Name Bhagirath Singh Chauhan
Designation Professor(Weed Team Leader)
Qualification Doctor of Philosophy, Weed Science
Total Years of Work Experience –
Total Teaching Experience –
Total Corporate Experience No
Email ID [email protected]
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Jan 2021-till date

3BProfessor/Professorial Research Fellow

The Centre for Crop Science, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI)and School of Agriculture and Food Sciences (SAFS), The University of Queensland, Gatton, Queensland 4343, Australia

 

UProjects:

No. Project title Period Funding agency (‘000 A$)
1. De-risking broad acre cropping options for Northern Queensland 2019-22 CRC NA (660)
2. Innovative crop weed control for northern region cropping systems 2016-22 GRDC (1,829)
3. Biology of emerging weeds 2015-20 GRDC (946)
4. New uses of existing herbicides 2015-20 GRDC (1,320)
5. 36TStaying ahead of weed evolution in changing cotton systems and Major Capital Item ‘New Holland Boomer Tractor and Trailer’36T 2014-19 CRDC (2,950)
6. Targeted tillage 2015-18 GRDC (115)
7. Harvest weed seed control for the northern region 2015-18 GRDC (77)
8. Herbicide nanotechnology efficacy trial 2015-17 UniQuest Pty Ltd. (325)
9. Weedy rice and herbicide resistance in rice weeds: a rising threat to food security in Asia 2015-16 ACIAR (127)

 

 
10. Germination ecology of narrow and wide leaf bladder ketmia 2014-15 UQ (38)
11. Germination ecology of shattercane 2014-15 UQ (13)
12. 36TImproving IWM practices in the Northern Region36T 2011-16 GRDC (2,517)
13. Herbicide tolerance screening of winter crops in northern region 2009-16 GRDC (697)

 

4BCollaboration in different countries: Australia, Bangladesh, China, India, Iran, Laos, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Russia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, USA, and Vietnam

 

Students

Currently supervising two PhD students at the University of Queensland,one PhD student at Federation University Australia,two PhD students in India (Punjab Agricultural University), nine MS (course work) students at the University of Queensland.

Six studentssuccessfully completed PhD, one MPhil and 12MS degree.

 
Jan 2017-Dec 2020

3BAAssociate Professor/Principal Research Fellow

The Centre for Crop Science, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI), The University of Queensland, Gatton, Queensland 4343, Australia

 
May 2014-Dec 2016

3BPrincipal Research Fellow

The Centre for Crop Science, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI), The University of Queensland, Gatton, Queensland 4343, Australia

 
Nov 2010-May 2014

5BWeed Scientist

Weed Science, Crop and Environmental Sciences Division, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Los Baños, Philippines.

 

 

 
southern Lao PDR; funded by Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR).Work was involved in Laos.

4. Closing Rice Yield Gaps in Asia (CORIGRAP); funded by Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).Work was involved in Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, China, and Myanmar.

 

 
Jan 2007-Nov 2010

6BPost-Doctoral Fellow

Weed Science, Crop and Environmental Sciences Division, International Rice Research Institute, Los Baños, Philippines.

 

 
Oct-Dec 2006

7BResearch Scientist

Rice-Wheat Consortium, CIMMYT, New Delhi, India.

·            The duties in the project were to coordinate and conduct field experiments with the scientists of national universities.

 
 

Editorial Board

·           Speciality Chief Editor of Weed Management (Frontiers in Agronomy) (July 2019-till now)

·           Chair of the editorial committee for the 20th Australian Agronomy Conference (2019-till date).

