Brief CV Jayanta Tarafdar

Curriculum vitae
1. Name of the nominee in full: JAYANTA TARAFDAR
2. Date and place of birth: 17TH
Day of October 1961
3. Address with telephone/Mobile no./Fax/e-mail,etc.
(a) Official : Associate Professor of Plant pathology & Officer in Charge of AICRP
on Tuber crops, Kalyani centre, ICAR (Since 2004)
Directorate of Research, Bidhan Chandra KrishiViswavidyalaya,
Kalyani 741235, West Bengal
Mob: 09830342320; Tel. No. & Fax: 033 25828407
e-mail: jayanta94bckv@gmail.com ; jayanta_bckv@yahoo.co.in
(b) Residential: B-15/70, Lake Park, Kalyani 741235, West Bengal,
Phone (Res.) 03325808277
4. a. Name of the Department: Plant Pathology
b. Field of specialization: Plant Virology, Molecular Biology
5. Academic qualifications (Bachelor's Degree onwards)
Sl
No.
Institution Degree
Awarded
Year Award /Prize/ Certificate
1. Bidhan Chandra
KrishiViswavidyalaya (BCKV)
B.Sc.(Ag.)
Hons.
1985
2. Bidhan Chandra
KrishiViswavidyalaya (BCKV)
M.Sc. (Ag.) in
Plant
Pathology
1989 Awarded Junior Research
Fellowship from Indian Council
of Agricultural Research (ICAR)
3. -Do- Ph. D. in Plant
Pathology
1995 Received SRF sponsored by
Govt. of West Bengal
4. Plant Molecular and Cellular
Genetics section, Bose Institute,
Kolkata
Post-doctoral
Studies
1995-
1997
Awarded National
Biotechnology Associateship,
Department
of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt.
of India.
Department of Biochemistry.
Kansas State University,
Manhattan, USA
Post-doctoral
Studies
1999-
2000
Awarded Biotechnology
Overseas Associateship,
DBT,Govt. of India
6. Employment record
Sl.
No.
Date of
joining
Name of employer Duration Name of post
From To
I 10.09.1991 Vice Chancellor Bidhan
Chandra KrishiViswavidyalaya,
10.09.1991 31.012.1996 Lecturer (Research)
II 01.01.1997 - DO - 01.01.1997 09.09.2000 Senior Lecturer
(Research)
III 10.09.2000 -DO- 09.9.2000 Continuing Associate Professor

8. Awards/Honours/Certificate of Appreciations and Recognitions received:
(Give the name(s) of the awards received chronologically along with the awarding
Organization/Learned Body and the achievements for which they were given)
i. Awarded UK and India collaborative project on future –proof crop 2014
Detoxed grass pea: sustainable sustenance for stressful environments (Press released on 27th
November 2014 by DBT, Govt. of India), Biotechnology, Biological science Research Council (BBSRC),
UK and DBT, Govt. of India
o UK investigator: Dr Cathie Martin, John Innes Centre
o Indian investigator: Dr. JayantaTarafdar, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, West Bengal
ii. Received the special Award 2014 in World Biodiversity Congress (WBC-2014), Colombo, Sri Lanka held on
24th
to 27th
November 2014 at Colombo. Jointly organized by Global Scientific Research Foundation
(GSRF), University of Colombo and Rajarata University, Sri Lanka.
iii. Awarded (group) Best Performing Centre of AICRP Tuber Crops 2013 by ICAR, New Delhi under my in-
charge ship of AICRP on Tuber Crops, Kalyani Centre, ICAR, BCKV.
iv. Received Best Senior Scientist Award 2013 in World Biodiversity Congress, at Raja Bhat University, Chiang
Mai, Thailand in World Biodiversity Congress held during 26th
to 29th
November 2013 at Chiang Mai,
Thailand. Jointly organized by Global Scientific Research Foundation (GSRF) and Rajabhat University,
Chiang Mai, Thailand. The award was given on the paper presented ‘Root and Tuber Crops and its
Diversity: Option to address the future challenges of Food Security’
v. Winner of Generation Challenge Program (GCP) under Genotyping Support Service (GSS) by CGIAR in
2009 and I am the only person from India got the award for doing genotyping of sweetpotato and
development of virus resistance marker.
vi. Received Best Oral Presentation award 2006 in the 14th
International Symposium organized by
International Society for Tropical Root Crops (ISTRC), Natural Resource Institute (NRI), University of
Greenwich, Chatham, U.K., Central Tuber Crops research Institute (CTCRI), ICAR, Indian Society of Root
Crops (ISRC) and International Potato centre (CIP). The paper entitled Pre- and post- resistance factors
in taro (Colocasia esculenta, var antiquorum) in response to Phytophthora leaf blight.
Recognition/Honors:
o Delivered invited Lecture on Present status on the leaf blight of Taro caused by Phytophthora
calocasiae and its Management in the Annual Phytophthora Network meeting at CTCRI (RC), ICAR,
Bhubaneswar, on 29th
July 2015

o Delivered Plenary Lecture on ‘Genome characterization and Diversity analysis of Whitefly transmitted
Begomoviruses infecting important Crop plants and ornamental in West Bengal, India
o Chair the session on Biotechnology and genetic resources in the WBC-2014, at Colombo, Sri Lanka held
on 24th
to 27th
November 2014 at Colombo.
o Delivered invited lecture on "Influence of changing climate on host (rice), vector and viral pathogen for
developing disease epidemics" in the Brain storming Session on “Shifting patterns of major and minor
rice diseases as function of climate change and develop road map to address the issue” held
on October 14, 2014 at CRURRS, ICAR, Hazaribag
o Delivered lecture on Emerging and Re-emerging of Threatening Plant diseases and Global Food Security
in Proc: International Symposium on System Intensification Towards Food and Livelihood Security,
Crop & Weed Science Society. BCKV, 24-27 Feb. 2011.
o Delivered invited lecture on Present status of Rice Tungro virus disease in West Bengal: A case study
for ten years. In: International Conference on Virology, New Delhi, 2008.
o Delivered special lecture on Biolistic transformation and detection of jellyfish green fluorescent and
chitinase proteins in Indian Basmati rice in 11th
IUPAC International Congress of Pesticides Chemistry
organized by International Society of Organic Chemistry, held on 6-11th
August 2006 at Kobe, Japan
9. a. Appointed as an external examiner by the Universities:
o Visva-Bharati University, Shantiniketan, W.B.;
o Department of Agricultural Sciences, Calcutta University;
o Department of Plant Pathology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore;
o Department of BotanyVidyasagar University, W.B.;
o Department of Plant Pathology, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat;
o Department of Plant Pathology, Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Coochbihar, W.B.
o Dept. of Biotechnology, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Durgapur, W.B
o Visiting Teacher, Centre for Post Graduate Studies (CPGS),
o Central Agricultural University (CAU) - Umium 793103, Meghalaya and Imphal, Manipur
b. Reviewer of Scientific publication in foreign journals:
o International Journal: Hort Science, USA;
o International Journal: African Journal of Agricultural Research;
o VIROLOGY JOURNAL – BIOMED;
o International Journal of Vegetable Sciences, Taylor & Frances;
o Indian Phytopathology
10. Additional information of relevance of Scientist
i. No. of PhD students guided under Dr. JayantaTarafdar :
PhD awarded: Seven
Submitted: One

