Awards (if any)

•  Recipient of Outstanding team award of ICAR New Delhi (V. A. Parthasarathy;  P.M. Kumaran; M. J. Ratnambal;  A Karun; V. Niral; V. Arunachalam;  A Upadhyay) for the biennium 1999-2000 for the work on coconut germplasm.

• Recipient of IISc(Indian Institute of Science)-(DBT (Department of Biotechnology) India postdoctoral fellowship to work at ICRISAT (International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics) Patancheru with Dr Kiran K Sharma on tissue specific gene promoters (2006-2008).

• Associate Editor Journal of Bioinformatics and Sequence Analysis http://www.academicjournals.org/jbsa/Editors.htm

• Vice President (Bioinformatics Club for experimental scientists) Bioclues www.biolcues.org

•  Member Editorial Board, International Journal for Computational Biology http://bioclues.org/ojs/index.php/IJCB/index

• Research supervisor at Kannur and Calicut and Mangalore Universities India

Publications

A.      Books \ Technical bulletins

1.       Arunachalam, V. (2012) Genomics of cultivated palms, 114 pages Elsevier Insights Series. Elsevier Inc., http://www.elsevierdirect.com/ISBN/9780123877369/Genomics-of-Cultivated-Palms

2.       Ratnambal MJ Kumaran PM Muralidharan K Niral V Arunachalam V (1999)ed: : Improvement of plantation crops, CPCRI  Kasaragod 268 pp.

3.       Thamban C Samsudeen K Sairam CV Rajesh MK Arunachalam V Arulraj S Rajagopal V (2007) On farm diversity in coconut-participatory analysis in two coconut communities, CPCRI  Kasaragod 22 pp.

Book chapters

4.       Arunachalam V (1999) Prospection and collection of coconut diversity. In: Improvement of plantation crops (ed: Ratnambal MJ Kumaran PM Muralidharan K Niral V Arunachalam V) CPCRI  Kasaragod 12-19.

5.       Arunachalam V  Muralidharan K (1999) Statistical genetics of coconut. In: Improvement of plantation crops (ed: Ratnambal MJ Kumaran PM Muralidharan K Niral V Arunachalam V), CPCRI Kasaragod 232-237

6.        Arunachalam, V. and Kaicker,U.S.. (1993) In vitro germination- a potential commercial method for roses. In Floriculture –Technology, trade and trends (ed. J.Prakash  K.R.Bhandary) Oxford & IBH Press, India 410-411.

7.        Kumaran, P.M. Koshy, P.K. Arunachalam, V. Niral, V. and Parthasasarathy, V.A. (2000) Biometric clustering of coconut populations of Indian ocean islands. In: Recent Advances in Plantation Crops (eds. N. Muraleedharan & R. Rajkumar). Allied Publishers, India 73-81.

8.         Rajagopal V Kumaran PM Arulraj S Arunachalam V (2005) Country reports on status of coconut genetic resources research in India.  In: Coconut Genetic Resources. (ed. Batugal, P., Rao, V.R. and Oliver, J.) IPGRI-APO, Serdang Malaysia 573-580. http://www.inibap.org/cogent/images/publications/Coconut_genetic_resources.pdf#page=589

                   Communication of Crop Cultivars released

9.       Niral, V. Jerard, BA, Samsudeen, K, Arunachalam, V, Kumaran, PM, Ratnambal, MJ, Rao, EVVB, Pillai, RV, Satyabalan, K, Nampoothiri, KUK, Nair, MK, Bavappa, KVA, Nair, RV, Thomas, GV, Reddy, VSK, Gautam, B, Kalpana, M, Rao, DVR, Nageswarao, MB, Srinivasalu, B, Vaithalingam, R, Natarajan, C, Kumar, M,  Ganesan, NM, Nagwekar, DD & Arulraj, S. (2009) Release of coconut variety  Kalpa Prathibha . Indian J Genet. Pl. Breed. 69(2):166.

       http://indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:ijgpb&volume=69&issue=2&article=018

10.   Niral, V. Jerard, BA, Samsudeen, K, Arunachalam, V, Kumaran, PM, Ratnambal, MJ, Rao, EVVB, Pillai, RV, Satyabalan, K, Nampoothiri, KUK, Nair, MK, Bavappa, KVA, Nair, RV, Thomas, GV, Bandopadyay, A, Ghosh, DK, Hore, JK, Sarangi, A, Mitra, SK, Chattopadyay, PK, Maity, SC & Arulraj, S. (2009) Release of coconut variety Kalpa Mitra. . Indian J Genet. Pl. Breed. 69(2):166-167.