·           Associate Editor of Weed Science (Weed Science Society of America, Cambridge University Press). (Feb 2014-till now)

·           Associate Editor of Plant Production Science (Crop Science Society of Japan). (2016-2020)

·           Editorial Board member of the Journal of Agricultural Science (Cambridge University Press). (July 2017-Dec 2020)

·           Associate Editor of Indian Journal of Weed Science (Indian Society of Weed Science). (2017-till now)

·           Editor of Pakistan Journal of Weed Science Research (Weed Science Society of Pakistan) (2018-till now)

·           Editorial Board member of Weeds –Journal of the Asian-Pacific Weed Science Society (APWSS) (2019-till now)

·           Editor-in-Chief of Crop Protection (Elsevier). (Sep 2014-Sep 2017)

·           Editor-in-Chief of the Asian-Pacific Weed Science Society (APWSS) Newsletter. (Oct 2015-Oct 2017)

·           Editor-in-Chief of ‘Biology and Management of Problematic Weeds’ (book), Elsevier (coming in 2021)

·           Editor-in-Chief of ‘Crop Protection under Climate Change’ (book), Springer (2020)

·           Editor-in-Chief of ‘Cotton Production’ (book), John Wileys & Sons Ltd. (2019)

·           Editor-in-Chief of ‘Non-chemical Weed Management’ (book), Elsevier (2018)

·           Editor-in-Chief of ‘Rice Production Worldwide’ (book), Springer (2017)

·           Editor-in-Chief of ‘Recent Advances in Weed Management’ (book), Springer (2014)

·           Guest Editor of a Special Issue (Ecologically Sustainable Weed Management in Cropping Systems) in Agronomy (MDPI, 2019)

·           Guest Editor of a Special Issue (Challenges and Opportunities for Weed Management in Different Countries) in Crop Protection (Elsevier, 2019)

·           Guest Editor of a Special Issue (Role of Crop Competition in Weed Management) in Crop Protection (Elsevier, 2017)