Performing: Four
M.Sc. Student guided: Ten
ii. Courses taught for UG and PG students:
Name of the course Under graduate/Post graduate Name of the scientist (s) attached
Phytovirology-1 Post graduate, Plant Pathology Prof. P.S. Nath & Dr. Jayanta Tarafdar
Plant Pathology Practical Under graduate Prof. P.S. Nath, Prof. S.K. Pan, Dr. (Mrs.) G.
Dutta & Dr. Jayanta Tarafdar
Advanced Microbiology Post Graduate, Biotechnology Dr. Jayanta Tarafdar & Dr. S. Dutta
Principle of Plant
Biotechnology
Post Graduate, Biotechnology Dr. Nirml Mandal & Dr. Jayanta Tarafdar
Immunology Post Graduate, Biotechnology Dr. A. Bhattacharya & Dr. Jayanta Tarafdar
Phytovirology Advance PhD, Plant Pathology Prof. P.S. Nath & Dr. Jayanta Tarafdar
Molecular basis of Host-
parasite interaction
PhD, Plant Pathology BCKV
Prof. S. Das, J. Tarafdar & S. Dutta
Molecular basis of Host-
parasite interaction
Centre for Post Graduate Studies
(CPGS), CAU, (CAU),Umium 793103
Jayanta Tarafdar
11. Publications in the Indian & peer reviewed journals:
i. Published 68 Research papers in national & international Journal in repute
ii.
Some selected papers published in last ten years
 Somnath Roy, JayantaTarafdar, Amrita Banerjee and B.K. Senapati (2012)Detection of probable marker
free transgene positive rice tungro disease resistant plants from backcross progenies of transgenic
Pusa Basmati 1 Journal of Genetics (Springer) 91, 213–218
 Somnath Roy, Amrita Banerjee, JayantaTarafdar, B.K. Senapati and I. Dasgupta(2011) Transfer of
transgenes for resistance to rice tungro disease into high yielding rice cultivars through gene based
marker-assisted selection" Journal of Agricultural Sciences, Cambridge, UK pp: 1-9
doi:10.1017/S0021859611000827
 Amrita Banerjee, Somnath Roy and JayantaTarafdar (2011) The large intergenic region of Rice tungro
bacilliform virus evolved differentially among geographically distinguished isolates. Virus gene
(Springer) 44:312-318
 Amrita Banerjee, Somnath Roy, JayantaTarafdar, (2011) Phylogenetic analysis of Rice tungro
bacilliform virus ORFs revealed strong correlation between evolution and geographical distribution
Virus gene (Springer) (2011) 43:398–408
 Susmita Ganguly, Sima Bhattacharya, Sukumar Mandi and JayantaTarafdar(2010) Biological detection
and analysis of organophosphate and azadirachtin- based insecticides in Lathyrussativus L.
Ecotoxicology (Springer) 19: 85 – 95
 Somnath Roy, Amrita Banerjee, JayantaTarafdar and Samir Kumar Samanta (2010) Superior bioefficacy
of a combined formulation of carbendazim and mancozeb in inducing defense responses in chilli
seedlings against Sclerotium rolfsii Sacc. in comparison with methyl jasmonate Crop Protection
(Elsevier) 29: 163-167.
 SukumarMandi, J. Tarafdar, Amrita Banerjee andSomnath Roy (2009) Cytological analysis of defense
related mechanisms induced in taro( Colocasia esculenta car antiquorum) leaf tissue in response to
Phytophthora colocasiae infection Journal of Root Crops. 35 (2): 196-205
 S.K.Bhattacharyya, C.Sengupta, N.K.Adhikary and J.Tarafdar (2015). Bacillus amyloliquefaciens-a novel
PGPR strain isolated from jute based cropping system. The BIOSCAN, 9(3):1263-1268
 Rupsanatan Mandal, Nirmal Mandal, Surajit Mitra Archana Mukharjee and Jayanta Tarafdar (2015).

Development of DUS standard for taro [Colocasia esculenta Var.antiquirom (l.) Schott.]using digital
morphometrics. Applied Biological Research. 17(1): 70-76
 Shaista Rahman, Jayanta Tarafdar, Santosh Kumar and Amarendra Kumar (2014) Effect of amalgerol
and tebuconazole on tikka leaf spot and rust of Groundnut. Annals of Plant protection Science 22(2):
355-357.
 B. Sinha and J. Tarafdar (2014). Epidemiological study of SPVD transmission in West Bengal. The
Bioscan 9(3) 1237-1242
 S. K. Bhattacharyya, C. Sengupta and J. Tarafdar (2014) In vitro screening of bioagents from
rhizosphere soil against Macrophomina phaseolina and seedling health of jute. Journal of
Mycopathological Research. 52(2) : 267-272,
 Puspita Roy, RupsanatanMandal, Sitansu Kumar Pan and JayantaTarafdar (2014) Impact of Carbon
and Nitrogen Sources on the Phomopsis vexans Isolates 1222 Trends in Biosciences 7(12): 1222-1226
 S. K. Bhattacharyya, C. Sengupta, N. K. Adhikary and J.Tarafdar (2014) Bacillus amyloliquefaciens” – An
novel PGPR strainisolated from in jute based cropping system. The Bioscan 9(3): 1263-1268,
 N. K. Adhikary, S. Dey and J. Tarafdar (2013) Studies on morphology of mango anthracnose disease
causing fungus colletotrichum gloeosporioides (penz.) penz. andsacc. and efficacy of Azoxystrobin
against the fungus under in vitro and in vivo condition. The Biosacn 8(2): 493-497, 2013
 A.K. Moudgal, S. Ramachandran and J. Tarafdar (2009) Evaluation of Fenbuconazole and Thifluzamide
for the control of Black Sigatoka (Mycos[herella fijiensis) on Banana in India. Pestology Vol. XXXIII No.
6.: 34-36
 J. Tarafdar, N. Mandal and H.Sen (2004) Performance of some promising cultivars of taro
(colocasiaesculenta var. antiquorum (l.) schott) against phytophthoralraf blight disease, yield
components and variation in peroxidase isoforms Asian Journal of Microbiology, Biotechnology and
Environmental Science. 6(2): 187-191.
 J. Tarafdar and R. Chatterjee (2003). Differential reaction to Colletotrichum leaf spot disease and
Genetic Variability in some cultivars of Turmeric. Annals of Plant Protection Sciences 11 (2): 300 – 303.
 J. Tarafdar and A.K. Chowdhury (2002)Variation on the susceptibility of rice tungro virus components
in respect to variety and vector Nephotettix virescens. Journal of Mycopathological Research, Calcutta
University. 40(1): 17-20.
 Tarafdar, J. and Sarkar, M.A. 2006. Managing sweetpotato weevil (cylas formicarius fabricius) in west
bengal, india, by some chemicals, bioproducts and sex pheromone traps. Acta Horticulturae.
(ISHS)703:189-196 http://www.actahort.org/books/703/703_23.htm
iii. List of Books/Book chapters published
Chapter in Book:
o M.S Palaniswami and JayantaTarafdar (2008)Pest and Diseases of Tuber Crops: Their Management and
Plant quarantine. In Book: Tuber & Root Crops by M. S. Palaniswami and K. V. Peter; Horticulture Science
Series – 9 published by New India Publishing Agency, New Delhi pp: 179 – 240 (Forwarded by Dr. M.S.
Swaminathan and Dr. M. Rai (DG, 2008), ICAR
o Jayanta Tarafdar and Sambit Dutta (2011) Common Flower Diseases in West Bengal and its Management.
In Book: Manual for High Tech Horticulture published by Centre for Testing and Training for providing
Technical Backup to the beneficiaries for Agricultural and Horticultural Development, Institute of
Agricultural sciences, University of Calcutta
o Jayanta Tarafdar (2014) Management of Nursery Diseases. Chapter in Book: A Handbook of Nursery Edited
by Tarun Kumar Chattapadhyay, Kalyani Publishers. pp 188-209.

