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List of Publications (2025)
In Press:
  1. Aneja P, Sanyal R and Ranjan A (2025) Leaf growth in third dimension: a perspective of leaf thickness from genetic regulation to ecophysiology. New Phytologist (In Press).

  2. Chakraborty A, Sharma S, Pandey GK, Bhatia S and Prasad M (2025) Delineating microRNA169-Nuclear Factor Y-Subunit a module for its potential implications in crop improvement. Plant, Cell & Environment (In Press).

  3. Gandhi A, Reichelt M, Goyal D, Vadassery J and OelmÛller R (2025) Trichoderma harzianum protects the Arabidopsis salt overly sensitive 1 mutant against salt stress. Journal of Plant Growth Regulation (In Press).

  4. Gayen D, Kumar S, Barua P, Lande NV, Karmakar S, Dey AK, Gayali S, Maiti TK, Molla KA, Murumkar S, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2025) OsDUF2488 acts synergistically with OsPrx1.1, regulates ROS metabolism and promotes dehydration tolerance in rice. Plant Biotechnology Journal (In Press).

  5. Jain M, Pattnayak AK, Aggarwal S, Rai P, Kavya J, Chandrayan S, Goel M and Gaur V (2025) Branched DNA processing by a thermostable CAS-Cas4 from Thermococcus onnurineus: expanding biochemical landscape of nuclease activity. Journal of Biological Chemistry (In Press).

  6. Kamali S, Sonkar K, Ankit A, Deepika D, Sharma A and Singh A (2025) Genome-wide identification and molecular characterization of core ABA signaling components under abiotic stresses and during development in chickpea. Journal of Plant Growth Regulation (In Press).

  7. Kohli PS, Donde R, Sirohi U, Singh B, Anantha MS, Bhadana VP, Sundaram RM, Mangrauthia SK and Giri J (2025) Physiological and genetic basis of superior phosphate uptake and utilization efficiency in the rice landrace Wazuhophek. Journal of Experimental Botany (In Press).

  8. Kumar P and Bisht NC (2025) High-level production of health-beneficial glucoraphanin by multiplex editing of AOP2 gene family in mustard. Plant Biotechnology Journal (In Press).

  9. Maurya K, Mani B, Singh B, Sirohi U, Jaskolowski A, Sharma S, Tatiparthi HV, Mangrauthia SK, Pandey R, Poirier Y and Giri J. (2025) Editing cis-elements of OsPHO1;2 improved phosphate transport and yield in rice. Plant Biotechnology Journal (In Press).

  10. Padhy AK, Singh A, Chaurasia S, Parida SK, Tripathi K and Bhatia S (2025) Key determinants of seed size for enhancing genetic gain in legumes. Plant, Cell & Environment (In Press).

  11. Padhy AK, Singh A, Chaurasia S, Parida SK, Tripathi K and Bhatia S (2025) Key determinants of seed size for enhancing genetic gain in legumes. Plant, Cell & Environment (In Press).

  12. Padhy AK, Singh S, Tripathi K, Parida SK and Bhatia S (2025) Analysis of genomic-transcriptomic dynamics delineates key molecular signatures modulating seed size and weight in lentil. Plant, Cell & Environment (In Press).

  13. Pandey J, Mantena C, Kumari A, Singh P, Foyer CH, Gupta KJ and Subramanyam R (2025) Metabolism and signalling in pea (Pisum sativum) leaves exposed to drought and subsequent recovery. Plant, Cell & Environment (In Press).

  14. Rai P, Kumari P and Gaur V (2025) Erasing methylation marks on DNA by plant-specific DEMETER family DNA glycosylases. Journal of Plant Growth Regulation (In Press).

  15. Raiya R, Yadav HK, Kumar K, Prakash NR, Parida SK, Bharadwaj C, Hegde V and Tripathi S (2025) Genome-wide association analysis using multi model approach identified novel associations for plant architectural traits in chickpea germplasm collection. The Nucleus (In Press).

  16. Sanyal R and Ranjan A (2025) Optimizing photosynthesis by targeting light signaling transcriptional networks. Journal of Experimental Botany (In Press).

  17. Soundararajan P, Singh P, Letro A, Singh G and Manivannan A (2025) Transcriptome-wide identification and expression analysis of expansin genes in big and small leaf-morphotypes of Adhatoda vasica. Plant Physiology Reports (In Press).

  18. Swain J, Fernie AR, Foyer CH and Gupta KJ (2025) The multifaceted metabolic role of lactate dehydrogenase in submergence tolerance. Plant, Cell & Environment (In Press).

Research Articles:
  1. Achary RK, Kamble NU, Gautam S, Hazra A, Varshney V, Mahawar S, Laha S and Majee M (2025) The rice heat shock transcription factor OsHSFC1b increases seed weight, size, and vigor, but its function is disrupted by isoaspartyl modification. Plant Journal 123: e70365.

  2. Alok A, Chauhan H, Rout B, Pandey A and Singh K (2025) CRISPR/dCas9-KRAB mediated transcriptional suppression of NtbHLH47 enhances tolerance to iron stress and modulates iron content in tobacco. Plant Science 354: 112449.

  3. Arora S, Hamid F and Kumar S (2025) Fusion transcripts in plants: hidden layer of transcriptome complexity. Trends in Plant Science 30: 229-231.

  4. Angira A, Yadav S, Mathur P, Baranwal VK, Ranjan A and Choudhary N (2025) In-silico prediction of coat protein structure of Indian citrus ringspot virus and their interactions with the Argonaut2/DCL4 proteins. VirusDisease 36: 31-40.

  5. Angira A, Baranwal VK, Ranjan A and Choudhary N (2025) Identification of an RNA silencing suppressor encoded by an Indian citrus ringspot virus. Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants 31: 93-104.

  6. Bisht N, Mayilraj S, Kumar S and Kaur N (2025) Identification of NRPS and type II PKS biosynthetic gene cluster (s) encoding decaplanin and kigamicin from Amycolatopsis regifaucium DSM 45072T. FEMS Microbiology Letters 372: fnaf049.

  7. Bhagat PK, Verma N, Pandey S, Verma D and Sinha AK (2025) MPK3 mediated phosphorylation inhibits the dimerization of ABI5 to fine-tune the ABA signaling in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 221: 109690.

  8. Bera P, Suby SB, Dixit S, Vijayan V, Kumar N, Sekhar JC and Vadassery J (2025) Identification of novel target genes for RNAi mediated management of the pest, Fall Armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda, J. E. Smith). Crop Protection 187: 106972.

  9. Bishnoi A, Ram H and Soni P (2025) Genome-wide identification, in-silico characterisation and expression analysis of multiprotein bridging factor 1 gene family members in rice. Plant Physiology Reports 30: 125-145.

  10. Chugh V, Kumari K, Yamal G, Checker VG, Yadav G and Kathpalia R (2025) Global bibliometry on three decades of methyl jasmonate-induced plant defense research reveals growth of a specialty area in biology. Journal of Applied Biology and Biotechnology 13: 16-25.

  11. Du J, Shao C, Wang D, Feng Z, Cui C, Li R, Jewaria PK, Wang X, Xiao J and Wang X (2025) Deletion of the PtrDJ1C gene leads to increased branching in poplar. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 223: 109789.

  12. Ghatak A, Pierides I, Singh RK, Srivastava RK, Varshney RK, Prasad M, Chaturvedi P and Weckwerth W (2025) Millets for a sustainable future. Journal of Experimental Botany 76: 1534-1545.

  13. Gupta P, Srivastava H, Kumar K, Nirgude M, Arpita K, Vadassery J, Sharma S, Abdin MZ and Gaikwad K (2025) Potential regulation of cleistogamy in pigeonpea through jasmonic acid and bHLH transcription factor interactions. Plant Reproduction 38: 10.

  14. Gupta SK, Dwivedi V, Kute NS, Francis P, Parida SK and Chattopadhyay D (2025) Identification of a stable drought-tolerant high-yielding line for chickpea crop improvement. Plant Molecular Biology Reporter 43: 262-268.

  15. Jewaria PK, Aryal B, Begum RA, Wang Y, Sancho-Andres G, Baba AI, Yu M, Li X, Lin J, Fry SC, Verger S, Russinova E, Jonsson K and Bhalerao RP (2025) Reduced RG- II pectin dimerization disrupts differentialgrowth by attenuating hormonal regulation. Science Advances 11: eads0760.

  16. Jaiswal P, Qasim F, Mahto A, Vichitra A, Das U, Tyagi AK and Agarwal P (2025) Zinc finger transcriptional repressor ZOS5-09 regulates grain filling and development in rice. Physiologia Plantarum 177: e70376.

  17. Kamali S, Sonkar K and Singh A (2025) Cellular transport and multifaceted roles of jasmonates in nutrient deficiency response in plants. Journal of Plant Growth Regulation 44: 115-130.

  18. Khatoon NS, Khan A, Bhatia P, Vadassery J and Gupta M (2025) Nutrient use efficiency promoted hormonal crosstalk and stomatal dynamics in wheat under the co-impact of arsenic and drought. Journal of Hazardous Materials 494: 138575.

  19. Kaur S, Padhiar D, Singh M, Parida SK, Jha UC, Sharma KD, Prasad PVV, Siddique KHM and Nayyar H (2025) Assessing cold stress resilience in wild chickpea accessions using physiological, biochemical, and reproductive traits. Scientific Reports 15: 26714.

  20. Kundu P, Kumari M, Meena MK, Mishra S and Vadassery J (2025) The Arabidopsis eATP receptor, DORN1 and CNGC19 channel act in tandem to regulate plant defense upon Spodoptera litura herbivory. Journal of Experimental Botany 76: 2264-2277.

  21. Kundu A, Bera P, Mishra S and Vadassery J (2025) Deep metabolomics revealed trajectories of jasmonate signaling-mediated primary metabolism in Arabidopsis upon Spodoptera litura herbivory. Physiologia Plantarum 177: e70035.

  22. Kulkarni M, Vadassery J and Borges RM (2025) Host manipulations within mutualisms: Role of plant hormones in selective resource allocation. Journal of Chemical Ecology 51: 8.

  23. Kumbhakar R, Mondal M, Thakro V, Tripathi S and Parida SK (2025) Shaping the future: Unravelling regulators modulating plant architecture for next-generation crops. Plant Science 358: 112534.

  24. Mathan J, Dwivedi A and Ranjan A (2025) Revisiting development and physiology of wild rice relatives for crop improvement and climate resilience. Plant Cell Reports 44: 55.

  25. Manna M, Rengasamy B and Sinha AK (2025) Nutrient and water availability influence rice physiology, root architecture and ionomic balance via auxin signalling. Plant, Cell & Environment 48: 2691-2705.

  26. Manna M, Rengasamy B, Reddy MK and Sinha AK (2025) Revisiting rice transformation for a fail-safe protocol and its application for various gene functional and molecular studies. Journal of Plant Growth Regulation 44: 765-780.

  27. Mirchandani R, Kandpal M, Ranjan A, Sinharoy S and Senthil-Kumar M (2025) Induced post-invasive defenses in the nonhost plant Parthenium hysterophorus L. prevent root cortical colonization by Macrophomina phaseolina and impart resistance to dry root rot. Environmental and Experimental Botany 237: 106197.

  28. Mohanty JK, Yadav A, Narnoliya L, Thakro V, Nayyar H, Dixit GP, Jha UC, Vara Prasad PV, Agarwal P and Parida SK (2025) A next-generation combinatorial genomic strategy scans genomic loci governing heat stress tolerance in chickpea. Plant, Cell & Environment 48: 2706-2726.

  29. Naik J, Rajput R, Singh S, Stracke R and Pandey A (2025) Heat-responsive MaHSF11 transcriptional activator positively regulates flavonol biosynthesis and flavonoid B-ring hydroxylation in banana (Musa acuminata). Plant Journal 121: e70084.

  30. Naaz S, Pande A and Laxmi A (2025) Nitric oxide-mediated thermomemory: a new perspective on plant heat stress resilience. Frontiers in Plant Science 16: 1525336.

  31. Padhiar D, Kaur S, Jha UC, Prasad PVV, Sharma KD, Kumar S, Parida SK, Siddique KHM and Nayyar H (2025) Differential resilience of chickpea's reproductive organs to cold stress across developmental stages: insights into antioxidant strategies for enhanced fertility. Frontiers in Plant Science 16: 1545187.

  32. Padhiar D, Kaur S, Rani A, Jha UC, Prasad PVV, Sharma KD, Kumar S, Parida SK, Siddique KHM and Nayyar H (2025) Deciphering the dynamics of enzymes associated with the synthesis of cryoprotectants during cold acclimation in contrasting chickpea genotypes. Scientific Reports 15: 19438.

  33. Pandey M, Verma L, Kohli PS, Singh B, Kochi A and Giri J (2025) A lipid synthase maintains metabolic flux for jasmonate synthesis to regulate root growth and phosphate homeostasis. Plant Physiology 197: kiae453.

  34. Pareek A, Gupta KJ, Singla-Pareek SL and Foyer CH (2025) Can We Secure Food and Nutrition Through Crop Innovation? Plant, Cell & Environment 48: 2495-2497.

  35. Padhy AK, Chaurasia S, Manivannan A, Tripathi K, Sapna S and Bhatia S (2025) Innovations in industrial and functional food applications of lentil in the era of biofortification. Discover Food 5: 48.

  36. Pradhan A, Yadav SK and Jha G (2025) Glycosyltransferase-like toxin of Burkholderia gladioli strain NGJ1 is a potent antifungal protein with potential for control of sheath blight disease in rice. Phytopathology 115: 485-494.

  37. Rawat SS and Laxmi A (2025) Rooted in communication: Exploring auxin-salicylic acid nexus in root growth and development. Plant, Cell & Environment 48: 4140-4160.

  38. Rajput R, Tyagi S, Anchal K, Singh S, Laxmi A, Misra P and Pandey A (2025) Cytokinin-mediated repression of anthocyanin biosynthesis in banana fruits. Plant Journal 122: e70267.

  39. Samant SB, Swain J, Yadav N, Yadav R, Singh P, Rai P, Sheri V, Sreeman S, Subramanyam R, Pareek A and Gupta KJ (2025) Overexpression of phytoglobin1 in rice leads to enhanced nitrogen use efficiency via modulation of nitric oxide. Plant, Cell & Environment 48: 2755-2768.

  40. Sharma R, Chirom O, Mujib A, Prasad M and Prasad A (2025) UFMylation: Exploring a lesser known post translational modification. Plant Science 354: 112435.

  41. Sharma S and Prasad M (2025) Diverse roles of phytohormonal signaling in modulating plant-virus interaction. Journal of Experimental Botany 76: 1921-1940.

  42. Sharma A, Samtani H and Laxmi A (2025) Molecular dialogue between light and temperature signaling in plants: From perception to thermotolerance. Journal of Experimental Botany 76: 677-694.

  43. Singh G, Manivannan A, Pandey V and Bhatia S (2025) Global identification of metal ion transporters in chickpea and delineating the role of CaYSL4 in orchestrating iron content. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 219: 109292.

  44. Singh A, Mathan J, Dwivedi A, Rani R and Ranjan A (2025) Integration of metabolite and transcriptome profiles of cultivated and wild rice to unveil gene regulatory networks and key genes determining rice source and sink strength. Functional & Integrative Genomics 25: 97.

  45. Singh N, Giri MK and Chattopadhyay D (2025) Lighting the path: how light signaling regulates stomatal movement and plant immunity. Journal of Experimental Botany 76: 769-786.

  46. Singh J, Singh KBM, Sutar RR, Kumar A, Prasad M and Thakur JK (2025) Genome wide investigation and transcriptional profiling of SWEET genes in two contrasting cultivars of foxtail millet under abiotic stresses. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 229: 110337.

  47. Sinha S, Sardar A, Rai D, Tripathi AK, Kothari P, Rajput R, Pandey A and Trivedi R (2025) Comparative assessment of flavonoid content in banana pulp and peel and their role in mitigating bone loss conditions and promoting osteoblast differentiation.Food & Function 16: 3028-3047.

  48. Srivastava A, Gupta A, Bishi SK, Akhila P, Latha PC, Subrahmanyam D, Brajendra P, Anantha MS, Ch SR, Sakhare AS, Bhadana VP, Giri J, Neeraja CN, Sundaram RM and Mangrauthia SK (2025) Tolerance of Oryza sativa to low phosphate is associated with adaptive changes in root architecture and metabolic exudates. Plant Science 353: 112415.

  49. Sonkar K and Singh A (2025) Metabolic and physiological functions of patatin-like phospholipase-A in plants. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 287: 138474.

  50. Sonkar K and Singh A (2025) Wax deposition is vital for thermotolerance in rice. Plant Communications 6: 101317.

  51. Sonkar K, Kamali S, Kumar A, Deepika D, Ankit A, Singh A (2025) Genomic, structural, and molecular analysis of calmodulin-binding transcriptional activators (CAMTAs) suggests their role in plant development and abiotic stress tolerance in chickpea. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal 27: 3824-3836.

  52. Soundararajan P, Vivek AT, Suresh GB, Shukla B, Singh KBM, Kumar S and Manivannan A (2025) Pangenome-wide identification, evolutionary analysis, and characterization of WOX gene family among Brassica Triangle of U's genomes. Plant Gene 42: 100497.

  53. Suresh GB, Baskar H, Subramaniam G and Soundararajan P (2025) Genome-wide identification, characterization, and expression analysis of Clavata3 Insensitive receptor Kinases (CIKs) on developmental tissues and under temperature stress conditions in Brassica oleracea. Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology 34: 284-300.

  54. Swain SP, Bisht N and Kumar S (2025) Comprehensive study of tRNA-derived fragments in plants for biotic stress responses. Functional & Integrative Genomics 25: 70.

  55. Wang D, Jewaria PK and Xiao J (2025) Photosynthetic adaptation in poplar under abiotic and biotic stress: integrating molecular, physiological, and biotechnological perspectives. International Journal of Plant Biology 16: 42.

  56. Varghese M, Kumar R, Sharma A, Lone A, Gershenzon J and Bisht NC (2025) Isopropylmalate synthase regulatory domain removal abolishes feedback regulation at the expense of leucine homeostasis in plants. Plant Physiology 197: kiaf041.

  57. Verma L, Pandey M, Bhatia C, Mehra P, Singh B and Giri J (2025) Phosphate deficiency inducible OsGDPD5 affects root growth by regulating sugar-auxin crosstalk. Plant Journal 121: e17249.

  58. Vivek AT, Sahu N, Kalakoti G and Kumar S (2025) ANNInter: A platform to explore ncRNA-ncRNA interactome of Arabidopsis thaliana. Computational Biology and Chemistry 115:108328.

  59. Yadav AS, Sureshkumar S, Sinha AK and Balasubramanian S (2025) Dispersed components drive temperature sensing and response in plants. Science 388: 1161-1166.

