Name : Venkatesha K. T. Designation : Senior Scientist Address : CSIR-Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Research Centre, P.O. Dairy Farm, Nagla-263149, Dist. U. S. Nagar, Uttarakhand, India. E. mail : venkatesha[at]cimap[dot]res[dot]in Contact No : 9980563326 Epabx No. : Download Resume Area of Specialization Genetic improvement of Mentha spp., Stevia, Palmarosa, and Damask rose, Plant Breeding, Molecular Breeding, Cytogenetics. Education B.Sc. Agriculture M.Sc. Genetics and Plant Breeding P.G. Diploma Intellectual property rights (IPR) Ph.D. Genetics and Plant Breeding Academic/Research Experience University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, Karnataka, - Senior Research Fellow (September 2014- January 2015 ) University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, Karnataka, - Research Associate (January 2015- March 2015 ) University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, Karnataka, - Technical assistant (June 2015- June 2016 ) CIMAP, Research Centre, Pantnagar , - Technical assistant (June 2016- June 2020 ) CIMAP, Research Centre, Pantnagar , - Scientist-E1 (June 2020- till date ) Honours and Awards Publication Venkatesha, K.T., Gupta, A., Rai, A.N., Jambhulkar, S.J., Bisht, R. and Padalia, R.C.,. Recent developments, challenges, and opportunities in genetic improvement of essential oil-bearing rose (Rosa damascena): A review. Industrial Crops and Products 2022 Venkatesha K.T., Singh, V. R., Padalia, R.C., Upadyay, R.K., Divya, Gunjan Bhatt, and Chauhan, A.. Correlation and path-analysis for morpho-economic traits and chemical constituents of essential oil in Corn mint (Mentha arvensis L.) accessions. Arabian Journal of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants 2020 Venkatesha K.T., V.R. Singh, R.C. Padalia, R.K. Upadyay, A. Chauhan, Amit K Tiwari, Sonveer Singh, Divya, Gunjan Bhatt, Pragya Pandey, Ram S Verma, Maneesha Mall, Ashutosh K Shukla, Chandan S Chanotiya, Sanjay Kumar, Birendra Kumar, Anil K Gupta, Rajesh K Verma, Abdul Samad, Pankaj Kumar and Mohit C Rawat. CIM-Unnati: An essential-rich rich variety of menthol mint (Mentha arvensis L.). Journal of Medicinal and Aromatic Plant Sciences 2020 R.S. Verma, S, Singh, Padalia, R.C., Tandon, S., Venkatesh K.T., Chauhan, A.. The essential oil composition of the sub-aerial parts of eight species of Cymbopogon (Poaceae). Industrial Crops and Products 2019 Venkatesha, K.T. Singh, V. R., Padalia, R.C., Verma, R.S., Upadyay, R.K., Rakesh Kumar and Chauhan, A.. Genetic variability, D2 analysis and characters association among quantitative and qualitative traits of spearmint (Mentha spicata L.). Trends in Phytochemical Research 2019 Venkatesha, K.T., V.R. Singh, R.C. Padalia, R.K. Upadhyay, Rakesh Kumar and A. Chauhan.. Estimation of genetic parameters for agro-economic traits and D2 analysis among the half-sib progeny of menthol Mint (Mentha Arvensis L.). International Journal of Agriculture and Environmental Research 2019 Patents File No Title Inventors Patent No. Abstract