http://indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:ijgpb&volume=69&issue=2&article=019

11.   Niral, V. Jerard, BA, Samsudeen, K, Arunachalam, V, Kumaran, PM, Ratnambal, MJ, Rao, EVVB, Pillai, RV, Satyabalan, K, Nampoothiri, KUK, Nair, MK, Bavappa, KVA, Nair, RV, Thomas, GV, Kumarm M, Ganesan, NM & Arulraj, S. (2009) Release of coconut variety Kalpa Denu . Indian J Genet. Pl. Breed. 69(2):167.

http://indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:ijgpb&volume=69&issue=2&article=020

B.      Research articles in peer reviewed journals with impact factor

12. Singh T. R., Gupta A., Riju A., Mahalaxmi M., Seal A. and Arunachalam V. 2011 Computational identification and analysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms and insertions/deletions in expressed sequence tag data of Eucalyptus. J. Genet. 90, e34–e38. http://www.ias.ac.in/jgenet/OnlineResources/90/e34.pdf

13.   Riju A Rajesh MK Sherin PTPF, Chandrasekar A Apshara SE Arunachalam V (2009) Mining of expressed sequence tag libraries of cacao for microsatellite markers using five computational tools. J. Genetics. (Springer & Indian Academy of Sciences) 88: 217–225.     http://www.ias.ac.in/jgenet/Vol88No2/217.pdf

14.    Rajesh MK, Nagarajan, P, Jerard B.A., Arunachalam V Dhanapal, R(2008) Microsatellite variability of coconut accessions from Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Current Science (Indian Academy of Sciences) 94(12): 1627-1631.  http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/jun252008/1627.pdf

15.  Rajesh MK, Arunachalam V Nagarajan, P, Lebrun P.  Samsudeen  K. Thamban, C.  (2008) Genetic survey of ten Indian coconut landraces by simple sequence repeats (SSRs). Sci. Hort. (Elsevier)118: 282-287.  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304423808002379

16.    Gopal, M. Gupta A., Arunachalam, V. and Magu, S.P.(2007)Impact of azadirachtin, an insecticidal allelo-chemical from neem on soil micro flora, enzyme and respiratory activities. Bioresource Technology (Elsevier) 98(16): 3154-3158. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960852406005323

17.   Sit, A.K. Bhattacharya, M. Sarkar, B. and Arunachalam, V (2007) Weed floristic composition in palm gardens in Plains of Eastern Himalayan region of West Bengal. Current Science. 92(10): 1434-1439. http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/may252007/1434.pdf

18.    Arunachalam, V. and Reddy, DVS. (2007) Foliar traits of Jasmine plants intercropped in Coconut. Agroforestry Systems (Springer) 71:19-23.   http://www.springerlink.com/content/95063184j8813555/

19. Arunachalam, V. Jerard, B.A. Damodaran, V. Ratnambal, M.J.  and Kumaran, P.M. (2005) Phenotypic diversity in foliar traits in Coconut germplasm. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution (Springer) 52:1031-1037. http://www.springerlink.com/content/f714113304263th5/

C.      Research articles in other journals                                                                                                            

Bioinformatics

 20. Sathishkumar, R, Lakshmi, P.T.V, Annamalai, A, Arunachalam, V. (2011) Mining of simple   sequence repeats in the Genome of Gentianaceae.  Pharmacognosy Res. 2011 Jan-Mar; 3(1): 19–29. doi:  10.4103/0974-490.79111http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3119266/

21. Manju,  K.P. and Arunachalam, V.. (2011) Bioinforamtic prediction of SNP markers in WRKY sequences of palms. Cord (Asia Pacific Coconut Community). 27(2), 17-25. http://www.apccsec.org/pjcord.htm

22.   Arumugam, V Riju A. and Arunachalam, V (2010) Mining of expressed sequence tag (EST) libraries and core nucleotide sequences for simple sequence repeats (SSR) in papaya. Acta Horticulturae (ISHS).851: 197-200.        http://www.actahort.org/books/851/851_28.htm

23.   Riju A and Arunachalam V (2010) Electronic Sorting of SNP/Indel Sites in Expressed Sequence Tag Libraries of Cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.). Genes, Genomes Genomics (Global Science Books) 4: (1) 37-40.  http://www.riju.byethost31.com/cocoa/ccsnp.html 

http://www.globalsciencebooks.info/JournalsSup/images/WebJournals/GGG_4(SI1)IssueInformation.pdf 