  60. Yadav N, Nagar P, Rawat A, Rakhi R, Singh D, Habibzai H, Sinha AK, Mustafiz A (2025) Unveiling the molecular mechanism underlying PSKR-mediated amplification of the ABA signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell Reports 44: 106.

Book Chapter:
  1. Chaurasia S and Bhatia S (2025) Use of wild relatives in breeding programs to develop climate resilient wheat. In: Khan MK, Pandey A, Hamurcu M, Gezgin S (eds), Wheat Wild Relatives: Developing Abiotic Stress Tolerance Under Climate Change, Chapter 13. Academic Press, pp 361-399.

  2. Sharma A and Chattopadhyay D (2025) Genome editing in legumes: Current status. In: Pathak H, Lakra WS, Gopalakrishnan A, Bansal KC (eds), Advances in Agri Food Systems, Volume II. Springer, Singapore, pp 219-236.
List of Publications (2024)
Research Articles:
  1. Arafat MY, Narula K, Kumar M, Chakraborty N and Chakraborty S (2024) Proteo-metabolomic dissection of extracellular matrix reveals alterations in cell wall integrity and calcium signaling governs wall-associated susceptibility during stem rot disease in jute. Journal of Proteome Research 23: 3217-3234.

  2. Angira A, Baranwal VK, Ranjan A and Choudhary N (2024) Optimization of DAC-ELISA and IC-RT-PCR using the developed polyclonal antibody and one-step RT-PCR assays for detection of Indian citrus ringspot virus in kinnow orange of Punjab, India. Journal of Virological Methods 329: 114972.

  3. Ahmed R, Dey KK, Senthil-Kumar M, Modi MK, Sarmah BK and Bhorali P (2024) Comparative transcriptome profiling reveals differential defense responses among Alternaria brassicicola resistant Sinapis alba and susceptible Brassica rapa. Frontiers in Plant Science 14: 1251349.

  4. Arya A, Arora S, Hamid F and Kumar S (2024) PFusionDB: a comprehensive database of plant-specific fusion transcripts. 3 Biotech 14: 282.

  5. Awasthi R, Devi P, Jha UC, Sharma KD, Roorkiwal M, Kumar S, Pareek A, Siddique KHM, Prasad PVV, Parida SK and Nayyar H (2024) Exploring the synergistic effects of drought and heat stress on chickpea seed development: Insights into nutritional quality and seed yield. Plant Stress 14: 100635.

  6. Brahmam GS, Mishra D and Yadav VK (2024) ReDtool: a Python-based command line tool for restriction digestion analysis of large DNA sequences. Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology 33: 451-454.

  7. Bandyopadhyay T, Maurya J, Bentley AR, Griffiths H, Swarbreck SM and Prasad M (2024) Identifying the mechanistic basis to nitrogen responsiveness in two contrasting Setaria italica accessions. Journal of Experimental Botany 75: 5008-5020.

  8. Bansal C, Kumar A, Shrivastava M and Mathur S (2024) Functional diversification of miR172 isoforms in tomato under abiotic stress. Environmental and Experimental Botany 220: 105696.

  9. Choudhary A and Senthil-Kumar M (2024) Drought: A context-dependent damper and aggravator of plant diseases. Plant, Cell & Environment 47: 2109-2126.

  10. Chakraborty A, Singh B, Pandey V, Parida SK and Bhatia S (2024) MicroRNA164e suppresses NAC100 transcription factor-mediated synthesis of seed storage proteins in chickpea. New Phytologist 242: 2652-2668.

  11. Chauhan H, Alok A, Aiana, Upadhyay SK, Pandey A and Singh K (2024) CRISPR/Cas9 edited StbHLH47 lines exhibit altered expression profiling of iron regulating genes and increased iron content in Solanum tuberosum. Current Plant Biology 38: 100354.

  12. Chandel SS, Gaikwad DS, Rathour R, Dohru VK, Sirari A, Jha U, Parida SK and Sharma KD (2024) Differential expression of antimicrobial metabolites, phenylpropanoid and phytohormone metabolic pathway genes determines resistance or susceptibility to Ascochyta rabiei in chickpea. Plant Pathology 73: 1247-1263.

  13. Chhatwal H, Naik J, Pandey A and Trivedi PK (2024) Broadening the epigenetic horizon of abiotic stress response in plants. Plant Growth Regulation 103: 491-501.

  14. Chitkara P, Singh A, Gangwar R, Bhardwaj R, Zahra S, Arora S, Hamid F, Arya A, Sahu N, Chakraborty S, Ramesh M and Kumar S (2024) The landscape of fusion transcripts in plants: a new insight into genome complexity. BMC Plant Biology 24: 1162.

  15. Dhatterwal P, Sharma N and Prasad M (2024) Decoding the functionality of plant transcription factors: key factors and mechanisms. Journal of Experimental Botany 75: 4745-4759.

  16. Dhatterwal P, Prasad M, Mehrotra S and Mehrotra R (2024) Yield loss and growth-defense trade-offs: impact of engineering amino acid transporters. Nucleus (India) 67: 631-635.

  17. Daware A, Mohanty JK, Narnoliya L, Singh A, Rathore D, Thakro V, Francis A, Singh NP, Francis P, Tripathi S, Chattopadhyay D and Parida SK (2024) Uncovering DNA methylation landscapes to decipher evolutionary footprints of phenotypic diversity in chickpea. DNA Research 31: dsae013.

  18. Dixit S, Sivalingam PN, Baskaran RKM, Senthil-Kumar M and Ghosh PK (2024) Plant responses to concurrent abiotic and biotic stress: unravelling physiological and morphological mechanisms. Plant Physiology Reports 29: 6-17.

  19. Dwivedi V, Pal L, Singh S, Singh NP, Parida SK and Chattopadhyay D (2024) A chickpea WIP2 gene underlying a major QTL contributes to lateral root development. Journal of Experimental Botany 75: 642-657.

  20. Donde R, Kohli PS, Pandey M, Sirohi U, Singh B and Giri J (2024) Dissecting chickpea genomic loci associated with the root penetration responsive traits in compacted soil. Planta 259: 17.

  21. Das J, Ghosh S, Tyagi K, Sahoo D and Jha G (2024) Methionine biosynthetic genes and methionine sulfoxide reductase A are required for Rhizoctonia solani AG1-IA to cause sheath blight disease in rice. Microbial Biotechnology 17: e14441.

  22. Danakumara T, Kumar N, Patil BS, Kumar T, Bharadwaj C, Jain PK, Nimmy MS, Joshi N, Parida SK, Bindra S, Kole C and Varshney RK (2024) Unraveling the genetics of heat tolerance in chickpea landraces (Cicer arietinum L.) using genome-wide association studies. Frontiers in Plant Science 15: 1376381.

  23. Gupta KJ, Yadav N, Kumari A, Loake and G.J (2024) New insights into nitric oxide biosynthesis underpin lateral root development. Molecular Plant 17: 691-693.

  24. Gupta A, Ghosh D, Rao S and Mathur S (2024) Deciphering the role of MIR169d:NF-YA2 module under individual as well as combined drought and heat stress in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology Reports 29: 153-164.

  25. Hamid F, Arora S, Chitkara P and Kumar S (2024) A protocol for the detection of fusion transcripts using RNA-sequencing data. Methods in Molecular Biology 2812: 243-258.

  26. Jangid VK, Senthil-Kumar M, Chandran D and Sinharoy S (2024) Callus induction and efficient in vitro plant regeneration protocol for Chickpea. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture 156: 21.

  27. Jaiswal V, Bandyopadhyay T, Singh RK, Gahlaut V, Muthamilarasan M and Prasad M (2024) Multi-environment GWAS identifies genomic regions underlying grain nutrient traits in foxtail millet (Setaria italica). Plant Cell Reports 43: 6.

  28. Jaiswal M and Kumar S (2024) smAMPsTK: a toolkit to unravel the smORFome encoding AMPs of plant species. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics 42: 6600-6612.

  29. Joseph J, Samant SB and Gupta KJ (2024) Mitochondrial alternative oxidase pathway helps in nitro-oxidative stress tolerance in germinating chickpea. Journal of Biosciences 49: 53.

  30. Junaid A, Singh B and Bhatia S (2024) Evolutionary insights into 3D genome organization and epigenetic landscape of Vigna mungo. Life Science Alliance 7: e202302074.

  31. Kalakoti G, Vivek AT, Kamboj A, Singh A, Chakraborty S and Kumar S (2024) Comprehensive profiling of rRNA-derived small RNAs in Arabidopsis thaliana using rsRNAfinder pipeline. MethodsX 12: 102494.

  32. Kamble NU, Ghosh S, Petla BP, Achary RK, Gautam S, Rao V, Salvi P, Hazra A, Varshney V and Majee M (2024) PROTEIN L-ISOASPARTYL METHYLTRANSFERASE protects enolase dysfunction by repairing isoaspartyl-induced damage and is positively implicated in agronomically important seed traits. Plant Journal 119: 413-431.

  33. Kolbert Z, Barroso JB, Boscari A, Corpas FJ, Gupta KJ, Hancock JT, Lindermayr C, Palma JM, Petřivalský M, Wendehenne D and Loake GJ (2024) Interorgan, intraorgan and interplant communication mediated by nitric oxide and related species. New Phytologist 244: 786-797.

  34. Kumar R, Kumar C, Roy Choudhury D, Ranjan A, Raipuria RK, Dubey KKD, Mishra A, Kumar C, Manzoor MM, Kumar A, Kumari A, Singh K, Singh GP and Singh R (2024) Isolation, characterization, and expression analysis of NAC transcription factor from Andrographis paniculata (Burm. f.) nees and their role in andrographolide production. Genes 15: 422.

  35. Kumar D, Mariyam S, Gupta KJ, Thiruvengadam M, Ghodake GS, Xing B and Seth CS (2024) Comparative investigation on chemical and green synthesized titanium dioxide nanoparticles against chromium (VI) stress eliciting differential physiological, biochemical, and cellular attributes in Helianthus annuus L. . Science of the Total Environment 930: 172413.

  36. Kumar S, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2024) Dehydration-responsive cytoskeleton proteome of rice reveals reprograming of key molecular pathways to mediate metabolic adaptation and cell survival. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 207: 108359.

  37. Kumar V, Singh B, Kumar Singh R, Sharma N, Muthamilarasan M, Sawant SV and Prasad M (2024) SiHDA9 interacts with SiHAT3.1 and SiHDA19 to repress dehydration responses through H3K9 deacetylation in foxtail millet. Journal of Experimental Botany 75: 1098-1111.

  38. Maji S, Waseem M, Sharma MK, Singh M, Singh A, Dwivedi N, Thakur P, Cooper DG, Bisht NC, Fassler JS, Subbarao N, Khurana JP, Bhavesh NS and Thakur JK (2024) MediatorWeb: a protein-protein interaction network database for the RNA polymerase II Mediator complex. FEBS Journal 291: 3938-3960.

  39. Manna M, Rengasamy B and Sinha AK (2024) A rapid and robust colorimetric method for measuring relative abundance of auxins in plant tissues. Phytochemical Analysis 35: 1052-1062.

  40. Mani B, Maurya K, Kohli PS and Giri J (2024) Chickpea (Cicer arietinum) PHO1 family members function redundantly in Pi transport and root nodulation. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 211: 108712.

  41. Marzi D, Brunetti P, Saini SS, Yadav G, Puglia GD and Dello Ioio R (2024) Role of transcriptional regulation in auxin-mediated response to abiotic stresses. Frontiers in Genetics 15: 1394091.

  42. Malakar P, Gupta SK and Chattopadhyay D (2024) Role of plant neurotransmitters in salt stress: A critical review. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 211: 108601.

  43. Maurya J, Singh RK and Prasad M (2024) Improving nutrient use efficiency (NtUE) in crops: an overview. Plant Physiology Reports 29: 786-792.

  44. Meena SK, Quevedo M, Muniz Nardeli S, Verez C, Bhat SS, Zacharaki V and Kindgren P (2024) Antisense transcription from stress-responsive transcription factors fine-tunes the cold response in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 36: 3467-3482.

  45. Mishra D (2024) Frost-fighter, SVALKA-PRC2: Winter, bring it on! Plant Physiology 195: 1089-1090.

  46. Mishra D (2024) Critical compromise: Trade-off between symbiosis and water uptake. Plant Physiology 195: 2473-2474.

  47. Mishra D, Shekhar S, Subba P, Prasad TSK, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2024) Wheat TaNACa18 functions as a positive regulator of high-temperature adaptive responses and improves cell defense machinery. Plant Journal 119: 2217-2235.

  48. Maitraya B, Pandey P and Senthil-Kumar M (2024) From combined stress to climate resilience: harnessing the power of a knowledge resource. Current Science 127: 520-522.

  49. Mittal D, Gautam JK, Varma M, Laie A, Mishra S, Behera S and Vadassery J (2024) External jasmonic acid isoleucine mediates amplification of plant elicitor peptide receptor (PEPR) and jasmonate-based immune signalling. Plant, Cell & Environment 47: 1397-1415.

  50. Mohanty JK, Thakro V, Yadav A, Nayyar H, Dixit GP, Agarwal P, Parida SK and Jha UC (2024) Delineation of genes for a major QTL governing heat stress tolerance in chickpea. Plant Molecular Biology 114: 19.

  51. Mohanty JK and Parida SK (2024) Stripping off the rice panicle: induced genetic variation awakens the sheathed spikelet for a better yield. Journal of Experimental Botany 75: 5459-5462.

  52. Mohanty JK, Jha UC, Dixit GP, Bharadwaj C and Parida SK (2024) eQTL-seq: a rapid genome-wide integrative genetical genomics strategy to dissect complex regulatory architecture of gene expression underlying quantitative trait variation in crop plants. Plant Molecular Biology Reporter 42: 218-223.

  53. Naik J, Tyagi S, Rajput R, Kumar P, Pucker B, Bisht NC, Misra P, Stracke R and Pandey A (2024) Flavonols have opposite effects on the interrelated glucosinolate and camalexin biosynthetic pathways in Arabidopsis thaliana. Journal of Experimental Botany 75: 219-240.

  54. Narula K, Choudhary P, Sengupta A, Chakraborty N and Chakraborty S (2024) Comprehensive multi-layered analyses of genotype-dependent proteo-metabolic networks reveal organellar crosstalk and biochemical pathways regulating aroma formation in rice. Food Chemistry 459: 139949.

  55. Narula K, Sinha A, Choudhary P, Ghosh S, Elagamey E, Sharma A, Sengupta A, Chakraborty N and Chakraborty S (2024) Combining extracellular matrix proteome and phosphoproteome of chickpea and meta-analysis reveal novel proteoforms and evolutionary significance of clade-specific wall-associated events in plant. Plant Direct 8: e572.

  56. Pandey A, Devi LL, Gupta S, Prasad P, Agrwal K, Asif MH, Pandey AK, Bandyopadhyay K and Singh AP (2024) Jasmonate signaling modulates root growth by suppressing iron accumulation during ammonium stress. Plant Physiology 196: 2213-2231.

  57. Pal G, Saxena S, Kumar K, Verma A, Kumar D, Shukla P, Pandey A, White J and Verma SK (2024) Seed endophytic bacterium Lysinibacillus sp. (ZM1) from maize (Zea mays L.) shapes its root architecture through modulation of auxin biosynthesis and nitrogen metabolism. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 212: 108731.

  58. Pathak PK, Yadav N, Kaladhar VC, Jaiswal R, Kumari A, Igamberdiev AU, Loake GJ and Gupta KJ (2024) The emerging roles of nitric oxide and its associated scavengers-phytoglobins-in plant symbiotic interactions. Journal of Experimental Botany 75: 563-577.

  59. Patil NS, Hegde V, Vinod KK, Parida SK and Jain PK (2024) Genome wide association studies for flowering time, shelling percentage, harvest index and related traits in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). Euphytica 220: 144

  60. Pandey P and Senthil-Kumar M (2024) Unmasking complexities of combined stresses for creating climate-smart crops. Trends in Plant Science 29: 1172-1175.

  61. Pandey P, Patil M, Priya P and Senthil-Kumar M (2024) When two negatives make a positive: The favorable impact of the combination of abiotic stress and pathogen infection on plants. Journal of Experimental Botany 75: 674-688.

  62. Panthri M, Saini H, Banerjee G, Bhatia P, Verma N, Sinha AK and Gupta M (2024) Deciphering the regulation of transporters and mitogen-activated protein kinase in arsenic and iron exposed rice. Journal of Hazardous Materials 467: 133687.

  63. Prajapati VK, Vijayan V and Vadassery J (2024) Secret weapon of insects: The oral secretion cocktail and its modulation of host immunity. Plant and Cell Physiology 65: 1213-1223.

  64. Puglia GD, Frugis G and Yadav G (2024) Editorial: Plant transcription factors associated with abiotic stress tolerance in crops and wild-relatives. Frontiers in Genetics 15: 1431326.

  65. Rawat SS and Laxmi A (2024) Light at the end of the tunnel: integrating signaling pathways in the coordination of lateral root development. Biochemical Society Transactions 52: 1895-1908.

  66. Ramegowda V, Senthil A and Senthil-Kumar M (2024) Stress combinations and their interactions in crop plants. Plant Physiology Reports 29: 1-5.

  67. Ranjan S, Mirchandani R and Senthil-Kumar M (2024) Abiotic stress impact on the interaction between Macrophomina phaseolina and crop plants. Plant Physiology Reports 29: 18-27.

  68. Sadhana NH, Geethanjali S, Mirchandani R, Natesan S and Senthil-Kumar M (2024) Navigating towards dry root rot resistance in mungbean: impacts, mechanisms, and management strategies. Plant Physiology Reports 29: 439-460.

  69. Selematsela, D, Mujoomunshi U and Yadav G (2024) Data for development and the role of CODATA of the International Science Council (ISC). ALIS 71: 506-511.

  70. Sharma R, Pandey S, Prasad M and Prasad A (2024) Catalase regulation during plant-virus-vector interaction. Physiologia Plantarum 176: e14580.

  71. Sharma S, Prasad A and Prasad M (2024) Selective autophagy: the fulcrum of plant-virus interaction. Trends in Plant Science 29: 4-6.

  72. Singh S, Chhatwal H and Pandey A (2024) Deciphering the complexity of terpenoid biosynthesis and its multi-level regulatory mechanism in plants. Journal of Plant Growth Regulation 43: 3320-3336.

  73. Singh A, Zahra S, Arora S, Hamid F and Kumar S (2024) In silico identification of tRNA fragments, novel candidates for cancer biomarkers, and therapeutic targets. Methods in Molecular Biology 2812: 379-392.

  74. Prasad A, Sharma S and Prasad M (2024) Deeper look into viruses: replication intermediates do code! Plant Cell Reports 43: 52.

  75. Prusty A, Panchal A, Singh RK and Prasad M (2024) Major transcription factor families at the nexus of regulating abiotic stress response in millets: a comprehensive review. Planta 259: 118.

