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Combined Stresses in Plants_Climate Resilience @scipdatabase.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Our lab has transferred its SpeedSeed Technology(TRL8) to UrbanKisaan Farms Private Limited, Hyderabad, through a non-exclusive licensing agreement. This technology is developed at NIPGR New Delhi. SpeedSeed enables accelerated generation advancement in chickpea. #BRIC-NIPGR#DBT#Speedbreeding

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Combined Stresses in Plants_Climate Resilience @scipdatabase.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

14: The technology is also the subject of an Indian provisional patent application, supporting its future commercialization and wider deployment.

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Combined Stresses in Plants_Climate Resilience @scipdatabase.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

13: This work has been published as "SPROUT: Rapid generation advancement enabled phenotyping platform for chickpea improvement" in Plant Stress (2026, Volume 21, Article 101426).

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Combined Stresses in Plants_Climate Resilience @scipdatabase.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

12: The technology has significant potential for adoption by research institutions, universities, seed companies, greenhouse manufacturers, & the controlled-environment agriculture industry, thereby strengthening India's capabilities in crop innovation, & sustainable agriculture.

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Combined Stresses in Plants_Climate Resilience @scipdatabase.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

11: Developed entirely in India, SPROUT provides an indigenous technological solution for crop improvement, seed production systems, and agricultural biotechnology.

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Combined Stresses in Plants_Climate Resilience @scipdatabase.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

10: SPROUT supports germplasm evaluation, transgenic and genome-edited line advancement, wild accession maintenance, controlled-environment phenotyping for multiple traits, accelerated breeder seed multiplication, and green seed production for bio-manufacturing.

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Combined Stresses in Plants_Climate Resilience @scipdatabase.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

9: Environmental parameters, including light spectrum, photoperiod, temperature, humidity, and imaging schedules, can be independently programmed, allowing to be tailored for diverse crop improvement objectives and integrated into existing controlled-environment phenotyping.

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Combined Stresses in Plants_Climate Resilience @scipdatabase.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

8: This led to the identification of the first three chickpea mutant lines exhibiting resistance to the combined stress, a major production constraint in chickpea. A key strength of SPROUT is its modular and customizable design.

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Combined Stresses in Plants_Climate Resilience @scipdatabase.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

7: Using SPROUT, researchers established a rapid screening pipeline for combined drought and dry root rot stress and evaluated a large EMS mutant population with nearly a six-fold reduction in screening time.

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Combined Stresses in Plants_Climate Resilience @scipdatabase.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

6: Unlike conventional growth facilities, SPROUT integrates RGA with high-throughput trait evaluation in a single modular platform. It incorporates customized field-derived soil mixtures, field-mimic disease screening plots, and RGB and thermal imaging systems.

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Combined Stresses in Plants_Climate Resilience @scipdatabase.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

5: The protocol was successfully validated across genetically diverse chickpea genotypes, including cultivated varieties and wild accessions, demonstrating its robustness and broad applicability for breeding and crop improvement programmes.

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Combined Stresses in Plants_Climate Resilience @scipdatabase.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

4: At the core of SPROUT is SpeedSeed, a newly developed RGA protocol that reduces the chickpea seed-to-seed cycle to ~ 40 days, enabling 8–10 generations per year under controlled conditions without compromising plant vigour, seed quality, or yield.

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Combined Stresses in Plants_Climate Resilience @scipdatabase.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

3: The platform enables breeding acceleration and trait screening within a single workflow, addressing one of the major bottlenecks in crop improvement—the long generation cycle and seasonal dependence that slow breeding, genetic studies, and trait discovery.

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Combined Stresses in Plants_Climate Resilience @scipdatabase.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

2: SPROUT is an integrated, low-cost, high-throughput controlled-environment platform that combines rapid generation advancement (RGA) with precision phenotyping while recreating field-like conditions for chickpea improvement.

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Combined Stresses in Plants_Climate Resilience @scipdatabase.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

1: 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 SPROUT- Ourteam at BRIC–NIPGR, New Delhi, have developed SPROUT (SpeedSeed Phenotyping and Resource Optimization for Unified Trait-analysis).

