Scientist ( Microbiology)

 

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

05 Residential Address B1-1502, Tower B1, Rishita Manhattan, Omaxe Integrated Township, Gomti Nagar Extension Sec 7, Lucknow 226002
  1. 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

 

  1. Date of joining in the ICAR: 01-01-2015
  2. Service Experience
Designation

 

Pay Scale/

Pay Band with Grade Pay/Research Grade Pay/Pay Level

Nature of work Organization/

Institute

 

Period

 

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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
  1. 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 Microbiology17(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 Science14, 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. Sustainability15(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. Sustainability15(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 Biotechnology11(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 Biotechnology38(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 Microbiology13, 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 ecology83(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 microbiologica66, 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. Aquaculture539, 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. Rhizosphere18, 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 Nutrition21, 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. Rhizosphere17, 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 microbiology71(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 microbiology60(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-Landmark25(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 biotechnology19(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 Biotechnology28, 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 Energy132, 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 microbiology58(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 Microbiology56(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 Biotech6, 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. Microbiology85, 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 Research175, 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 Research4, 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 Agriculture3, pp.1-9.

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.

Bulletin  
Practical manual
  1. Arjun Singh, Chakdar H, Kumar M, Pandiyan K, Bagul  S Y (2018). Training Manual on Rhizosphere Microbiology : Classical to Omic approaches, ICAR-National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms
  2. Kumar M, Chakdar H, Pandiyan K, Arjun Singh Karthikeyan N  (2017). Microbial Identification: A Polyphasic Approach ICAR-National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms
  3. Goswami SK, Chakdar H, Arjun Singh, Kumar M, Pandiyan K (2017) Training manual on “Techniques in Microbiology” ICAR-National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms
  4. Kumar S, Arjun Singh, Renu, Sahu P K. (2016). Workshop manual on Bioinformatics-based Genomic and proteomic data analysis in microbial domain ICAR-National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms
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 Energy132, 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 Biotech6, 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)

 

 

  1. 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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