  76. Prusty A, Mehra P, Sharma S, Malik N, Agarwal P, Parida SK, Kapoor S and Tyagi AK (2024) OsMED14_2, a tail module subunit of mediator complex, controls rice development and involves jasmonic acid. Plant Science 346: 112146.

  77. Rawat SS and Laxmi A (2024) Sugar signals pedal the cell cycle! Frontiers in Plant Science 15: 1354561.

  78. Rawat SS, Sandhya S and Laxmi A (2024) Complex genetic interaction between glucose sensor HXK1 and E3 SUMO ligase SIZ1 in regulating plant morphogenesis. Plant Signaling & Behavior 19: e2341506.

  79. Rengasamy B, Manna M, Thajuddin NB, Sathiyabama M and Sinha AK (2024) Breeding rice for yield improvement through CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing method: current technologies and examples. Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants 30: 185-198.

  80. Rengasamy B, Manna M, Jonwal S, Sathiyabama M, Thajuddin NB and Sinha AK (2024) A simplified and improved protocol of rice transformation to cater wide range of rice cultivars. Protoplasma 261: 641-654.

  81. Samant SB, Manbir, Rekha, Swain J, Singh P, Kumari A and Gupta KJ (2024) Measurement of reactive oxygen species and nitric oxide from tomato plants in response to abiotic and biotic stresses. Methods in Molecular Biology 2832: 183-203.

  82. Saini H, Panthri M, Khan E, Saxena S, Pandey A and Gupta M (2024) Metabolomic profiling reveals key factors and associated pathways regulating the differential behavior of rice (Oryza sativa L.) genotypes exposed to geogenic arsenic. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 196: 119.

  83. Saini D, Bapatla RB, Vemula CK, Gahir S, Bharath P, Gupta KJ and Raghavendra AS (2024) Moderate modulation by S-nitrosoglutathione of photorespiratory enzymes in pea (Pisum sativum) leaves, compared to the strong effects of high light. Protoplasma 261: 43-51.

  84. Sahu TK, Verma SK, Gayacharan, Singh NP, Joshi DC, Wankhede DP, Singh M, Bhardwaj R, Singh B, Parida SK, Chattopadhyay D, Singh GP and Singh AK (2024) Transcriptome-wide association mapping provides insights into the genetic basis and candidate genes governing flowering, maturity and seed weight in rice bean (Vigna umbellata). BMC Plant Biology 24: 379.

  85. Samant SB, Yadav N, Swain J, Joseph J, Kumari A, Praveen A, Sahoo RK, Manjunatha G, Seth CS, Singla-Pareek SL, Foyer CH, Pareek A and Gupta KJ (2024) Nitric oxide, energy and redox-dependent responses to hypoxia. Journal of Experimental Botany 75: 4573-4588.

  86. Singh K, Sharma D, Bhagat PK, Tayyeba S, Noryang S and Sinha AK (2024) Phosphorylation of AGO1a by MAP kinases is required for miRNA mediated resistance against Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae infection in rice. Plant Science 340: 111967.

  87. Sinharoy S, Tian CF and Montiel J (2024) Editorial: Plant-rhizobia symbiosis and nitrogen fixation in legumes. Frontiers in Plant Science 15: 1392006.

  88. Singh S, Pal L, Rajput R, Chhatwal H, Singh N, Chattopadhyay D and Pandey A (2024) CaLAP1 and CaLAP2 orchestrate anthocyanin biosynthesis in the seed coat of Cicer arietinum. Planta 260: 38.

  89. Singh D, Verma N, Rengasamy B, Banerjee G and Sinha AK (2024) The small RNA biogenesis in rice is regulated by MAP kinase-mediated OsCDKD phosphorylation. New Phytologist 244: 1482-1497.

  90. Swain J, Shukla V, Licausi F and Gupta KJ (2024) Unearthing the secrets of ERFVIIs: new insights into hypoxia signaling. Trends in Plant Science 29: 275-277.

  91. Singh J, James D, Das S, Patel MK, Sutar RR, Achary VMM, Goel N, Gupta KJ, Reddy MK, Jha G, Sonti RV, Foyer CH, Thakur JK and Tripathy BC (2024) Co-overexpression of SWEET sucrose transporters modulates sucrose synthesis and defence responses to enhance immunity against bacterial blight in rice. Plant, Cell & Environment 47: 2578-2596.

  92. Singh K, Gupta S and Singh AP (2024) Review: Nutrient-nutrient interactions governing underground plant adaptation strategies in a heterogeneous environment. Plant Science 342: 112024.

  93. Singh P, Kumari A, Khaladhar VC, Singh N, Pathak PK, Kumar V, Kumar RJ, Jain P, Thakur JK, Fernie AR, Bauwe H, Raghavendra AS and Gupta KJ (2024) Serine hydroxymethyltransferase6 is involved in growth and resistance against pathogens via ethylene and lignin production in Arabidopsis. Plant Journal 119: 1920-1936.

  94. Singh V, Kumar P, Pandey A, Hallan V and Pati PK (2024) Functional characterization of WsPR-1 reveals its interplay with cytokinin and gibberellin signaling pathways. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 278: 134691.

  95. Sinha A, Narula K, Bhola L, Sengupta A, Choudhary P, Nalwa P, Kumar M, Elagamey E, Chakraborty N and Chakraborty S (2024) Proteomic signatures uncover phenotypic plasticity of susceptible and resistant genotypes by wall remodelers in rice blast. Plant, Cell & Environment47: 3846-3864.

  96. Srivastava D, Ghosh AK, Ranjan A and Sinharoy S (2024) Genome sequencing of Mesorhizobium Spp. NI-7, an efficient nitrogen-fixing microsymbiont of chickpea with potential to unravel the molecular mechanisms of symbiotic nitrogen fixation in legumes. Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology 33: 607-614.

  97. Swain SP, Ahamad S, Samarth N, Singh S, Gupta D and Kumar S (2024) In silico studies of alkaloids and their derivatives against N-acetyltransferase EIS protein from Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics 42: 10950-10964.

  98. Thakro V, Varshney N, Malik N, Daware A, Srivastava R, Mohanty JK, Basu U, Narnoliya L, Jha UC, Tripathi S, Tyagi AK and Parida SK (2024) Functional allele of a MATE gene selected during domestication modulates seed color in chickpea. Plant Journal 117: 53-71.

  99. Tiwari R, Garg K, Senthil-Kumar M and Bisht NC (2024) XLG2 and CORI3 function additively to regulate plant defense against the necrotrophic pathogen Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. Plant Journal 117: 616-631.

  100. Tyagi K, Chandan RK, Sahoo D, Ghosh S, Gupta SK and Jha G (2024) The host and pathogen myo-inositol-1-phosphate synthases are required for Rhizoctonia solani AG1-IA infection in tomato. Molecular Plant Pathology 25: e13470.

  101. Tyagi S, Shumayla, Singh S, Pandey A and Upadhyay SK (2024) TaCCS1-B expression modulates copper, enzymatic antioxidants and polyphenols contents and provides abiotic stress tolerance in transgenic Arabidopsis. Physiologia Plantarum 176: e14645.

  102. Vashisth V, Sharma G, Giri J, Sharma AK and Tyagi AK (2024) Rice A20/AN1 protein, OsSAP10, confers water-deficit stress tolerance via proteasome pathway and positive regulation of ABA signaling in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell Reports 43: 215.

  103. Verma N, Singh D, Mittal L, Banerjee G, Noryang S and Sinha AK (2024) MPK4-mediated phosphorylation of PHYTOCHROME INTERACTING FACTOR4 controls thermosensing by regulating histone variant H2A.Z deposition. Plant Cell 36: 4535-4556.

  104. Vivek AT and Kumar S (2024) Identification of virus-derived small interfering RNAs (vsiRNAs) from infected sRNA-Seq samples. Methods in Molecular Biology 2812: 307-315.

  105. Vivek AT, Arya A, Swain SP and Kumar S (2024) athisomiRDB: A comprehensive database of Arabidopsis isomiRs. Database 2024: baae115.

  106. Yadav G, Hegde S, Kumari R, Kumari N, Murray-Rust P and Worthington S (2024) The #semantic climate community: making open-source software for knowledge liberation. ALIS 71: 480-495.

  107. Yadav G, Munshi A, Kumari R, Singh D, Kumari N and Munshi UM (2024) AI & ethics: charting a responsible future. ALIS 71: 496-505.

  108. Yadav OP, Singh DV, Kumari V, Prasad M, Seni S, Singh RK, Sood S, Kant L, Rao BD, Madhusudhana R, Bhat BV, Gupta SK, Yadava DK and Mohapatra T (2024) Production and cultivation dynamics of millets in India. Crop Science 64: 2459-2484.

Book Chapter:
  1. Chhatwal H, Singh S and Pandey A (2024) Hotspots associated with climate change and food security risks. In: Mondal S, Singh P, Singh RL (eds), Climate Change and Food Security, Chapter 6. CABI, UK, pp 111-123.

  2. Dixit S, Shukla A, Pawar M and Vadassery J (2024) Cas variants increased the dimension of the CRISPR tool kit. In: Upadhyay SK (eds), Applications of Genome Engineering in Plants, Chapter 3. John Wiley & Sons Ltd., pp 40-51.

  3. Gandhi N and Singh AP (2024) Molecular approaches for improving nutritional quality in crops. In: Prakash A, Kuila A (eds), Nonthermal Food Processing, Safety, and Preservation, Chapter 22. John Wiley & Sons Ltd., pp 449-477.

  4. Gayacharan, Parida SK, Singh AK, Chattopadhyay D, Joshi DC and Katna G (2024) Rice bean (Vigna umbellata (Thunb.) Ohwi & Ohashi). In: Chandora R, Basavaraja T, Pratap A (eds), Potential Pulses: Genetic and Genomic Resources, Chapter 6. CABI, UK, pp 100-115.

  5. Gupta S, Devi LL and Singh AP (2024) Plant growth coordination during stress conditions: Role of phytohormones. In: Ahanger MA, Bhat JA, Ahmad P, John R (eds), Improving Stress Resilience in Plants, Chapter 12. Academic Press, pp 249-275.

  6. Meena MK (2024) Regulating postharvest pathogen infection and decay using biotechnological tools. In: Irfan M, Kumar P (eds), Bioengineered Fruit and Vegetables: Trends in Postharvest Quality Improvement. CRC Press (Apple Academic Press), USA, pp 135-161.

  7. Pandey A, Singh K and Singh AP (2024) Nitrogen forms and their availability-dependent root developmental adaptation in plants. In: Ahanger MA, Bhat JA, Ahmad P, John R (eds), Improving Stress Resilience in Plants, Chapter 6. Academic Press, pp 97-117.

  8. Pawar M, Dixit S and Vadassery J (2024) Plant protease inhibitors: Biological roles and applications in plant stress tolerance. In: Upadhyay SK (eds), Defense-Related Proteins in Plants, Chapter 7. Academic Press, pp 205-222.

  9. Shekhawat PK, Ram H and Soni P (2024) Genome editing for nutritional improvement of crops. In: Upadhyay SK (eds), Applications of Genome Engineering in Plants, Chapter 7. John Wiley & Sons Ltd., pp 122-152.

  10. Singh S, Chhatwal H and Pandey A (2024) Climate change impact on human health. In: Mondal S, Singh P, Singh RL (eds), Climate Change and Food Security, Chapter 9. CABI, UK, pp 157-172.
List of Publications (2023)
Research Articles:
  1. Achary RK and Majee M (2023) CONSTANS, a key-player connecting day length to seed size. Trends in Plant Science 28: 975-977.

  2. Agrawal R, Singh A, Giri J, Magyar Z and Thakur JK (2023) MEDIATOR SUBUNIT17 is required for transcriptional optimization of root system architecture in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology 192: 1548-1568.

  3. Ankit A, Singh A, Kumar S and Singh A (2023) Morphophysiological and transcriptome analysis reveal that reprogramming of metabolism, phytohormones and root development pathways governs the potassium (K+) deficiency response in two contrasting chickpea cultivars. Frontiers in Plant Science 13: 1054821.

  4. Banerjee G, Singh D, Pandey C, Jonwal S, Basu U, Parida SK, Pandey A and Sinha AK (2023) Rice Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase regulates serotonin accumulation and interacts with cell cycle regulators under prolonged UV-B exposure. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 203: 108078.

  5. Bandyopadhyay T, Singh RK, Ramesh P, Maurya J and Prasad M (2023) The promise of millets in the twenty-first century: emphasis on breeding, nutrition, food security and sustainability. Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition 23: 628-637.

  6. Bansal S, Sundararajan S, Shekhawat PK, Singh S, Soni P, Tripathy MK and Ram H (2023) Rice lipases: a conundrum in rice bran stabilization: a review on their impact and biotechnological interventions. Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants 29: 985-1003.

  7. Basu U and Parida SK (2023) The developmental dynamics in cool season legumes with focus on chickpea. Plant Molecular Biology 111: 473-491.

  8. Basu U and Parida SK (2023) Restructuring plant types for developing tailor-made crops. Plant Biotechnology Journal 21: 1106-1122.

  9. Bhadouria J, Mehra P, Verma L, Pazhamala LT, Rumi R, Panchal P, Sinha AK and Giri J (2023) Root-expressed rice PAP3b enhances secreted APase activity and helps utilize organic phosphate. Plant and Cell Physiology 64: 501-518.

  10. Bishnoi A, Jangir P, Shekhawat PK, Ram H and Soni P (2023) Silicon supplementation as a promising approach to induce thermotolerance in plants: current understanding and future perspectives. Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition 23: 34-55.

  11. Borrowman S, Gupta JK and Loake GJ (2023) Expanding roles for S-nitrosylation in the regulation of plant immunity. Free Radical Biology and Medicine 194: 357-368.

  12. Chakraborty A, Junaid A, Parida SK and Bhatia S (2023) Integrated genomic approaches delineate the novel role of ROP1 ENHANCER1 in regulating seed protein content of chickpea. Journal of Experimental Botany 74: 817-834.

  13. Chakraborty S, Gangwar R, Zahra S, Poddar N, Singh A and Kumar S (2023) Genome-wide characterization and comparative analysis of the OSCA gene family and identification of its potential stress-responsive members in legumes. Scientific Reports 13: 5914.

  14. Chatterjee Y, Bhowal B, Gupta KJ, Pareek A and Singla-Pareek SL (2023) Lactate dehydrogenase superfamily in rice and Arabidopsis: Understanding the molecular evolution and structural diversity. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 24: 5900.

  15. Chandan RK, Kumar R, Swain DM, Ghosh S, Bhagat PK, Patel S, Bagler G, Sinha AK and Jha G (2023) RAV1 family members function as transcriptional regulators and play a positive role in plant disease resistance. Plant Journal 114: 39-54.

  16. Chandan RK, Kumar R, Kabyashree K, Yadav SK, Roy M, Swain DM and Jha G (2023) A prophage tail-like protein facilitates the endophytic growth of Burkholderia gladioli and mounting immunity in tomato. New Phytologist 240: 1202-1218.

  17. Chaliha C, Srivastava R, Kalita E, Sahoo L and Verma PK (2023) Rapid and precise detection of cryptic tea pathogen Exobasidium vexans: RealAmp validation of LAMP approach. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology 39: 52.

  18. Chilakala AR, Pandey P, Durgadevi A, Kandpal M, Patil BS, Rangappa K, Reddy PCO, Ramegowda V and Senthil-Kumar M (2023) Drought attenuates plant responses to multiple rhizospheric pathogens: A study on a dry root rot-associated disease complex in chickpea fields. Field Crops Research 298: 108965.

  19. Choudhary A and Senthil-Kumar M (2023) The war for apoplastic water: stomatal control as a key strategy in bacterial pathogenesis. Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology 32: 8-11.

  20. Chaurasia S, Sapna S, Padhy AK and Bhatia S (2023) Emerging roles of melatonin in mitigating salinity stress of legumes. South African Journal of Botany 163: 181-190.

  21. Chouhan N, Marriboina S, Kumari A, Singh P, Yadav RM, Gupta KJ and Subramanyam R (2023) Metabolomic response to high light from pgrl1 and pgr5 mutants of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences 22: 2635-2650.

  22. Das J, Kumar R, Yadav SK and Jha G (2023) Nicotinic acid catabolism modulates bacterial mycophagy in Burkholderia gladioli strain NGJ1. Microbiology Spectrum 11: e0445722.

  23. Das JR and Mathur S (2023) HSFA1a: the quarterback of heat stress response and 3D-chromatin organization. Trends in Plant Science 28: 1198-1200.

  24. Fatima U, Balasubramaniam D, Khan WA, Kandpal M, Vadassery J, Arockiasamy A and Senthil-Kumar M (2023) AtSWEET11 and AtSWEET12 transporters function in tandem to modulate sugar flux in plants. Plant Direct 7: e481.

  25. Francis A, Ghosh S, Tyagi K, Prakasam V, Rani M, Singh NP, Pradhan A, Sundaram RM, Priyanka C, Laha GS, Kannan C, Prasad MS, Chattopadhyay D and Jha G (2022) Evolution of pathogenicity-associated genes in Rhizoctonia solani AG1-IA by genome duplication and transposon-mediated gene function alterations. BMC Biology 21: 15.

  26. Francis A, Singh NP, Singh M, Sharma P, Gayacharan, Kumar D, Basu U, Bajaj D, Varshney N, Joshi DC, Semwal DP, Tyagi V, Wankhede D, Bharadwaj R, Singh AK, Parida SK and Chattopadhyay D (2023) The ricebean genome provides insight into Vigna genome evolution and facilitates genetic enhancement. Plant Biotechnology Journal 21: 1522-1524.

  27. Gayacharan, Parida SK, Mondal N, Yadav R, Vishwakarma H and Rana JC (2023) Mining legume germplasm for genetic gains: An Indian perspective. Frontiers in Genetics 14: 996828.

  28. Ghosh S and Jha G (2023) Editorial: Utilization of microbiome to develop disease resistance in crop plants against phytopathogens. Frontiers in Plant Science 14: 1204896.

  29. Ghosh S and Majee M (2022) Protein l-isoAspartyl Methyltransferase (PIMT) and antioxidants in plants. Vitamins and Hormones 121: 413-432.

  30. Gupta SK, Vishwakarma NK, Malakar P, Vanspati P, Sharma NK and Chattopadhyay D (2023) Development of an Agrobacterium-delivered codon-optimized CRISPR/Cas9 system for chickpea genome editing. Protoplasma 260: 1437-1451.

  31. Halder K, Chaudhuri A, Abdin MZ and Datta A (2023) Tweaking the small non-coding RNAs to improve desirable traits in plant. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 24: 3143.

  32. Jaiswal D, Kumar U, Gaur V and Salunke DM (2023) Epitope-directed anti-SARS-CoV-2 scFv engineered against the key spike protein region could block membrane fusion. Protein Science 32: e4575.

  33. Jaiswal M, Singh A and Kumar S (2023) PTPAMP: prediction tool for plant-derived antimicrobial peptides. Amino Acids 55: 1-17.