24.   Riju A and Arunachalam V (2010) Mining for Simple Sequence Repeats from Expressed Sequence Tag Libraries of Banana. Genes, Genomes Genomics (Global Science Books)  4(1): 18-21.

http://www.globalsciencebooks.info/JournalsSup/images/WebJournals/GGG_4(SI1)IssueInformation.pdf

25.   Riju, A and Arunachalam V (2010) Data mining for simple sequence repeats in oil palm expressed sequence tags. Nature Precedings http://precedings.nature.com/documents/3581/version/1/files/npre20093581-1.pdf

26.   Riju, A. Chandrasekhar, A. Arunachalam, V.(2007) Mining for Single nucleotide polymorphisms and insertions/deletions in expressed sequence tag libraries of oil palm. Bioinformation 2(4):  128-131.    http://bioinformation.net/002/003200022007.pdf

Horticulture & Plantation

27.   Kasturi Bai, K. V. , Muralidharan, K. Arunachalam V and Rajagopal, V (2010) Heterosis for drought tolerant traits in coconut. Journal of Plantation Crops. 38 (2): 87-91.

28.   Jayabose, C Ganesh, S, Natarajan, C. Arunachalam, V and S. Arulraj (2010) Variability and heterosis in spathe traits of coconut (Cocos nucifera L. ). Journal of Plantation Crops. 38 (2): 157-160.

29.  Sit, AK, Arunachalam, V and Acharya GC (2008) Cultivar and Nutrient levels influence   the  aerial roots and morphometric tra its in arecanut palm (Areca catechu L). The Horticulture Journal. 21(3): 121-124.

30.  Arunachalam, V. and Rajesh, M.K.(2008) Breeding of coconut palm.  CAB Reviews:  Perspectives in Agriculture, Veterinary Science, Nutrition and Natural Resources.CAB Reviews: (CABI Press) 3(053):1-12.  http://www.cabi.org/cabreviews/?loadmodule=review&page=4051&reviewid=89118&site=167

31. Apshara SE Arunachalam V Jayabose C Kumaran PM (2007) Evaluation of coconut hybrids for tender nut purpose. Indian Journal of Horticulture 64(3): 320-323. http://indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:ijh&volume=64&issue=3&article=017

32. Arunachalam V Sit AK Bhattachrya M (2007) Edible leaves of Jalpaiguri district West Bengal India. Acta Horticulturae (ISHS) 752:563-570. http://www.actahort.org/books/752/752_106.htm

33.  Sit AK Acharya GC Arunachalam V (2007) Performance of seedlings of different coconut cultivars and hybrids under Sub-Himalayan Terai region of West Bengal. Environment and Ecology. 25 (S2): 304-306.

34. Kasturi Bai, K.V. Rajagopal, V. and Arunachalam, V.(2006) Assessment of diversity in coconut varieties for drought responsive physiological traits. Journal of Plantation Crops 34(2): 118-120.

35. Sairam, C.V., Arulraj, S. Thamban, C. Samsudeen, K., Bosco, S.J.D., Rajagopal, V. and Arunachalam, V. (2006) Farmer’s preference for coconut varieties – a participatory analysis. CORD. (Asian Pacific Coconut Community) XXII (1): 59-65.

36. Kumaran PM Arunachalam V Nampoothiri, K.U.K., Pillai, R.V., Ratnambal, M.J., Niral, V. and Namboothiri, C.G.N.(2006) Performance of coconut hybrids in rainfed conditions.Journal of Plantation Crops 34(1): 11-14.

37.  Arunachalam V (2005) Phenotypic traits of genetic twins in coconut palm. Seed Technology (Allen Press)   27(1): 104-107.

38. Siju Thomas, T. Rajagopal, V. Naresh Kumar, S. Arunachalam, V. and Vinu K Cherian (2005) Stability analysis for dry matter production and yield components of coconut in two agroclimatic regions of India. Indian Journal of Plant Physiol. 10(1) NS: 1-8. http://indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:ijpp&volume=10&issue=1&article=001

39.Kumaran PM Arunachalam V Dash DK (2004) Collecting coconut diversity of Orissa India. Journal of Plantation Crops 32(Suppl.) 39-45.

40.  Arunachalam V Jayabose C (2004) Crop productivity and scientific productivity in horticulture. Science & Culture 70(3-4):161-162.

