait mapping and gene discovery for drought and salinity stress in chickpea.

• Soren KR, Iquebal MA, Gangwar P, Shanmugavadivel PS, Aravind K, Singla D, Jaiswal S, Jasrotia RS, Chaturvedi SK, Singh NP, Varshney RK, Rai A and Kumar D (2017). Discovery of Putative Herbicide Resistance Genes and Its Regulatory Network in Chickpea Using Transcriptome Sequencing. Front. Plant Sciences, 8:958. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00958.
• Soren KR, Ashutosh Yadav, Gaurav Pandey, Priyanka Gangwar, Ashok K Parihar, Abhishek Bohra, Girish P Dixit, Subhojit Datta and N P Singh (2015). EST-SSR analysis provides insights about genetic relatedness, population structure and gene flow in grass pea (Lathyrus sativus), an under researched food-legume crop Plant Breeding. 134, 338-344.
• Soren KR, Aravind Kumar Konda, Rohit Farmer, Shanmugavadivel PS & Aravind Setti (2017). Structural modeling and molecular dynamics of a multi-stress responsive WRKY TF-DNA complex towards elucidating its role in stress signaling mechanisms in chickpea. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics., Pages 1-13. doi.org/10.1080/07391102.2017.1349690.
• Soren KR, Priyanka Gangwar, R G Chaudhary and S Datta (2014). Population distribution and genetic relatedness in Indian Fusarium udum isolates based on ribosomal internal transcribe spacer and elongation factor. Journal of Environmental Biology., 36, 1063-1070.
• Soren KR, Supriya Sachdeva, Shruti Dawar, Upasana Rani, Basavanagouda Siddanagouda Patil, Sarvjeet Singh, Satish Kumar Sanwal, Sanjeev K Chauhan and Bharadwaj C. (2019). Identification of SSR markers linked to Botrytis grey mould resistance in chickpea (Cicer arietinum)Phytopathology Mediterranea,58(2): 283-292.

• Indian Society of Pulses Research and Development (ISPRD) Fellow (2019).