  34. Jan S, Kumar S, Yousuf M, Shafi S, Majid R, Khan MA, Jeelani F, Shikari AB, Kaur S, Kumar S, Kalia S, Singh K, Prasad M, Varshney RK and Mir RR (2023) Do diverse wheat genotypes unleash their biochemical arsenal differentially to conquer cold stress? A comprehensive study in the Western Himalayas. Physiologia Plantarum 175: e14069.

  35. Jha, UC, Nayyar H, Parida SK, Beena R, Pang J and Siddique KHM (2023) Breeding and genomics approaches for improving phosphorus-use efficiency in grain legumes. Environmental and Experimental Botany 205: 105120.

  36. Jha UC, Nayyar H, Roychowdhury R, Prasad PVV, Parida SK and Siddique KHM (2023) Non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) in plant: Master regulators for adapting to extreme temperature conditions. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 205: 108164.

  37. Jonwal S, Rengasamy B and Sinha AK (2023) Regulation of photosynthesis by mitogen-activated protein kinase in rice: antagonistic adjustment by OsMPK3 and OsMPK6. Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants 29: 1247-1259.

  38. Kaushal N, Verma D, Alok A, Pandey A and Singh K (2023) Heterologous expression of Chlorophytum borivilianum Squalene epoxidase in tobacco modulates stigmasterol production and alters vegetative and reproductive growth. Plant Cell Reports 42: 909-919.

  39. Kumari A, Kaladhar VC, Yadav N, Singh P, Reddy K and Gupta KJ (2023) Nitric oxide regulates mitochondrial biogenesis in plants. Plant, Cell & Environment 46: 2492-2506.

  40. Kumar S, Kumar S, Mir MA, Vishnoi VK, Pandey A and Pandey A (2023) Bioefficacy of Sida cordifolia L. phytoextract against foodborne bacteria: optimization and bioactive compound analysis. Future Microbiology 18: 1235-1249.

  41. Kumar S, Jeevaraj T, Yunus MH, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2023) The plant cytoskeleton takes center stage in abiotic stress responses and resilience. Plant, Cell & Environment 46: 5-22.

  42. Kumar U, Goyal P, Madni ZK, Kamble K, Gaur V, Rajala MS and Salunke DM (2023) A structure and knowledge-based combinatorial approach to engineering universal scFv antibodies against influenza M2 protein. Journal of Biomedical Science 30: 56.

  43. Kumar V, Goyal N, Prasad A, Babu S, Khare K and Yadav G (2023) Quantification of pollen viability in Lantana camara by digital holographic microscopy. Quantitative Plant Biology 4: e7.

  44. Lu L, Holt A, Chen X, Liu Y, Knauer S, Tucker EJ, Sarkar AK, Hao Z, Roodbarkelari F, Shi J, Chen J and Laux T (2023) miR394 enhances WUSCHEL-induced somatic embryogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana. New Phytologist 238: 1059-1072.

  45. Mahtha SK, Kumari K, Gaur V and Yadav G (2023) Cavity architecture based modulation of ligand binding tunnels in plant START domains. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal 21: 3946-3963.

  46. Majumdar S, Kaur H, Rinella MJ, Kundu A, Vadassery J, Erbilgin N, Callaway RM, Cadotte MW and Inderjit (2023) Synergistic effects of canopy chemistry and autogenic soil biota on a global invader. Journal of Ecology 111: 1497-1513.

  47. Malhotra B, Kumar P and Bisht NC (2023) Defense versus growth trade-offs: insights from glucosinolates and their catabolites. Plant, Cell & Environment 46: 2964-2984.

  48. Malik N, Basu U, Srivastava R, Daware A, Ranjan R, Sharma A, Thakro V, Mohanty JK, Jha UC, Tripathi S, Tyagi AK and Parida SK (2023) Natural alleles of Mediator subunit genes modulate plant height in chickpea. Plant Journal 116: 1271-1292.

  49. Manivannan A, Soundararajan P and Jeong BR (2023) Editorial: Silicon: A "Quasi-Essential" element's role in plant physiology and development. Frontiers in Plant Science 14: 1157185.

  50. Mahto A, Yadav A, P V A, Parida SK, Tyagi AK and Agarwal P (2023) Cytological, transcriptome and miRNome temporal landscapes decode enhancement of rice grain size. BMC Biology 21: 91.

  51. Mirchandani R, Irulappan V, Chilakala AR and Senthil-Kumar M (2023) Dry root rot disease: Current status and future implications for chickpea production. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences 93: 791-800.

  52. Mondal K, Tiwari M, Singh RK, Prasad M and Dey N (2023) Feeding the future: role of OsAUX5 in enhancing rice nutritional value. Plant Cell Reports 42: 1391-1393.

  53. Manna M, Rengasamy B and Sinha AK (2023) Revisiting the role of MAPK signalling pathway in plants and its manipulation for crop improvement. Plant, Cell & Environment 46: 2277-2295.

  54. Mann A, Kumari J, Kumar R, Kumar P, Pradhan AK, Pental D and Bisht NC (2023) Targeted editing of multiple homologues of GTR1 and GTR2 genes provides the ideal low-seed, high-leaf glucosinolate oilseed mustard with uncompromised defence and yield. Plant Biotechnology Journal 21: 2182-2195.

  55. Mirza Z, Jonwal S, Saini H, Sinha AK and Gupta M (2023) Unraveling the molecular aspects of iron-mediated OsWRKY76 signaling under arsenic stress in rice. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 204: 108136.

  56. Muthamilarasan M and Prasad M (2023) Editorial: Dissecting antinutrient traits using omics approaches. Frontiers in Plant Science 14: 1234245.

  57. Muthamilarasan M, Suresh BV, Singh RK, Choudhary P, Aggarwal PR and Prasad M (2023) Comparative transcriptome profiling of two contrasting foxtail millet cultivars provides insights into molecular mechanisms underlying dehydration stress response. Journal of Plant Growth Regulation 42: 6425-6443.

  58. Namgial T, Singh AK, Singh NP, Francis A, Chattopadhyay D, Voloudakis A and Chakraborty S (2023) Differential expression of genes during recovery of Nicotiana tabacum from tomato leaf curl Gujarat virus infection. Planta 258: 37.

  59. Ojha M, Verma D, Chakraborty N, Pal A, Bhagat PK, Singh A, Verma N, Sinha AK and Chattopadhyay S (2023) MKKK20 works as an upstream triple-kinase of MKK3-MPK6-MYC2 module in Arabidopsis seedling development. iScience 26: 106049.

  60. Pal G, Saxena S, Kumar K, Verma A, Kumar D, Shukla P, Pandey A and Verma SK (2023) Seed endophytic bacterium Bacillus velezensis and its lipopeptides acts as elicitors of defense responses against Fusarium verticillioides in maize seedlings. Plant and Soil 492: 109-124.

  61. Pal L, Dwivedi V, Gupta SK, Saxena S, Pandey A and Chattopadhyay D (2023) Biochemical analysis of anthocyanin and proanthocyanidin and their regulation in determining chickpea flower and seed coat colours. Journal of Experimental Botany 74: 130-148.

  62. Padhy AK, Kaur P, Singh B, Kaur R, Bhatia S, Shamshad M, Sharma H, Kaur S, Srivastava P and Sharma A (2023) In silico characterization of Thinopyrum elongatum-derived PsyE1 gene and validation in 7D/7E bread wheat introgression lines open avenues for carotenoid biofortification in wheat. Cereal Research Communications 51: 75-85.

  63. Panchal A, Maurya J, Seni S, Singh RK and Prasad M (2023) An insight into the roles of regulatory ncRNAs in plants: An abiotic stress and developmental perspective. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 201: 107823.

  64. Panchal A, Singh RK and Prasad M (2023) Recent advancements and future perspectives of foxtail millet genomics. Plant Growth Regulation 99: 11-23.

  65. Panchal P, Bhatia C, Chen Y, Sharma M, Bhadouria J, Verma L, Maurya K, Miller AJ and Giri J (2023) A citrate efflux transporter important for manganese distribution and phosphorus uptake in rice. Plant Journal 116: 1748-1765.

  66. Pazhamala LT and Giri J (2023) Plant phosphate status influences root biotic interactions. Journal of Experimental Botany 74: 2829-2844.

  67. Prasad A, Sharma S and Prasad M (2023) Post translational modifications at the verge of plant-geminivirus interaction. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms 1866: 194983.

  68. Prasad A, Sharma S and Prasad M (2023) Multihost compatibility of Fusarium oxysporum: early root colonization effectors into the action! Functional & Integrative Genomics 23: 208.

  69. Prasad A, Sharma S and Prasad M (2023) Suppressing plant defence: Scavenge the ROS!. Physiologia Plantarum 75: e13942.

  70. Priya P, Patil M, Pandey P, Singh A, Babu VS and Senthil-Kumar M (2023) Stress combinations and their interactions in plants database: a one-stop resource on combined stress responses in plants. Plant Journal 116: 1097-1117.

  71. Rajput R, Naik J, Misra P, Trivedi PK and Pandey A (2023) Gene pyramiding in transgenic plant development: Approaches and challenges. Journal of Plant Growth Regulation 42: 6038-6056.

  72. Thakro V, Malik N, Basu U, Srivastava R, Narnoliya L, Daware A, Varshney N, Mohanty JK, Bajaj D, Dwivedi V, Tripathi S, Jha UC, Dixit GP, Singh AK, Tyagi AK, Upadhyaya HD and Parida SK (2023) A superior gene allele involved in abscisic acid signaling enhances drought tolerance and yield in chickpea. Plant Physiology 191: 1884-1912.

  73. Saini H, Panthri M, Rout B, Pandey A and Gupta M (2023) Iono-metabolomic guided elucidation of arsenic induced physiological and metabolic dynamics in wheat genotypes. Environmental Pollution 333: 122040.

  74. Saxena H, Negi H, Keshan R, Chitkara P, Kumar S, Chakraborty A, Roy A, Singh IK and Singh A (2023) A comprehensive investigation of lipid-transfer proteins from Cicer arietinum disentangles their role in plant defense against Helicoverpa armigera-infestation. Frontiers in Genetics 14: 1195554.

  75. Saxena S, Pal G and Pandey A (2023) Functional characterization of 2-oxoglutarate-dependent dioxygenase gene family in chickpea. Plant Science 336: 111836.

  76. Saxena S, Pal L, Naik J, Singh Y, Verma PK, Chattopadhyay D and Pandey A (2023) The R2R3-MYB-SG7 transcription factor CaMYB39 orchestrates surface phenylpropanoid metabolism and pathogen resistance in chickpea. New Phytologist 238: 798-816.

  77. Seni S, Singh RK and Prasad M (2023) Dynamics of epigenetic control in plants via SET domain containing proteins: Structural and functional insights. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms 1866: 194966.

  78. Sharma A, Sinharoy S and Bisht NC (2023) The mysterious non-arbuscular mycorrhizal status of Brassicaceae species. Environmental Microbiology 25: 917-930.

  79. Sharma S, Prasad A and Prasad M (2023) Ubiquitination from the perspective of plant pathogens. Journal of Experimental Botany 74: 4367-4376.

  80. Sharma S, Prasad A and Prasad M (2023) Osmosensing in plants: mystery unveiled. Trends in Plant Science 28: 740-742.

  81. Sharma D, Singh D, Singh K, Dwivedi A, Ranjan A and Sinha AK (2023) Phosphorylation of PIF3 by MPK6 is required for coordinated regulation of miRNA biogenesis and hypocotyl elongation in Arabidopsis. Environmental and Experimental Botany 210: 105345.

  82. Sharma E and Majee M (2023) Seed germination variability: Why do genetically identical seeds not germinate at the same moment? Journal of Experimental Botany 74: 3462-3475.

  83. Sharma P, Goudar G, Kumar Chandragiri A, Ananthan R, Subhash K, Chauhan A, Longvah T, Singh M, Bhardwaj R, Parida SK, Singh AK, Gayacharan and Chattopadhyay D (2023) Assessment of diversity in anti-nutrient profile, resistant starch, minerals and carbohydrate components in different ricebean (Vigna umbellata) accessions. Food Chemistry 405: 134835.

  84. Sharma S and Prasad M (2023) FERONIA, the kinase that phosphorylates PhyB. Trends in Plant Science 28: 1086-1088.

  85. Sharma S, Sett S, Das T, Prasad A and Prasad M (2023) Recent perspective of non-coding RNAs at the nexus of plant-pathogen interaction. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 201: 107852.

  86. Sharma NK, Yadav S, Gupta SK, Irulappan V, Francis A, Senthil-Kumar M and Chattopadhyay D (2023) MicroRNA397 regulates tolerance to drought and fungal infection by regulating lignin deposition in chickpea root. Plant, Cell & Environment 46: 3501-3517.

  87. Shree A, Sinha M and Verma PK (2023) BAR domain is essential for early endosomal trafficking and dynamics in Ascochyta rabiei. 3 Biotech 13: 49.

  88. Shumayla, Tyagi S, Sharma Y, Madhu, Sharma A, Pandey A, Singh K and Upadhyay SK (2023) Expression of TaNCL2-A ameliorates cadmium toxicity by increasing calcium and enzymatic antioxidants activities in arabidopsis. Chemosphere 329: 138636.

  89. Sinha S, Sahadevan S, Ohno C, Ram H and Heisler MG (2023) Global gene regulatory network underlying miR165a in Arabidopsis shoot apical meristem. Scientific Reports 13: 22258.

  90. Singh A, AT Vivek, Gupta K, Sharma S and Kumar S (2023) Long non-coding RNA and microRNA landscape of two major domesticated cotton species. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal 21: 3032-3044.

  91. Singh B, Singh S, Mahato AK, Dikshit HK, Tripathi K and Bhatia S (2023) Delineation of novel genomic loci and putative candidate genes associated with seed iron and zinc content in lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.). Plant Science 335: 111787.

  92. Singh G, Ambreen H, Jain P, Chakraborty A, Singh B, Manivannan A and Bhatia S (2023) Comparative transcriptomic and metabolite profiling reveals genotype-specific responses to Fe starvation in chickpea. Physiologia Plantarum 175: e13897.

  93. Singh D, Banerjee G, Verma N and Sinha AK (2023) MAP kinases may mediate regulation of the cell cycle in rice by E2F2 phosphorylation. FEBS Letters 597: 2993-3009.

  94. Singh J and Verma PK (2023) Role of Nod factor receptors and its allies involved in nitrogen fixation. Planta 257: 54.

  95. Singh J, Das S, Kapuganti JG, Ranjan A, Foyer CH and Thakur JK (2023) Physiological implications of SWEETs in plants and their potential applications in improving source-sink relationships for enhanced yield. Plant Biotechnology Journal 21: 1528-1541.

  96. Singh KBM and Thakur JK (2023) Endosperm ontogeny through the lens of epigenetics. Molecular Plant 16: 295-297.

  97. Singh N, Chattopadhyay D and Gupta SK (2023) Updating the impact of drought on root exudation: A strigolactones perspective. Journal of Plant Growth Regulation 42: 5131-5151.

  98. Singh R, Pandey A and Verma PK (2023) Comparative genomic analysis of GARP transcription factor family in legumes and identification of stress-responsive candidate genes. Journal of Plant Growth Regulation 42: 6005-6020.

  99. Singh S, Chaudhary C, Bharsakale RD, Gazal S, Verma L, Tarannum Z, Behere GT, Giri J, Germain H, Ghosh DK, Sharma AK and Chauhan H (2023) PRpnp, a novel dual activity PNP family protein improves plant vigor and confers multiple stress tolerance in Citrus aurantifolia. Plant Biotechnology Journal 21: 726-741.

  100. Singh S, Gaur A, Sharma RK, Kumari R, Prakash S, Kumari S, Chaudhary AD, Prasun P, Pant P, Hunkler H, Thum T, Jagavelu K, Bharati P, Hanif K, Chitkara P, Kumar S, Mitra K and Gupta SK (2023) Musashi-2 causes cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure by inducing mitochondrial dysfunction through destabilizing Cluh and Smyd1 mRNA. Basic Research in Cardiology 118: 46.

  101. Singh SK, Shree A, Verma S, Singh K, Kumar K, Srivastava V, Singh R, Saxena S, Singh AP, Pandey A and Verma PK (2023) The nuclear effector ArPEC25 from the necrotrophic fungus Ascochyta rabiei targets the chickpea transcription factor CaβLIM1a and negatively modulates lignin biosynthesis, increasing host susceptibility. Plant Cell 35: 1134-1159.

  102. Tyagi S, Shumayla, Sharma Y, Madhu, Sharma A, Pandey A, Singh K and Upadhyay SK (2023) TaGPX1-D overexpression provides salinity and osmotic stress tolerance in Arabidopsis. Plant Science 337: 111881.

  103. Ramesh P, Singh RK, Panchal A and Prasad M (2023) 5M approach to decipher starch-lipid interaction in minor millets. Plant Cell Reports 42: 461-464.

  104. Shah WH, Rasool A, Padder SA, Singh RK, Prasad M, Tahir I, Rehman R and Hakeem KR (2023) Decarboxylation mechanisms of the C4 cycle in foxtail millet observed under salt and selenium treatments. Plant Growth Regulation 99: 65-83.

  105. Sharma Y, Soni P, Raturi G, Mandlik R, Rachappanavar VK, Kumar M, Tripathi DK, Salvi P, Ram H and Deshmukh R (2023) Regulation of metalloid uptake in plants by transporters and their solute specificity. Environmental and Experimental Botany 206: 105180.

  106. Shekhawat PK, Sardar S, Yadav B, Salvi P, Soni P and Ram H (2023) Meta-analysis of transcriptomics studies identifies novel attributes and set of genes involved in iron homeostasis in rice. Functional & Integrative Genomics 23: 336.

  107. Varshney V, Hazra A and Majee M (2023) Phy meets ERFs to regulate seed germination. Trends in Plant Science 28: 7-9.

  108. Varshney V, Hazra A, Rao V, Ghosh S, Kamble NU, Achary RK, Gautam S and Majee M (2023) The Arabidopsis F-box protein SKP1-INTERACTING PARTNER 31 modulates seed maturation and seed vigor by targeting JASMONATE ZIM DOMAIN proteins independently of jasmonic acid-isoleucine. The Plant Cell 35: 3712-3738.

  109. Varshney V and Majee M (2023) Seed's Awakening: Unveiling the MKK3-MPK7-ERF4 module in dormancy-to-germination transition. Molecular Plant 16: 1730-1732.

  110. Varshney V, Hazra A and Majee M (2023) Identification, genomic organization, and comprehensive expression analysis reveals the implication of Cicer arietinum SKP1-like genes in abiotic stress. Journal of Plant Growth Regulation 42: 6074-6090.

  111. Waseem M, Das S, Mondal D, Jain M, Thakur JK and Subbarao N (2023) Identification of novel inhibitors against Med15a KIX domain of Candida glabrata. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 253: 126720.

  112. Waseem M, Thakur JK and Subbarao N (2023) Prediction of novel and potent inhibitors of lanosterol 14-ɑ: demethylase. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics 41: 5744-5756.

