Scientist ( Microbiology)
Lucknow
01 | Name | Dr Arjun Singh | |
02 | Designation | Scientist (SS) | |
03 | Date of birth | 02-12-1985 | |
04 | Official Address | ICAR-CSSRI, RRS,
Old Jail Road, PO; Dilkusha, Lucknow-226002, Uttar Pradesh |
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05 | Residential Address | B1-1502, Tower B1, Rishita Manhattan, Omaxe Integrated Township, Gomti Nagar Extension Sec 7, Lucknow 226002 |
- Academic qualification
Degree | Name of university | Passing year | Division/OGPA |
B.Sc. (Agriculture) | CSA University of Agriculture and Technology, Kanpur Uttar Pradesh | 2007 | 8.44 |
M.Sc. (Microbiology) | Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi | 2009 | 8.36 |
Ph.D. (Microbiology) | Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi | 2015 | 8.28 |
- Date of joining in the ICAR: 01-01-2015
- Service Experience
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Scientist | L-10 to L-11 | Plant microbe interactions and soil ecology | ICAR-NBAIM, Mau | 09-04-2014 | 19-12-2019 |
Scientist | L-11 | Plant microbe interactions and soil ecology | ICAR-CSSRI, RRS Lucknow | 26-12-2019 | Till date |
10. Specialization: Agricultural Microbiology
- Publications
Research papers
1. Tran, T.K.A., Raju, S., Singh, A., Senathirajah, K., Bhagwat-Russell, G., Daggubati, L., Kandaiah, R. and Palanisami, T., 2023. Occurrence and distribution of microplastics in long-term biosolid-applied rehabilitation land: An overlooked pathway for microplastic entry into terrestrial ecosystems in Australia. Environmental Pollution, p.122464. (IF: 8.9, NAAS Rating 15.99) 2. Saxena, P., Singh, A., Chakdar, H., Shirodkar, S. and Srivastava, A.K., 2023. Deciphering Azadirachta indica (Neem) Gum Microbiome using Metagenomic Approaches. Journal of Pure & Applied Microbiology, 17(2). (NAAS Rating 5.05) 3. Kumar, M., Ansari, W.A., Zeyad, M.T., Singh, A., Chakdar, H., Kumar, A., Farooqi, M.S., Sharma, A., Srivastava, S. and Srivastava, A.K., 2023. Core microbiota of wheat rhizosphere under Upper Indo-Gangetic plains and their response to soil physicochemical properties. Frontiers in Plant Science, 14, p.1186162. (IF: 5.6; NAAS rating: 12.63) 4. Damodaran, T., Jha, S.K., Kumari, S., Gupta, G., Mishra, V.K., Sharma, P.C., Gopal, R., Singh, A. and Jat, H.S., 2023. Development of Halotolerant Microbial Consortia for Salt Stress Mitigation and Sustainable Tomato Production in Sodic Soils: An Enzyme Mechanism Approach. Sustainability, 15(6), p.5186. (IF:3.9, NAAS rating:9.89) 5. Singh, Y.P., Arora, S., Mishra, V.K. and Singh, A., 2023. Composting of Municipal Solid Waste Using Earthworms and Ligno-Cellulolytic Microbial Consortia for Reclamation of the Degraded Sodic Soils and Harnessing Their Productivity Potential. Sustainability, 15(3), p.2317. IF:3.9, NAAS rating:9.89) 6. Saxena, P., Chakdar, H., Singh, A., Shirodkar, S. and Srivastava, A.K., 2023. Microbial diversity of Azadirachta indica (Neem) gum: An unexplored niche. Journal of Applied Biology and Biotechnology, 11(2), pp.209-219. (NAAS Rating 5.05) 7. Kumar, M., Chakdar, H., Pandiyan, K., Thapa, S., Shahid, M., Singh, A., Srivastava, A.K. and Saxena, A.K., 2022. Bacterial chitinases: genetics, engineering and applications. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 38(12), p.252. (IF:4.2 NAAS rating: 10.25) 8. Singh, A., Kumar, M., Chakdar, H., Pandiyan, K., Kumar, S.C., Zeyad, M.T., Singh, B.N., Ravikiran, K.T., Mahto, A., Srivastava, A.K. and Saxena, A.K., 2022. Influence of host genotype in establishing root associated microbiome of indica rice cultivars for plant growth promotion. Frontiers in Microbiology, 13, p.1033158. (IF:5.2; NAAS rating: 12.06) 9. Chaitra, H.S., Singh, A., Pandiyan, K. and Kalia, V.K., 2022. Sex biased variance in the structural and functional diversity of the midgut bacterial community of last instar larvae of Pectinophora gossypiella (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Microbial ecology, 83(4), pp.1112-1122. (IF 4.2; NAAS rating: 10.19) 10. Upadhyay, H., Gangola, S., Sharma, A., Singh, A., Maithani, D. and Joshi, S., 2021. Contribution of zinc solubilizing bacterial isolates on enhanced zinc uptake and growth promotion of maize (Zea mays L.). Folia microbiologica, 66, pp.543-553. (IF2.6; NAAS rating 8.63) 11. Vinothkumar, R., Dar, J.Y., Bharti, V.S., Singh, A., Vennila, A., Bhat, I.A. and Pandey, P.K., 2021. Heterotrophic nitrifying and aerobic