Breeding varieties for tropical India

Maintenance of world sugarcane Germplasm

 Pre-breeding and development of genetic stocks

♦ Co-Principal Investigator on a project “Identification of location specific sugarcane varieties suitable for different agro-climatic zones of Tamil Nadu” (funded by Govt of TN) for a period of three years (8.0 lakh)

♦ Co-Principal Investigator on a project “Enhancing Sugar Productivity in Tamil Nadu through Institute-Industry Participatory Approach” (funded by SISMA) for a period of six years (46.2 lakh)

♦ Co-Principal Investigator on a project “Sugarcane seed production (funded by ICAR Mega seed project) seed production in agricultural crops and fisheries for a period of One year

♦ Co-Principal Investigator on a project “Consortium Research Platform (CRP) on Agrobiodiversity Sub-project 1: Management and Use of Plant genetic Resources (PGR) Component II” (funded by ICAR) (50.0 lakh)

♦ ­­­­Co-Principal Investigator on a project “Prebreeding and Genetic Enhancement in breaking yield barriers in lentil and kabuli chickpea” (funded by ICAR-DAC Collaborative project) for a period of two years (56.3 lakh)

♦ Principal Investigator on a network project “All India Coordinated Research Network on Potential Crops” for a period of three years (100.0 lakh)

♣ Elango D, Wang W, Thudi M, Sebastiar S, Ramadoss BR and Varshney RK(2022). Genome-wide association mapping of seed oligosaccharides in chickpea. Plant Sci. 13:1024543. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2022.1024543.

1. ♣ Lakshmi Kasirajan, Rabisha Valiyaparambth,Keerthana Kamaraj, Sheelamary Sebastiar, Nam V. Hoang,Selvi Athaiappan,Vasantha Srinivasavedantham,Karthigeyan Subramanian (2022). Deep Sequencing of Suppression Subtractive Library Identifies Differentially Expressed Transcripts of Saccharum spontaneumExposed to Salinity Stress. Physiologia Plantarum. e13645 https://doi.org/10.1111/ppl.13645.
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3. ♣ Elango D, Rajendran K, Van der Laan L, Sebastiar S, Raigne J, Thaiparambil NA, El Haddad N, Raja B, Wang W, Ferela A, Chiteri KO, Thudi M, Varshney RK, Chopra S, Singh A and Singh AK(2022). Raffinose Family Oligosaccharides: Friend or Foe for Human and Plant Health?  Plant Sci.13:829118. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2022.829118.
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5. ♣ Sheelamary and S. Karthigeyan (2021). Evaluation of promising commercial sugarcane genotypes for stability by AMMI analysis. Electronic Journal of Plant Breeding, 12 (2): 371 – 378. https://doi.org/10.37992/2021.1202.055.
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7. ♣ Sheelamary and L. Vidhya Nandhini(2021). Effect of media concentration and growth hormones on shoot regeneration and in vitro rooting of sugarcane varieties (Saccharum spp. L.). International Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 17(1): 89-94. DOI:10.15740/HAS/IJAS/17.1/89-94.
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9. ♣ Sheelamary (2017). Effect of Raffinose Family Oligosaccharides on seed germination of wild and mutant types of chickpea (Cicer arietinum). International Journal of Plant Sciences. Vol (12) 1:64-67.
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11. ♣ Sheelamary, S and B.S. Phogat(2016). Studies on Variability Parameters of Grain amaranthus In Plains of New Delhi Condition. The Bioscan, 11(4):2817-2819.
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13. ♣ Gaurav Agarwal., Murali M. Sabbavarapu., Vikas K. Singh., Mahendar Thudi.,Sheelamary., Pooran M. Gaur and Rajeev K. Varshney (2015).
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15. ♣ Identification of a non-redundant set of 202 in silico SSR markers and applicability of a select set in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) Euphytica, 205:381–394. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10681-015-1394-3.
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17. ♣ Ramchander, S., S.Sheelamary, K.Baghyalakshmi.,S.Revathi and M.Arumugam Pillai(2015). Response on callusing and regeneration of two quality rice (Oryza sativa.,L) varieties. Journal of Innovative Agriculture. 2(3):15-18.
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19. ♣ Sheelamary, S and A. Gopalan(2006). An interpretation of Nature and Extent of Relationship between yield and its related Traits of Fodder cowpea in F₃ Journal of Applied Sciences research, 2(10): 687-690.

♥ S. Sheelamary, K.Lakshmi and K.Boomiraj Biodiversity Conservation. SRABCS.1(3):

♥ Sujay Anand, G K., T.V. Prasad., Z.Khan and S.Sheelamary. Comprehensive Impact of Climate Change on Insects and Insect Plant Interaction” book entitled In: Crop Protection- Strategies in Climate Change., Pg. No: 131-147

♥ Ashok Kumar and S. Sheelamary. Lesser known crop plants diversity for nutritional and health security published in: Compendium of Lectures in A Model Training course

♥ 2016- IARA Award for Best Researcher Award in recognition and appreciation for outstanding contribution by Indian Academic Researchers Association.

♥ 2009- Awarded Senior Research Fellowship from DBT on Reducing Raffinose Family Oligosaccharides through Molecular Breeding in Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L) for pursuing Ph.D.

♥ 2004- Awarded TNAU Merit Scholarship for pursuing M.Sc Degree programme