  113. Wei H, Kong S, Jayaraman V, Selvaraj D, Soundararajan P and Manivannan A (2023) Mentha arvensis and Mentha * piperita-vital herbs with myriads of pharmaceutical benefits. Horticulturae 9: 224.

  114. Yadav B, Majhi A, Phagna K, Meena MK and Ram H (2023) Negative regulators of grain yield and mineral contents in rice: potential targets for CRISPR-Cas9-mediated genome editing. Functional & Integrative Genomics 23: 317.

  115. Yadav RK, Analin B, Panda MK, Ranjan A and Singh AP (2023) Brassinosteroids-regulated nitrogen metabolism fine-tunes growth physiology and low nitrogen response in tomato. Environmental and Experimental Botany 216: 105528.

  116. Yadav VK, Jalmi SK, Tiwari S and Kerkar S (2023) Deciphering shared attributes of plant long non-coding RNAs through a comparative computational approach. Scientific Reports 13: 15101.

  117. Yadav S and Chattopadhyay D (2023) Lignin: the building block of defense responses to stress in plants. Journal of Plant Growth Regulation 42: 6652-6666.

  118. Zahra S, Singh A and Kumar S (2023) tncRNA Toolkit: A pipeline for convenient identification of RNA (tRNA)-derived non-coding RNAs. MethodsX 10: 101991.

Book Chapter:
  1. Ankit A, Kamali S and Singh A (2023) Jasmonic acid biosynthesis pathway and its functional role in plants. In: Khan MIR, Singh A and Poor P (eds), Plant Hormones in Crop Improvement, Chapter 9. Elsevier B.V., pp 167-183.

  2. Deepika D, Sonkar K and Singh A (2023) Regulation of plants nutrient deficiency responses by phytohormones. In: Khan MIR, Singh A and Poor P (eds), Plant Hormones in Crop Improvement, Chapter 7. Elsevier B.V., pp 129-145.

  3. Kundu P, Bera P, Mishra S and Vadassery J (2023) Regulatory role of phytohormones in the interaction of plants with insect herbivores. In: Khan MIR, Singh A and Poor P (eds), Plant Hormones in Crop Improvement, Chapter 3. Elsevier B.V., pp 41-64.

  4. Maurya J, Singh RK and Prasad M (2023) Biotechnological strategies to generate climate-smart crops: Recent advances and way forward. In: Ansari MW, Singh AK, Tuteja N (eds), Global Climate Change and Plant Stress Management, Chapter 17. John Wiley & Sons Ltd., pp 241-261.

  5. Pramitha L, Choudhary P, Rana S, Singh RK, Das P, Sharma S, Rajasekaran R, Prasad M and Muthamilarasan M (2023) Foxtail millet (Setaria italica L.): a model for small millets. In: Farooq M and Siddique KHM (eds), Neglected and Underutilized Crops: Future Smart Food, Chapter 12. Elsevier B.V., pp 305-324.

  6. Sharma M and Laxmi A (2023) Deciphering the physiological and molecular functions of phytohormones. In: Khan MIR, Singh A and Poor P (eds), Plant Hormones in Crop Improvement, Chapter 2. Elsevier B.V., pp 15-40.

  7. Sharma M, Saksena HB, Botta HK and Laxmi A (2023) Understanding the role of phytohormones in governing heat, cold, and freezing stress response. In: Khan MIR, Singh A and Poor P (eds), Plant Hormones in Crop Improvement, Chapter 11. Elsevier B.V., pp 205-234.

  8. Shilpha J, Manivannan A, Soundararajan P and Jeong BR (2023) Heat stress mitigation by silicon nutrition in plants: A comprehensive overview. In: de Mello Prado R (eds), Benefits of Silicon in the Nutrition of Plants. Springer, Cham., pp 329-346.

  9. Singh B, Padhy AK, Ambreen H, Yadav M, Bhardwaj S, Singh G, Pandey V, Chakraborty A and Bhatia S (2023) Understanding abiotic stress responses in lentil under changing climate regimes. In: Jha UC, Nayyar H, Agrawal SK, Siddique KHM (eds), Developing Climate Resilient Grain and Forage Legumes. Springer, Singapore, pp 179-204.

  10. Sonkar K and Singh A (2023) Phospholipase-mediated regulation of plant's response to nutrient deficiency. In: Chakraborti S (eds), Phospholipases in Physiology and Pathology, Volume 1, Chapter 20. Elsevier B.V., pp 375-386.

  11. Yadav RK, Devi LL and Singh AP (2023) Brassinosteroids in plant growth and development. In: Khan MIR, Singh A and Poor P (eds), Plant Hormones in Crop Improvement, Chapter 10. Elsevier B.V., pp 185-203.
List of Publications (2022)
Research Articles:
  1. Agrawal R, Sharma M, Dwivedi N, Maji S, Thakur P, Junaid A, Fajkus J, Laxmi A and Thakur JK (2022) MEDIATOR SUBUNIT17 integrates jasmonate and auxin signaling pathways to regulate thermomorphogenesis. Plant Physiology 189: 2259-2280.

  2. Aggarwal PR, Pramitha L, Choudhary P, Singh RK, Shukla P, Prasad M and Muthamilarasan M (2022) Multi-omics intervention in Setaria to dissect climate-resilient traits: Progress and prospects. Frontiers in Plant Science 13: 892736.

  3. Agarwal Y, Shukla B, Manivannan A and Soundararajan P (2022) Paradigm and framework of WUS-CLV feedback loop in stem cell niche for SAM maintenance and cell identity transition. Agronomy 12: 3132.

  4. Ankit A, Kamali S and Singh A (2022) Genomic & structural diversity and functional role of potassium (K+) transport proteins in plants. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 208: 844-857.

  5. Ansari S, Kumar V, Bhatt DN, Irfan M and Datta A (2022) N-acetylglucosamine sensing and metabolic engineering for attenuating human and plant pathogens. Bioengineering 9: 64.

  6. Arora H, Singh RK, Sharma S, Sharma N, Panchal A, Das T, Prasad A and Prasad M (2022) DNA methylation dynamics in response to abiotic and pathogen stress in plants. Plant Cell Reports 41:1931-1944.

  7. Basu U, Sharma A, Bajaj D, Malik N, Jha UC, Upadhyaya HD and Parida SK (2022) The DNA replication, repair, and recombination pathway genes modulating yield and stress tolerance traits in chickpea. Plant Molecular Biology Reporter 40: 119-135.

  8. Bandyopadhyay T, Swarbreck SM, Jaiswal V, Maurya J, Gupta R, Bentley AR, Griffiths H and Prasad M (2022) GWAS identifies genetic loci underlying nitrogen responsiveness in the climate resilient C4 model Setaria italica (L.). Journal of Advanced Research 42: 249-261.

  9. Bhattacharjee O, Raul B, Ghosh A, Bhardwaj A, Bandyopadhyay K and Sinharoy S (2022) Nodule INception (NIN)-independent epidermal events lead to bacterial entry during nodule development in peanut (Arachis hypogaea). New Phytologist 236: 2265-2281.

  10. Basu U, Hegde VS, Daware A, Jha UC and Parida SK (2022) Transcriptome landscape of early inflorescence developmental stages identifies key flowering time regulators in chickpea. Plant Molecular Biology 108: 565-583.

  11. Bhagat PK, Sharma D, Verma D, Singh K and Sinha AK (2022) Arabidopsis MPK3 and MPK6 regulates D-Glucose signaling and interacts with G-Protein, RGS1. Plant Science 325: 111484.

  12. Bhagat PK, Verma D, Singh K, Badmi R, Sharma D and Sinha AK (2022) Dynamic phosphorylation of miRNA biogenesis factor HYL1 by MPK3 involving nuclear-cytoplasmic shuttling and protein stability in Arabidopsis. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 23: 3787.

  13. Bhagat N, Magotra S, Gupta R, Sharma S, Verma S, Verma PK, Ali T, Shree A and Vakhlu J (2022) Invasion and colonization of pathogenic Fusarium oxysporum R1 in Crocus sativus L. during corm rot disease progression. Journal of Fungi 8: 1246.

  14. Bhadouria J and Giri J (2022) Purple acid phosphatases: roles in phosphate utilization and new emerging functions. Plant Cell Reports 41: 33-51

  15. Chaudhuri A, Halder K, Abdin MZ, Majee M and Datta A (2022) Abiotic stress tolerance in plants: Brassinosteroids navigate competently. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 23: 14577.

  16. Chaudhuri A, Halder K and Datta A (2022) Classification of CRISPR/Cas system and its application in tomato breeding. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 135: 367-387.

  17. Chauhan S, Yadav G and Babu S (2022) Ecological networks in urban forest fragments reveal species associations between native and invasive plant communities. Plants (Basel) 11: 541.

  18. Chakraborty S, Soudararajan P and Kumar S (2022) Genome-wide identification, characterization, and expression profiling of 14-3-3 genes in legumes. Plant Biotechnology Reports 16: 579-597.

  19. Chilakala AR, Mali KV, Irulappan V, Patil BS, Pandey P, Rangappa K, Ramegowda V, Kumar MN, Puli COR, Mohan-Raju B and Senthil-Kumar M (2022) Combined drought and heat stress influences the root water relation and determine the dry root rot disease development under field conditions: A study using contrasting chickpea genotypes. Frontiers in Plant Science 13: 890551.

  20. Chitkara P, Poddar N, Singh A and Kumar S (2022) BURP domain-containing genes in legumes: genome-wide identification, structure, and expression analysis under stresses and development. Plant Biotechnology Reports 16: 369-388.

  21. Choudhary A and Senthil-Kumar M (2022) Drought attenuates plant defence against bacterial pathogens by suppressing the expression of CBP60g/SARD1 during combined stress. Plant, Cell & Environment 45: 1127-1145.

  22. Das J, Kumar R, Yadav SK and Jha G (2022) The alternative sigma factors, rpoN1 and rpoN2 are required for mycophagous activity of Burkholderia gladioli strain NGJ1. Environmental Microbiology 24: 2781-2796.

  23. Deb D, Basak S, Kar T, Narsaria U, Castiglione F, Paul A, Pandey A and Srivastava AP (2022) Immunoinformatics based designing a multi-epitope vaccine against pathogenic Chandipura vesiculovirus. Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 123: 322-346

  24. Deepika D, Ankit, Jonwal S, Mali KV, Sinha AK and Singh A (2022) Molecular analysis indicates the involvement of Jasmonic acid biosynthesis pathway in low-potassium (K+) stress response and development in chickpea (Cicer arietinum). Environmental and Experimental Botany194: 104753.

  25. Deepika D, Poddar N, Kumar S and Singh A (2022) Molecular characterization reveals the involvement of calcium dependent protein kinases in abiotic stress signaling and development in chickpea (Cicer arietinum). Frontiers in Plant Science 13: 831265.

  26. Deepika D and Singh A (2022) Plant phospholipase D: novel structure, regulatory mechanism, and multifaceted functions with biotechnological application. Critical Reviews in Biotechnology 42: 106-124.

  27. Daware A, Malik A, Srivastava R, Das D, Ellur RK, Singh AK, Tyagi AK and Parida SK (2022) Rice Pangenome Array (RPGA): an efficient genotyping solution for pangenome-based accelerated crop improvement in rice. Plant Journal 113: 26-46.

  28. Devi LL, Pandey A, Gupta S and Singh AP (2022) The interplay of auxin and brassinosteroid signaling tunes root growth under low and different nitrogen forms. Plant Physiology 189: 1757-1773.

  29. Devi P, Jha UC, Prakash V, Kumar S, Parida SK, Paul PJ, Prasad PVV, Sharma KD, Siddique KHM and Nayyar H (2022) Response of physiological, reproductive function and yield traits in cultivated chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) under heat stress. Frontiers in Plant Science 13: 880519.

  30. Fatima U, Anjali A and Senthil-Kumar M (2022) AtSWEET11 and AtSWEET12: the twin traders of sucrose. Trends in Plant Science 27: 958-960.

  31. Fonta JE, Giri J, Vejchasarn P, Lynch JP and Brown KM (2022) Spatiotemporal responses of rice root architecture and anatomy to drought. Plant and Soil 479: 443-464.

  32. Gani U, Nautiyal AK, Kundan M, Rout B, Pandey A and Misra P (2022) Two homeologous MATE transporter genes, NtMATE21 and NtMATE22, are involved in the modulation of plant growth and flavonol transport in Nicotiana tabacum. Journal of Experimental Botany 73: 6186-6206.

  33. Gour P, Kansal S, Agarwal P, Mishra BS, Sharma D, Mathur S and Raghuvanshi S (2022) Variety-specific transcript accumulation during reproductive stage in drought-stressed rice. Physiologia Plantarum 174: e13585.

  34. Gupta KJ, Kaladhar VC, Fitzpatrick TB, Fernie AR, Moller IM and Loake GJ (2022) Nitric oxide regulation of plant metabolism. Molecular Plant 15: 228-242.

  35. Halder K, Chaudhuri A, Abdin MZ, Majee M and Datta A (2022) Chromatin-based transcriptional reprogramming in plants under abiotic stresses. Plants (Basel) 11: 1449.

  36. Halder K, Chaudhuri A, Abdin MZ, Majee M and Datta A (2022) RNA interference for improving disease resistance in plants and its relevance in this clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats-dominated era in terms of dsRNA-based biopesticides. Frontiers in Plant Science 13: 885128.

  37. Hazra A, Varshney V, Verma P, Kamble NU, Ghosh S, Achary RK, Gautam S and Majee M (2022) Methionine sulfoxide reductase B5 plays a key role in preserving seed vigor and longevity in rice (Oryza sativa). New Phytologist 236: 1042-1060.

  38. Irfan M, Kumar P, Kumar V and Datta A (2022) Fruit ripening specific expression of β-D-N-acetylhexosaminidase (β-Hex) gene in tomato is transcriptionally regulated by Ethylene Response Factor SlERF.E4. Plant Science 323: 111380.

  39. Irulappan V, Kandpal M, Saini K, Rai A, Ranjan A, Sinharoy S and Senthil-Kumar M (2022) Drought stress exacerbates fungal colonization and endodermal invasion and dampens defense responses to increase dry root rot in chickpea. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 35: 583-591.

  40. Jalmi SK and Sinha AK (2022) Ambiguities of PGPR-induced plant signaling and stress management. Frontiers in Microbiology 13: 899563.

  41. Jamsheer KM, Awasthi P and Laxmi A (2022) The social network of target of rapamycin complex 1 in plants. Journal of Experimental Botany 73: 7026-7040.

  42. Jathar V, Saini K, Chauhan A, Rani R, Ichihashi Y and Ranjan A (2022) Spatial control of cell division by GA-OsGRF7/8 module in a leaf explains the leaf length variation between cultivated and wild rice. New Phytologist 234: 867-883.

  43. Jamsheer KM, Jindal S, Sharma M, Awasthi P, Sreejath S, Sharma M, Mannully CT and Laxmi A (2022) A negative feedback loop of TOR signaling balances growth and stress-response trade-offs in plants. Cell Reports 39: 110631.

  44. Jindal S, Kerchev P, Berka M, Cerny M, Botta HK, Laxmi A and Brzobohaty B (2022) Type-A response regulators negatively mediate heat stress response by altering redox homeostasis in Arabidopsis. Frontiers in Plant Science 13: 968139.

  45. Jha UC, Nayyar H, Parida SK, Deshmukh R, von Wettberg EJB and Siddique KHM (2022) Ensuring global food security by improving protein content in major grain legumes using breeding and 'Omics' tools. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 23: 7710.

  46. Jha UC, Nayyar H, Parida SK, Bakir M, von Wettberg EJB and Siddique KHM (2022) Progress of genomics-driven approaches for sustaining underutilized legume crops in the post-genomic era. Frontiers in Genetics 13: 831656.

  47. Jha UC, Sharma KD, Nayyar H, Parida SK and Siddique KHM (2022) Breeding and genomics interventions for developing ascochyta blight resistant grain legumes. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 23: 2217.

  48. Jonwal S, Verma N and Sinha AK (2022) Regulation of photosynthetic light reaction proteins via reversible phosphorylation. Plant Science 321: 111312.

  49. Karnati P, Gonuguntala R, Barbadikar KM, Mishra D, Jha G, Prakasham V, Chilumula P, Shaik H, Pesari M, Sundaram RM and Chinnaswami K (2022) Performance of novel antimicrobial protein Bg_9562 and in silico predictions on its properties with reference to its antimicrobial efficiency against Rhizoctonia solani. Antibiotics (Basel) 11: 363.

  50. Kamali S and Singh A (2022) Jasmonates as emerging regulators of plants response to variable nutrient environment. Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences 41: 271-285.

  51. Kamble NU, Ghosh S, Achary RK and Majee M (2022) Arabidopsis ABSCISIC ACID INSENSITIVE4 targets PROTEIN L-ISOASPARTYL METHYLTRANSFERASE1 in seed. Planta 256: 30.

  52. Kamble NU and Majee M (2022) ABI transcription factors and PROTEIN L-ISOASPARTYL METHYLTRANSFERASE module mediate seed desiccation tolerance and longevity in Oryza sativa. Development 149: dev200600.

  53. Kamble NU, Petla BP, Ghosh S, Achary RK and Majee M (2022) Oryza coarctata PROTEIN L-ISOASPARTYL METHYLTRANSFERASE (PIMT) repairs isoaspartyl modification to antioxidative enzymes and is implicated in seed traits in rice. Environmental and Experimental Botany 202: 105027.

  54. Kohli PS, Maurya K, Thakur JK, Bhosale R and Giri J (2022) Significance of root hairs in developing stress-resilient plants for sustainable crop production. Plant, Cell & Environment 45: 677-694.

  55. Kohli PS, Pazhamala LT, Mani B, Thakur JK and Giri J (2022) Root hair-specific transcriptome reveals response to low phosphorus in Cicer arietinum. Frontiers in Plant Science 13: 983969.

  56. Kumari A, Bhatoee M, Singh P, Kaladhar VC, Yadav N, Paul D, Loake GJ and Gupta KJ (2022) Detection of nitric oxide from chickpea using DAF fluorescence and chemiluminescence methods. Current Protocols 2: e420.

  57. Kumari P, Devi LL, Kumar A, Pandey A, Sinha SK and Singh AP (2022) Differential response of rice genotypes to nitrogen availability is associated with the altered nitrogen metabolism and ionomic balance. Environmental and Experimental Botany 198: 104847.

  58. Kumar R and Bisht NC (2022) Interacting partners of Brassica juncea regulator of G-protein signaling protein suggest its role in cell wall metabolism and cellular signaling. Bioscience Reports 42: BSR20220302.

  59. Kumar S, Lande NV, Barua P, Pareek A, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2022) Proteomic dissection of rice cytoskeleton reveals the dominance of microtubule and microfilament proteins, and novel components in the cytoskeleton-bound polysome. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 170: 75-86.

