Journal of Wishes (2015) 02(01):1959-2015

DOI: 01.1959/JoW.0101.02012015
WELL-WISHING ARTICLE

Wishing many many happy returns of the day on the

occasion of 56th birthday of Dr. Radhakrishnan T.
Suhail Ahmad Vivekanand Tiwari Bindu Goswami Hiren Bhalani Abhinandan S. Patil Tejas C. Bosamia
Binal Joshi Sneha Dodia Viral Mandaliya Kirankumar Patel Bhagwat Nawade Sahil V. Patel
Tanmoy Sarkar Santosh Kumar Mansukh Kandolia Maheboob B. Sheikh Jeyanti R. Dobaria
Abhay Kumar Gyan P. Mishra
Received: 01 Januaryy 2015/Revised: 01 Januaryy 2015/Accepted:
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01 Januaryy 2015
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Key Message: The authors wish their Supervisor

Dr. Radhakrishnan T. a very warm happy
birthday on his 56th birthday.

Keywords Celebration Happy birthday Treats

Radhakrishnan T. DGR

Abstract This article is a tribute to a wonderful

person and a great boss,
boss Dr.
Dr Radhakrishnan T.
T on the
occasion of his birthday. We wish him the years
ahead with loads of fun, excitement and beautiful
memories. His leadership and determination inspires
us to be dedicated and determined. He makes us
better at what we do, and indeed, he is the best
mentor we ever had. What we are now, is just due to
g out the best in us. He had
his hard work. He brings
seen us develop, grow, fail, perplexed, falter, and all
the forms which a researcher undergoes in his career,
and stood with us during our tough times. May he
always have as much strength and courage to lead us
and, more importantly, a truly happy life. This is our
small honor for his birthday, but it is incomparable to
the gift that he gives us everyday. Education and
k
knowledge
l d are the
th priceless
i l
presents
t he
h bestows
b t
on
us.

Introduction

All the authors contributed equally to this work

Electronic supplementary material The online version
of this article (doi: 01.1959/JoW.2015.02012015) contains
supplementary material as best wishes, happiness and all
good things
g
g which is available to authorized users.
S. Ahmad V. Tiwari B. Goswami H. Bhalani
A. S. Patil T. C. Bosamia B. Joshi S. Dodia
V. Mandaliya K. Patel B. Nawade S. V. Patel
T. Sarkar S. Kumar M. Kandolia M. B. Sheikh
J. R. Dobaria A. Kumar G. P. Mishra
ICAR-Directorate of Groundnut Research (DGR),
P O Box No. 5, Ivnagar Road, Junagadh 362 001, Gujarat,
India.
e-mail: abhay@nrcg.res.in, sahillakhani@gmail.com

Published Online: 02 January 2015

Dr. Radhakrishnan T. is presently working on four

major aspects of cytogenetics, plant molecular
biology, genetics and genomics. He has been
instrumental in development of protocols for
efficient regeneration (Radhakrishnan et al. 2000;
2001); genetic transformation (Radhakrishnan et al.
); interspecific
p
hybrid
y
rescue through
g meristem
2000);
culture (Radhakrishnan et al. 1999) in groundnut
(Arachis hypogaea L.). Elite transgenic events with
tolerance to salinity, water deficit stress (Bhauso et
al. 2014; Tengale et al. 2014; Sarkar et al. 2014),
resistance to foliar fungal disease, PSND and PBND
were developed and characterized (Mehta et al.
2013).
I the
In
th area off development
d l
t off genomic
i resources for
f
the groundnut crop, his group has identified and
generated first SSR based linkage map (Ravi et al.
2011; Sujay et al. 2012). The QTLs for rust and leaf
spot resistance were transferred to 3 susceptible
cultivars through MABC (Varshney et al. 2014).
His group has identified 9 nontoxic isolates of
Aspergillus flavus having 19
19-27
27 defective toxin
producing genes which can be used as potential biocontrol agents (Singh et al. 2014).
Further his group had also demonstrated the utility of
these markers in genomics-assisted breeding of
groundnut (Gautami et al. 2012). In the aspects of
dissecting the molecular mechanism of biotic stress
response in groundnut, his group has validated SSR
markers linked to the rust and late leaf spot diseases
resistance in diverse peanut genotypes (Kanagee et
al. 2014).
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