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General Informations

  • Join Date: 24/03/1987
  • College: College of Agriculture
  • Department: Agricultural Biotechnology
  • Office Email: bidyut.sarmah[at]aau.ac.in
  • Other Charges: Director DBT-North East Centre for Agricultural Biotechnology, HoD(ic) ABT

Education Details

 
 
 
 
 
1984
B.Sc. (Agri)

Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, Assam

 
 
 
 
 
1987
M.Sc. (Agri)

Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, Assam

 
 
 
 
 
1995
Ph.D.

Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India

 
 
 
 
 
1997
Post Doctoral

Institute of Biological Chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, USA

 
 
 
 
 
1997
Post Doctoral

CSIRO Plant Industry Canberra, Australia

 
 
 
 
 
2001
Other Qualifications

FMI, Basel

Employment History

 
 
 
 
 
01-07-2006 - Till date
Professor

Department of Agricultural Biotechnology

 
 
 
 
 
25-04-2012 - Till date
Director

DBT-AAU Centre

 
 
 
 
 
29-04-2016 - 29-04-2021
ICAR-National Professor

Assam Agricultural University

 
 
 
 
 
29-09-2018 - Till date
Director

DBT-North East Centre for Agricultural Biotechnology

Publications

Darshana Sharma; Purna Bahadur Chetri; Vipin Ranga; Subhajit Sen; Bidyut Kumar Sarmah; Madhumita Barooah (2024) . Genomic analysis of acid tolerance genes and deciphering the function of ydaG gene in mitigating acid tolerance in Priestia megaterium, Frontiers Microbiology, 15(0), 0-0 , DOI : https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2024.1414777
Rahul K. Verma; Sanjay K. Chetia; Vinay Sharma; Sushil K. Singh; Bidyut K. Sarmah; Mahendra K. Modi (2022) . Genetic analysis for detection of genes associated to drought tolerance in rice accessions belonging to north east India, Molecular Biology Reports, 50(1), 238-0 , DOI : https://doi.org/10.1007/s11033-022-08145-y
Debajit Das; Indrani K. Baruah; Debashis Panda; Ricky Raj Paswan; Sumita Acharjee; Bidyut Kumar Sarmah (2021) . Bruchid beetle ovipositioning mediated defense responses in black gram pods, BMC Plant Biology, 21(1), 0-0 , DOI : https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-020-02796-4
M. Bhattacharjee; S. Dhar; P. J. Handique; S. Acharjee; B. K. Sarmah (2020) . Defense response in chickpea pod wall due to simulated herbivory unfolds differential proteome profile, Protein Journal, 1(1), 0-0 , DOI : https://www.springer.com/journal/10930
Angkita Sharma; Pooja Singh; Bidyut Kumar Sarmah; Shoma Paul Nandi (2020) . Isolation of Cellulose-Degrading Endophyte from Capsicum chinense and Determination of its Cellulolytic Potential, Biointerface Research in Applied Chemistry, 10(6), 6946-6973 , DOI : https://doi.org/10.33263/BRIAC106.69646973
Rubi Gupta; Sumita Acharjee; Bidyut Kumar Sarmah (2020) . Assessment of seed protein quality of a transgenic chickepea even expressing Cry2Aa protein, Journal of Legume Research, 0(0), 0-0
Jagadale Mahesh Vasantrao; Indrani K. Baruah; Debashis Panda; Sumita Acharjee; Mamta Bhattacharjee; Bidyut K. Sarmah (2019) . Transcript profling of chickpea pod wall revealed the expression of foral homeotic gene AGAMOUS like X2 (CaAGLX2), Journal of Molecular Biology , 46(139), 5713-5722 , DOI : https://doi.org/10.1007/s11033-019-05005-0
D. Kumar; P. K. Das; B. K. Sarmah (2019) . Deep-water rice germplasms of Assam, India are found to have hypoxia-tolerance attributes conferring tolerance to flood during germination, Accepted for publication by Biologia Plantarum, 0(1), 0-0 , DOI : 10.13140/RG.2.2.30402.43208
N. Hazarika; S. Acharjee; R. R. Boruah; K. Babar; S. Parimi; B. Char; B. K. Sarmah (2019) . Enhanced expression of Arabidopsis rubisco small subunit gene promoter regulated Cry1Ac gene in chickpea conferred complete resistance to Helicoverpa armigera, Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 11(1), 0-0 , DOI : https://doi.org/10.1007/s13562-019-00531-1
Sushil Satish Chhapekar; Nitin Kumar; Sarpras M; Vijaya Brahma; Abdul Rawoof; Vandana Jaiswal; Ajay Kumar; Bidyut Kumar Sarmah; Nirala Ramchiary (1970) . Profiling of miRNAs in Bhut Jolokia (Capsicum chinense) and Kon Jolokia (C. frutescens) of Northeast India, Scientia Horticulturae, 281(0), 0-0 , DOI : 10.1016/j.scienta.2021.109952
Rimashree Devi; Tankeswar Nath; Rashmi Rekha Boruah; Bishya Darphang; Pranab Kumar Nath; Priyanka Das; Bidyut Kumar Sarmah (1970) . Antimicrobial activity of bacterial endophytes from Chirata (Swertia chirata Wall.) and Datura (Datura stramonium L.), Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control volume, 31(1), 0-0 , DOI : https://doi.org/10.1186/s41938-021-00410-9
