Senior Scientist of Plant Biochemistry at ICAR-Indian Institute of Rice Research, Dr. Mangrauthia earned his bachelor’s degree in Agriculture and Animal Husbandry from C.S.A. University of Agriculture & Technology Kanpur (2001); his master’s (2004) and doctorate degrees (2008) in Biochemistry from the Indian Agriculture Research Institute New Delhi. He did Postdoc from Purdue University, USA, and also was a visiting scientist at Heinrich Heine University Germany (2019) and at Louisiana State University USA (2020). He is known for his creative and path-breaking research in the area of hot-pathogen interaction, pathogen genomics, epigenetics, and molecular mechanisms of environmental stresses. His laboratory at Indian Institute of Rice Research developed diagnostic tools for identification of RTBV and RTSV viruses, genome sequencing and genes characterization of RTBV and RTSV, molecular and physiological basis of host-virus interaction, development of virus and fungal resistant plants using RNAi. His laboratory has also contributed to understand the fundamentals of molecular mechanisms of environmental stresses (high temperature tolerance, low P tolerance) and development and release of tolerant genetic stocks and heat tolerant rice varieties. Currently, Dr Mangrauthia is leading a research program on deployment of genome editing to create improved alleles in popular, elite, and mega rice cultivars of India. He has published 78 research papers, 13 review papers, 20 book chapters and authored 4 books. Dr. Satendra has won several grants of DST, DBT, and ICAR to carry out the research in frontier areas of plant biology. He is reviewer of many high impact journals (https://publons.com/researcher/1508994/satendra-kumar-mangrauthia/) and editor of Frontiers in Plant Science, BMC Plant Biology, Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, and Journal of Rice Research.

Cumulative Impact Factor- 277.873; Citations-1661; h-index- 22; i10-index-50

Awards/Recognition

1) 2019 Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellowship Award.
2)Lal Bahadur Shastri Outstanding Young Scientist Award 2017 from Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)
3) Jawaharlal Nehru Award (Gold Medal and Citation)/2010 from Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)
4)Young Scientist Award/2009 from Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA)
5)Associate NAAS (since 2017) and Member NASI (since 2014)

Indo-US Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship Award/2012