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Plant Stress Biology
A Bit About Me
I joined Allu’s Lab as an ANRF–National Post-Doctoral Fellow in November 2025. My current research focuses on enhancing thermo-tolerance in rice using prime editing technology. I completed my Ph.D. in September 2024 at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, where I investigated “post-embryonic root development in rice”. Following my Ph.D., I worked for a year as a Research Associate at the University of Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
Beyond research, I am a Tea-Person, and I enjoy playing cricket and chess in my free time.
Work Experience
2025-Present
2024-2025
2018-2024
2016-2018
ANRF – Post-Doctoral Fellow (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India)
Research Associate-I (University of Hyderabad, Telangana, India)
PGT Biology (Akshara Vidyalaya Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, India)
Ph.D. (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India)
Achievements
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Awarded ANRF-National Post-Doctoral Fellowship
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CSIR-NET-JRF - Life Sciences, 2016 (AIR 94), GATE-XL 2019 & 2020
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ICAR-NET in Plant Biotechnology
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APSET – Life Sciences, 2016
Publications
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Chennakesavulu K*, Alexie Techer *, Marie Rose Ndella Thiaw, Hien Linh Tran, Véronique Bergougnoux, Shri Ram Yadav, Pascal Gantet. Rice, a model plant to go further in post-embryonic root developmental biology. *Authors contributed equally. Plant Roots: The Hidden Half (5th Ed) 2025. Editors: Amram Eshel and Tom Beeckman
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Chennakesavulu K, Singh H, Trivedi PK, Jain M, Yadav SR. State-of-the-art in CRISPR Technology and Engineering Drought, Salinity, and Thermo-tolerant crop plants. Plant Cell Rep. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00299-021-02681-w
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Garg T, Singh Z, Chennakesavulu K, Mushahary KKK, Dwivedi AK, Varapparambathu V, Singh H, Singh RS, Sircar D, Chandran D, Prasad K, Jain M, Yadav SR. Species-specific function of conserved regulators in orchestrating rice root architecture. Development. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.200381