  60. Kumar S, Jacob SR, Mir RR, Vikas VK, Kulwal P, Chandra T, Kaur S, Kumar U, Kumar S, Sharma S, Singh R, Prasad S, Singh AM, Singh AK, Kumari J, Saharan MS, Bhardwaj SC, Prasad M, Kalia S and Singh K (2022) Indian wheat genomics initiative for harnessing the potential of wheat germplasm resources for breeding disease-resistant, nutrient-dense, and climate-resilient cultivars. Frontiers in Genetics 13: 834366.

  61. Kumar R, Reichelt M and Bisht NC (2022) An LC-MS/MS assay for enzymatic characterization of methylthioalkylmalate synthase (MAMS) involved in glucosinolate biosynthesis. Methods in Enzymology 676: 49-69.

  62. Kundu A and Vadassery J (2022) Molecular mechanisms of Piriformospora indica mediated growth promotion in plants. Plant Signaling & Behavior 17: e2096785.

  63. Kundu A, Mishra S, Kundu P, Jogawat A and Vadassery J (2022) Piriformospora indica recruits host-derived putrescine for growth promotion in plants. Plant Physiology 188: 2289-2307.

  64. Lakhwani D, Dhar YV, Singh S, Pandey A, Trivedi PK and Asif MH (2022) Genome wide identification of MADS box gene family in Musa balbisiana and their divergence during evolution. Gene 836: 146666.

  65. Lande NV, Barua P, Gayen D, Wardhan V, Jeevaraj T, Kumar S, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2022) Dehydration-responsive chickpea chloroplast protein, CaPDZ1, confers dehydration tolerance by improving photosynthesis. Physiologia Plantarum 174: e13613.

  66. Manna M, Rengasamy B, Ambasht NK and Sinha AK (2022) Characterization and expression profiling of PIN auxin efflux transporters reveal their role in developmental and abiotic stress conditions in rice. Frontiers in Plant Science 13: 1059559.

  67. Mohanty JK, Jha UC, Dixit GP and Parida SK (2022) Harnessing the hidden allelic diversity of wild Cicer to accelerate genomics-assisted chickpea crop improvement. Molecular Biology Reports 49: 5697-5715.

  68. Panda AK, Rawal HC, Jain P, Mishra V, Nishad J, Chowrasia S, Sarkar AK, Sen P, Naik SK and Tapan Kumar M (2022) Identification and analysis of miRNAs-lncRNAs-mRNAs modules involved in stem-elongation of deepwater rice (Oryza sativa L.). Physiologia Plantarum 174: e13736.

  69. Padhy AK, Sharma A, Sharma H, Rajput R, Pandey A, Srivastava P, Kaur S, Kaur H, Singh S, Kashyap L, Mavi GS, Kaur J, Sohu VS, Chhuneja P and Bains NS (2022) Bread wheat with enhanced grain carotenoid content: a novel option for wheat biofortification. Molecular Breeding 42: 67.

  70. Phazna TA, Ngashangva N, Yentrembam RBS, Maurya R, Mukherjee P, Sharma C, Verma PK and Sarangthem I (2022) Draft genome sequence and functional analysis of Lysinibacillus xylanilyticus t26, a plant growth-promoting bacterium isolated from Capsicum chinense rhizosphere. Journal of Biosciences 47: 36.

  71. Rajput R, Naik J, Stracke R and Pandey A (2022) Interplay between R2R3 MYB-type activators and repressors regulates proanthocyanidin biosynthesis in banana (Musa acuminata). New Phytologist 236: 1108-1127.

  72. Rajput R, Tyagi S, Naik J, Pucker B, Stracke R and Pandey A (2022) The R2R3-MYB gene family in Cicer arietinum: genome-wide identification and expression analysis leads to functional characterization of proanthocyanidin biosynthesis regulators in the seed coat. Planta 256: 67.

  73. Panchal P, Preece C, Penuelas J and Giri J (2022) Soil carbon sequestration by root exudates. Trends in Plant Science 27: 749-757.

  74. Pandey S, Singh A, Parida SK and Prasad M (2022) Combining speed breeding with traditional and genomics-assisted breeding for crop improvement. Plant Breeding 141: 301-313.

  75. Prasad A, Chirom O and Prasad M (2022) Horizontal gene transfer and the evolution of land plants. Trends in Plant Science 27: 1203-1205.

  76. Prasad A, Chirom O and Prasad M (2022) Shedding light on immune suppression at high temperature. Trends in Microbiology 30: 918-919.

  77. Prasad A and Prasad M (2022) Interaction of ToLCNDV TrAP with SlATG8f marks it susceptible to degradation by autophagy. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences 79: 241.

  78. Prasad A, Sett S and Prasad M (2022) Plant-virus-abiotic stress interactions: A complex interplay. Environmental and Experimental Botany 199: 104869.

  79. Rai A, Irulappan V and Senthil-Kumar M (2022) Dry root rot of chickpea: A disease favored by drought. Plant Disease 106: 346-356.

  80. Rai A, Jha MN, Singh D, Thapa S, Chaurasia SK and Jha G (2022) Detection of endophytic association between Aeschynomene nodulating Bradyrhizobium sp. and traditional Desariya rice roots under rice-Aeschynomene ecosystem of chaur land, Bihar, India. Biologia Futura 73: 95-105.

  81. Rai A, Sivalingam PN and Senthil-Kumar M (2022) A spotlight on non-host resistance to plant viruses. PeerJ 10: e12996.

  82. Ranjan R, Malik N, Sharma S, Agarwal P, Kapoor S and Tyagi AK (2022) OsCPK29 interacts with MADS68 to regulate pollen development in rice. Plant Science 321: 111297.

  83. Raul B, Bhattacharjee O, Ghosh A, Upadhyay P, Tembhare K, Singh A, Shaheen T, Ghosh AK, Torres-Jerez I, Krom N, Clevenger J, Udvardi M, E Scheffler B, Ozias Akins P, Dutta Sharma R, Bandyopadhyay K, Gaur V, Kumar S and Sinharoy S (2022) Microscopic and transcriptomic analyses of Dalbergoid legume peanut reveal a divergent evolution leading to Nod Factor dependent epidermal crack-entry and terminal bacteroid differentiation. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 35: 131-145.

  84. Raul B and Sinharoy S (2022) An improvised hairy root transformation method for efficient gene silencing in roots and nodules of Arachis hypogaea. Methods in Molecular Biology 2408: 303-316.

  85. Rao S, Balyan S, Bansal C and Mathur S (2022) An integrated bioinformatics and functional approach for miRNA validation. Methods in Molecular Biology 2408: 253-281.

  86. Rao S, Das JR, Balyan S, Verma R and Mathur S (2022) Cultivar-biased regulation of HSFA7 and HSFB4a govern high-temperature tolerance in tomato. Planta 255: 31.

  87. Rao S, Gupta A, Bansal C, Sorin C, Crespi M and Mathur S (2022) A conserved HSF:miR169:NF-YA loop involved in tomato and Arabidopsis heat stress tolerance. Plant Journal 112: 7-26.

  88. Rathi D, Verma JK, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2022) Suspension cell secretome of the grain legume Lathyrus sativus (grasspea) reveals roles in plant development and defense responses. Phytochemistry 202: 113296.

  89. Rathi D, Verma JK, Pareek A, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2022) Dissection of grasspea (Lathyrus sativus L.) root exoproteome reveals critical insights and novel proteins. Plant Science 316: 111161.

  90. Poddar N, Deepika D, Chitkara P, Singh A and Kumar S (2022) Molecular and expression analysis indicate the role of CBL interacting protein kinases (CIPKs) in abiotic stress signaling and development in chickpea. Scientific Reports 12: 16862.

  91. Mehra P, Pandey BK, Verma L, Prusty A, Singh AP, Sharma S, Malik N, Bennett MJ, Parida SK, Giri J and Tyagi AK (2022) OsJAZ11 regulates spikelet and seed development in rice. Plant Direct 6: e401.

  92. Mittal L, Tayyeba S and Sinha AK (2022) Finding a breather for Oryza sativa: Understanding hormone signalling pathways involved in rice plants to submergence stress.Plant, Cell & Environment 45: 279-295.

  93. Manbir, Singh P, Kumari A and Gupta KJ (2022) Alternative oxidase plays a role in minimizing ROS and RNS produced under salinity stress in Arabidopsis thaliana. Physiologia Plantarum 174: e13649.

  94. Mishra BS, Sharma M and Laxmi A (2022) Role of sugar and auxin crosstalk in plant growth and development. Physiologia Plantarum 174: e13546.

  95. Mishra V, Singh A, Gandhi N, Das SS, Yadav S, Kumar A and Sarkar AK (2022) A unique miR775-GALT9 module regulates leaf senescence in Arabidopsis during post-submergence recovery by modulating ethylene and the abscisic acid pathway. Development 149: dev199974.

  96. Nagar P, Sharma N, Jain M, Sharma G, Prasad M and Mustafiz A (2022) OsPSKR15, a phytosulfokine receptor from rice enhances abscisic acid response and drought stress tolerance. Physiologia Plantarum 174: e13569.

  97. Naik J, Misra P, Trivedi PK and Pandey A (2022) Molecular components associated with the regulation of flavonoid biosynthesis. Plant Science 317: 111196

  98. Narayan A, Zahra S, Singh A and Kumar S (2022) In silico methods for the identification of viral-derived small interfering RNAs (vsiRNAs) and their application in plant genomics. Methods in Molecular Biology 2408: 71-84.

  99. Pal G, Saxena S, Kumar K, Verma A, Sahu PK, Pandey A, White JF and Verma SK (2022) Endophytic Burkholderia: Multifunctional roles in plant growth promotion and stress tolerance. Microbiological Research 265: 127201.

  100. Pandey P, Mysore KS and Senthil-Kumar M (2022) Recent advances in plant gene silencing methods. Methods in Molecular Biology 2408: 1-22.

  101. Prasad A, Sharma N, Chirom O and Prasad M (2022) The sly-miR166-SlyHB module acts as a susceptibility factor during ToLCNDV infection. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 135: 233-242.

  102. Sahoo RK, Chandan RK, Swain DM, Tuteja N and Jha G (2022) Heterologous overexpression of PDH45 gene of pea provides tolerance against sheath blight disease and drought stress in rice. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 186: 242-251.

  103. Salvi P, Varshney V and Majee M (2022) Raffinose Family Oligosaccharides (RFOs): Role in seed vigor and longevity. Bioscience Reports 42: BSR20220198.

  104. Saini K, Dwivedi A and Ranjan A (2022) High temperature restricts cell division and leaf size by coordination of PIF4 and TCP4 transcription factors. Plant Physiology 190: 2380-2397.

  105. Seabra AB, Silveira NM, Ribeiro RV, Pieretti JC, Barroso JB, Corpas FJ, Palma JM, Hancock JT, Petrivalsky M, Gupta KJ, Wendehenne D, Loake GJ, Durner J, Lindermayr C, Molnar A, Kolbert Z and Oliveira HC (2022) Nitric oxide-releasing nanomaterials: from basic research to potential biotechnological applications in agriculture. New Phytologist 234: 1119-1125.

  106. Sett S, Prasad A and Prasad M (2022) Resistance genes on the verge of plant-virus interaction. Trends in Plant Science 27: 1242-1252.

  107. Sharma A, Sharma H, Rajput R, Pandey A and Upadhyay SK (2022) Molecular characterization revealed the role of thaumatin-like proteins of bread wheat in stress response Frontiers in Plant Science 12: 807448.

  108. Sharma A, Prakash S and Chattopadhyay D (2022) Killing two birds with a single stone-genetic manipulation of cytokinin oxidase/dehydrogenase (CKX) genes for enhancing crop productivity and amelioration of drought stress response. Frontiers in Genetics 13: 941595.

  109. Sharma H, Sharma A, Rajput R, Sidhu S, Dhillon H, Verma PC, Pandey A and Upadhyay SK (2022) Molecular characterization, evolutionary analysis, and expression profiling of BOR genes in important cereals. Plants (Basel) 11: 911.

  110. Sharma M, Irfan M, Kumar A, Kumar P and Datta A (2022) Recent insights into plant circadian clock response against abiotic stress. Journal of Plant Growth Regulation 41: 3530-3543.

  111. Sharma M, Sharma M, Jamsheer KM and Laxmi A (2022) Jasmonic acid coordinates with light, glucose and auxin signalling in regulating branching angle of Arabidopsis lateral roots. Plant, Cell & Environment 45: 1554-1572.

  112. Sharma M, Sharma M, Jamsheer KM and Laxmi A (2022) A glucose-target of rapamycin signaling axis integrates environmental history of heat stress through maintenance of transcription-associated epigenetic memory in Arabidopsis. Journal of Experimental Botany 73: 7083-7102.

  113. Sharma N, Prasad A and Prasad M (2022) Role of Sw5 gene cluster in the fight against plant viruses. Journal of Virology 96: e0208421.

  114. Singh J, Garai S, Das S, Thakur JK and Tripathy BC (2022) Role of C4 photosynthetic enzyme isoforms in C3 plants and their potential applications in improving agronomic traits in crops. Photosynthesis Research 154: 233-258.

  115. Singh A, Zahra S, Das D and Kumar S (2022) PtRNAdb: a web resource of plant tRNA genes from a wide range of plant species. 3 Biotech 12: 185.

  116. Singh AK, Gupta KJ, Singla-Pareek SL, Foyer CH and Pareek A (2022) Raising crops for dry and saline lands: Challenges and the way forward. Physiologia Plantarum 174: e13730.

  117. Singh R, Dwivedi A, Singh Y, Kumar K, Ranjan A and Verma PK (2022) Global transcriptome and co-expression analysis reveal robust host defence pathway reprogramming and identify key regulators of early phases of Cicer-Ascochyta interactions. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 35: 1034-1047.

  118. Singh G, Banerjee G, Sarkar NK, Sinha AK and Grover A (2022) Transcriptional regulation of rice HSP101 promoter: Mitogen-activated protein kinase-mediated HSFA6a phosphorylation affects its stability and transactivation. Physiologia Plantarum 174: e13754.

  119. Singh R, Kumar K, Bharadwaj C and Verma PK (2022) Broadening the horizon of crop research: a decade of advancements in plant molecular genetics to divulge phenotype governing genes. Planta 255: 46.

  120. Singh R, Kumar K, Purayannur S, Chen W and Verma PK (2022) Ascochyta rabiei: A threat to global chickpea production. Molecular Plant Pathology 23: 1241-1261.

  121. Singh RK, Sreenivasulu N and Prasad M (2022) Potential of underutilized crops to introduce the nutritional diversity and achieve zero hunger. Functional & Integrative Genomics 22: 1459-1465.

  122. Singh RK and Prasad M (2022) Delineating the epigenetic regulation of heat and drought response in plants. Critical Reviews in Biotechnology 42: 548-561.

  123. Singh RK, Prasad A, Maurya J and Prasad M (2022) Regulation of small RNA-mediated high temperature stress responses in crop plants. Plant Cell Reports 41: 765-773.

  124. Singh RK, Muthamilarasan M and Prasad M (2022) SiHSFA2e regulated expression of SisHSP21.9 maintains chloroplast proteome integrity under high temperature stress. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences 79: 580.

  125. Singh J and Verma PK (2022) Genome-wide identification, expression, and characterization of CaLysM-RLKs in chickpea root nodule symbiosis. Environmental and Experimental Botany 202: 104999.

  126. Singh K, Aggarwal R, Verma PK, Verma S, Sharma S, Manjunatha C, Choudhary M, Kulshreshtha D and Rawat K (2022) Functional analysis of SCD1 gene involved in pathogenicity of spot blotch disease of wheat causing fungus Bipolaris sorokiniana. Indian Phytopathology 75: 57-66.

  127. Singh Y, Sharma R, Mishra M, Verma PK and Saxena AK (2022) Crystal structure of ArOYE6 reveals a novel C-terminal helical extension and mechanistic insights into the distinct class III OYEs from pathogenic fungi. FEBS Journal 289: 5531-5550.

  128. Singh Y and Verma PK (2022) Guiding the guards: MPK3/6-VLN3 module regulating stomatal defense. Trends in Plant Science 27: 513-515.

  129. Soujanya PL, Sekhar JC, Yathish KR, Karjagi CG, Rao KS, Suby SB, Jat SL, Kumar B, Kumar K, Vadassery J, Subaharan K, Patil J, Kalia VK, Dhandapani A and Rakshit S (2022) Leaf damage based phenotyping technique and its validation against fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (J. E. Smith), in maize. Frontiers in Plant Science 13: 906207.

  130. Suresh BV, Choudhary P, Aggarwal PR, Rana S, Singh RK, Ravikesavan R, Prasad M and Muthamilarasan M (2022) De novo transcriptome analysis identifies key genes involved in dehydration stress response in kodo millet (Paspalum scrobiculatum L.). Genomics 114: 110347.

  131. Tiwari R and Bisht NC (2022) The multifaceted roles of heterotrimeric G-proteins: lessons from models and crops. Planta 255: 88.

  132. Tiwari S, Nutan KK, Deshmukh R, Sarsu F, Gupta KJ, Singh AK, Singla-Pareek SL and Pareek A (2022) Seedling-stage salinity tolerance in rice: decoding the role of transcription factors. Physiologia Plantarum 174: e13685.

  133. Verma L, Bhadouria J, Rupam BK, Singh S, Panchal P, Bhatia C, Eastmond PJ and Giri J (2022) Monogalactosyl Diacylglycerol Synthase 3 (OsMGD3) affects phosphate utilization and acquisition in rice. Journal of Experimental Botany 73: 5033-5051.

  134. Verma P, Kumari P, Negi S, Yadav G and Gaur V (2022) Holliday junction resolution by At-HIGLE: an SLX1 lineage endonuclease from Arabidopsis thaliana with a novel in-built regulatory mechanism. Nucleic Acids Research 50: 4630-4646.

  135. Varshney V and Majee M (2022) Emerging roles of the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway in enhancing crop yield by optimizing seed agronomic traits. Plant Cell Reports 41: 1805-1826.

  136. Verma SK, Mittal S, Gayacharan, Wankhede DP, Parida SK, Chattopadhyay D, Prasad G, Mishra DC, Joshi DC, Singh M, Singh K and Singh AK (2022) Transcriptome analysis reveals key pathways and candidate genes controlling seed development and size in ricebean (Vigna umbellata). Frontiers in Genetics 12: 791355.

  137. Yadav S, Yugandhar P, Alavilli H, Raliya R, Singh A, Sahi SV, Sarkar AK and Jain A (2022) Potassium chloroaurate-mediated in vitro synthesis of gold nanoparticles improved root growth by crosstalk with sucrose and nutrient-dependent auxin homeostasis in Arabidopsis thaliana. Nanomaterials (Basel) 12: 2099.

  138. Yamunarani R, Ramegowda V, Senthil-Kumar M and Mysore KS (2022) High-throughput analysis of gene function under multiple abiotic stresses using leaf disks from silenced plants. Methods in Molecular Biology 2408: 181-189.

