School of Agricultural Sciences Faculty

Dr. Deepak Maurya

Assistant Professor, Horticulture (Vegetable Science)

Qualification: B.Sc., M.Sc.

College/University: Banda University of Agriculture and technology, Acharya Narendra Deva University of Agriculture & Technology

Introduction:

Dr. Deepak Maurya s/o Shri Sheetla Prasad Maurya and Smt. Jankey Maurya was born on 5 Jan 1995 at Kakana, Kadipur District, Sultanpur 228145 (Uttar Pradesh). He has completed a B.Sc. (Hons) in Horticulture (2012-16) degree from the Banda University of Agriculture and Technology, Banda (U.P.), and an M.Sc. (Ag.) Horticulture in Vegetable Science (2016 -18) from Acharya Narendra Deva University of Agriculture & Technology, Kumarganj, Ayodhya, 224 229 (U.P.). He got the 1st rank BAU entrance exam in July 2018 and completed a doctoral degree program from Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour, Bhagalpur (Bihar). He has qualified ASRB-NET (National Eligibility Test) in Vegetable Science (2018, 2021) and also cracked several entrance examinations. He's currently working as Assistant Professor (Horticulture in Vegetable Science) at GD Goenka University, Gurugram and his current research focuses on molecular breeding in vegetable crops (especially in tomatoes).

Project

Project Title: Development of processing line with Ty-3 resistance allele for tomato leaf curl disease (ToLCD) in the girth and bhundelkhand region: Funding Agency- Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science & Technology (SERB-DST), Government of India.

Publications:

• Maurya D*, Mukherjee A, Sangam S, Kumar R, Akhtar S, Chattopadhyay T (2023) Marker assisted stacking of Ty3, Mi1.2 and Ph3 resistance alleles for leaf curl, root knot and late blight diseases in tomato. Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants, 29:121-129 [SCI Journal, NAAS rating-9.02]
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12298-022-01277-2
• Maurya D*, Akhtar S, Chattopadhyay T, Kumar R, Sahay S, Sangam S, Kumari N, Siddiqui MW (2022) Genetic Variability and Character Association in Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.). Bangladesh Journal of Botany, 51(4):747-757 [SCI Journal, NAAS rating-6.34] http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bjb.v51i4.63494
• Maurya D*, Mukherjee A, Akhtar S, Chattopadhyay T (2021) Development and validation of the OVATE gene-based functional marker to assist fruit shape selection in tomato. 3 Biotech, 11:474 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13205-021-03029-7 [SCI Journal, NAAS rating-8.89]
• Chattopadhyay T, Hazra P, Akhtar S, Maurya D, Mukherjee A. (2021) Skin colour, carotenogenesis and chlorophyll degradation mutant alleles: genetic orchestration behind the fruit colour variation in tomato. Plant Cell Reports, 40:767-782 [SCI Journal, NAAS rating-10.96] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00299-020-02650-9
• Chattopadhaya T, Maurya D, Bhagyashree, Akhtar S, Roy C (2021) Development of polymerase chain reaction-based marker for identification of nonsense mutation in a receptor like protein gene of tomato. Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology, [SCI Journal, NAAS rating-7.92]
  https://doi.org/10.1080/14620316.2021.1947905 
• Maurya D, Bhagya Shree, Akhtar S, Chattopadhyay T (2020) Exploring allelic status of selected disease resistance genes in a set of tomato genotypes using gene-linked molecular markers. Journal of Crop and Weed, 16(1) : 236-241 [NAAS rating-5.46] https://doi.org/10.22271/09746315.2020.v16.i1.1299
• Bhagyashree, Maurya D, Chattopadhyay T (2020) Simultaneous detection of Mi1.2 and Ph3 resistance alleles for root knot and late blight diseases in tomato through duplex polymerase chain reaction. Journal of Crop and Weed, 16(1): 223-228 [NAAS rating-5.46]
  https://doi.org/10.22271/09746315.2020.v16.i1.1297

Book
Deepak Maurya and Ankit Kumar Pandey (2020) Concise Vegetable Science. Published by New Vishal Publication, ISBN 819461973-4

Book Chapters:

Maurya D, Akhtar S, Tripathi V, Pandey A K (2019) Vegetables for Nutritional Security and Play
Important Role in Human Diet. Advance In Horticulture, Aki Nik Publications, ISBN 978-93- 53355-
81-4. 

Maurya D, Dukpa P, Dwary S and Yeasmin S (2023) Molecular Breeding in Vegetable Crops for
Nutritional Health Benefits. Advances in Horticulture crops and their challenges.SR EDU Publications: (Volume-2): ISBN: 978-93-92941-19-1 Kumar R. and Maurya D. (2019) Biofortification of vegetable crops. AkiNik Publications.

Past Research:

Dr. Deepak Maurya worked on topic research entitled “Breeding tomatoes for quality with disease
resistance alleles” under the supervision of Dr. Shirin Akhtar during Ph.D. Programme. Morpho-
biochemical variability of twenty diverse tomato genotypes was studied and few genotypes were
identified that produced high yield and good quality. Characters for high yielding good quality tomato were also defined based on these genotypes and twenty traits. Disease resistance alleles in these twenty genotypes were identified by molecular markers. Plant hybridization for stacking resistance genes was done and one bi-parental and one four-parental population were developed. Lines carrying Ty-3, Mi1.2 and Ph-3 resistance alleles in homozygous condition have been identified through marker assisted selection. Besides, molecular marker assisted for selection of mutant alleles governing fruit colour and shape (Psy1, CrtISO and Ovate) has also been done. While M.Sc. programme Dr. Deepak Maurya worked on topic entitled“Genetic improvement by effective selection based on certain genetic parameters for metric traits in bitter gourd (Momordica charantia L.)” under supervision of Dr. V.B. Singh.