Scientist Profile

Dr.S.Sheelamary

Dr.S.Sheelamary

Senior Scientist (Plant Breeding) Division of Crop Improvement
ICAR-Sugarcane Breeding Institute Veerakeralam, Coimbatore – 641 007. Sheela.Mary@icar.org.in; sheelajoshkutty@gmail.com Mobile: 9944823761

• Breeding varieties for tropical region
• Germplasm maintenance
• Targeted prebreeding to develop genetic stocks
• Development of core collection

• Life membership of Indian Society of Plant Genetic Resources
• Life membership of Indian Society of Genetics and Plant Breeding\
• Life membership of the SADHNA (Society for Advancement of Human and Nature)
• Fellow member of The Sugar Technologists’ Association of India
• Annual Membership of Society for Biotic and Environmental Research
• Member of Society of Sugarcane Research and Development
• Member of National Environmentalists Association, Ranchi
• Member of Hind Agri Horticultural Society, Muzaffarnagar
• Life member, ARSS forum
• Indian Society of Plant Breeders (Tamil Nadu) Member

  • Title: Enhancing Sugar Productivity in Tamil Nadu through Institute-Industry Participatory Approach (CoPI)

Agency: SISMA- TN funded Sweet Bloom 2.0

  • Title: Identification of suitable location specific sugarcane varieties for commercial cultivation under different agro-climatic situations in India (CoPI)

Agency: ISMA-funded
Amount:7.0 Crores

  •  S. Alarmelu, S. Sheelamary, V. Anusheela, R. Arun Kumar,S. Vasantha, Huskur Kumaraswamy Mahadeva Swamy, A. Anna Durai, Identifcation of Drought Tolerance Indicators in Interspecifc Hybrid Derivatives of Saccharum spp Using Membership Function Value of Drought Tolerance (MFVD). Sugar Tech https://doi.org/10.1007/s12355-025-01533-1.NAAS: 7.8
  • C. Appunu , G. Hemaprabha , V. Sreenivasa , A. Annadurai , K. Mohanraj , K. Elayaraja , S. Sheelamary , V. Vinu , Adhini S.Pazhany , H.K. MahadevaSwamy , T. LakshmiPathy , R. Karuppaiyan , S. Karthigeyan, P. Govindaraj, S. Alarmelu, R.M. Shanthi, A.J. Prabakaran, Ananda Lekshmi , S. Surya Krishna, R. Arun Kumar …Bakshi Ram (2024).Evaluation of sugarcane genotypes (Saccharum sp. hybrid) for multi-trait stability analysis across diverse environments. Industrial Crops and Products Volume 219, 1 November 2024, 118993. NAAS :11.6
  • Mintu Ram Meena, S. Alarmelu, S. Vasantha, S. Sheelamary, V. Anusheela, R. Arun Kumar, Ravinder Kumar1, M.L. Chhabra, S. Mutharasu and M. Karthick (2024). Drought resilience evaluation of sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) hybrids in Indian tropical and sub-tropical climates. Indian J. Genet. Plant Breed., 84(2): 266-272. (NAAS 7.00)
  • Lakshmi Kasirajan , Keerthana Kamaraj , Sheelamary Sebastiar , Selvi Athiappan , Vivitha Maiyilsamy a b and Manimekalai Ramaswamy (2022). Cloning and characterization of Patatin like Protein (PLP), a phospholipase gene involved in salinity stress induced lipid signaling. Journal of Sugarcane Research 12, 162-171. (NAAS: 3.17)
  • Karthigeyan, S., S. Pazhany, A., Sheelamary, S., Govindaraj, P., & Remadevi, A. (2021). Variation in the flowering behaviour of Saccharum spontaneum L. world collection at Coimbatore. Journal of Sugarcane Research, 11(2), 191–204. https://doi.org/10.37580/JSR.2021.2.11.191-204.
  • Elango D, Wang W, Thudi M, Sebastiar S, Ramadoss BR and Varshney RK. Genome-wide association mapping of seed oligosaccharides in chickpea. Front. Plant Sci. 13:1024543. doi:10.3389/fpls.2022.1024543.
  • Lakshmi Kasirajan, Rabisha  Valiyaparambth,Keerthana Kamaraj, Sheelamary Sebastiar, Nam V. Hoang,Selvi Athaiappan,Vasantha Srinivasavedantham,Karthigeyan Subramanian (2022). Deep Sequencing of Suppression Subtractive Library Identifies Differentially Expressed Transcripts of Saccharum spontaneum Exposed to Salinity Stress. Physiologia Plantarum. e13645 https://doi.org/10.1111/ppl.13645.
  • Elango D, Rajendran K, Van der Laan L, Sebastiar S, Raigne J, Thaiparambil NA, El Haddad N, Raja B, Wang W, Ferela A, Chiteri KO, Thudi M, Varshney RK, Chopra S, Singh A and Singh AK. Raffinose Family Oligosaccharides: Friend or Foe for Human and Plant Health? Front. Plant Sci. 13:829118. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2022.829118.
  • S. Sheelamary and S. Karthigeyan. Evaluation of promising commercial sugarcane genotypes for stability by AMMI analysis. Electronic Journal of Plant Breeding, 12 (2): 371 – 378. https://doi.org/10.37992/2021.1202.055.
  • S. Sheelamary and L. Vidhya Nandhini. Effect of media concentration and growth hormones on shoot regeneration and in vitro rooting of sugarcane varieties (Saccharum spp. L.). International Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 17(1): 89-94. DOI:10.15740/HAS/IJAS/17.1/89-94.
  • S. Sheelamary. Effect of Raffinose Family Oligosaccharides on seed germination of wild and mutant types of chickpea (Cicer arietinum). International Journal of Plant Sciences. Vol (12) 1:64-67.
  • Sheelamary, S and B.S. Phogat. Studies on Variability Parameters of Grain amaranthus In Plains of New Delhi Condition. The Bioscan, 11(4):2817-2819.
  • Gaurav Agarwal., Murali M. Sabbavarapu., Vikas K. Singh., Mahendar Thudi.,
  • S. Sheelamary., Pooran M. Gaur and Rajeev K. Varshney. Identification of a non-redundant set of 202 in silico SSR markers and applicability of a select set in chickpea(Cicer arietinum L.) Euphytica, 205:381–394. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10681-015-1394-3.
  • Ramchander, S., S.Sheelamary, K.Baghyalakshmi.,S.Revathi and M.Arumugam Pillai. Response on callusing and regeneration of two quality rice (Oryza sativa.,L) varieties. Journal of Innovative Agriculture. 2(3):15-18.

Book chapter

  • Kasirajan, L., Kamaraj, K., Sebastiar, S., Thirugnanasambandam, P.P., Karpagam, E. (2024). Proteomic Approaches for Ligninolytic Enzymes Production for Enhancing Sugarcane Biomass Conversion Efficiency. In: Suresha, G.S., Krishnappa, G., Palanichamy, M., Mahadeva Swamy, H.K., Kuppusamy, H., Govindakurup, H. (eds) Value Addition and Product Diversification in Sugarcane. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-7228-5_8.
  • S. Sheelamary, K.Lakshmi and K.Boomiraj (2022). Biodiversity Conservation. SRABCS.1(3): 13-22.
    3. Sujay Anand, G K., T.V. Prasad., Z.Khan and S.Sheelamary (2015). . Comprehensive Impact of Climate Change on Insects and Insect Plant Interaction” book entitled In: Crop Protection- Strategies in Climate Change., Pg. No: 131-147.