Work Experience

Dr. Umesh Hudedamani belongs to 89th FOCARS batch of ARS. He is specialized in Genetics and Plant Breeding. He was a recipient of ICAR-Junior Research Fellowship for his Post Graduation study. He began his career as scientist (trainee) at ICAR-NAARM, Hyderabad and later on, served as scientist at ICAR-Central Institute for Subtropical Horticulture (ICAR-CISH), Lucknow from 2010 to 2019. During his service at ICAR-CISH, Lucknow, he has undertaken research studies on genetic resources management and utilization of subtropical fruit crops with special emphasis on breeding of mango and guava. He has been serving as scientist (S.S) in Research Systems Management Division, ICAR-NAARM, since November, 2019.

Areas of Interest:

Areas of Interest
Genetic resources management, Breeding of subtropical fruits, IPRs, Plant varieties and farmer’s rights.

Recent Publications:

Research Papers

Hudedamani, U.B. and Yadav, O.P., 2012. Floral Biology of Kalmegh (Andrographis paniculata Nees). Environment and Ecology. 31(1): 76-79.
Pandey, D., Tandon, D.K., Hudedamani, U. and Tripathi, M., 2013. Variability in bael (A. mermelos correa) genotypes from Eastern Uttar Pradesh. Indian Journal of Horticulture. 70(2): 170-178.
Mishra, M., Jalil, S.U., Sharma, N. and Hudedamani, U., 2014. An agrobacterium mediated transformation of guava (P. guajava L) with endochitinase gene. Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology. 14(4): 232-237.
Ahmad, I., Muthukumar M, Hudedamani, U. and S. Rajan. 2018. In silico identification of mi-RNAs from Mango (Mangifera indica L.) fruit transcriptome data, Res. Jour. of Biotechnology. 13(10): 98-104.
Muralidhara, B.M., Veena, G.L., Rajan, S., Bhattacharjee, A.K. and Hudedamani, U., 2018. Profiling of major nutraceuticals for identification of nutritionally rich genotypes in mango. Journal of Environmental Biology. 40:177-182.

Book Chapters:

Pandey, D., Bajpai, A., Muthukumar, M., Hudedamani, U., Singh, |A., and Singh, S., 2014. Bael: In: Tropical and subtropical fruit crops. Crop improvement and varietal wealth. Jaya Publishing House, N.Delhi. 1: 51-65.
Pandey, D., Bajpai, A., Muthukumar, M., Hudedamani, U., Singh, S., and Hiwale, S. S., 2014. Aonla: In: Tropical and subtropical fruit crops. Crop improvement and varietal wealth. Jaya Publishing House, N.Delhi. 1: 1-19.
Rajan, S, Hudedamani, U. and Veena, G.L., 2018. Breeding of subtropical fruits: Strategies, achievements and future needs. In: Shaping the future of horticulture. K. L Chadha, S. K. Singh, Jai Prakash and V. B Patel (Eds.). Kruger Bent Publishers. N. Delhi. Pp. 94-100.
Rajan, S. and Hudedamani, U., 2019. Genetic Resources of Guava: Importance, Uses and Prospects. In: Conservation and utilization of horticulture genetic resources. Rajashekaran, P. E. and V. Ramanath Rao (Eds.). Springer Nature Singapore Pvt. Ltd. 1:363-383.