o Sambit Dutta, Abhijit Sarkar, Jayanta Tarafdar and AshimChowdhury (2014) Sheath Blight of Rice:
Epidemiology, Control management. Chapter in Book: CHDR Science Vol: 1, Edited by Sanjiv Kumar Rana
published by Radiance, Renaissance Publishers Pvt. Ltd. Kolkata. pp 59-68
iv. Publication of popular articles:
Published Eight (8) articles, Five (5) leaf lets in English and Bengali
a. Jayanta Tarafdar (2010) Mishti Alu. Krishi Bidhan Vol. 8 (July-September) Pg. No. 15-16
b. Jayanta Tarafdar (2009) Molecular detection and characterization visuses infecting crop plants and weeds in West
Bengal: A new challenge in Crop and Weed Science News
c. Jayanta Tarafdar (2009) Rogmukto fuler chara o fulgachh: sustha, ujjal ful chasher ek prayagoniyo chabi kathi. In 14th
Yearly Flower and Agriculture fair held on 10-13th
January 2009 at Chakdah, Nadia, 3 pages
d. Jayanta Tarafdar (2008) Gangeo Paschim Bange Fuler rog, samasya and tar pratikar bybosta. In 14th
Yearly Flower and
Agriculture fair held on 12-15th
January 2008 at Chakdah, Nadia, 5 pages.
e. Jayanta Tarafdar (2007) Sabuj ghare chaser janya kichhu gurutyapurna fuler rog o tar pratikar. In Sabuj Ghare Ful,
Department Floriculture and Landscaping , Faculty of Horticulture, BCKV, Mohanpur
f. J. Tarafdar, S.K. samanta & P.K. Sarkar (2006) Resumption of rice blast in the plains of West Bengal. In Newsletter
published by Association for Advancement in Plant Protection. Vol. 1, No. 3 Pg. 4.
g. J. Tarafdar (2005) Katipay Shashyer rog parichalonar Moilik Jukti Samuho. In Agro Chemicals-An Indispensable input
for Agricultural and Horticultural Development –Its safe use & Impact on Environment held on 19th
-21st
march 2005 at
Institute of Agricultural Science Pg. 90-93.
h. Veshaj o Sugandhi Udbhid Samachar published by Central Sector Scheme for medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Govt. of
India Funded project, BCKV. (2004) Compiled by A. Chowdhury, K.K. Ghoshal, A.B. Khara, P. Pal, B. Bandopadhyay, S.
Ghosh, A. Bhattacharya, J. Tarafdar, S. Mukherje, J. Biswas, H. Banerjee, R. Koley, C. Kundu, G.C. Hazra, R. Pui, A. De
Pg. No. 1-12
No. of Booklet, Bulletin, Monograph, Leaflets, Popular article, Training manuals published:
Name of the author Name of book /book chapter/
Booklet/Bulletin/ Monograph/ Leaflets/
popular article/Training manuals
Name of the publisher
Jayanta Tarafdar and Surajit
Mitra
Leaflets on Production technology of
Elephant Foot Yam
in Bengali language.
AICRP on Tuber Crops, Directorate of
Research, BCKV and CTCRI, ICAR
Mitra
Taro in Bengali language.
Mitra
sweetpotato in Bengali language.
Surajit Mitra and Jayanta
Tarafdar
Post-Harvest management of Tropical
Tuber Crops, Technical Bulletin
Jayanta Tarafdar and Sambit
Dutta
Common Flower Diseases in West Bengal
and its Management. In Book: Manual for
High Tech Horticulture
published by Centre for Testing and
Training for providing Technical Backup to
the beneficiaries for Agricultural and
Horticultural Development, Institute of
Agricultural sciences, University of Calcutta
12. List of Technologies/Products/Varieties/Patents etc,
Technologies:
o Introduction of IPM package using sex pheromone trap (1 trap/100m2
) is effective in reducing the
notorious insect, Sweet potato weevil (Cylus formicarius) infestation and to increase marketable tuber
production. The experiment has been concluded and IPM package of sweetpotato weevil management
will be recommended soon from CTCRI

o Developed Phytopthora leaf blight resistance molecular markers in taro for rapid screening of the
blight resistant lines/cultivars of Taro.
o AICRP on Tuber Crops, Kalyani Centre, BCKV has been selected by ICAR as National Repository of the
germplasms of Aroids (Taro, Elephant Foot yam, Swamptaro) in 2014.
o AICRP on Tuber Crops, Kalyani Centre, BCKV has been selected by ICAR as the centre for DNA
fingerprinting of national germplasm collections of taro and elephant foot yam. ICAR approved
AICRPTC, BCKV as DNA fingerprinting centre for validation of the genetic purity of tuber crops and
varieties prior to be released by any SAU.
o ICAR approved this centre for research on Phytophthoraspp especially P. colocasiae under national
network of Phytophthora (PhytoFuRa)
Varieties of Tuber Crops recommended for release by ICAR:
Name of the Crops with IC number Proposed name of the
variety
1.Upland taro(Eddoe type) [(BCC-10
(Colocasia esculenta var antiquorum)
IC- 361213]
BIDHAN CHAITANYA
2000
2. Elephant Foot Yam (EFY)(BCA-1)
(Amorphophallus paeoniifolius)
BIDHAN KUSUM
2002
3. Upland taro(Eddoe type) [(BCC-21)
IC 361233]
BIDHAN JOYDEB
2002
4. Sweetpotato (90 – 101)
(Ipomoea batatas
BIDHAN JAGANNATH
2011
5. Sweetpotato (Oranged Fleshed)
KAMLA SUNDARI
(Ipomoea batatas):IC598243
BIDHAN JYOTI
2008-2012 (National)
6. Upland taro BCC-17
(IC No. 361229),
BIDHAN KOCHU
2011
7. SwampTaro BCST-13
(Colocasia esculenta var var stoloniferum)
IC no. 592053
BIDHAN LATIKA
2011
8. Ghat Kachu
(Colocasia esculenta var esculenta)
IC 592039
BIDHAN Banda
2015
2. Elephant Foot Yam (EFY)(BCA-1)
(Amorphophallus paeoniifolius)
IC 592085
To be proposed
2015
13.Seminar/Symposium/Workshop attended:
i. Attended and presented paper in 17 International in USA, Canada, Japan, UK, Thailand,
Tanzania, Malaysia, Mauritius, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and in India
o Attended and presented paper in 21 National Seminar/Symposium/conference