Angkita Sharma; Pooja Singh; Sushmita Rajkhowa; Tankeshwar Nath; Bidyut Kumar Sarmah; Srikanta Ghosh; Karivaradharajan Swarnalakshmi2*; Shoma Paul Nandi1 (1970) . Anti-vibrio potential of bacterial and fungal endophytes isolated from Datura metelisolated from Datura metel, Indian Journal of Biotechnology , 20(1), 43-53
Uncuoglu, A.A.; Sarmah, B.K.; Sharma, K.K.; Bhatnagar, M.; Ratnaparke, P.M.; Pawar, P. and Ranjekar, P.K.(2008). Transgenic chickpeas: Present status and Future prospects. in : A Compendium of Transgenic Crop Plants, Kole, C.R.; Hall, T.C.; (Eds), Blackwell publishing,UK, pp 171-184, ISBN:0.
Sarmah, B.K.; Acharjee, S. and Sharma, H.C.(2012). Chickpea: crop improvement under changing environment conditions. in : Crop improvement under adverse condition, Gill, S.S.; Tuteja, N. (Eds), Wiley-Blackwell publication,United States, pp 361-380, ISBN:0.
Modi, M.K. and Sarmah, B.K.(2015). Role of Agricultural Biotechnology for Food Security in Assam. in : Agriculture in Assam, Bhattacharyya, A. (Ed), Assam Agricultural University,Jorhat, Assam, pp 0-0, ISBN:978-81-929804-9-2.
Lagariya, D.S.(2023). Genetic and Metabolite Diversity in Advanced Breeding Lines of Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L) for Pod Borer Resistance.PhD thesis submitted to Department of Biotechnology, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat
Achievements
  • Awarded with Prestigious Norman Borlaug Chair in International Agriculture with the National Professor position by ICAR on March 1, 2016
  • Adviser to the selection committee for scientist recruitment under ASRB, New Delhi, 2019
  • Expert member for DBT Special Scientific and Technical Appraisal and Advisory Group (STAG) to review proposal approved by SBT for Mission programme on “Characterisation of Genetic Resources” on 10.12.2019.
  • Outstanding reviewer certificate, 2019 awarded by the Indian Society of Genetics and Plant Breeding, New Delhi.
  • Expert Member for Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), DBT, GoI to identify priority research areas in the field of "Agriculture & Plant Sciences", 2020
  • Governor’s nominee to the Dibrugarh University Court, since April 2020
  • Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Committee of Tea Research Association, Tocklai Tea Research Institute, since December 2020
  • Governor's nominee to Assam Women's University since 2022
Membership
  • Indian Science Congress Association, Kolkata, India
    Life Member
  • Society of biological chemist (India), Bangalore
    Life Member
Projects
  • DBT Govt of India sponsored project on "DBT-North East Centre for Agricultural Biotechnology, Phase III", project cost Rs.17 Crore implemented in 2023.
  • DBT Govt of India sponsored project on "Biotechnological intervention for the improvement and management of tea", project cost Rs.25 Crore implemented in 2022.
  • DBT sponsored project on "Gene prospecting from acid soil microbes: Investigating “Omics” data sets for validation of gene(s) involved with acid soil stress resistance and development of strategy to ameliorate acid and related stress in crop plants", project cost Rs.90 Lakh implemented in 2018.
  • DBT sponsored project on "Development of Transgenic tea (Cameliasinensis) to confer Resistance Against Blister Blight", implemented in 2007.
  • DBT, GoI sponsored project on "Germplasm characterization, Genomics analysis and Gene discovery for yield, Metabolite and Stress tolerance in Tea", implemented in 2022.
  • DBT, Govt. of India sponsored project on "Establishing efficient genetic engineering platform for Indian tea", project cost Rs.4530726 Lakh implemented in 2021.
  • DBT sponsored project on "Development of Citrus Diagnostic & Certification Centre for NER", project cost Rs.1.42 Crore implemented in 2021.
  • DBT sponsored project on "Optimize genome editing method for chickpea (Cicer arietinum) with the CRISPR/Cas9 system and edit AHAS1 gene for herbicide tolerance", implemented in 2018.
  • DBT sponsored project on "Genetic improvement of chickpea for resistance to pod borers using Bt gene- Phase III", project cost Rs.20000000 Lakh implemented in 2014.
  • Kirkhouse Trust sponsored project on "Establishment of a genetic transformation system for pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan) for development of transgenic pigeon pea resistant to pod borer (Maruca and Helicoverpa)", project cost Rs.7800000 Lakh implemented in 2010.
  • GOI-DBT sponsored project on "Dev. Of high Yielding Non Loging and Biotic Resistant verities of black scented Rice of Manipur and Joha rice and Assam Through Biotechnological Intervention", project cost Rs.2984000 Lakh implemented in 2017.