Dr. Omvati Verma

Research Areas/Areas of Interest

• Seed Production Technology
• Seed Physiology,storage and testing
• Natural farming

Research Projects

1. All India Coordinated Research project on Seed Crops (Seed Technology Research )

Selected Research Publications

1. Okram Ricky Devi, Omvati Verma , Bibek Laishram , S. Anbarasan , Abhijit Debnath, Narinder Panotra, Priyanka Elumle , Sunita T. Pandey , R. Ajaykumar and Samreen (2025) Effect of seed priming and foliar application of organic liquid manure on germination, growth, yield and quality of late-sown wheat . Emirates Journal of Food and Agriculture.36:1-13 doi:10.3897/ejfa.2025.126915(NAAS rating 6.7)
2. Shubham Singh , Omvati Verma , Subhash Chandra , Amit Bhatnagar, Poonam Gautam and S.K. Guru (2025) Response of Varying Seedling Age, Transplanting Time and Foliar Supplements onGrowth and Biomass of Rice. Journal of Scientific Research and Reports.31, (1) : 502-509, ( no.JSRR.130664ISSN: 2320-0227(NAAs rating 5.2)
3. Singh, P.; Prasad, B.; Karnwal, M.K.; Verma, O.; Chandra,S.; Manikarnika, K. and Renu,K. (2024). Seed Germination and Subsequent Seedling Growth as Influenced by Silica Nanoparticles Invigoration in Soybean (Glycine max(L.) Merrill.): Journal of Experimental Agriculture International, Volume 46 (8): pp 757-761; Article no. JEAI.121705ISSN: 2457-0591. (NAAS 5.14)
4. Isha ,Gautam P.,Verma O., Sharma R. and Villakan M. S. 2024. Assessment of seed quality paprameters of mungbean under integrated nutrient management in Mollisols.Plant Archives.(24(1). 1113-1118 (NAAS Rating 5.2)
5. Sonu Rani , A. Goel, O. Verma and P. Setiya.(2024) Microencapsulation: A Way to Sustainable Agrotech Development. Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci (2024) 13(05): 12-18 (NAAS rating 5.2)
6. Devi, O. R., Verma, O., Laishram , B., Akarsha Raj, Supriya, Singh S. and Kumar Gaurav.2023. Influence of Seed Invigoration with organic kunapjala on seed quality and biochemical activity in late sown wheat .Int. J. Environ Clim Change.13(9) :900-906 (NAAS rating 5.2)
7. Devi, O. R., Laishram , B., Verma, O., Pandey, S. T. , Bhatnagar, A., and P. Chaturvedi.2023. Correlation of germination, seedling vigour Indices and enzyme activities in response to Liquid Organic Kunapajala to predict Field emergence in late sown wheat. Environment and Ecology 41 (3C) : 1720—1725, July—September 2022 ISSN 0970-0420 (NAAS rating 5.2)
8. Gaurav Kumar, Verma O., Chandra S., Guru S.K. and Gautam P. 2022 Response of timely and late sown wheat (Triticum aestivum L) in relation to different foliar applied nutrients, plant growth regulators and their spraying schedule on leaf area index, relative water content and canopy temperature .The Pharma Innovation J.11(9):2705-2711
9. Reena Verma ,Verma O., Subhash Chandra, Shankhdhar S. C. and Gautam P.2022.Yield performance of normal and late sown wheat in response to seed priming and foliar applied nutrients. Journal of Plant Nutrition.DOI:https://www.tandfonline.com/action/showCitFormats?doi=10.1080/01904167.2022.2144366 9NAAS rating 7.1)
10. Rashmi Sharma, Sunita T Pandey, Omvati Verma, RC Srivastava and SK Guru2020. Physiological seedling vigour parameters of wheat as influenced by different seed invigoration techniques. Int. J. Chem. Stud., 2020; 8(1): 1549-1552DOI: https://doi.org/10.22271/chemi.2020.v8.i1v.8479 (NAAS 5.2)

Awards/Recognitions

• IIIrd position in poster presentation Anjali Uniyal, Sunita T.Pandey ,Rahul Halder, Omvati Verma, , Preeti chaturvedi and Sudarshan (2024)Validation of duration and concentration of vrikshayurveda based seed priming in chickpea crop . World Ayurveda Congress Organized by held at Dehradun during Dec12-15,2024
• Faculty Excellence Award 2024 College of Agriculture, GBPUA&T, Pantnagarin Meeting of Board of Faculty of Agriculture held at Pantnagar on Jan. 1, 2025
• II nd position in poster presentation award in Ist International conference entitled “challenges and opportunities in Agriculture and allied science : Towards sustainable future on the paper “Effect of Foliar application of Amino acid mixture and growth regulators on yield and quality of soybean (Glycine max L.) under different fertility levels” organized jointly by Society for Advancement in Agriculture and allied Science (SAAAS) Lucknow and GBPUAT,Pantnagar held during June 27-29,2025 ( ISBN No.978-81-989499-7-4) page no 105