o Attended and presented research activities in Annual & Biennial General Meetings of AICRP Tuber
Crops, ICAR since 2000.
ii. Attended and presented the progress of work in Workshop/ Group Meeting
(AICRP on Tuber Crops
I. VI th Biennial Group Meeting of Tuber Crops 1999-2000/2001-2002 held on 3rd
to 5th
October 2001at IGKV,
Jagaddalpur, Chhatrishgarh
II. VII th Biennial Group Meeting of Tuber Crops 2003-2003 & 2003-2004 held on 24th
& 25th
May 2003 at central
Tuber Crops Research Institute (CTCRI), Trivandrum, Kerala
III. VIII th Biennial Group Meeting of Tuber Crops 2004-2005 & 2005-2006 held on 4th
to 6th
May, 2006 at NDAUT,
Kumarganj, Faizabad, UP
IV. IX th
Biennial Group Meeting of Tuber Crops 2006-2007 & 2007-2008 held on 21st
to 23rd
December 2007 at
Navsari Agricultural University, Gujrat
V. X th Biennial Group Meeting of Tuber Crops 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 held on 9th
to 11th
October 2009 at
OUAT, Odissa
VI. XI th Annual General Meeting 2010-2011 held on 11th
to 13th
March 2011 at TNAU, Coimbatore, TN
VII. XII th Annual general Meeting 2011-2012 held on 18th
to 20th
June 2012 at NPUAT, Udaipur, Rajashthan
VIII. XIII th Annual general Meeting In May AAU, Jorhat 2013
IX. Mid-term review meeting of AICRP Tuber crops, October 2014 CTCRI Regional centre Bhubaneswar
X. XIV th Annual general meeting in May 23-26 2014 at RAU, Ranchi
XI. XVth Annual General Meeting in May 25-282015 at YSR Horticultural University, VR Gudem, AP.
iii. Evaluation of Project work under five years plan period
I. QRT Report 1999-2004, CTCRI
II. QRT Report 2005-2009 at BCKV during my officer in charge-ship
III. QRT Evaluation 2009-2014 at Bhubaneswar during my officer in charge-ship
14. Ad-hoc research projects are going on under my investigation at BCKV:
Research Support:
Ongoing Research Projects:
S.
No.
Title of Project Principal Investigator Funding Agency
1 Generation of Virus resistant rice for India:
Diversifying Transgenic Resistance to popular
varieties studying virus –host Interactions and
new marker free Transgenics against Tungro
disease
(2nd
PHASE)
Jayanta Tarafdar Deptt. of Biotechnology, Ministry
of Science & Technology, GOI, Delhi
2 Diversity, Distribution and Genome
Characterization of Whitefly-Transmitted
Geminiviruses causing diseases of important
crops in West Bengal and adjoining areas
Jayanta Tarafdar University Grant Commission, New
Delhi
3. Co-Nodal centre of Development of standards of
DUS testing for varietal gene bank in elephant
foot yam and taro
Jayanta Tarafdar Protection of Plant Varieties &
farmers’ Rights Authority (PPV &
FRA), Ministry of Agriculture, Govt.
of India

4 Detoxed grass pea: sustainable sustenance for
stressful environments
Indian Investigator Dr.
Jayanta Tarafdar, BCKV
UK Investigator: Prof. Cathie
Martin, UK
John Innes Centre (JIC)
Trevor Wang
Tina Barsby
Jane Thomas
Deptt. of Biotechnology, Ministry
of Science & Technology, GOI,
Delhi & Biotechnology, Biological
Science Research Council (BBSRC),
UK
Sequencing the grass pea (Lathyrus sativus)
genome, a multipurpose crop for sustainable
agriculture and food security
( Project submitted)
For funding from Joint Genome Institute, USA
Principal Investigator:
Cathie Martin, John Innes
Centre, UK
Co-PIs: Trevor Wang, Mike
Ambrose, Peter Emmrich,
Abhimanyu Sarkar, Manash
Chatterjee, Samir K.
Samanta, Jayanta Tarafdar,
R. Sadhukhan, Bin Han,
Jagger Harvey, Fikre Asnake,
Xuxiao Zong, Noel Ellis, Brad
Till, Maria C. vaz Patto and
D. Rubiales.
Sequencing the grass pea (Lathyrus
sativus) genome, a multipurpose
crop for sustainable agriculture and
food security
( Project submitted)
For funding from Joint Genome
Institute, USA
Completed Research Projects (State only major projects of last 3 years):
S. No. Title of Project PI Funding Agency
1 Quality planting Material Production in Tuber Crops (Acted
as Co-CCPI)
NATP, ICAR 2002 (Completed in November 2004)
2 Generation of Virus resistant rice for India: Diversifying
Transgenic Resistance to popular
varieties studying virus –host Interactions and new marker
free Transgenics against Tungro disease (1st PHASE)
Jayanta Tarafdar Deptt. of Biotechnology, Ministry of
Science & Technology, GOI, Delhi
15. PhD students guided by Dr. Jayanta Tarafdar
Sl.
No.
Name of the
student
Title of the thesis Name of the chairman Degree
1 Mr. Sukumar
Mandi in 2007
Resistant factors of taro [ Colocasia esculenta
(L) Schott.] towards Phytophthora colocasiae
infection’’ to
Dr. Jayanta Tarafdar (Awarded) 2007
2 Mr. Bireswar
Sinha
Epidemiology of Sweetpotato virus diseases
with special reference to SPFMV by
conventional and molecular method to
Dr. Jayanta Tarafdar (2008) Awarded
3 Mr. Manoj
Mukherjee
Studies on major Diseases and Biochemical
investigations of some important Medicinal
plants in West Bengal with special reference to
Senna (Cassia angustifolia) to
Dr. Jayanta Tarafdar (2010) Awarded
4 Ms. Amrita
Banerjee
Cloning and sequencing of selective genes of
rice tungro viruses from West Bengal and
expression of RTBV ORF IV (RTBV-O-Ds2 gene)
Jayanta Tarafdar PhD (Awarded
2012)

in backcrossed progenies of transgenic rice
towards resistance to rice tungro disease
5 Sri Manoj
Kumar
Full genome characterization of Sweetpotato
leaf curl virus infecting in West Bengal
Jayanta Tarafdar PhD awarded
2012
6 Sri Nayan
Kishor Adhikary
Studies on the incidence and characterization of
Soyben infecting begomo virus in the plains of
West Bengal
Jayanta Tarafdar PhD Awarded
2014)
7 Sri Partha
Pratim Sur
Molecular Characterization of Sweetpotato (I.
batatas) cultivars using simple sequence repeats
and screening of markers linked to agronomic
traits & virus resistant characters
Jayanta Tarafdar & Dr.
Sanjoy Guha Roy, West
Bengal State University,
Barasat
PhD
(to be
submitted)
8 Ms. Suchismita
Chakraborty
Molecular understanding of host-parasite
interaction of Phytophthora species in taro and
chilli by DNA/proteomics
Jayanta Tarafdar and
Dr. Samir Mukherjee
(Kalyani Univ.)
PhD
(Awarded)
9 Ms. Neelanjana
Chowdhury
Impact of different fungicides and insecticide
upon rice plants and fishes dwelling in paddy –
Fish ecosystem
Jayanta Tarafdar and
Dr. A. K. Panigrahi
(Kalyani Univ.)
PhD
(submitted)
10 Sri Dipmoy
Sarkar
Host response and fungicide sensitivity to
Phytophthora colaciae causing leaf blight of taro
Jayanta Tarafdar PhD
(Thesis writing)
11 Sri Sambit
Datta
Studies on the effect of some new generation
fungicidal chemicals on the sensitivity of some
important plant pathogenic fungi
Co- Guide Jayanta
Tarafdar registered at
Kolkata University
PhD
( to be
submitted)
12 Ms.Puspita Roy Detection of genetic variability in Phytophthora
colocasiae associated with leaf blight of taro
using morphological characters and molecular
markers
(on going)
13 Lourembam
Sanajaoba
Detection and Characterization of Tomato leaf
curl begomovirus disease complex and its
natural virus sequence variants in West Bengal
(on going)
16. Additional Information on Research activities
TOTAL GENE BANK ACCESSION RECEIVED TILL DAY
Dr. Jayanta Tarafdar
Sl.
No.
Name of the gene & organism/plant
Accession No.
EMBL/NCBI
Authors Year
1 Partial squence of Rice Tungro Spherical RNA
Virus (RTSV) Chinsura Isolate Coat Protein cds
(ssRNA +ve sense virus)
EU684542 Amrita Banerjee, Somnath
roy & Jayanta Tarafdar
2010
2 Complete genome of Rice Tungro Bacilliform
DNA Virus (RTBV) Chinsura Isolate
(ds DNA Pararetro virus)
FN377814 Amrita Banerjee, Somnath
roy & Jayanta Tarafdar
2010
3 Sweet potato leaf curl Bengal virus -
[India:West Bengal:2008] segment A,
complete sequence
(ssDNA Begomovirus)
FN432356 Manoj Kumar and Jayanta
Tarafdar
2010
4 Sri Lankan cassava mosaic virus partial AV1
gene for coat protein, West Bengal isolate
(ssDNA Begomovirus)
FN691429. Adhikary, N. K., Banerjee,
A., Tarafdar, J. and Roy, S.
2010
5 Sweet potato feathery mottle virus isolate
BCKV polyprotein gene, partial cds:
(ssRNA Poty Virus)
HM035545
Manoj Kumar & Jayanta
tarafdar
2011