41. Ratnambal MJ Arunachalam V Krishnan M (2003) Floral biology of some coconut accessions. Journal of Plantation Crops 31(1): 14-22.

42.Ratnambal, M.J., Arunachalam, V. Jerard, B.A, Rizal, S.K., Damodaran, V. (2002) Biometric analysis of diversity in Pacific Ocean Coconut populations. CORD. (Asian Pacific Coconut Community XVIII (2): 74-88.

43. Arunachalam, V. Jerard, B.A. Elangovan, M. Ratnambal, M.J. Dhanapal, R. Rizal, S.K. and Damodaran, V. (2001) Unexploited diversity in coconut palm (Cocos nucifera L.). Plant Genetic Resources Newsletter. (Bioversity International) 127:39-43. http://www.bioversityinternational.org/fileadmin/bioversity/publications/pdfs/730.pdf#page=41.

44. Ratnambal, M.J. Kumaran,P.M. Arunachalam, V. Niral,V. Upadyay,A. and Parthasarathy,V.A.. (2001) Coconut genetic resources –genetic and molecular approaches. Indian Journal of Plant Genetic Resources 14(2): 182-184. http://indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:ijpgr&volume=14&issue=2&article=037.

45. Arunachalam,V. and Kaicker, U.S. (1993) Embryo culture and in vitro germination studies on rosaceous plants with special reference to Rosa - A review. Agricultural Reviews. 14(4): 169-174.

46. Arunachalam,V. and Kaicker, U.S. (1993) SFR- an index to measure the germination of rose seeds. Indian Rose Annual. XI: 145-148.

E. Papers presented in international symposia

1. Arunachalam, V Singh NP Thangam M Priya devi S (2011) Ethnobotany and underutilized plants of Goa state, India. International conference on tropical island ecosystems (Tiecon 2011). 23-26 Mar 2011  at Central Agricultural Research Institute Port Blair Andaman & Nicobar Islands India. http://tiecon2011.indianscholars.org/

2. Singh, N.P.,   Desai, A.R., Thangam, M., Priya Devi, S., and Arunachalam, V. (2011) History and Status of research of mango genetic resources at Goa state, India. Global Conference on Mango: Augmenting Production and Utilization of Mango : Biotic and Abiotic Stresses” during 21-24  June 2011 at The Lifestyle Hotels Pvt. Ltd, Kanpur Road, Lucknow, India

3. Arunachalam, V., Zareena Banu, Saritha, S., Sreesmitha V., Nishad, K.P. 2010. CorPKdb- a database of coconut, oil palm and rice protein kinases. Poster presented at the International Symposium on Computational Biology, Structural Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (Bioinformatica Indica) during 11-13 January 2010 at Centre for Bioinformatics, Univeristy of Kerala, Trivandrum, India

4. Manju, K.P. and Arunachalam, V. 2010. Genome wide analysis of simple sequence repeats in date palm. Poster presentation at the International Symposium on Computational Biology, Structural Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (Bioinformatica Indica) during 11-13 January 2010 at Centre for Bioinformatics, University of Kerala, Trivandrum.

5. Jerard,B.A. Dhanapal, R and Arunachalam,V. 2000. Biometric analysis of field collected   coconut germplasm from Andaman & Nicobar Islands, India. Poster presented at International Conference on science & technology of managing plant genetic diversity in 21st century. 12-16 June 2000 at Hotel Hilton, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

6. Arunachalam, V. Jerard, B.A. Elangovan, M. Ratnambal, M.J. Dhanapal, R. Rizal, S.K. and Damodaran, V. Unexploited diversity in coconut palm Poster presented at International Conference on science & technology of managing plant genetic diversity in 21st century 12-16 June 2000 at Hotel Hilton, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

7. Arunachalam, V. Saivishnupriya, K. Sharma, T.R. and Sharma, KK. Comparative sequence and predicted structure analysis of virulence and avirulence genes. Poster presented at International Symposium on Chromosomes to Genome (C2G) 3-5 July 2007 at Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) Hyderabad, India

F.       Popular articles in English

1. Sit AK Chenchaiah KC Arunachalam V. 2005. Major pests and diseases associated with arecanut high-density multispecies cropping system in terai region of West Bengal. Indian Journal of  Areca, Spices & Medicinal Plants.79(2):61-65.                                     