 
AWARDS/DISTINCTIONS/HONORS
2020 Honorary Weed Science Society of America (WSSA) Member Award: I will receive this award in Feb 2021. The Honorary Member Award is given to an individual who has performed meritorious service to the field of weed science. Only one Honorary Member is selected per year.
2017 Best Book Award; One of my edited books won the Best Book Award at the Biennial Conference (Doubling Farmers’ Income by 2022: The Role of Weed Science) organised by the Indian Society of Weed Science (ISWS) at Maharaja Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India (1-3 March 2017). The title of the book is “Recent Advances in Weed Management”, published by Springer in 2014.
2017 Indian Society of Weed Science awarded with ‘Special Recognition Award’ in recognition of my outstanding contributions to weed science during the Biennial Conference held in Rajasthan, India (1-3 March 2017).
2015 Asian-Pacific Weed Science Society (APWSS) Young Scientist Award at the APWSS Conference held at Hyderabad, India
2014 University of Queensland Early Career Research Award
2007 Cited in Who’s Who® in Science and Engineering, 10th edition, Marquis
2003 John Allwright Fellowship for PhD studies in Australia
2002 Qualified the ‘National Eligibility Test’ for lecturership/assistant professorship in India
1998-2000 CCS Haryana Agricultural University Merit Fellowship during MSc (Agronomy) degree
1994-1998 CCS Haryana Agricultural University Merit Fellowship during BSc (Hons) Agriculture
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
  1. Awan TH, Ahmed S, Cruz PCS, Chauhan BS. Ecological studies for plant characteristics of Fimbristylis miliacea under multiple resource limitations in dry-seeded upland ecosystems. International Journal of Pest Management (in press).
  2. Bajwa AA, Ullah A, Farooq M, Chauhan BS, Adkins S. 2021. Competition dynamics of Parthenium hysterophorus in direct-seeded aerobic rice fields. Experimental Agriculture (in press).
  3. Khan AM, Mobli A, Werth JA, Chauhan BS. 2021. Effect of soil moisture regimes on the growth and fecundity of slender amaranth (Amaranthus viridis) and redroot pigweed (Amaranthus retroflexus). Weed Science 69:82-87.
  4. Mahajan G, Chauhan BS. 2021. Biological traits of six sterile oat biotypes in response to planting time. Agronomy Journal 113:42-51.
  5. Hasanfard A, Rastgoo M, Izadi Darbandi E, Nezami A, Chauhan BS. 2021. Regeneration capacity after exposure to freezing in wild oat (Avena ludoviciana) and turnipweed (Rapistrum rugosum (L.) All.) in comparison with winter wheat. Environmental and Experimental Botany 181:104271.
  6. Jayasundera M, Florentine S, Tennakoon K, Chauhan BS. 2021. Medicinal value of three agricultural weed species of the Asteraceae family: A review. Pharmacognosy Journal 13:264-267.
  7. Chauhan BS, Jha P. 2020. Glyphosate resistance in Sonchus oleraceus and alternative herbicide options for its control in Southeast Australia. Sustainability 12:8311. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12208311.
  8. Manalil S, Mobli A, Chauhan BS. 2020. Competitiveness of windmill grass (Chloris truncata) and feathertop Rhodes grass (Chloris virgata) in mungbean (Vigna radiata). Crop and Pasture Science 71:916-923.
  9. Mahajan G, Singh R, Chauhan BS. Biology of Brassica tournefortii in the northern grains region of Australia. Crop and Pasture Science 71:268-277.
  10. Mobli A, Chauhan BS. Crop residue retention suppresses seedling emergence and biomass of winter and summer Australian weed species. Weed Biology and Management 20:118-128.
  11. Mobli A, Florentine SK, Jha P, Chauhan BS. 2020. Response of glyphosate-resistant and glyphosate-susceptible biotypes of annual sowthistle (Sonchus oleraceus) to increased carbon dioxide and variable soil moisture. Weed Science 68:575-581.
  12. Mobli A, Manalil S, Khan AM, Jha P, Chauhan BS. Effect of emergence time on growth and fecundity of Rapistrum rugosum and Brassica tournefortii in the northern region of Australia. Scientific Reports 10:15979.
  13. Mahajan G, Rachaputi RCN, Chauhan BS. Horse purslane (Trianthema portulacastrum) control in pigeonpea with PRE and POST herbicides. Weed Technology 34:764-769.
  14. Walsh MJ, Squires CC, Coleman GRY, Widderick MJ, Mckiernan AB, Chauhan BS, Peressini C, Guzzomi AL. 2020. Tillage based, site-specific weed control for conservation cropping systems. Weed Technology 34:704-710.
  15. Mahajan G, Walsh M, Chauhan BS. 2020. Junglerice (Echinochloa colona) and feather fingergrass (Chloris virgata) seed production and retention at sorghum maturity. Weed Technology 34:272-276.
  16. Mobli A, Matloob A, Chauhan BS. Glyphosate-induced hormesis: impact on seedling growth and reproductive potential of common sowthistle (Sonchus oleraceus). Weed Science 68:605-611.
