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{{Infobox scientist
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1962|4|20}}
| birth_place = Kharibil, [[Cuttack]], [[Odisha]], India
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| residence = [[New Delhi]], India
| nationality = [[Indian nationality|Indian]]
| fields = {{ublist | [[Plant biotechnology]] }}
| workplaces = {{ublist | [[National Academy of Agricultural Research Management]] | [[Indian Agricultural Research Institute]] | [[Indian Council of Agricultural Research ]] | Department of Agricultural Research and Education }}
| alma_mater = {{ublist | [[Ravenshaw College]] | [[Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology]] | [[Indian Agricultural Research Institute]] | [[University of Arizona]] }}
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| known_for = Studies in [[Molecular genetics]] and [[Genomics]]
| awards = {{ublist| 1994 [[Indian National Science Academy|INSA]] Young Scientist Medal | 1994 [[Indian National Science Academy|INSA]] Professor LSS Kumar Memorial Award | 2001 [[National Academy of Agricultural Sciences|NAAS]]-Tata Young Scientist Award | 2002 [[Indian Agricultural Research Institute|IARI]] BP Pal Memorial Award | 2003 [[National Bioscience Award for Career Development|N-BIOS Prize]] | 2007 [[National Academy of Sciences, India|NASI]]-[[Reliance Industries|Reliance]] Platinum Jubilee Award | 2015 Indian Genetics Congress Lifetime Achievement Award | 2016 [[National Academy of Agricultural Sciences|NAAS]] Recognition Award \ 2016 [[Om Prakash Bhasin Award]] }}
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'''Trilochan Mohapatra''' (born 20 April 1962) is an Indian biotechnologist, geneticist, a government secretary of the Department of Agricultural Research and Education (DARE) and the director general of the [[Indian Council of Agricultural Research]]. Known for his studies in the fields of [[molecular genetics]] and [[genomics]], Mohapatra is an elected fellow of the [[National Academy of Sciences, India]], the [[National Academy of Agricultural Sciences]], the [[Indian National Science Academy]] and the Indian Society of Genetics and Plant Breeding. The [[Department of Biotechnology]] of the Government of India awarded him the [[National Bioscience Award for Career Development]], one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences in 2003.<ref name="Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development">{{Cite web |url=http://dbtindia.nic.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/list_of_bioscience_awardees.pdf |title=Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development |date=2016 |publisher=Department of Biotechnology |access-date=2017-11-20}}</ref>