6 Regulatory gene of Anthocyanin biosynthetic
pathway regulatory genes of
Sweetpotato (IT-4) mRNA for
sporaminA precursor molecule
HE980452 Neelanjana Choudhury,
Partha Pratim Sur &
Jayanta Tarafdar
2012
7 Regulatory gene of Anthocyanin biosynthetic
pathway regulatory genes of
Sweetpotato (IT-666)
Partha Pratim Sur &
Jayanta Tarafdar
2012
8 structural gene of Anthocyanin pigment (like
3GT) mRNA for 3-glucosyl-transferase
protein from sweetpotato
Partha Pratim Sur &
Jayanta Tarafdar
2012
9 Bhendi yellow vein mosaic virus partial rep
gene for transcription activator protein,
replicase, segment DNA-A, isolate Kalyani.
(ssDNA Begomovirus)
HF545019 Konsam,J., Sur,P.P.,
Pramanik,A. and Tarafdar,J.
2012
10 Chilli leaf curl virus partial AV-1 gene for
replication initiator protein, isolate CLCV-6.
(ssDNA Begomovirus)
HF548665. Adhikary, N. K., Sur, P. P.
and Tarafdar, J.
2012
11 Molecular characterization of a novel
begomovirus from Allamanda cathartica
Allamanda leaf mottle distortion virus
isolate Al-K1 segment DNA-A, complete
sequence.
(ssDNA Begomovirus)
KC202818 Shilpi,S., Tarafdar,J. and
Mandal,B.
2012
12 Tomato leaf curl virus [India:Kalyani-
B.C.K.V.:Ridgegourd:2013] partial AC1
gene for replication initiation protein,
(ssDNA Begomovirus)
HF679120.1
Nayan Adhikary, Partha
Pratim Sur & Jayanta
Tarafdar
2013
13 Tobacco curly top virus [India:Kalyani-
B.C.K.V.:Tomato:2013] partial AC1 gene
for replication initiation protein, (ssDNA
Begomovirus)
HF679120
Nayan Adhikary & Jayanta
Tarafdar
2013
14 Bhendi yellow vein mosaic virus
partial AV1 gene for coat protein,
BYVMV#1 isolate, (ssDNA Begomovirus)
HF912381
Ghosh, N., Nath, P. S.,
Tarafdar, J. and Adhikary,
N. K
2013
15 Ageratum enation virus partial AV1 gene for
coat protein, isolate west Bengal.(ssDNA
Begomovirus)
HF936708
Abing,T., Adhikary,N.K. and
Tarafdar,J.
2013
16 Mungbean yellow mosaic virus isolate
Bengal, segment A, complete viral
segment.
(ssDNA Begomovirus)
HF922628 Adhikary,N.K., Kumar,M.
and Tarafdar,J.
2013
17 Tomato leaf curl virus [India:Kalyani-B.C.K.V.:
in Ridgegourd] partial AC1 gene for
replication initiation protein. (ssDNA
Begomovirus)
HF679119 Adhikary, N. K., Sur, P. P.
and Tarafdar, J.
2013
18 Chilli leaf curl virus partial AC1 gene for
Replication initiation protein, Kalyani isolate,
West Bengal. (ssDNA Begomovirus)
HG969195 Chattapadhyay, N.,
Tarafdar, J. and Adhikary,
N. K.
2014

19 Dolichos yellow mosaic virus partial AC1 gene
for Replication initiation protein, Kalyani
isolate, West Bengal. (ssDNA Begomovirus)
HG969194. Adhikary, N. K. and
Tarafdar, J.
2014
20 Tobacco curly shoot virus
[India:Kalyani:Chilli,2014] partial AC1
gene for replication protein, Isolate-
BCKV";
(ssDNA Begomovirus)
LM994825 Purkait S., Tudu A., Mandal
S., Adhikary N.K., Tarafdar J
2014
Characterization of fungal /Plant genes resistant to phytophthora blight
Sl.
No.
Accession Number Gene
1 AB922183 CTSP
2 AB934366 BhSPv
3 AB934367 BSPv
4 AB934368 KbFPv
5 AB934369 TnSPv
6 AB934370 PCBRD
7 AB934371 PCHBR
8 AB934372 PCKSN
9 AB934373 PCPGS
10 AB934374 PCHNG
Identification of Phytopthora leaf blight resistance markers
in taro from ESTs
11 AB934990 CPIBCC1
12 AB934991 CPIMKT
13 AB934992 Colocasia Storage protein
14 AB934993 PRG1, endochitinase gene
7. 15 AB934994 PRG8
17. Other professional activities:
Member & former Coucillor (South-East Asia)International Society for Tropical Root Crops (ISTRC) and
Editor of the ISTRC Newsletter, NRI, UK. Member and Councillor (Publication) [2003 to 2006]
Member: American Phytopathological Society (APS)’
Member: International Society of Horticultural Sciences (ISHS)
Life Member: Indian Phytopathological Society
Life Member: Indian Virological society
Life Member: Indian Society of Root Crops
List of Publications in the Indian & peer reviewed journals:
1) Surajit Mitra and J.Tarafdar (2015). Diversity in Morpho-Biometrical Characters, Nutritional facts and
isozymes activitry of Indian Landraces of Upland Taro (Colocasia esculenta var antiquorum L. Schott).
International Journal of Tropical Agriculture Vol:33, No.2 pp 1163-1166.