  139. Zahra S, Bhardwaj R, Sharma S, Singh A and Kumar S (2022) PtncRNAdb: plant transfer RNA-derived non-coding RNAs (tncRNAs) database. 3 Biotech 12: 105.
Book Chapter:
  1. Ankit and Singh A (2022) Potassium (K+) transporters in plants: Regulation and functional role in K+ uptake and homeostasis. In: Upadhyay SK (eds), Cation Transporters in Plants, Chapter 2. Elsevier B.V., pp 29-47.

  2. Basu U and Parida SK (2022) CLAVATA signaling pathway receptors modulate developmental traits and stress responses in crops. In: Upadhyay SK, Shumayla (eds), Plant Receptor-Like Kinases: Role in Development and Stress, Chapter 20. Elsevier B.V., pp 371-392.

  3. Gupta A, Singh M, Singh D and Laxmi A (2022) Cross-talk between brassinosteroids and other phytohormones: biological functions and molecular mechanism. In: Ahammed, GJ, Sharma A, Yu J (eds), Brassinosteroids in Plant Developmental Biology and Stress Tolerance, Chapter 6. Elsevier B.V., pp 131-159.

  4. Gupta S, Devi LL and Singh AP (2022) Nitric oxide: Interaction with auxins, brassinosteroids, and abscisic acid. In: Ahanger MA, Ahmad P (eds), Nitric Oxide in Plants: A Molecule with Dual Roles. John Wiley & Sons, pp 230-247.

  5. Jadhav SS, Kumari R, Mahtha SK, Purama RK, Lamba V and Yadav G (2022) Metabolomics and molecular physiology perspective for drought and salinity stress tolerance. In: Choudhury S, Moulick D (eds), Response of Field Crops to Abiotic Stress: Current Status and Future Prospects, Chapter 13. T&F, pp 153-166.

  6. Mahtha SK, Citu, Prasad A and Yadav G (2022) Complex networks reveal biological functions of START domains in rice: Insights from computational systems biology. In: Benito RM, Cherifi C, Cherifi H, Moro E, Rocha LM, Sales-Pardo M (eds), Complex Networks and Their Applications X, COMPLEX NETWORKS 2021. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 1016. Springer, Cham, pp 641-651.

  7. Singh S, Naik J and Pandey A (2022) Genetics of plant organelles: Plastid and mitochondrial genomes. In: Singh RL, Mondal S, Parihar A, Singh PK (eds), Plant Genomics for Sustainable Agriculture. Springer Nature, Singapore, pp 313-330.
List of Publications (2021)
Research Articles:
  1. Agrawal R, Jiri F and Thakur JK (2021) Kinase module of mediator complex: important signalling processor for development and survival of plants. Journal of Experimental Botany 72: 224-240.

  2. Akash, Parida AP, Srivastava A, Mathur S, Sharma AK, Kumar R (2021) Identification, evolutionary profiling, and expression analysis of F-box superfamily genes under phosphate deficiency in tomato. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 162: 349-362.

  3. Alok A, Tyagi S, Singh K and Pandey A (2021) Targeted metabolite profiling of five cultivars of Vitis vinifera L. fruits. ACS Food Science & Technology 1: 653–659.

  4. Alok A, Chauhan H, Upadhyay SK, Pandey A, Kumar J and Singh K (2021) Compendium of plantspecific CRISPR vectors and their technical advantages. life 11: 1021.

  5. Anders S, Cowling W, Pareek A, Gupta KJ, Singla-Pareek SL and Foyer CH (2021) Gaining acceptance of novel plant breeding technologies. Trends in Plant Science 26: 575-587.

  6. Ansari S, Bhatt DN, Sood C and Datta A (2021) Functional characterization of the LdNAGD gene in Leishmania donovani. Microbiological Research 251: 126830.

  7. Anjali A, Fatima U and Senthil-Kumar M (2021) The ins and outs of SWEETs in plants: current understanding of the basics and their prospects in crop improvement.Journal of Biosciences 46: 100.

  8. Arnholdt-Schmitt B, Mohanapriya G, Bharadwaj R, Noceda C, Macedo ES, Sathishkumar R, Gupta KJ, Sircar D, Kumar SR, Srivastava S, Adholeya A, Thiers KL, Aziz S, Velada I, Oliveira M, Quaresma P, Achra A, Gupta N, Kumar A and Costa JH (2021) From plant survival under severe stress to anti-viral human defense - A perspective that calls for common efforts. Frontiers in Immunology 12: 673723.

  9. Alok A, Chauhan H, Upadhyay SK, Pandey A, Kumar J and Singh K (2021) Compendium of plant-specific CRISPR vectors and their technical advantages. Life 11: 1021.

  10. Arya GC, Tiwari R and Bisht NC (2021) A complex interplay of Gβ and Gγ proteins regulates plant growth and defence traits in the allotetraploid Brassica juncea. Plant Molecular Biology 106: 505-520.

  11. Bandyopadhyay T and Prasad M (2021) IRONing out stress problems in crops: a homeostatic perspective. Physiologia Plantarum 171: 559-577.

  12. Bansal S, Sardar S, Sinha K, Bhunia RK, Katoch M, Sonah H, Deshmukh R and Ram H (2021) Identification and molecular characterization of rice bran-specific lipases. Plant Cell Reports 40: 1215-1228.

  13. Bansal C, Balyan S and Mathur S (2021) Inferring the regulatory network of the miRNA-mediated response to individual and combined heat and drought stress in tomatoJournal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology 30: 862–877.

  14. Bhagat PK, Verma D, Sharma D and Sinha AK (2021) HY5 and ABI5 transcription factors physically interact to fine tune light and ABA signaling in Arabidopsis. Plant Molecular Biology 107: 117-127.

  15. Bhatia C, Gaddam SR, Pandey A and Trivedi PK (2021) COP1 mediates light-dependent regulation of flavonol biosynthesis through HY5 in Arabidopsis. Plant Science 303: 110760.

  16. Bhardwaj R, Thakur JK and Kumar S (2021) MedProDB: A database of mediator proteins. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal 19: 4165-4176.

  17. Bharadwaj R, Noceda C, Mohanapriya G, Kumar SR, Thiers KLL, Costa JH, Macedo ES, Kumari A, Gupta KJ, Srivastava S, Adholeya A, Oliveira M, Velada I, Sircar D, Sathishkumar R and Arnholdt-Schmitt B (2021) Adaptive reprogramming during early seed germination requires temporarily enhanced fermentation-A critical role for alternative oxidase regulation that concerns also microbiota effectiveness. Frontiers in Plant Science 12: 686274.

  18. Chaliha C, Kaladhar VC, Doley R, Verma PK, Kumar A and Kalita E (2021) Bipartite molecular approach for species delimitation and resolving cryptic speciation of Exobasidium vexans within the Exobasidium genus. Computational Biology and Chemistry 92: 107496.

  19. Costa JH, Mohanapriya G, Bharadwaj R, Noceda C, Thiers KLL, Aziz S, Srivastava S, Oliveira M, Gupta KJ, Kumari A, Sircar D, Kumar SR, Achra A, Sathishkumar R, Adholeya A and Arnholdt-Schmitt B (2021) ROS/RNS Balancing, Aerobic Fermentation Regulation and Cell Cycle Control - a Complex Early Trait ('CoV-MAC-TED') for Combating SARS-CoV-2-Induced Cell Reprogramming. Frontiers in Immunology 12: 673692.

  20. Choudhary A and Senthil-Kumar M (2021) Investigation of the novel transcriptional changes under combined drought and bacterial stress underpins the role of AtMYB96 in imparting toleranceJournal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology 30: 999–1007.

  21. Das J, Yadav SK, Ghosh S, Tyagi K, Magotra A, Krishnan A and Jha G (2021) Enzymatic and non-enzymatic functional attributes of plant microbiome. Current Opinion in Biotechnology 69: 162-171.

  22. Dhaka A, Singh RK, Muthamilarasan M and Prasad M (2021) Genetics and genomics interventions for promoting millets as functional foods. Current Genomics 22: 154-163.

  23. Deepika and Singh A (2021) Expression dynamics indicate the role of Jasmonic acid biosynthesis pathway in regulating macronutrient (N, P and K+) deficiency tolerance in rice (Oryza sativa L.). Plant Cell Reports 40: 1495-1512.

  24. Dhaka A, Muthamilarasan M and Prasad M (2021) A comprehensive study on core enzymes involved in starch metabolism in the model nutricereal, foxtail millet (Setaria italica L.). Journal of Cereal Science97: 103153.

  25. Garai S, Citu, Singla-Pareek SL, Sopory SK, Kaur C and Yadav G (2021) Complex networks of prion-like proteins reveal cross talk between stress and memory pathways in plants. Frontiers in Plant Science 12: 707286.

  26. Gautam V, Chatterjee S and Sarkar AK (2021) Single cell type specific RNA isolation and gene expression analysis in rice using laser capture microdissection (LCM)-based method. Methods in Molecular Biology 2238: 275-283.

  27. Gautam V, Singh A, Yadav S, Singh S, Kumar P, Sarkar Das S and Sarkar AK (2021) Conserved LBL1-ta-siRNA and miR165/166-RLD1/2 modules regulate root development in maize. Development 148: dev190033.

  28. Ghosh S, Kant R, Pradhan A and Jha G (2021) RS_CRZ1, a C2H2 type transcription factor is required for pathogenesis of Rhizoctonia solani AG1-IA in tomato. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 34: 26-38.

  29. Giri J, Parida SK, Raghuvanshi S and Tyagi AK (2021) Emerging molecular strategies for improving rice drought tolerance. Current Genomics 22: 16 - 25.

  30. Gohain B, Kumar P, Malhotra B, Augustine R, Pradhan AK and Bisht NC (2021) A comprehensive Vis-NIRS equation for rapid quantification of seed glucosinolate content and composition across diverse Brassica oilseed chemotypes. Food Chemistry 354: 129527.

  31. Irulappan V and Senthil-Kumar M (2021) Dry root rot disease assays in chickpea: a detailed methodology. Jove-Journal of Visualized Experiments 167: e61702.

  32. Irulappan V, Mali KV, Patil BS, Manjunatha H, Muhammad S and Senthil-Kumar M (2021) A sick plot-based protocol for dry root rot disease assessment in field-grown chickpea plants. Applications in Plant Sciences 9: e11445.

  33. Irfan M, Kumar P, Ahmad I and Datta A (2021) Unraveling the role of tomato Bcl-2-associated athanogene (BAG) proteins during abiotic stress response and fruit ripening. Scientific Reports 11: 21734.

  34. Jha UC, Jha R, Thakro V, Kumar A, Gupta S, Nayyar H, Basu P, Parida SK and Singh NP (2021) Discerning molecular diversity and association mapping for phenological, physiological and yield traits under high temperature stress in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). Journal of Genetics 100: 4.

  35. Jangir P, Shekhawat PK, Bishnoi A, Ram H and Soni P (2021) Role of Serendipita indica in enhancing drought tolerance in crops. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology 116: 101691.

  36. Jha UC, Jha R, Bohra A, Manjunatha L, Saabale PR, Parida SK, Chaturvedi SK, Thakro V and Singh NP (2021) Association mapping of genomic loci linked with Fusarium wilt resistance (Foc 2) in chickpea. Plant Genetic Resources: Characterisation and Utilisation 19: 195-202.

  37. Kale RR, Durga Rani CV, Anila M, Mahadeva Swamy HK, Bhadana VP, Senguttuvel P, Subrahmanyam D, Ayyappa Dass M, Swapnil K, Anantha MS, Punniakotti E, Prasanna BL, Rekha G, Sinha P, Kousik MBVN, Dilip T, Hajira SK, Brajendra P, Mangrauthia SK, Gireesh C, Tuti M, Mahendrakumar R, Giri J, Singh P and Sundaram RM (2021) Novel major QTLs associated with low soil phosphorus tolerance identified from the Indian rice landrace, Wazuhophek. PLoS One 16: e0254526.

  38. Kumar A, Mir RR, Sehgal D, Agarwal P and Carter A (2021) Editorial: Genetics and genomics to enhance crop production, towards food security. Frontiers in Genetics 12: 798308.

  39. Kaur R, Das S, Bansal S, Singh G, Sardar S, Dhar H and Ram H (2021) Heavy metal stress in rice: uptake, transport, signaling and tolerance mechanisms. Physiologia Plantarum 173: 430-448.

  40. Kujur S, Senthil-Kumar M and Kumar R (2021) Plant viral vectors: expanding the possibilities of precise gene editing in plant genomes. Plant Cell Reports 40: 931–934

  41. Kumar A and Yadav G (2021) Shared ancestry of core-histone subunits and non-histone plant proteins containing the Histone Fold Motif (HFM). Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology 19: 2140001.

  42. Kumar V, Thakur JK and Prasad M (2021) Histone acetylation dynamics regulating plant development and stress responses. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences 78: 4467-4486.

  43. Kumar P, Lokesh V, Doddaraju P, Kumari A, Singh P, Meti BS, Sharma J, Gupta KJ and Manjunatha G (2021) Greenhouse and field experiments revealed that clove oil can effectively reduce bacterial blight and increase yield in pomegranate. Food and Energy Security 10: e305.

  44. Kumari A, Singh P, Kaladhar VC, Manbir, Paul D, Pathak PK and Gupta KJ (2021) Phytoglobin NO cycle and AOX pathway play a role in anaerobic germination and growth of deepwater rice. Plant, Cell & Environment 45: 178-190.

  45. Kundu P and Vadassery J (2021) Role of WRKY transcription factors in plant defense against lepidopteran insect herbivores: an overview. Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology 30: 698–707.

  46. Magotra S, Bhagat N, Ambardar S, Ali T, Hurek BR, Hurek T, Verma PK and Vakhlu J (2021) Field evaluation of PGP Bacillus sp. strain D5 native to Crocus sativus, in traditional and non traditional areas, and mining of PGP genes from its genome. Scientific Reports 11: 5454.

  47. Mahalingam R, Pandey P and Senthil-Kumar M (2021) Progress and prospects of concurrent or combined stress studies in plants. Annual Plant Reviews online 4: 813-868.

  48. Mathan J, Singh A and Ranjan A (2021) Sucrose transport and metabolism control carbon partitioning between stem and grain in rice. Journal of Experimental Botany 72: 4355-4372.

  49. Mathan J, Singh A and Ranjan A (2021) Sucrose transport in response to drought and salt stress involves ABA-mediated induction of OsSWEET13 and OsSWEET15 in rice. Physiologia Plantarum 171: 620-637.

  50. Mathan J, Singh A, Jathar V and Ranjan A (2021) High photosynthesis rate in two wild rice species is driven by leaf anatomy mediating high Rubisco activity and electron transport rate. Journal of Experimental Botany 72: 7119-7135.

  51. Mahtha SK, Purama RK, Kumari R and Yadav G (2021) Identification and downstream analyses of domains amplified in plant genomes: The case of StAR-related lipid transfer (START) domains in rice. Methods in Molecular Biology 2238: 325-338.

  52. Mahtha SK, Purama RK and Yadav G (2021) StAR-related lipid transfer (START) domains across the rice pangenome reveal how ontogeny recapitulated selection pressures during rice domestication. Frontiers in Genetics 12: 737194.

  53. Malakar P and Chattopadhyay D (2021) Adaptation of plants to salt stress: the role of the ion transporters.Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology 30: 668–683.

  54. Mishra D, Shekhar S, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2021) High temperature stress responses and wheat: Impacts and alleviation strategies. Environmental and Experimental Botany 190 : 104589.

  55. Mishra D, Shekhar S, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2021) Wheat 2-Cys peroxiredoxin plays a dual role in chlorophyll biosynthesis and adaptation to high temperature. Plant Journal 105: 1374-1389.

  56. Mishra P, Prasad A, Babu S and Yadav G (2021) Decision support systems based on scientific evidence: bibliometric networks of invasive Lantana camara. Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy87: 133–138

  57. Muthamilarasan M and Prasad M (2021) Small millets for enduring food security amidst pandemics. Trends in Plant Science 26: 33-40.

  58. Naik J, Rajput R, Pucker B, Stracke R and Pandey A (2021) The R2R3-MYB transcription factor MtMYB134 orchestrates flavonol biosynthesis in Medicago truncatula. Plant Molecular Biology 106: 157-172.

  59. Nambiar DM, Kumari J, Augustine R, Kumar P, Bajpai PK and Bisht NC (2021) GTR1 and GTR2 transporters differentially regulate tissue-specific glucosinolate contents and defence responses in the oilseed crop Brassica juncea.Plant, Cell & Environment 44: 2729-2743.

  60. Panchal P, Miller AJ and Giri J (2021) Organic acids: Versatile stress response roles in plants. Journal of Experimental Botany 72: 4038-4052.

  61. Pareek A, Mishra D, Rathi D, Verma JK, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2021) The small heat shock proteins, chaperonin 10, in plants: An evolutionary view and emerging functional diversity. Environmental and Experimental Botany 182 : 104323.

  62. Paritosh K, Yadava SK, Singh P, Bhayana L, Mukhopadhyay A, Gupta V, Bisht NC, Zhang J, Kudrna DA, Copetti D, Wing RA, Reddy VB, Pradhan AK and Pental D (2021) A chromosome-scale assembly of allotetraploid Brassica juncea (AABB) elucidates comparative architecture of the A and B genomes. Plant Biotechnology Journal 19: 602-614.

  63. Pandey BK, Verma L, Prusty A, Singh AP, Bennett MJ, Tyagi AK, Giri J and Mehra P (2021) OsJAZ11 regulates phosphate starvation responses in rice. Planta 254: 8.

  64. Pandey S, Kumari A, Singh P and Gupta KJ (2021) Isolation and measurement of respiration and structural studies of purified mitochondria from heterotrophic plant tissues. Current Protocols 1: e326.

  65. Panchariya L, Khan WA, Kuila S, Sonkar K, Sahoo S, Ghoshal A, Kumar A, Verma DK, Hasan A, Khan MA, Jain N, Mohapatra AK, Das S, Thakur JK, Maiti S, Nanda RK, Halder R, Sunil S and Arockiasamy A (2021) Zinc2+ ion inhibits SARS-CoV-2 main protease and viral replication in vitro. Chemical Communications 57: 10083-10086.

  66. Pal G, Mehta D, Singh S, Magal K, Gupta S, Jha G, Bajaj A and Ramu VS (2021) Foliar application or seed priming of cholic acid-glycine conjugates can mitigate/prevent the rice bacterial leaf blight disease via activating plant defense genes. Frontiers in Plant Science 12: 746912.