== Biography ==
[[File:360° photo sphere of Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology.jpg|thumb|left|[[Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology]].]]
Trilochan Mohapatra was born on 20 April 1962 at Kharibil village in Cuttack in the Indian state of [[Odisha]].<ref name="Resume of Dr. Trilochan Mohapatra(known as Dr.T. Mohapatra)">{{Cite web |url=http://tmbiotech.tripod.com/res.html# |title=Resume of Dr. Trilochan Mohapatra(known as Dr.T. Mohapatra) |date=2017-12-11 |website=tmbiotech.tripod.com |access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref> After completing early schooling at Laxmi Narayan High School at Eranch near his home village in 1978, he did his pre-university studies at [[Ravenshaw College]] (present day [[Ravenshaw University]]) in 1980. Joining [[Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology]] (OUAT), he earned a BSc in agriculture in 1985 as well as an MSc in genetics in 1987<ref name="Trilochan Mohapatra on TERI">{{Cite web |url=http://www.teriuniversity.ac.in/icab/files/TRILOCHAN%20MOHAPATRA.pdf |title=Trilochan Mohapatra on TERI |date=2017-12-11 |website=TERI University |access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref> and continued at the institution for his doctoral studies to secure a PhD in 1992.<ref name="NAAS Fellows">{{Cite web |url=http://naasindia.org/detail.php?id=293 |title=NAAS Fellows |date=2017-12-06 |website=National Academy of Agricultural Sciences |access-date=2017-12-06}}</ref> He started his career in 1992 as a senior scientist at the National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology (NRCPB), a centre of the [[Indian Agricultural Research Institute]] (IARI) for advanced research in the fields of molecular biology and biotechnology in crop plants where he worked until 2012, serving as a principal scientist from 2005. In between, he did advanced training in rice [[genome sequencing]] at the Arizona Genomics Institute of the [[University of Arizona]] during 2003–04.<ref name="Trilochan Mohapatra on CRRI">{{Cite web |url=http://www.crri.nic.in/Sci_Staff/tmohapatra.pdf |title=Trilochan Mohapatra on CRRI |date=2017-12-11 |website=Central Rice Research Institute |access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref> In 2012, he was appointed as the director of [[Central Rice Research Institute]]<ref name="Trilochan Mohapatra takes charge as IARI's new director -1">{{Cite news |url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/trilochan-mohapatra-takes-charge-as-iari-s-new-director-115082900515_1.html |title=Trilochan Mohapatra takes charge as IARI's new director -1 |last=Press Trust of India |date=2015-08-29 |newspaper=Business Standard India |access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref> as well as the vice-chancellor of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute.<ref name="Dr Trilochan Mohapatra is new Secretary, DARE & Director General, ICAR">{{Cite web |url=http://www.biovoicenews.com/dr-trilochan-mohapatra-appointed-new-secretary-dare/ |title=Dr Trilochan Mohapatra is new Secretary, DARE & Director General, ICAR |last=Desk |first=BioVoice News |date=2016-02-20 |website=BioVoiceNews |language=en-US |access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref> He served as the director of IARI in the year 2015-16 and on 22 February 2016, he was appointed as the secretary of the Department of Agricultural Research and Education (DARE),<ref name="Trilochan Mohapatra takes over as ICAR DG">{{Cite news |url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/trilochan-mohapatra-takes-over-as-icar-dg-116022200999_1.html |title=Trilochan Mohapatra takes over as ICAR DG |last=Press Trust of India |date=2016-02-22 |newspaper=Business Standard India |access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref><ref name="Office of Secretary (DARE) and Director General, ICAR">{{Cite web |url=http://dare.nic.in/node/23 |title=Office of Secretary (DARE) and Director General, ICAR |date=2017-12-11 |website=dare.nic.in |access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref> a department working under the [[Ministry of Agriculture]] to act as the government interface for promoting agricultural research and education in India.<ref name="Department of Agricultural Research and Education">{{Cite web |url=http://dare.nic.in/node/185 |title=Department of Agricultural Research and Education |date=2017-12-11 |website=dare.nic.in |access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref> Simultaneously, He holds the position of the director general of the [[Indian Council of Agricultural Research]].<ref name="Borlaug Institute for South Asia - Trilochan Mohapatra">{{Cite web |url=http://bisa.org/team-details/secretary-dare-and-director-general-icar-and-co-chair-bisa-executive-committee/ |title=Borlaug Institute for South Asia - Trilochan Mohapatra |date=2017-12-11 |website=bisa.org |language=en-US |access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref>

Dr. Mohapatra is married<ref name="Resume of Dr. Trilochan Mohapatra(known as Dr.T. Mohapatra)" /> and the family resides at National Agriculture Science Centre (NASC) Complex along Dev Prakash Shastri Marg in [[New Delhi]].<ref name="NASI fellows">{{Cite web |url=http://www.nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=M |title=NASI fellows |date=2017-11-12 |publisher=National Academy of Sciences, India |access-date=2017-11-12}}</ref>

== Legacy ==
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Mohapatra, whose research interests covered the fields of molecular genetics and genomics,<ref name="Trilochan Mohapatra takes charge as IARI's new director">{{Cite web |url=http://www.news18.com/news/india/trilochan-mohapatra-takes-charge-as-iaris-new-director-1055464.html |title=Trilochan Mohapatra takes charge as IARI's new director |date=29 August 2015 |website=News 18 |access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref> is known to have worked on the bacterial sequencing of [[rice]] and [[tomato]] and is credited with the development of a high-yielding [[basmati rice]] which is resistant to bacterial leaf [[blight]]<ref name="Trilochan Mohapatra takes charge as IARI's new director -1" /><ref name="Trilochan Mohapatra on Oryza">{{Cite web |url=https://oryza.com/biography/drtrilochan-mohapatra |title=Trilochan Mohapatra on Oryza |last=oryza |date=2014-11-27 |website=Oryza |access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref> which was accomplished using ''molecular marker assisted selection, physical mapping and genome sequencing''.<ref name="Dr. Trilochan Mohapatra is new Secretary (DARE) and Director General, ICAR (DARE)">{{Cite web |url=http://dare.nic.in/node/202 |title=Dr. Trilochan Mohapatra is new Secretary (DARE) and Director General, ICAR (DARE) |date=2017-12-11 |website=dare.nic.in |access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref> Molecular mapping of genome and tagging of gene in [[Mustard (condiment)|mustard]], molecular mapping and gene isolation in Basmati rice hybrid, [[marker assisted selection]] for powdery mildew resistance in [[pea]], molecular marker analysis of [[sugarcane]], identification of [[pearl millet]] hybrids, sex differentiation of [[kiwifruit]] employing [[Random amplification of polymorphic DNA|Random Amplification of Polymorphic DNA]] technique and evaluation of genetic diversity of [[jute]] were some of the other research projects he has undertaken, and he holds several patents for the processes he has developed.<ref name="Resume of Dr. Trilochan Mohapatra(known as Dr.T. Mohapatra)" /> His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles<ref name="On Google Scholar">{{Cite web |url=https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=SsqGQy8AAAAJ |title=On Google Scholar |date=2017-11-23 |publisher=Google Scholar |access-date=2017-11-23}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|Please see ''Selected bibliography'' section}} and [[ResearchGate]], an online repository of scientific articles has listed 182 of them.<ref name="On ResearchGate">{{Cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/67975374_Trilochan_Mohapatra |title=On ResearchGate |date=2017-11-23 |access-date=2017-11-23}}</ref> He has also guided several students in their doctoral and master's studies<ref name="Resume of Dr. Trilochan Mohapatra(known as Dr.T. Mohapatra)" /> and has imparted training on [[molecular breeding]] to over 25 scientists.<ref name="Trilochan Mohapatra on TERI" />