2) Neelanjana Chowdhury, Jayanta Tarafdar and Asish Panigrahi (2015). Enzymological Responses in
Channa Punctatus Exposed to Sub-Lethal Concentration of Hexaconazole (Contaf) In Paddy-Cum-Fish
Ecosystem. Indian Journal of Applied Research. Volume : 5 (2) pp: 31-37
3) S.K.Bhattacharyya, C.Sengupta, N.K.Adhikary and J.Tarafdar (2015). Bacillus amyloliquefaciens-a novel
PGPR strain isolated from jute based cropping system. The BIOSCAN, 9(3):1263-1268
4) Atul M. Pradhan, RupsanatanMandal, Kisor Kumar Sarkar, AmitavaKonar and JayantaTarafdar (2015).
Studies On Molecular Divergence In Indian Potato Genotypes Through Randomly Amplified Polymorphic D N A
Markers. Journal of Environment and Biosciences. Vol. 28 (2): 351-354
5) Rupsanatan Mandal, Nirmal Mandal, Surajit Mitra Archana Mukharjee and Jayanta Tarafdar (2015).
Development of DUS standard for taro [Colocasia esculenta Var.antiquirom (l.) Schott.]using digital
morphometrics. Applied Biological Research. 17(1): 70-76
6) S. K. Datta, R. Mandal, P. Roy, N. Mandal and J. Tarafdar (2014). Detection of genetic
diversity in Lathyrus sativus L. using RAPD marker system. International Journal of Agriculture, Environment &
Biotechnology 7(4): 729-733
7) Sarkar D., Mandal R., Roy P., Taradar J. and Dasgupta B. (2014) Management Of Brown Spot Disease
of Rice By Using Safer Fungicides and Some Bioagents. The Bioscan 9(1): 437-441
8) Shaista Rahman, JayantaTarafdar, Santosh Kumar and Amarendra Kumar (2014) Effect of amalgerol
and tebuconazole on tikka leaf spot and rust of Groundnut. Annals of Plant protection Science 22(2): 355-357.
9) Sambit Datta ,Souvik Das , Abhijit Sarkar , JayantaTarafdar , and AshimChowdhury (2014). Assessing
the effects of varied temperature and pH on the growth and sclerotial formation of Kuhn, isolated from paddy
field: a case study. International Journal of Life sciences 8 ( 2 ) : 2 0 1 4: 4 – 9
10) B. Sinha and J. Tarafdar (2014). Epidemiological study of SPVD transmission in West Bengal. The
Bioscan 9(3) 1237-1242
11) S. K. Bhattacharyya, C. Sengupta and J. Tarafdar (2014) In vitro screening of bioagents from
rhizosphere soil against Macrophomina phaseolina and seedling health of jute. Journal of Mycopathological
Research. 52(2) : 267-272,
12) Puspita Roy, RupsanatanMandal, Sitansu Kumar Pan and JayantaTarafdar (2014) Impact of Carbon
and Nitrogen Sources on the Phomopsis vexans Isolates 1222 Trends in Biosciences 7(12): 1222-1226
13) Rupsanatan Mandal, A. Mukherjee, P. Roy, J. Tarafdar and N. Mandal Improved and Convenient
Method of High Quality DNA Isolation from Grasspea 2106 (Lathyrus sativus L.) : A protein Rich Crop. Trends in
Biosciences 7(16): 2106-2109, 2014
14) Sarkar D., Mandal R., Roy P., Taradar J. and Dasgupta B. (2014). Management Of Brown Spot Disease
of Rice By Using Safer Fungicides and Some Bioagents. The Bioscan 9(1): 437-441.
15) S. K. Bhattacharyya, C. Sengupta, N. K. Adhikary and J.Tarafdar (2014) Bacillus amyloliquefaciens” – An
novel PGPR strainisolated from in jute based cropping system. The Bioscan 9(3): 1263-1268,

16) S. K. Datta,R. Mandal, P. Roy, N. Mandal and J. Tarafdar (2014) Detection of genetic diversity in
Lathyrus sativus L. using RAPD marker system. International Journal of Agriculture, Environment and
Biotechnology. 7(4): 729-733
17) N. K. Adhikary, S. Dey and J. Tarafdar (2013) Studies on morphology of mango anthracnose disease
causing funguscolletotrichum gloeosporioides (penz.) penz. andsacc. and efficacy of Azoxystrobin against the
fungus under in vitro and in vivo condition. Biosacn8(2): 493-497, 2013
18) Rupsanatan Mandal, Arijit Mukherjee, Nirmal Mandal, JayantaTarafdar and Archana Mukharjee
(2013). Assessment of Genetic Diversity in Taro Using Morphometrics Current Agriculture Research Journal
Vol. 1(2), 79-85
19) Ashis Kumar Panigrahi, Neelanjana Choudhury and Jayanta Tarafdar (2013) Pollutional impact of some
selective agricultural pesticides on fish cyprinuscarpio Impact: International Journal of Research in Applied,
Natural And Social Sciences vol. 2, issue 2, 71-76
20) Somnath Roy, JayantaTarafdar, Amrita Banerjee and B.K. Senapati (2012)Detection of probable marker
free transgene positive rice tungro disease resistant plants from backcross progenies of transgenic Pusa
Basmati 1 Journal of Genetics (Springer) 91, 213–218
21) Somnath Roy, Amrita Banerjee, JayantaTarafdar, SurajitMitra (2012) Tuber quality assessment of
orange-fleshed sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) cultivars and their genetic relatedness as revealed by SDS-
PAGE of tuber proteins. Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 82 (6): 482–8
22) Manoj Kumar, JayantaTarafdarand SambitDatta (2012)Assessing Relationship between Indian and
Exotic Cultivars of Sweet Potato (Ipomoea batatas(L.) Lam.) by Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA. Journal of
Root Crops, 2011, Vol. 37 No. 2, pp. 125-130
23) Somnath Roy, Amrita Banerjee, JayantaTarafdar, B.K. Senapati and I. Dasgupta(2011) Transfer of
transgenes for resistance to rice tungro disease into high yielding rice cultivars through gene based marker-
assisted selection" Journal of Agricultural Sciences, Cambridge, UK pp: 1-9 doi:10.1017/S0021859611000827
24) Amrita Banerjee, Somnath Roy and JayantaTarafdar (2011) The large intergenic region of Rice tungro
bacilliform virus evolved differentially among geographically distinguished isolates. Virus gene (Springer)
44:312-318
25) Amrita Banerjee, Somnath Roy, JayantaTarafdar, (2011) Phylogenetic analysis of Rice tungro
bacilliform virus ORFs revealed strong correlation between evolution and geographical distribution Virus gene
(Springer) (2011) 43:398–408
26) Susmita Ganguly, Sima Bhattacharya, Sukumar Mandi and JayantaTarafdar(2010) Biological detection
and analysis of organophosphate and azadirachtin- based insecticides in Lathyrussativus L. Ecotoxicology
(Springer) 19: 85 – 95
27) Somnath Roy, Amrita Banerjee, JayantaTarafdar and Samir Kumar Samanta (2010) Superior bioefficacy
of a combined formulation of carbendazim and mancozeb in inducing defense responses in chilli seedlings
against SclerotiumrolfsiiSacc. in comparison with methyl jasmonate Crop Protection (Elsevier) 29: 163-167.