2. Dhanapal R Jerard BA Damodaran V Arunachalam V. 2000. Status of coconut plantations in Andaman and Nicobar Islands.Indian coconut Journal.XXXI(7):8-11.                                             

3. .Arunachalam V Jerard BA Dhanapal R. 2000.Slope planting on growth and flowering of coconut palm.Indian coconut Journal.XXXI(6):13-14.                                                                          

4. Reddy DVS Arunachalam V.2002.Patchouli a potential aromatic crop for intercropping in coconut garden.Indian coconut Journal.XXXII (10): 1-3 

5. Arunachalam,V. and Jerard, B.A.2001.Nypa Palm: cultivation and uses. Agri gold swarna sedyam, IV (4): 41-42.       

6.  Arunachalam, V. and Sivasamy, N.(1997) A need for Home gardening. Kisan world. 24(2): 29-30.

7. Arunachalam, V. and Sivasamy, N.(1996) Plants as pollution reducing agents. Yojana. 17,20.

8. Arunachalam, V. and Sivasamy, N.(1995) Majestic ornamental. The Hindu Gardening section. Dt.09.07.1995.

9. Arunachalam, V. and Kaicker,U S (1994) Biotechnology in Ornamental Horticulture.   Indian Horticulture 39(2): 41.

G. Popular articles in Hindi

10. Alka Gupta, Jayabose, C. Arunachalam, V. Elain Apshara,S. and Kumaran, P.M (2005) Coconut varieties and hybrids. Bharatiya Nariyal Bhatrika (Hindi) XVI(1):3-5.

H. Popular article in Malayalam

11. Arunachalam, V. Manojkumar,K. Mathew,A.C. and Dhanapal, R (2000) Agricultural research programs in Lakshadweep islands -an overview. Indhiya Nalikera patrika. 29 (11):4-5

I.  Popular articles in Tamil

12. Arunachalam, V. Gopal, M. Gupta, A. Iyer, R (2005) Viral pathogens of insects and their role in coconut pest management. Indhiya Thennai Ethazhal. 5(4):6-8.

 13. Srinivasan, V. Arunachalam, V. Dhanapal, R (2005) Coconut varieties, hybrids and nursery practices. Indhiya Thennai Ethazhal. 5(2):5-11.

14. Arunachalam, V. Apshara,SE. Jayabose,C. and Kumaran, P.M. (2004) Mechanisms of tolerance to Eriophyid mite infestation in coconut: An overview. Indhiya Thennai Ethazhal. 4(2): 24-25.

15. Jayabose,C. Jerard,B.A. Apshara,S.E Arunachalam, V. and Kumaran, P.M.(2004) Indian Coconut varieties and their seed production.  Indhiya Thennai Ethazhal. 4(1):26-28.

16. Apshara,S E . Jayabose,C. Arunachalam, V. Niral,V. Kumaran, P.M. and Ratnambal, M.J. (2004) Hybridization technique in coconut. Indhiya Thennai Ethazhal.  4(3):10-14.

17. Arunachalam, V. Apshara,SE. Jayabose,C. and Kumaran, P.M. (2004) Mechanisms of tolerance to Eriophyid mite infestation in coconut: An overview. Indhiya Thennai Ethazhal.  4(2): 24-25.

18. Arunachalam, V. Apshara,S E. Jayabose,C. Niral,V. Kumaran, P.M. and Ratnambal, M.J. (2004)Mother palm selection in coconut. Indhiya Thennai Ethazhal.  4(3):15-17.

19. Subramanian,P. Arunachalam, V. Dhanapal, R. Palaniswamy,C. and Elangovan,M. (2000) Inter cropping in Coconut. Indhiya Thennai Ethazhal.   1(1): 81-83.

20. Subaharan,K. Elangovan,M. Rajamanickam,M. Arunachalam, V. Subramanian,P. Dhanapal, R. Rohini Iyer and Arulraj,S . (2000) Mite damaging coconut palm. Indhiya Thennai Ethazhal.   1(1):72-73.

J. Nucleotide sequences submitted in Genbank

1. Arunachalam V and Sharma KK 2008 Putative promoter region of oleosin gene of groundnut.133 bp EU 560425.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/EU560425

2. Arunachalam V and Sharma KK 2008 Putative promoter region of lectin gene of chickpea. 222 bp EU 560424.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/EU560424

3. Arunachalam V and Sharma KK 2008 Putative promoter region of glycinin gene of pigeonpea.830 bp EU 560423.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/EU560423

K. Webservers Databases and other online resources