Profile of Dr. Mayank Rai

• B.Sc. (Agriculture): Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab
• M.Sc. (Genetics & Plant Breeding): Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar (Uttarakhand)
• Ph.D. (Genetics & Plant Breeding): Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar (Uttarakhand)

• Research Area: Crop Improvement; Genomics assisted breeding; Genetic Engineering
• Research Interests: Nutrient Use Efficiency; biofortification; marker development and validation, rice improvement; multiple stress tolerance

• Datta K, Baisakh N, Oliva N, Torrizo N, Abrigo E, Tan J, Rai M, Rehana S, Al-Babili S, Beyer P, Potrykus I, Datta SK (2003) Bioengineered ‘golden’ indica rice cultivars with β-carotene accumulation in the endosperm with hygromycin and mannose selection systems. Plant Biotechnol J 1:81–90.
• Baisakh N, Datta K, Rai M, Oliva N, Rehana S, Tan J, Mackill DJ, Datta SK (2006) Marker free transgenic (MFT) introgression lines of Golden indica rice (cv. IR64) with accumulation of provitamin A in endosperm tissue. Plant Biotechnol J 4:467–475.
• Rai M, Datta K, Parkhi V, Tan J, Oliva N, Chawla HS, Datta SK (2007) Variable T-DNA linkage configuration affects inheritance of carotenogenic transgenes and carotenoid accumulation in transgenic indica rice. Plant Cell Rep 26:1221–1231.
• James M, Tyagi W, Magudeeswari P, Neeraja CN, Rai M (2024) Genome-wide association-based identification of alleles, genes and haplotypes influencing yield in rice (Oryza sativa) under low-phosphorus acidic lowland soils. Int J Mol Sci 25(21):11673.
• Debnath A, Sumpi H, Lap B, Bhutia KL, Behera A, Tyagi W, Rai M (2024) Multi-population analysis for leaf and neck blast reveals novel source of neck blast resistance in rice. Plants 13(17):2475.
• Colney L, Tyagi W, Rai M (2018) Morphological and molecular characterization of two distinct chilli cultivars from North Eastern India with special reference to pungency related genes. Sci Hortic 240:1–10.
• Tyagi W, Yumnam JS, Sen D, Rai M (2020) Root transcriptome reveals efficient cell signaling and energy conservation key to aluminum toxicity tolerance in acidic soil adapted rice genotype. Sci Rep 10:1–14.
• Rai M, Chucha D, Deepika D, Lap B, Magudeeswari P, Padmavathi G, Singh N, Tyagi W (2023) Pyramiding of qDTY1.1 and qDTY3.1 into rice mega-variety Samba Mahsuri-Sub1: physiological performance under water deficit conditions. Physiol Mol Biol Plants 29(12):1931–1943.
• Rai M, He CK, Wu R (2009) Comparative functional analysis of three abiotic stress inducible promoters in transgenic rice. Transgenic Res 18:787–799.
• Dutta SS, Tyagi W, Pale G, Pohlong J, Aochen C, Pandey A, Pattanayak A, Rai M (2018) Marker-trait association for low-light intensity tolerance in rice genotypes from Eastern India. Mol Genet Genomics 293:1493–1506.
• Lap B, Magudeeswari P, Tyagi W, Rai M (2024) Genetic analysis of purple pigmentation in rice seed and vegetative parts—Implications on developing high-yielding purple rice (Oryza sativa). J Appl Genet 65(2):241–254.
• Singh R, Rai M, Mackill D, Singh NK (2015) From QTL to variety-harnessing the benefits of QTLs for drought, flood and salinity tolerance in mega rice varieties of India through a multi-institutional network. Plant Sci 242:278–287.
• Kadiyala K, Konjengbam NS, Rai M, Tyagi W, Mahato AK (2025) Molecular signatures that translate across omics layers and crops under high aluminium and low phosphorus stress facilitate the identification of reliable molecular targets for genotyping in lentil. Funct Integr Genomics 25(1):1–7.
• Debnath S, Rai M, Tyagi W, Majumder S, Meetei NT (2025) Lower vicine content reduces the reproductive yield performance in faba bean (Vicia faba). Sci Rep 15(1):311.
• Meitei AL, Yogendra K, Sanivarapu H, Meetei NT, Rai M, Tyagi W (2025) Metabolite profiling reveals differential accumulation of secondary metabolites related to flavour and colour across four heirloom chilli landraces. Physiol Mol Biol Plants 6:1–5.

A. PGCA, RPCAU, Pusa, Samastipur-848 125 Bihar, India

M. dean.ag@rpcau.ac.in; mayank.rai@rpcau.ac.in

T. + 91-6287797110

ORCID: 0000-0002-8477-3224

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Scopus Author ID: 15048618400