28) S. Mitra, J. Tarafdar and M. Palaniswami (2010) Impacts of different maturity stages and storage of
Nutritional Changes in raw and cooked tubers of Orange Fleshed swetpotato (Ipomoea batatas) cultivars. Acta
Horticulture 205-212
29) Debasish Moitra and J. Tarafdar. (2009) In Vitro Plant regeneration from leaf explants and Shoot tips of
sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas). Advances of Plant Sciences, 22(II) 377-380
30) SukumarMandi, J. Tarafdar, Amrita Banerjee andSomnath Roy (2009) Cytological analysis of defense
related mechanisms induced in taro( Colocasia esculenta car antiquorum) leaf tissue in response to
Phytophthora colocasiae infection Journal of Root Crops. 35 (2): 196-205
31) A.K. Moudgal, S. Ramachandran and J. Tarafdar (2009) Evaluation of Fenbuconazole and Thifluzamide
for the control of Black Sigatoka (Mycos[herella fijiensis) on Banana in India. Pestology Vol. XXXIII No. 6.: 34-
36.
32) A. Banerjee, S. Roy, J. Tarafdar and B.K. Senapati (2009). Present status of rice tungro disease in West
Bengal: Occurrence and characterization of viruses. Journal of Crops and Weeds, 5(1): 232-235
33) Suhrita Chakraborty(Das), P.S. Munsi,, J. Tarafdar and N. Roychowdhury (2008). Effect of sucrose and
trehalose on vase life and flower quality of gerbera. Journal of Ornamental Horticulture11(3): 188-195
34) Mitra, S. Sinha, B. ; Pal, H. and Tarafdar, J. (2007). Comparative studies on morphological characters,
yield, nutritional status and isozymes activity of taro (Colocasia esculenta var. antiquorum L. Schott.) grown in
West Bengal. Acta Hort.752 : 219-224.
35) BireswarSinha and J. Tarafdar (2007) Occurrence and detection of sweet potato viruses in West Bengal
Journal of Applied Horticulture. 9(2): 123-126.
36) Bireswar Sinha and J. Tarafdar (2007) A study on the Cause of a Sweet Potato Virus Disease in West
Bengal. BIOSCAN, 2(2): 163-166
37) BireswarSinha and J. Tarafdar (2007) Morphological comparison of some sweetpotato cultivars and its
susceptibility to sweetpotato viruses and its transmission by Tubers and cuttings Environment and Ecology,
25S (3): 659-661
38) A. Mandal, B. Sinha and J. Tarafdar (2007) Occurrence of Yam Bean Yellow Mosaic Virus disease in
West Bengal. Environment and Ecology, 25S (3): 670-672
39) S. Mandi, J. Tarafadar and B. Sinha (2006) Diverse response to Phytophthora blight of some promising
taro (Colocasia esculenta var antiquorum) cultivars in West Bengal. Indian Journal of Plant Protection, 34 (2):
236-238
40) Soumik Mandal, H.Sen, J. Tarafdar and A. Chattapadhyay (2006). Evaluation of Storage media and
Fungicide Treatments for Storing Whole Seed corms towards increasing productivity of Elephant Foot Yam
(Amorphophalluspaeoniifolius). Journal of Root Crops, 32(2): 166-170
41) Soumik Mondal, J. Tarafdar and H. Sen. (2006) Use of sex pheromone trap for monitoring and
management of sweet potato weevil (Cylasformicarius,Fabricius) Environment and Ecology. 24S (3): 525-528.
42) B. Sinha, J. Tarafdar and S.Mandi (2006) Current status of virus like diseases of Root and Tuber Crops in
West Bengal. Journal of Mycopathological Research. 44(1): 91-95
43) Tarafdar, J. and Sarkar, M.A. 2006. Managing sweetpotato weevil (cylas formicarius fabricius) in west

bengal, india, by some chemicals, bioproducts and sex pheromone traps. Acta Hort. (ISHS)703:189-196
http://www.actahort.org/books/703/703_23.htm
44) Soumik Mandal, H. Sen, A. Chattapdhayay and J. Tarafdar (2005) Whole seed corm production of
Elephant Foot Yam through mini bottom Corm Setts soaked with growth substances and cow dung slurry. The
Horticultural Journal 18(2) 102-105
45) H. Sen, A. Chattapadhyay, J. Tarafdar and S. Das (2005) BidhanKusum: a new elephant foot yam. Indian
Horticulture 50 (3): 24-25
46) J. Tarafdar, BireswarSinha, P. Roy Chowdhury, Sreekant Attaluri and Sarath Ilangatileke (2004)A
preliminary indexing of sweetpotato viruses in West Bengal by symptoms expression and using NCM-ELISA,
South, West and Central Asia, International Potato Centre (CIP) Newsletter 8 (1): 7
47) J. Tarafdar, N. Mandal and H.Sen (2004) Performance of some promising cultivars of taro
(colocasiaesculenta var. antiquorum (l.) schott) against phytophthoralraf blight disease, yield components and
variation in peroxidase isoformsAsian Journal of Microbiology, Biotechnology and Environmental Science.
6(2): 187-191.
48) N. Mandal, R. Majumdar and J. Tarafdar (2004) Agrobacterium tumefaciensmediated tansformation
of indicarice and molecular analysis of regenerated plants. Asian Journal of Microbiology, Biotechnology and
Environmental Science.6 (4): 617-623
49) B. Siswas, A.K. Pal and J. Tarafdar(2004)Effect of different fungicides and bio-product on the control of
Fusarium wilt disease of carnation var. Alcardio under field condition. Crop Research. 28 (1, 2 and 3): 121-124.
50) J. Tarafdar and R. Chatterjee (2003). Differential reaction to Colletotrichum leaf spot disease and
Genetic Variability in some cultivars of Turmeric. Annals of Plant Protection Sciences 11 (2): 300 – 303.
51) P.S. Nath, RamdasMandi and J. Tarafdar (2003) Incidence of sweetpotato mosaic virus in sweetpotato
(Ipomoea batatasL.) in the plains of West Bengal. Journal of Mycopathological Research. 41(2): 245-246.
52) J. Tarafdar and A. Roy. (2002) Control of powdery mildew diseases of pea and chilli by different
fungicides under terrace conditions of Darjeeling Hills of West Bengal. In book: Tropical Mycology, edited by N.
Samajpati Published by Indian Mycological Society, Department of Botany, University of Calcutta, 35
Ballygunge Circular Road, Kolkata, 700 019 pg. 243-247.
53) J. Tarafdar and A.K. Chowdhury (2002)Variation on the susceptibility of rice tungro virus components
in respect to variety and vector Nephotettix virescens. Journal of Mycopathological Research, Calcutta
University. 40(1): 17-20.
54) J. Tarafdar; S. Biswas and A.K.Chowdhury (2001) Reaction of rice tungro virus and its vector
Nephotettixvirescens (Distant) with some traditional and high yielding varieties of rice. Journal of
Interacademicia 5(2): 142-149.
55) Tarafdar, B.K. Das; S. Mukhopadhyaya and A.K. Chowdhury (1997) Incidence and role of stubbles on
the survival of rice tungro disease in West Bengal. Journal of Mycopathological Research, Calcutta University
35(2): 87-92.

