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Ramakrishnan M. Nair
Researcher at International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
Publications - 81
Citations - 2429
Ramakrishnan M. Nair is an academic researcher from International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biology & Population. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 62 publications receiving 1313 citations. Previous affiliations of Ramakrishnan M. Nair include World Vegetable Center & South Australian Research and Development Institute.
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Drought or/and heat-stress effects on seed filling in food crops: Impacts on functional biochemistry, seed yields, and nutritional quality
Akanksha Sehgal,Kumari Sita,Kadambot H. M. Siddique,Rakesh Kumar,Sailaja Bhogireddy,Rajeev K. Varshney,Bindumadhava HanumanthaRao,Ramakrishnan M. Nair,P. V. Vara Prasad,Harsh Nayyar +9 more
TL;DR: Findings in various food crops are highlighted, showing how their seed composition is drastically impacted at various cellular levels due to drought and heat stresses, applied separately, or in combination.
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Biofortification of mungbean (Vigna radiata) as a whole food to enhance human health.
Ramakrishnan M. Nair,Ray-Yu Yang,W.J. Easdown,Dil Thavarajah,Pushparajah Thavarajah,Jacqueline d’A. Hughes,Jdh Dyno Keatinge +6 more
TL;DR: Mungbean protein and carbohydrate are easily digestible and create less flatulence than proteins derived from other legumes, and biofortification of existing mungbean varieties has great potential for enhancing the nutritional quality of diets in South and Southeast Asia.
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Food Legumes and Rising Temperatures: Effects, Adaptive Functional Mechanisms Specific to Reproductive Growth Stage and Strategies to Improve Heat Tolerance
Kumari Sita,Akanksha Sehgal,Bindumadhava HanumanthaRao,Ramakrishnan M. Nair,P. V. Vara Prasad,Shiv Kumar,Pooran M. Gaur,Muhammad Farooq,Kadambot H. M. Siddique,Rajeev K. Varshney,Rajeev K. Varshney,Harsh Nayyar +11 more
TL;DR: Through various breeding techniques, heat tolerance in major legumes can be enhanced to improve performance in the field and unravel different mechanisms underlying thermotolerance, which is imperative to understand the processes of molecular responses toward high-temperature stress.
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Food system disruption: initial livelihood and dietary effects of COVID-19 on vegetable producers in India
TL;DR: It is found that a majority of farmers report negative impacts on production, sales, prices and incomes, and higher vulnerability of female farmers in terms of both livelihoods and diet, and differential effects on smaller and larger farms, meaning different farms may require different types of support in order to continue to function.
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Salinity and High Temperature Tolerance in Mungbean [Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek] from a Physiological Perspective.
TL;DR: This review focuses on salinity and HT stresses on mungbean grown as a fallow crop and/or a relay crop in cereal cropping systems, and highlights gaps that need to be bridged through future mung bean research.