Discipline and Specialization:

Wheat processing and nutritional quality

Training/advance exposure in the area of work:

1. Associate Scientist (2009-2010): International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), CGIAR, Syria
2. JSPS Post Doc Fellow (2008-2009): Tottori University, Tottori, Japan

Contribution to the scientific advancement :

1. Wide introgression for grain processing quality improvement
2. Development of regionally adapted colored wheat germplasm and understanding its health promoting effects.
3. Lowering celiac disease related epitopes in wheat.
4. Development of germplasm for bread, biscuit and chapati quality improvement

Current area of research:

Exploration of colored wheat as a commercial crop in India and understanding its effect of lifestyle disorders.

A genomics-assisted synthetic hexaploid wheat gene isolation and pre-breeding platform for improved heat tolerance and sustainable production

Publications (best five):

1. Sharma S, Chunduri V, Kumar A, Kumar R, Khare P, Bishnoi M, Kondepudi K.K, Garg M*. (2018) Anthocyanin bio-fortified colored wheat: Nutritional and functional characterization. PLOS ONE. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194367.

2. Garg M*, Sharma N, Sharma S, Kapoor P, Kumar A, Chunduri V, Arora P (2018) Biofortified crops generated by breeding, agronomy, and transgenic approaches are improving lives of millions of people around the world. Frontiers in Nutrition 5:12, 1-33.

3. Kumar A, Garg M*, Kaur N, Chunduri V, Sharma S, Misser S, Kumar A, Tsujimoto H, Quan-Wen Dou QW, Gupta RK. (2017) Rapid development and characterization of chromosome specific translocation line of Thinopyrum elongatum with improved dough strength. Frontiers in Plant sciences Sep 14:8, 1593.

4.Garg* M, Chawla M, Chunduri V, Kumar R, Sharma S, Sharma NK, Kaur N, Kumar A, Mundey JK, Saini MK, Singh SP (2016) Transfer of grain colors to elite wheat cultivars and their Characterization. Journal Cereal Science. 71: 138-144.

5. Garg* M, Tsujimoto H, Gupta RK, Kumar A, Kaur N, Kumar R, Chunduri V, Sharma NK, Chawla M, Sharma S, Mundey JKKaur N, Kumar A, Mundey JK. (2016) Chromosome specific substitution lines of Aegilops geniculata alter parameters of bread making quality of wheat. PLOS ONE. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0162350.

Awards and Fellowships

1. Monbusho Scholarship – Ph.D.

2. University rank – B.Sc.

3. Lady Cola academic award – B.Sc.