56) J. Tarafdar and A.K. Chowdhury (1996) Movement behaviour of Nephotettixvirescens (Distant), a
vector of rice tungro virus disease in West Bengal. Journal of Entomological Research, Indian Council of
Agricultural Research, New Delhi 21(2): 1-7
57) NiharenduSaha and JayantaTarafdar (1996) Quality of sewages as irrigation water and its effect on
beneficial microbes around pea (Pisum sativum) rhizosphere soil. Journal of Hill Research 9(1): 89-72.
58) Neelanjana Choudhury, Jayanta Tarafdar and Ashis Kumar Panigrahi (2014) A study on behavioural
responses in Cyprinus carpio exposed to different toxic agricultural effluents. In Proc: National Congress Cha.
Bio. Res. Man. Pp: 316-319.
59) A.K. Basu, J. Tarafdar and R.L. Moharana (2010) Cultivar identification of Lablab purpurius through
isozyme analysis during seed germination In Proc: Role of Biotechnology in Food Security and Climate Change
in Sixth Intl. Plant Tissue Culture & Biotech Conference, December 3-5 2010 pp-11-18
60) Surajit Mitra, JayantaTarafdar and M.S. Palaniswami(2009) Nutritional Status of Tropical Tuber Crops
in Improving Diet quality and Health Security of poor People. In Proc: International Conference on Horticulture
-2009. pp-2219-2221
61) Surajit Mitra and Jayanta Tarafdar (2008). Present status and future scope of Elephant Foot Yam
Cultivation 9in west Bengal. In Status Paper and Extended Summary of National seminar on Amorphophallus:
Innovative Technologies Organized by Indian council of Agricultural Research and Central Tuber Crops
Research Institute, ICAR on 19-20th
July 2008 at Patna, Bihar. Pp-25-29
62) JayantaTarafdar and Surajit Mitra (2008). Pre and Post harvest diseases of Elephant Foot Yam
(Amorphophallus paeoniifolius) and its Management: The West Bengal experience. In Status Paper and
Extended Summary of National seminar on Amorphophallus: Innovative Technologies Organized by Indian
council of Agricultural Research and Central Tuber Crops Research Institute, ICAR on 19-20th
July 2008 at
Patna, Bihar. Pp-167-170
63) J. Tarafdar, S.Mandal, B.Sinha, A.M. Puste, P. K. Sahu and H. Sen. (2007) Morphological and
biochemical investigation of some promising Indian sweetpotato cultivars for understanding interrelationship
and occurrence of sweetpotato viruses among the cultivars. In the 13th
International Symposium in Tropical
root crops held at Arusha, Tanzania from 9th
to 15th
November 2003). Published in Proc: International Society
for Root & Tuber Crops (ISTRC), UK, 272 – 283
64) J. Tarafdar, P.Nayak and S.K. Sen. (2007) In vitro plant regeneration ginger via somatic embryogenesis
and multiple shoot production in elite cultivar of ginger. In the 13th
International Symposium in Tropical root
crops which to be held at Arusha, Tanzania from 9th
to 15th
November 2003) Published in Proc: International
Society for Root & Tuber Crops (ISTRC), UK, 32 – 35
65) J. Tarafdar and N. Saha. (2007) Correlation study on the population dynamics of ginger soft rot inciting
pathogens under different organic amendments and its survival in Darjeeling hill soils. In the 13th
International Symposium in Tropical root crops which to be held atArusha, Tanzania from 9th
to 15th
November
2003). Published in Proc: International Society for Root & Tuber Crops (ISTRC), UK, 165 – 169
66) A.Chattapadhyay, J. Tarafdar and H. Sen (2004). Performance of Indigenous Genetic Resources of
Upland taro (Eddoe Type) in GangeticPlanis of West Bengal. In Book: Root and Tuber Crops: In Nutrion, Food
Security and Sustainable Environment. Edited by: S.K. Naskar, M, Neduncheezhiyan, K. RajasekharaRao, P.S.
Sivakumar, R.C. Roy, R.S. Mishra and A. Mukherjee, ICAR. Pp-61-65

67) J. Tarafdar, SoumikMondal, A. Mukharjee, A. Chattapadhyay and H. Sen (2002). Trapping sweetpotato
weevil, Cylusformicarius (Fabricius) by sex pheromone in the farmers’ fields of West Bengal. ( In the press for
publication in the proceeding of National Seminar on IPM in the Current Century held on 29- 30th Nov. 2002
at the Department of Agril. Entomology, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur 741252, West
Bengal, India.
68) J. Tarafdar (1997) Pathological field problems of ginger cultivation with special reference to rhizome
rot and its management in Kalimpong Hills of West Bengal. In Proceeding: National Symposium on “Pest
management in Changing Agricultural Situation” Dasgupta M K (Ed), Department of Plant Protection, Visva-
Bharati, PalliSikshaSadan, Sriniketan 731 236, 15-16 March, 1997. pp. 76-80.
Statement on contribution of in the work:
I joined as a lecturer (Research) in Regional Research Station (Hill Zone), Kalimpong on 10th
September 1991
and after nine years I got placed in AICRP on Tuber Crops, BCKV in 2000 and started work as Associate
Professor, Department of Plant Pathology at the West Bengal, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Vishwavidyalaya (BCKV),
Kalyani. My research expertise is in the area of Molecular Biology and Plant Virology focusing on the molecular
understanding of host pathogen interactions and characterization of plant viruses and their variants. I am
involved in evaluating new fungicides and defining their interactions with hosts and pathogens using
conventional and molecular approaches. He is currently managing 14 projects funded by Govt. of India and
Indian and Multinational Corporate sectors.
I have more than 24 years research experience and has carried out need-based research on the pathological
problems of major crop plants, especially root and tuber crops, but also in rice and grass pea. He has
experience in screening crop cultivars for high yield, starch and beta-carotene contents, resistance to biotic
and abiotic stresses. He has released (group contribution) varieties of Elephant Foot Yam (variety Bidhan
Kusum), Taro (variety Bidhan Chaytanya), and sweet potato (variety Bidhan Jagannath, Kamla sundari).
In 2013 the research centre under the inchargeship of me received a Best Performing Centre award from the
Indian Council of Agricultural Research. His research group works on molecular plant pathology and plant virus
diagnostics with funding from the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), the Indian Ministry of
Agriculture and DBT of Science & Technology, the University Grants Commission and the Plant Variety
Protection & Farmers’ Rights Authority.
I have active collaborations with numerous universities including Delhi (South Campus) and the Indian
Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, and has sponsorship from DBT and corporate sectors including
Syngenta, BASF, Isagro (Asia), United Phosphorus Ltd., Indofil Chemical Industries, Excel Crop Care Ltd, FMC
India Ltd., Parijat Industries ltd, Crystal Crop Industries Ltd, Rallis India Ltd. GSP India Pvt. Ltd. I published more
than sixty scientific papers in reputed journals, released several leaflets/pamphlets on the production,
improvement and protection technologies of tuber crops to the farmers.
I have established advanced plant pathology and molecular biological laboratory at the Directorate of research
building, BCKV, Kalyani. Recently I have collaborated with John Innes Centre (JIC) and National Institute of
Agricultural Botany (NIAB), UK and awarded global project funded by DBT, Govt. of India and BBSRC, UK.
Among seven UK-India projects under CGAT launched in India (Press released by DBT) and the project on
grasspea under my supervision at BCKV is one of them has been granted.
I have been assigned as the ‘Officer in Charge’ of All India Coordinated Research project on Tuber Crops,
Kalyani Centre in September 2004. I am looking after the mandated research works and monitoring all
research activities both in the experimental field and laboratory of the project.
As the secondary duty I take the classes of graduates, post-graduates and Ph.D students of the Department of

Plant Pathology and acted as Advisory Committee member in many M.S (Ag.) and Ph. D students of plant
pathology and other departments.
I organised farmers’ Training program on Tuber Crops and plant protection of crops in collaboration with
several Zonal, State Agriculture Fairs, agriculture shows in Trivandrum, Gujrat, Varanasi, Faizabad, Patna and
International Potato Centre (CIP).
JAYANTA TARAFDAR

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