denitrifying bacteria: Characterization and comparison of shrimp pond and effluent discharge channel in aspects of composition and function. Aquaculture, 539, p.736659. (IF 4.5, NAAS rating 11.14) 12. Yadav, K., Damodaran, T., Dutt, K., Singh, A., Muthukumar, M., Rajan, S., Gopal, R. and Sharma, P.C., 2021. Effective biocontrol of banana fusarium wilt tropical race 4 by a bacillus rhizobacteria strain with antagonistic secondary metabolites. Rhizosphere, 18, p.100341. (IF3.7 , NAAS rating : 9.44) 13. Kushwaha, P., Srivastava, R., Pandiyan, K., Singh, A., Chakdar, H., Kashyap, P.L., Bhardwaj, A.K., Murugan, K., Karthikeyan, N., Bagul, S.Y. and Srivastava, A.K., 2021. Enhancement in plant growth and zinc biofortification of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) by Bacillus altitudinis. Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 21, pp.922-935. (IF 3.9, NAAS rating :9.61) 14. Joshi, S., Jaggi, V., Gangola, S., Singh, A., Sah, V.K. and Sahgal, M., 2021. Contrasting rhizosphere bacterial communities of healthy and wilted Dalbergia sissoo Roxb. forests. Rhizosphere, 17, p.100295. (IF3.7 , NAAS rating : 9.44) 15. Pandiyan, K., Kushwaha, P., Bagul, S.Y., Chakdar, H., Madhaiyan, M., Krishnamurthi, S., Kumar, P., Karthikeyan, N., Singh, A., Kumar, M. and Singh, U.B., 2021. Halomonas icarae sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from beach soil in India. International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology, 71(1), p.004611. (IF: 2.8 ; NAAS rating 8.69) 16. Rajavat, A.S., Rai, S., Pandiyan, K., Kushwaha, P., Choudhary, P., Kumar, M., Chakdar, H., Singh, A., Karthikeyan, N., Bagul, S.Y. and Agnihotri, A., 2020. Sustainable use of the spent mushroom substrate of Pleurotus florida for production of lignocellulolytic enzymes. Journal of basic microbiology, 60(2), pp.173-184. (IF:3.1; NAAS rating 8.65) 17. Kumar, S., Dehury, B., Tandon, G., Jaiswal, S., Iquebal, M.A., Ahmed, K., Nagrale, D.T., Singh, U.B., Jha, Y., Singh, M.K. and Singh, A., 2020. An insight into molecular interaction of PGIP with PG for banana cultivar. Frontiers in Bioscience-Landmark, 25(2), pp.335-362. (IF: 3.1; NAAS rating:9.12) 18. Choudhary, P., Das, S., Chakdar, H., Singh, A., Goswami, S.K. and Saxena, A.K., 2019. Rapid high throughput template preparation (rHTTP) method: a novel cost effective method of direct PCR for a wide range of plants. BMC biotechnology, 19(1), pp.1-10. (IF: 3.5; NAAS rating:9.3) 19. Awasthi, S., Sharma, A., Saxena, P., Yadav, J., Pandiyan, K., Kumar, M., Singh, A., Chakdar, H., Bhowmik, A., Kashyap, P.L. and Srivastava, A.K., 2019. Molecular detection and in silico characterization of cold shock protein coding gene (csp A) from cold adaptive Pseudomonas koreensis. Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 28, pp.405-413. (IF.1.9:; NAAS rating:7.53) 20. Pandiyan, K., Singh, A., Singh, S., Saxena, A.K. and Nain, L., 2019. Technological interventions for utilization of crop residues and weedy biomass for second generation bio-ethanol production. Renewable Energy, 132, pp.723-741. (IF: 8.7; NAAS rating:14.63) 21. Bapatla, K.G., Singh, A., Yeddula, S. and Patil, R.H., 2018. Annotation of gut bacterial taxonomic and functional diversity in Spodoptera litura and Spilosoma obliqua. Journal of basic microbiology, 58(3), pp.217-226. (IF:3.1; NAAS rating 8.65) 22. Singh, A., Tiwari, R., Sharma, A., Adak, A., Singh, S., Prasanna, R., Saxena, A.K., Nain, L. and Singh, R.V., 2016. Taxonomic and functional diversity of the culturable microbiomes of epigeic earthworms and their prospects in agriculture. Journal of Basic Microbiology, 56(9), pp.1009-1020. (IF:3.1; NAAS rating 8.65) 23. Chakdar, H., Kumar, M., Pandiyan, K., Singh, A., Nanjappan, K., Kashyap, P.L. and Srivastava, A.K., 2016. Bacterial xylanases: biology to biotechnology. 3 Biotech, 6, pp.1-15. (IF:3.1; NAAS rating 8.89) 24. Yadav, A.K., Manna, S., Pandiyan, K., Singh, A., Kumar, M., Chakdar, H., Kashyap, P.L. and Srivastava, A.K., 2016. Isolation and characterization of biosurfactant producing Bacillus sp. from diesel fuel-contaminated site. Microbiology, 85, pp.56-62. (IF:1.5; NAAS rating 7.51) 25. Singh, A., Singh, D.P., Tiwari, R., Kumar, K., Singh, R.V., Singh, S., Prasanna, R., Saxena, A.K. and Nain, L., 2015. Taxonomic and functional annotation of gut bacterial communities of Eisenia foetida and Perionyx excavatus. Microbiological Research, 175, pp.48-56. (IF:6.7; NAAS rating 11.07) 26. Singh, A., Kumar, K., Pandey, A.K., Sharma, A., Singh, S.B., Kumar, K., Arora, A. and Nain, L., 2015. Pyrene degradation by biosurfactant producing bacterium Stenotrophomonas maltophilia. Agricultural Research, 4, pp.42-47. (NAAS rating 5.95) 27. Sharma, A., Sharma, R., Arora, A., Shah, R., Singh, A., Pranaw, K. and Nain, L., 2014. Insights into rapid composting of paddy straw augmented with efficient microorganism consortium. International Journal of Recycling of Organic Waste in Agriculture, 3, pp.1-9. |