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Combined Stresses in Plants_Climate Resilience @scipdatabase.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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Combined Stresses in Plants_Climate Resilience @scipdatabase.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

📚 Book Announcement | Plant Biotic Stress: Methods and Protocols, Vol. 2 🌱 Edited by Muthappa Senthil-Kumar and published by Springer Protocols. 📖 link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #PlantBioticStress #PlantPathology #PlantStress #SpringerNature

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Combined Stresses in Plants_Climate Resilience @scipdatabase.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Big congratulations to Dr. Rubi Jain on being selected for the prestigious MK Bhan Fellowship! 🎉🎓 Wishing her great success in this exciting new journey! 🚀 #DBT #MKBhan #NIPGR #WomenInScience #MultiOmics #ClimateSmartAgriculture #Chickpea #SCIPdb #MuthappaSenthilKumar

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Combined Stresses in Plants_Climate Resilience @scipdatabase.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Congratulations to Aswin on successfully submitting his thesis titled, “Understanding the Impact of Abiotic Stresses on Dry Root Rot and Exploring the Antifungal Protein Potential for Disease Resistance in Chickpea.” Wishing him great success in all his future endeavors. #PhD#BRIC-NIPGR#Chickpea

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Combined Stresses in Plants_Climate Resilience @scipdatabase.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

🎓 Big congratulations to Rishabh Mirchandani on submitting his Ph.D. thesis, "Imparting durable resistance to dry root rot disease in chickpea using non-host Resistance"! We wish him all the best for his future endeavours! #PhD #ClimateResilience #Chickpea #BRIC-NIPGR

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Combined Stresses in Plants_Climate Resilience @scipdatabase.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

🌱 Excited to share our latest publication! SPROUT: Rapid generation advancement enabled phenotyping platform for chickpea improvement 📖 doi.org/10.1016/j.st... #Chickpea #PlantScience #CropImprovement #Phenotyping #Research

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Combined Stresses in Plants_Climate Resilience @scipdatabase.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

📢 We're Hiring | Research Associate-III (RA-III) Exciting opportunity for researchers passionate about AI, Computer Vision, IoT, Sensors, and Plant/Agricultural Science at BRIC-NIPGR! 📄 Complete Advertisement: nipgr.ac.in/nipgrv4/late... #ResearchAssociate #ResearchJobs #AI #ML

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Combined Stresses in Plants_Climate Resilience @scipdatabase.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

📢 We're Hiring | Project Associate-I (PA-I) Join BRIC–National Institute of Plant Genome Research (BRIC–NIPGR), New Delhi for an exciting opportunity in Plant Science, Agronomy, and Crop Phenotyping. 📄 Complete Advertisement: nipgr.ac.in/nipgrv4/late... #ResearchJobs #Agronomy

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Combined Stresses in Plants_Climate Resilience @scipdatabase.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Suman Saini presented a poster on establishing a hairy root transformation system in Parthenium hysterophorus to identify novel metabolites against dry root rot at #MIPAM2026. 🌱 #PlantScience #PlantPathology

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Combined Stresses in Plants_Climate Resilience @scipdatabase.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Poster Presentation at #MIPAM2026 🌱 Shubhashish Ranjan presented research uncovering the role of CaSWEET transporters in chickpea dry root rot under osmotic stress. #PlantScience #ChickpeaResearch

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Combined Stresses in Plants_Climate Resilience @scipdatabase.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Poster Presentation at #MIPAM2026 🌱 Shilpa Mukharjee presented research on mass multiplication of AMF for effective stress management and climate resilience in chickpea

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Combined Stresses in Plants_Climate Resilience @scipdatabase.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Poster Presentation at #MIPAM2026 🌱 Dr. Shikha Rani presented the Dry Root Rot Portal, an integrated knowledgebase on disease biology and crop protection. #PlantScience #PlantPathology

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Combined Stresses in Plants_Climate Resilience @scipdatabase.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Poster Presentation at #MIPAM2026 🌱 Sandeep Dulla presented work on accelerating chickpea screening for dry root rot resistance using rapid generation advancement. #PlantScience #ChickpeaResearch

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Combined Stresses in Plants_Climate Resilience @scipdatabase.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Dr. Rubi Jain presented a poster on an ANN-based deep learning model to predict plant responses during abiotic–biotic stress interactions at #MIPAM2026. 🌱 #PlantScience #AI #PlantStress

