Publications having NAAS rating 6 and above with first or corresponding author only

1. Gaikwad, K. B., Singh, N., Bhatia, D., Kaur, R., Bains, N. S., Bharaj, T. S., & Singh, K. (2014). Yield-enhancing heterotic QTL transferred from wild species to cultivated rice Oryza sativa L. PLoS One, 9(6).
2. Gaikwad, K. B*., Singh, N., Bhatia, D., Kaur, R., Bains, N. S., Bharaj, T. S., & Singh, K. (2019). Reinventing heterosis phenomenon through deployment of alien introgression lines in rice (Oryza sativa L.). Plant Breeding, 138(3), 277-289.
3. Gaikwad, K. B*., Singh, N., Bhatia, D., Sharma, N., Bains, N. S., Bharaj, T. S., & Singh, K. (2018). Heterotic response of genomic regions derived from Oryza rufipogon and O. nivara in improving grain morphology and quality of indica rice (Oryza sativa L.). Indian J. Genet, 78(2), 155-165.
4. Gaikwad, K. B*., Rani, S., Kumar, M., Gupta, V., Babu, P. H., Bainsla, N. K., & Yadav, R. (2020). Enhancing the Nutritional Quality of Major Food Crops Through Conventional and Genomics-Assisted Breeding. Frontiers in Nutrition, 7.
5. Gaikwad, K. B*., Singh, N., Kaur, P., Rani, S., Babu H, P., & Singh, K. (2020). Deployment of wild relatives for genetic improvement in rice (Oryza sativa). Plant Breeding.
6. Gaikwad, K. B*., Yadav, R., Kumar, M., Kumar, N., Babu, P., Singh, A. G., ... & Pandey, R. (2023). Synthetic hexaploid wheat as a source of variation for the traits specific to conservation agriculture. Indian Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding, 83 (01), 32-40
7. Gaikwad, K. B*., Dawar, A., Singh, A., Babu, P., Kumar, M., Kumar, N., ... & Yadav, R. (2023). Trait phenotyping in an ancient Indian landrace of wheat Triticum sphaerococcum under optimum, terminal heat stress and deficit irrigation conditions. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, 1-17
8. Gaikwad, K.B*., Mazumder, A.K., Kumar, M., Singh, A., Ansari, R., Saifi, N., Joshi, M.A., Babu, P., Vikas, V.K., Singh, S.K. and Yadav, R., (2025). Evaluating heat and drought resilience in ancient Indian Dwarf wheat Triticum sphaerococcum Percival using stress tolerance indices, Scientific Reports, 15 (NAAS rating: 9.8)
9. Mazumder, A. K., Yadav, R., Kumar, M., Babu, P., Kumar, N., Singh, S. K., ... & Gaikwad, K. B*. (2024). Discovering novel genomic regions explaining adaptation of bread wheat to conservation agriculture through GWAS. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 16351
10. Mazumder, A. K., Budhlakoti, N., Kumar, M., Pradhan, A. K., Kumar, S., Babu, P., ... & Gaikwad, K. B*. (2024). Exploring the genetic diversity and population structure of an ancient hexaploid wheat species Triticum sphaerococcum using SNP markers. , BMC Plant Biology, , 24(1), 1188 (NAAS rating: 11.30)

Patent / Technologies / Methodologies / System etc. (Upto Five) :

1. HD 3226: Wheat variety for Timely sown Irrigated Conditions of North Western Plain Zone

2. HD 3171: Wheat variety for Timely sown Rainfed Conditions of North Eastern Plain Zone

3. HD 3298: Wheat variety for Very Late sown Irrigated Conditions of North Western Plain Zone

4. HD 3388: Wheat variety for Timely sown Irrigated Conditions of North Eastern Plain Zone

5. HD 3410: Wheat variety for Early sown Irrigated Conditions of Madhya Pradesh and Delhi NCR

Awards / Recognitions / Fellowship (Upto Five) :

1. Co-Chair, Expert Working Group on Adaptation of Wheat to Abiotic Stress (AWAS), Wheat Initiative, Germany

2. Member, Steering Committee, Alliance for Wheat Adaptation to Heat and Drought (AHEAD), Julius Kühn Institute (JKI) | Messeweg 11-12 | 38104 Braunschweig | Germany

3. Australia Award Fellowship by Australian Government & University of Sydney

4. Nanaji Deshmukh ICAR Award for Outstanding Interdisciplinary Team Research 2018 by ICAR

5. Fellow of the Indian Society of Genetics & Plant Breeding (ISGPB), New Delhi Fellow of the Society for Advancement of Wheat and Barley Research (SAWBAR), Karnal