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Popular articles | · Kumar M, Savita Santosh, Arjun Singh (2017) Enhancing Phosphorus Uptake efficiency using microbial inoculants. Biotech Articles
· Sanjay Goswami and Arjun Singh (2020). Crop residu burning Insight into issues, challenges and management. Popular Kheti, 8(2)175-177 (April-June), 2020, eISSN: 2321-0001. |
Book chapters | · Singh, A., Kumar, M., Verma, S., Choudhary, P. and Chakdar, H., 2020. Plant microbiome: Trends and prospects for sustainable agriculture. Plant microbe symbiosis, pp.129-151.
· Singh, A., Kumar, M. and Saxena, A.K., 2020. Role of microorganisms in regulating carbon cycle in tropical and subtropical soils. Carbon management in tropical and sub-tropical terrestrial systems, pp.249-263. |
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Scientific Review paper | 1. Pandiyan, K., Singh, A., Singh, S., Saxena, A.K. and Nain, L., 2019. Technological interventions for utilization of crop residues and weedy biomass for second generation bio-ethanol production. Renewable Energy, 132, pp.723-741. (IF: 8.7; NAAS rating:14.63)
2. Chakdar, H., Kumar, M., Pandiyan, K., Singh, A., Nanjappan, K., Kashyap, P.L. and Srivastava, A.K., 2016. Bacterial xylanases: biology to biotechnology. 3 Biotech, 6, pp.1-15. (IF:3.1; NAAS rating 8.89) 3. Kumar, M., Chakdar, H., Pandiyan, K., Thapa, S., Shahid, M., Singh, A., Srivastava, A.K. and Saxena, A.K., 2022. Bacterial chitinases: genetics, engineering and applications. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 38(12), p.252. (IF:4.2 NAAS rating: 10.25)
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- Fellowship and Award
International Research Experience Fellowship, SERB, DST, Government of India
International Travel Support from SERB-DST, Government of India
Significant achievements (not more than 300 words)
As a soil microbiologist, I always had an interest in pursuing role of microorganisms in maintaining soil health and quantifying ecosystem services conferred by them using high-throughput techniques. In this regard, your work in identifying relationships between microorganisms and ecosystem functions and their influence on global change has piqued my interest. Your lab focuses on underpinning interactions within microbiological communities and their influence on edaphic factors, which will help me in expanding my knowledge about microbiological networks and biological switches regulating cycling of key soil macronutrients. In my doctoral thesis, I deciphered structural and functional diversity of vermicomposting earthworm during which, I gained expertise in designing and executing metagenomics project. As a mid-career Scientist at ICAR, I have worked as a project investigator conducting soil microbiome projects to identify key biological indicators of soil pesticide contamination and soil fertility. I have studied rice rhizobiomes of ten non-aromatic indica rice varieties and identified key cultivar-specific bacterial OTUs and microbial guilds for C and N cycling. Working on insect gut microbiomes, I have mined novel lignocellulolytic genes of Macrotermes (subterranean termite) employing whole metagenome sequencing. Furthermore, I was formerly associated with National Agriculturally Important Microbial Culture Collection as curator and expedited soil microbiome analysis of Western Ghats and desert ecosystem of India. I have good working knowledge of Unix/ Linux based pipelines such as QIIME2, MOTHUR, PiCRUST, FAPROTAX etc., for analysis of targeted metagenome datasets and metagenome reconstruction. Two databases containing information on microbial diversity (https://www.microveda.org.in/) and microbe based technologies for agriculture has also developed (https://agrimicrotech.com/) by me.
Mailing address: Arjun.Singh1@icar.gov.in
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