As the head of the [[Indian Council of Agricultural Research]], Mohapatra is in charge of 101 ICAR institutes and 71 agricultural universities, spread across India.<ref name="Trilochan Mohapatra takes over as ICAR DG" /> He sits in the council of the [[National Academy of Agricultural Sciences]]<ref name="NAAS Fellows" /> and is a member of the executive committee of Borlaug Institute for South Asia.<ref name="Borlaug Institute for South Asia - Governance">{{Cite web |url=http://bisa.org/governance/ |title=Borlaug Institute for South Asia - Governance |date=2017-12-11 |website=bisa.org |language=en-US |access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref> He served as an expert on ''Germplasm Characterization'' at the National Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, Korea, having received an invitation from the National Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology (NIAB), in 2004. He is a life member of the Indian Society of Genetics and Plant Breeding<ref name="Resume of Dr. Trilochan Mohapatra(known as Dr.T. Mohapatra)" /> and the Society of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology.<ref name="List of Life Members - SPBB">{{Cite web |url=http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://spbbindia.org/pdf/society_life_members_list.pdf |title=List of Life Members - SPBB |date=2017-12-11 |website=SPBB India |access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref> He is also a former associate editor of [[BMC Genetics]] and the [[Journal of Genetics]].<ref name="ISGPB fellows">{{Cite web |url=http://www.isgpb.org/fellow/mohapatra-dr-trilochan |title=ISGPB fellows |date=2017-12-11 |website=Indian Society of Genetics and Plant Breeding |access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref>

== Awards and honors ==
Mohapatra received two awards from the [[Indian National Science Academy]] in 1994,<ref name="Indian fellow">{{Cite web |url=http://insaindia.res.in/detail/P13-1618 |title=Indian fellow |date=2017-12-06 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy |access-date=2017-12-06}}</ref> namely INSA Young Scientist Medal<ref name="INSA Young Scientists Medal">{{Cite web |url=http://insaindia.res.in/youngmedal.php |title=INSA Young Scientists Medal |date=2017-11-12 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy |access-date=2017-11-12}}</ref> and Professor LSS Kumar Memorial Award.<ref name="Professor LSS Kumar Memorial Award">{{Cite web |url=http://insaindia.res.in/youngmedal.php#lss |title=Professor LSS Kumar Memorial Award |date=2017-11-12 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy |access-date=2017-11-12}}</ref> He was selected for the [[National Academy of Agricultural Sciences|NAAS]]-Tata Young Scientist Award of the [[National Academy of Agricultural Sciences]] (NAAS) in 2001; he also received two other honors from NAAS, the elected fellowship in 2006<ref name="NAAS Fellows" /> and the Recognition Award in 2016.<ref name="National Academy of Agricultural Sciences Recognition Award">{{Cite web |url=http://naasindia.org/page.php?pageid=25 |title=National Academy of Agricultural Sciences Recognition Award |website=naasindia.org |language=en |access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref> The next year, the [[Indian Agricultural Research Institute]] selected him for the B. P. Pal Memorial Award.<ref name="About the Speaker">{{Cite web |url=http://icpasn2016.iul.ac.in/images/speakers/DrTMohapatra.pdf |title=About the Speaker |date=2017-12-11 |website=Integral Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology |access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref> The [[Department of Biotechnology]] of the Government of India awarded him the [[National Bioscience Award for Career Development]], one of the highest Indian science awards in 2003.<ref name="Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development" /> The Indian Society of Genetics and Plant Breeding elected him as a fellow in 2004<ref name="ISGPB fellows" /> and he received the elected fellowships of the [[National Academy of Sciences, India]] in 2005<ref name="NASI Year Book 2015">{{Cite web |url=http://www.nasi.org.in/Year%20Book%202015.pdf |title=NASI Year Book 2015 |date=2017-11-24 |publisher=National Academy of Sciences, India |access-date=2017-11-24}}</ref> and the [[Indian National Science Academy]] in 2013.<ref name="INSA Year Book 2016">{{Cite web |url=http://www.insaindia.res.in/pdf/YearBook_2016.pdf |title=INSA Year Book 2016 |date=2017-12-09 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy |access-date=2017-12-09}}</ref> The National Academy of Sciences, India honored him again in 2007 with the NASI-Reliance Platinum Jubilee Award<ref name="NASI-Reliance Platinum Jubilee Award">{{Cite web |url=http://www.nasi.org.in/ripja.htm |title=NASI-Reliance Platinum Jubilee Award |date=2017-12-11 |website=www.nasi.org.in |access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref> and he received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Indian Genetics Congress of 2015. He is also a recipient of the Bioved Agri-Innovation Award of 2015 and the [[Om Prakash Bhasin Award]] and the IMS Diamond Jubilee Memorial Award, both in 2016.<ref name="Trilochan Mohapatra on TERI" /> The award orations delivered by him include the Prasanna Kumar Dash Memorial Lecture of the Orissa Environmental Society (2013), Dr. Gopal Chandra Patnaik Memorial Lecture of the Bigyan Prachar Samiti (2013), Platinum Jubilee Lecture Award of 101st [[Indian Science Congress]] (2014) and the inaugural Prof. S.N. Patnaik Memorial Lecture of [[Utkal University]] (2014).<ref name="Trilochan Mohapatra on CRRI" />
Honorary D.Sc degree on 7th convocation ceremony by Mahatma Gandhi Chitrakoot Gramodaya Vishwavidhyala, Chitrakoot Satna.