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Combined Stresses in Plants_Climate Resilience @scipdatabase.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Poster Presentation at #MIPAM2026 🌱 Rishabh Mirchandani presented research on nonhost plant defenses in Parthenium hysterophorus that prevent Macrophomina phaseolina infection. #PlantScience #PlantPathology

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Combined Stresses in Plants_Climate Resilience @scipdatabase.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Neha presented a poster on SCIPDb – Stress Combinations and Their Interactions in Plants Database, a resource for studying combined stress responses in plants, at #MIPAM2026. 🌱 #PlantScience #PlantStress

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Combined Stresses in Plants_Climate Resilience @scipdatabase.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Poster Presentation at #MIPAM2026 🌱 Navaneeth Vinayachandran presented Root Rot AI, a machine learning–based mobile application for identifying and assessing dry root rot disease in research environments. #PlantScience #MachineLearning

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Combined Stresses in Plants_Climate Resilience @scipdatabase.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Poster Presentation at #MIPAM2026 🌱 Athimoolam Durgadevi presented research on mycorrhizal network–mediated water transfer helping chickpea tolerate drought and resist dry root rot. #PlantMicrobeInteractions

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Combined Stresses in Plants_Climate Resilience @scipdatabase.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Aswin Reddy Chilakala presented a poster on “A novel antifungal protein safeguards chickpea against dry root rot under drought stress” at #MIPAM2026. 🌱 #PlantScience #ChickpeaResearch

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Combined Stresses in Plants_Climate Resilience @scipdatabase.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Poster Presentation at #MIPAM2026 🌱 Ms. Anshika Devi presented work on a rhizobox-based root phenotyping system to study AMF-mediated bioirrigation for combating combined drought and dry root rot in chickpea. #PlantScience #ChickpeaResearch

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Combined Stresses in Plants_Climate Resilience @scipdatabase.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

At #MIPAM2026, Dr. Anjali presented a poster on “The Sugar Shield: How Arabidopsis plants deploy AtSWEET11 & AtSWEET12 for defence?” exploring sugar transporters in plant defence. 🌱 #MIPAM2026 #PlantScience #PlantImmunity

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Combined Stresses in Plants_Climate Resilience @scipdatabase.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Dr.Akash Sharma presented a poster on “Drought-triggered proline–P5C metabolism enhances mitochondrial ROS to suppress Ascochyta rabiei” at MIPAM-2026. 🌱 #MIPAM2026 #PlantScience

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Combined Stresses in Plants_Climate Resilience @scipdatabase.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Krisha Rajajoshi presented a poster on “A novel method for producing green seeds as explants for developing genetically transformed chickpea plants” at the National Symposium MIPAM-2026. 🌱 #MIPAM2026 #ChickpeaResearch

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Combined Stresses in Plants_Climate Resilience @scipdatabase.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The study highlights the potential of integrating rapid generation advancement with high-throughput phenotyping to accelerate chickpea cycles, trait discovery (dry root rot and drought combined stress), and the development of climate-resilient varieties. #Chickpea #CropImprovement

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Combined Stresses in Plants_Climate Resilience @scipdatabase.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

We demonstrate that the SPROUT platform, integrated with the SpeedSeed protocol, enables season-independent, field-mimicking phenotyping while reducing the chickpea seed-to-seed cycle supporting 8 to 10 generations per year. #AgriculturalInnovation #HighThroughputPhenotyping #ClimateResilience

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Combined Stresses in Plants_Climate Resilience @scipdatabase.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Excited to share that our work on a rapid generation advancement enabled phenotyping platform for chickpea improvement is now published in Plant Stress (Q1 Journal with Impact factor: 8.1). doi.org/10.1016/j.st... #PlantStress #MuthappaSenthil-Kumar #SpeedBreeding #Phenotyping #BRIC-NIPGR #DBT

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Combined Stresses in Plants_Climate Resilience @scipdatabase.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Stressors such as heat and drought are provided as independent inputs to the model. The network learns complexities, ultimately generating an output (plant biomass/ yield). This framework enables the prediction of how stress combinations influence overall plant performance. #Muthappa Senthil-Kumar

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