  17. Nosratti I, Mobli A, Mohammadi G, Yousefi AR, Sabeti P, Chauhan BS. 2020. The problem of Orobanche and Phelipanche spp. and their management in Iran. Weed Science 68:555-564.
  18. Kebaso L, Frimpong D, Iqbal N, Bajwa AA, Namubiru H, Ali HH, Ramiz Z, Hashim S, Manalil S, Chauhan BS. 2020. Biology, ecology and management of Raphanus raphanistrum: a noxious agricultural and environmental weed. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 27:17692-17705.
  19. Desai HS, Thompson M, Chauhan BS. Target-site resistance to glyphosate in Chloris virgata biotypes and alternative herbicide options for its control. Agronomy 10:1266. doi.org/10.3390/agronomy10091266.
  20. Shekhawat K, Rathore SS, Chauhan BS. Weed management in dry direct-seeded rice: A review on challenges and opportunities for sustainable rice production. Agronomy 10:1264. doi.org/10.3390/agronomy10091264
  21. Sahil, Mahajan G, Loura D, Raymont K, Chauhan BS. 2020. Influence of soil moisture levels on the growth and reproductive behaviour of Avena fatua and Avena ludoviciana. PLoS ONE 15 (7):e0234648. org/10.1371/journal.pone.0234648.
  22. Bajwa AA, Nawaz A, Farooq M, Chauhan BS, Adkins S.2020. Parthenium weed (Parthenium hysterophorus) competition with grain sorghum under arid conditions. Experimental Agriculture 56:387-396.
  23. Pal R, Mahajan G, Sardana V, Asthir B, Chauhan BS. Performance of dry-seeded rice genotypes under varied soil moisture regimes and foliar-applied hormones. Plants 9:539. doi.org/10.3390/plants9040539.
  24. Mollaee M, Darbandi EI, Aval MB, Chauhan BS. Germination response of three Setaria species (S. viridis, S. verticillata, and S. glauca) to water potential and temperature using non-linear regression and hydrothermal time models. Acta Physiologiae Plantarum 42:149. doi.org/10.1007/s11738-020-03133-w.
  25. Mollaee M, Matloob A, Mobli A, Thompson M, Chauhan BS.2020. Response of glyphosate-resistant and susceptible biotypes of Echinochloa colona to low doses of glyphosate in different soil moisture conditions. PLOS ONE 15:e0233428.
  26. Mollaee M, Mobli A, Chauhan BS. The response of glyphosate-resistant and glyphosate-susceptible biotypes of Echinochloa colona to carbon dioxide, soil moisture and glyphosate. Scientific Reports10, 329.
  27. Mahajan G, Kaur V, Thompson M, Chauhan BS. Growth behavior and glyphosate resistance level in 10 populations of Echinochloa colona in Australia. PLOS ONE15, e0221382.
  28. Mahajan G, Hickey L, Chauhan BS. Response of barley genotypes to weed interference in Australia Agronomy10, 99.
  29. Tanveer A, Khan MA, Ali HH, Javaid MM, Raza A, Chauhan BS. Influence of different environmental factors on the germination and seedling emergence of Ipomoea eriocarpa R. Br. Crop Protection130, 105070.
  30. Ali HH, Kebaso L, Manalil S, Chauhan BS. 2020. Emergence and germination response of Sonchus oleraceus and Rapistrum rugosum to different temperatures and moisture stress regimes. Plant Species Biology35, 16-23.
  31. Mobli A, Rinwa A, Sahil, Chauhan BS. 2020. Effects of sorghum residue in presence of pre-emergence herbicides on emergence and biomass of Echinochloa colona and Chloris virgata. PLOS ONE 15:e0229817.
  32. Mobli A, Sahil, Yadav R, Chauhan BS. Enhanced weed-crop competition effects on growth and seed production of herbicide-resistant and herbicide-susceptible annual sowthistle (Sonchus oleraceus). Weed Biology and Management 20:38-46.
  33. Mobli A, Mollaee M, Manalil S, Chauhan BS. 2020. Germination ecology of Brachiaria eruciformis in Australia and its implications for weed management Agronomy10, 30.
  34. Manalil S, Ali HH, Chauhan BS. Interference of annual sowthistle (Sonchus oleraceus) in wheat. Weed Science68, 98-103.
Edited Books
  1. Jabran K and Chauhan BS, eds.2019. Cotton Production. John Wileys &Sons Ltd.
  2. Jabran K and Chauhan BS, eds.2018. Non-chemical Weed Management. Elsevier. 172 p.
  3. Chauhan BS, Jabran K, Mahajan G, eds.2017. Rice Production Worldwide. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. 563 p.
  4. Chauhan, B.S. and Mahajan, G., eds. 2014. Recent Advances in Weed Management. New York: Springer Science+Business Media. 411 p.
  5. Chauhan, B.S. Management Strategies for weedy rice in Asia. International Rice Research Institute, Los Baños, Philippines 16 p.
  6. Chauhan, B.S. Weed Management in Direct-Seeded Rice Systems. International Rice Research Institute, Los Baños, Philippines. 20 p.
  7. Singh, Y., Singh, V.P., Chauhan, B., Orr, A., Mortimer, A.M., Johnson, D.E. and Hardy, B. (editors.). 2008. Direct seeding of rice and weed management in the irrigated rice-wheat cropping system of the Indo-Gangetic Plains. Los Baños (Philippines): International Rice Research Institute, and Pantnagar (India): Directorate of Experiment Station, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology. 272 p.
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