== Selected bibliography ==
* {{Cite journal |last1=Sato |first1=Shusei |last2=Tabata |first2=Satoshi |last3=Hirakawa |first3=Hideki |last4=Asamizu |first4=Erika |last5=Shirasawa |first5=Kenta |last6=Isobe |first6=Sachiko |last7=Kaneko |first7=Takakazu |last8=Nakamura |first8=Yasukazu |last9=Shibata |first9=Daisuke |date=May 2012 |title=The tomato genome sequence provides insights into fleshy fruit evolution |journal=Nature |language=En |volume=485 |issue=7400 |pages=635–641 |doi=10.1038/nature11119 |pmid=22660326 |pmc=3378239 |bibcode=2012Natur.485..635T |issn=1476-4687}}
* {{Cite journal |last1=Amarawathi |first1=Yellari |last2=Singh |first2=Rakesh |last3=Singh |first3=Ashok K. |last4=Singh |first4=Vijai P. |last5=Mohapatra |first5=Trilochan |last6=Sharma |first6=Tilak R. |last7=Singh |first7=Nagendra K. |date=2008-01-01 |title=Mapping of quantitative trait loci for basmati quality traits in rice (Oryza sativa L.) |journal=Molecular Breeding |language=en |volume=21 |issue=1 |pages=49–65 |doi=10.1007/s11032-007-9108-8 |s2cid=30550884 |issn=1380-3743}}
* {{Cite journal |last1=Parida |first1=Swarup K. |last2=Kumar |first2=K. Anand Raj |last3=Dalal |first3=Vivek |last4=Singh |first4=Nagendra K. |last5=Mohapatra |first5=Trilochan |date=2006-03-01 |title=Unigene derived microsatellite markers for the cereal genomes |journal=Theoretical and Applied Genetics |language=en |volume=112 |issue=5 |pages=808–817 |doi=10.1007/s00122-005-0182-1 |pmid=16429310 |s2cid=24637963 |issn=0040-5752}}

== See also ==
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* [[Gene mapping]]
* [[Genome]]
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== Notes ==
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== References ==
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== Further reading ==
* {{Cite news |url=http://www.financialexpress.com/opinion/record-cafe-were-open-to-private-partnership-for-gm-crop-research-icar-dg/350506/ |title=Record caFe: We're open to private partnership for GM crop research: ICAR DG |date=2016-08-18 |work=The Financial Express |access-date=2017-12-11 |language=en-US |format=Interview with Trilochan Mohapatra}}

== External links ==
* {{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkLAKr7KKZs |title=DG Dr. T Mohapatra at NAARM |date=10 January 2017 |publisher=National Academy of Agricultural Research Management |format=YouTube video |access-date=2017-12-11}}

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