  67. Plant Cell Atlas Consortium, Jha SG, Borowsky AT, Cole BJ, Fahlgren N, Farmer A, Huang SC, Karia P, Libault M, Provart NJ, Rice SL, Saura-Sanchez M, Agarwal P, Ahkami AH, Anderton CR, Briggs SP, Brophy JA, Denolf P, Di Costanzo LF, Exposito-Alonso M, Giacomello S, Gomez-Cano F, Kaufmann K, Ko DK, Kumar S, Malkovskiy AV, Nakayama N, Obata T, Otegui MS, Palfalvi G, Quezada-Rodríguez EH, Singh R, Uhrig RG, Waese J, Van Wijk K, Wright RC, Ehrhardt DW, Birnbaum KD and Rhee SY (2021) Science forum: vision, challenges and opportunities for a plant cell atlas. eLife 10: e66877.

  68. Prasad A, Hari-Gowthem G, Muthamilarasan M, Hussain Z, Yadav PK, Tripathi S and Prasad M (2021) Molecular characterization of SlATG18f in response to Tomato leaf curl New Delhi virus infection in tomato and development of a CAPS marker for leaf curl disease tolerance. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 134: 1463-1474.

  69. Popov VN, Syromyatnikov MY, Fernie AR, Chakraborty S, Gupta KJ and Igamberdiev AU (2021) The uncoupling of respiration in plant mitochondria: keeping reactive oxygen and nitrogen species under control. Journal of Experimental Botany 72: 793-807.

  70. Pradhan A, Ghosh S, Sahoo D and Jha G (2021) Fungal effectors, the double edge sword of phytopathogens. Current Genetics 67: 27-40..

  71. Pradhan S, Verma S, Chakraborty A and Bhatia S (2021) Identification and molecular characterization of miRNAs and their target genes associated with seed development through small RNA sequencing in chickpea. Functional & Integrative Genomics 21: 283-298.

  72. Prasad A and Prasad M (2021) Host-virus interactions mediated by long non-coding RNAs. Virus Research 298: 198402.

  73. Prasad A and Prasad M (2021) Research and leaders: a twisted tale!. Trends in Genetics 37: 863-864.

  74. Prasad A, Sharma N and Prasad M (2021) Noncoding but coding: pri-miRNA into the action. Trends in Plant Science 26: 204-206.

  75. Prasad A, Chirom O and Prasad M (2021) Insect herbivores benefit from horizontal gene transfer. Trends in Plant Science 26: 1096-1097.

  76. Prasad A, Senthil-Kumar M and Prasad M (2021) Complex molecular mechanisms determine fitness of plants to biotic and abiotic stresses. Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology30: 633– 635.

  77. Raul B, Bhattacharjee O, Tembhare K, Khanna T, Shaheen T, Sinharoy S and Bandyopadhyay K (2021) Genome-wide identification of auxin response factors (ARFs) in three different species of Arachis. Plant Biotechnology Reports 15: 229-239.

  78. Rao S, Das JR and Mathur S (2021) Exploring the master regulator heat stress transcription factor HSFA1a-mediated transcriptional cascade of HSFs in the heat stress response of tomato. Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology 30: 878–888.

  79. Ram H, Sardar S and Gandass N (2021) Vacuolar iron transporter (Like) proteins: Regulators of cellular iron accumulation in plants. Physiologia Plantarum 171: 823-832.

  80. Ram H, Singh A, Katoch M, Kaur R, Sardar S, Palia S, Satyam R, Sonah H, Deshmukh R, Pandey AK, Gupta I and Sharma TR (2021) Dissecting the nutrient partitioning mechanism in rice grain using spatially resolved gene expression profiling. Journal of Experimental Botany 72: 2212-2230.

  81. Ramu VS, Oh S, Lee HK, Nandety RS, Oh Y, Lee S, Nakashima J, Tang Y, Senthil-Kumar M and Mysore KS (2021) A novel role of salt and drought induced RING 1 protein in modulating plant defense against hemibiotrophic and necrotrophic pathogens. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 34: 297-308.

  82. Rani M and Jha G (2021) Host gamma aminobutyric acid metabolic pathway is involved in resistance against Rhizoctonia solani. Phytopathology 111: 1207-1218.

  83. Randhawa A, Pasari N, Sinha T, Gupta M, Nair AM, Ogunyewo OA, Verma S, Verma PK and Yazdani SS (2021) Blocking drug efflux mechanisms facilitate genome engineering process in hypercellulolytic fungus, Penicillium funiculosum NCIM1228. Biotechnology for Biofuels 14: 31.

  84. Rathi D, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2021) Grasspea, a critical recruit among neglected and underutilized legumes, for tapping genomic resources. Current Plant Biology 26: 100200.

  85. Sagar S, Deepika, Biswas DK, Chandrasekar R and Singh A (2021) Genome-wide identification, structure analysis and expression profiling of phospholipases D under hormone and abiotic stress treatment in chickpea (Cicer arietinum). International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 169: 264-273.

  86. Sagar S and Singh A (2021) Emerging role of phospholipase C mediated lipid signaling in abiotic stress tolerance and development in plants. Plant Cell Reports 40: 2123-2133.

  87. Salvi P, Kumar B, Kamble NU, Hazra A and Majee M (2021) A conserved NAG motif is critical to the catalytic activity of galactinol synthase, a key regulatory enzyme of RFO biosynthesis. Biochemical Journal 478: 3939-3955.

  88. Sharma M, Jamsheer KM, Shukla BN, Sharma M, Awasthi P, Mahtha SK, Yadav G and Laxmi A (2021) Arabidopsis target of rapamycin coordinates with transcriptional and epigenetic machinery to regulate thermotolerance. Frontiers in Plant Science 12: 741965.

  89. Sharma M, Singh D, Saksena HB, Sharma M, Tiwari A, Awasthi P, Botta HK, Shukla BN and Laxmi A (2021) Understanding the intricate web of phytohormone signalling in modulating root system architecture. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 22: 5508.

  90. Sharma N, Muthamilarasan M, Dulani P and Prasad M (2021) Genomic dissection of ROS detoxifying enzyme encoding genes for their role in antioxidative defense mechanism against Tomato leaf curl New Delhi virus infection in tomato. Genomics 113: 889-899.

  91. Sharma N, Sahu PP, Prasad A, Muthamilarasan M, Waseem M, Khan Y, Thakur JK, Chakraborty S and Prasad M (2021) The Sw5a gene confers resistance to ToLCNDV and triggers an HR response after direct AC4 effector recognition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 118: e2101833118.

  92. Sharma S, Prasad A, Sharma N and Prasad M (2021) Role of ubiquitination enzymes in abiotic environmental interactions with plants. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 181: 494-507.

  93. Sharma S, Singh Y, Verma PK and Vakhlu J (2021) Establishment of Agrobacterium rhizogenes-mediated hairy root transformation of Crocus sativus L. 3 Biotech 11: 82.

  94. Sheikh AH, Hussain RMF, Tabassum N, Badmi R, Marillonnet S, Scheel D, Lee J and Sinha A (2021) Possible role of WRKY transcription factors in regulating immunity in Oryza sativa ssp. indica. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology 114: 101623.

  95. Shekhawat PK, Jangir P, Bishnoi A, Roy S, Ram H and Soni P (2021) Serendipita indica: Harnessing its versatile potential for food and nutritional security. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology 116: 101708.

  96. Shivaraj SM, Sharma Y, Chaudhary J, Rajora N, Sharma S, Thakral V, Ram H, Sonah H, Singla-Pareek SL, Sharma TR and Deshmukh R (2021) Dynamic role of aquaporin transport system under drought stress in plants. Environmental and Experimental Botany 184: 104367.

  97. Singh A, Vivek AT and Kumar S (2021) AlnC: An extensive database of long non-coding RNAs in angiosperms. PLoS One 16: e0247215.

  98. Singh AP, Mani B and Giri J (2021) OsJAZ9 is involved in water-deficit stress tolerance by regulating leaf width and stomatal density in rice. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 162: 161-170.

  99. Singh RK, Muthamilarasan M and Prasad M (2021) Biotechnological approaches to dissect climate-resilient traits in millets and their application in crop improvement. Journal of Biotechnology 327: 64-73.

  100. Singh RK and Prasad M (2021) Big genomic data analysis leads to more accurate trait prediction in hybrid breeding for yield enhancement in crop plants. Plant Cell Reports 40: 2009-2011.

  101. Singh Y, Nair AM and Verma PK (2021) Surviving the odds: from perception to survival of fungal phytopathogens under host-generated oxidative burst. Plant Communications 2: 100142.

  102. Singh J and Verma PK (2021) NSP1 allies with GSK3 to inhibit nodule symbiosis. Trends in Plant Science 26: 999-1001.

  103. Singh RK, Sood P, Prasad A and Prasad M (2021) Advances in omics technology for improving crop yield and stress resilience. Plant Breeding 140: 719-731.

  104. Sinha M, Shree A, Singh K, Kumar K, Singh SK, Kumar V and Verma PK (2021) Modulation of fungal virulence through CRZ1 regulated F-BAR-dependent actin remodeling and endocytosis in chickpea infecting phytopathogen Ascochyta rabiei. PLoS Genetics 17: e1009137.

  105. Sinha R, Irulappan V, Patil BS, Reddy PCO, Ramegowda V, Mohan-Raju B, Rangappa K, Singh HK, Bhartiya S and Senthil-Kumar M (2021) Low soil moisture predisposes field-grown chickpea plants to dry root rot disease: evidence from simulation modeling and correlation analysis. Scientific Reports 11: 6568.

  106. Soni P, Shivhare R, Kaur A, Bansal S, Sonah H, Deshmukh R, Giri J, Lata C and Ram H (2021) Reference gene identification for gene expression analysis in rice under different metal stress. Journal of Biotechnology 332: 83-93.

  107. Sushree Shyamli P, Rana S, Suranjika S, Muthamilarasan M, Parida A and Prasad M (2021) Genetic determinants of micronutrient traits in graminaceous crops to combat hidden hunger. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 134: 3147-3165.

  108. Tiwari M, Pandey V, Singh B, Yadav M and Bhatia S (2021) Evolutionary and expression dynamics of LRR-RLKs and functional establishment of KLAVIER homolog in shoot mediated regulation of AON in chickpea symbiosis. Genomics113: 4313-4326.

  109. Tiwari M, Pandey V, Singh B and Bhatia S (2021) Dynamics of miRNA mediated regulation of legume symbiosis. Plant, Cell & Environment 44: 1279-1291.

  110. Tiwari M, Singh B, Yadav M, Pandey V and Bhatia S (2021) High throughput identification of miRNAs reveal novel interacting targets regulating chickpea-rhizobia symbiosis. Environmental and Experimental Botany 186: 104469.

  111. Tiwari M, Trivedi PK and Pandey A (2021) Emerging tools and paradigm shift of gene editing in cereals, fruits, and horticultural crops for enhancing nutritional value and food security. Food and Energy Security 10: e258.

  112. Tiwari M, Yadav M, Singh B, Pandey V, Nawaz K and Bhatia S (2021) Evolutionary and functional analysis of two-component system in chickpea reveals CaRR13, a TypeB RR, as positive regulator of symbiosis. Plant Biotechnology Journal 19: 2415-2427.

  113. Tiwari R, Kaur J and Bisht NC (2021) Extra-large G-proteins influence plant response to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum by regulating glucosinolate metabolism in Brassica juncea. Molecular Plant Pathology 22: 1180-1194.

  114. Varshney RK, Roorkiwal M, Sun S, Bajaj P, Chitikineni A, Thudi M, Singh NP, Du X, Upadhyaya HD, Khan AW, Wang Y, Garg V, Fan G, Cowling WA, Crossa J, Gentzbittel L, Voss-Fels KP, Valluri VK, Sinha P, Singh VK, Ben C, Rathore A, Punna R, Singh MK, Tar'an B, Bharadwaj C, Yasin M, Pithia MS, Singh S, Soren KR, Kudapa H, Jarquín D, Cubry P, Hickey LT, Dixit GP, Thuillet AC, Hamwieh A, Kumar S, Deokar AA, Chaturvedi SK, Francis A, Howard R, Chattopadhyay D, Edwards D, Lyons E, Vigouroux Y, Hayes BJ, von Wettberg E, Datta SK, Yang H, Nguyen HT, Wang J, Siddique KHM, Mohapatra T, Bennetzen JL, Xu X and Liu X (2021) A chickpea genetic variation map based on the sequencing of 3,366 genomes.Nature 599: 622–627.

  115. Verma A, Prakash G, Ranjan R, Tyagi AK and Agarwal P (2021) Silencing of an ubiquitin ligase increases grain width and weight in indica rice. Frontiers in Genetics 11: 600378.

  116. Verma D, Bhagat PK and Sinha AK (2021) A dual-specificity phosphatase, MAP kinase phosphatase 1, positively regulates blue light-mediated seedling development in Arabidopsis. Planta 253: 131.

  117. Varshney V and Majee M (2021) JA shakes hands with ABA to delay seed germination. Trends in Plant Science 26: 764-766.

  118. Verma L, Kohli PS, Maurya K, K B A, Thakur JK and Giri J (2021) Specific galactolipids species correlate with rice genotypic variability for phosphate utilization efficiency. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 168: 105-115.

  119. Vivek AT and Kumar S (2021) Computational methods for annotation of plant regulatory non-coding RNAs using RNA-seq. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 22: bbaa322

  120. Yadav SK, Magotra A, Ghosh S, Krishnan A, Pradhan A, Kumar R, Das J, Sharma M and Jha J (2021) Immunity proteins of dual nuclease T6SS effectors function as transcriptional repressors. EMBO Reports22: e51857.

  121. Zahra S, Singh A, Poddar N and Kumar S (2021) Transfer RNA-derived non-coding RNAs (tncRNAs): Hidden regulation of plants' transcriptional regulatory circuits. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal 19: 5278-5291.
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  1. Gupta R, Prasad A, Babu S and Yadav G (2021) Impact of coronavirus outbreaks on science and society: Insights from temporal bibliometry of SARS and COVID-19. Entropy 23: 626.

  2. Singh A and Senthil-Kumar M (2021) How much do we know about the threat of combined stresses in Indian agriculture? Current Science 120: 1669-1671.
Book Chapter:
  1. Deepika, Mali KV, Kumar A and Singh A (2021) Regulation of stress responses in plants by calcium dependent protein kinases. In: Pandey GK (eds), Protein kinases and stress signaling in plants: Functional genomic perspective,, chapter 9. John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ, USA, pp 226-247.

  2. Patil M and Senthil-Kumar M (2021) Role of plant kinases in combined stress. In: Pandey GK (eds), Protein kinases and stress signaling in plants: Functional genomic perspective, chapter 9. John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ, USA, pp 445-448.

  3. Sharma D, Verma N, Pandey C, Verma D, Bhagat PK, Noryang S, Singh K, Tayyeba S, Banerjee G and Sinha AK (2021) MAP kinase as regulators for stress responses in plants: An overview. In: Pandey GK (eds), Protein kinases and stress signaling in plants: Functional genomic perspective, chapter 15. John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ, USA, pp 369-392.

  4. Sharma M, Jamsheer KM, Saksena HB, Jindal S, Sharma M, Singh D, Tiwari A, Awasthi P and Laxmi A (2021) Balancing growth and defense: Role of target of rapamycin and SNF1-related protein kinase 1 in stress signaling in plants. In: Pandey GK (eds), Protein kinases and stress signaling in plants: Functional genomic perspective, chapter 5. John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ, USA, pp 105-132.
List of Publications (2020)
Research Articles:
  1. Ahmed F, Senthil-Kumar M, Dai X, Ramu VS, Lee S, Mysore KS and Zhao PX (2020) pssRNAit-a web server for designing effective and specific plant siRNAs with genome-wide off-target assessment. Plant Physiology 184: 65-81.

  2. Anjali A, Fatima U, Manu MS, Ramasamy S and Senthil-Kumar M (2020) Structure and regulation of SWEET transporters in plants: An update. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 156: 1-6.

  3. Arora R, Singh P, Kumari A, Pathak PK and Gupta KJ (2020) Using foldscope to monitor superoxide production and cell death during pathogen infection in arabidopsis under different nitrogen regimes. Methods in Molecular Biology 2057: 93-102.

  4. Balasubramani GL, Rajput R, Gupta M, Dahiya P, Thakur JK, Bhatnagar R and Grover A (2020) Structure-based drug repurposing to inhibit the DNA gyrase of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Biochemical Journal 477: 4167-4190

  5. Balyan S, Rao S, Jha S, Bansal C, Das JR and Mathur S (2020) Characterization of novel regulators for heat stress tolerance in tomato from Indian sub-continent. Plant Biotechnology Journal 18: 2118-2132.

  6. Bandyopadhyay T and Prasad M (2020) A precise method for analyzing nitrogen use in foxtail millet. Methods in Molecular Biology 2057: 113-118.

  7. Banerjee G, Singh D and Sinha AK (2020) Plant cell cycle regulators: Mitogen-activated protein kinase, a new regulating switch? Plant Science 301: 110660.

  8. Baruah A, Sivalingam PN, Fatima U and Senthil-Kumar M (2020) Non-host resistance to plant viruses: What do we know? Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology 111: 101506.

  9. Barua P, Lande NV, Kumar S, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2020) Quantitative phosphoproteomic analysis of legume using TiO2-based enrichment coupled with isobaric labeling. Methods in Molecular Biology 2107: 395-406.

  10. Bhatt DN, Ansari S, Kumar A, Ghosh S, Narula A and Datta A (2020) Magnaporthe oryzae MoNdt80 is a transcriptional regulator of GlcNAc catabolic pathway involved in pathogenesis. Microbiological Research 239: 126550.

  11. Bulle M, Kishorekumar R, Pathak PK, Wany A and Gupta KJ (2020) Measurement of nitrate reductase activity in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) leaves under different conditions. Methods in Molecular Biology 2057: 27-35.

  12. Bulle M, Kishorekumar R, Wany A and Gupta KJ (2020) Expression analysis of important genes involved in nitrogen metabolism under hypoxia. Methods in Molecular Biology 2057: 61-69.

  13. Chaliha C, Kalita E and Verma PK (2020) Optimizing in vitro culture conditions for the biotrophic fungi Exobasidium vexans through response surface methodology. Indian Journal of Microbiology 60: 167-174.

  14. Chatterjee A, Paul A, Unnati GM, Rajput R, Biswas T, Kar T, Basak S, Mishra N, Pandey A and Srivastava AP (2020) MAPK cascade gene family in Camellia sinensis: In-silico identification, expression profiles and regulatory network analysis. BMC Genomics 21: 613.

  15. Choudhary A and Senthil-Kumar M (2020) An efficient, high-throughput method for the simultaneous exposure of drought stress and bacterial infection in plants. Applications in Plant Sciences 8: e11399.

  16. Das D, Jaiswal M, Khan FN, Ahamad S and Kumar S (2020) PlantPepDB: A manually curated plant peptide database. Scientific Reports 10: 2194.

  17. Daware A, Parida SK and Tyagi AK (2020) Integrated genomic strategies for cereal genetic enhancement: combining QTL and association mapping. Methods in Molecular Biology 2072: 15-25.

  18. Deb S, Ghosh P, Patel HK and Sonti RV (2020) Interaction of the Xanthomonas effectors XopQ and XopX results in induction of rice immune responses. Plant Journal 104: 332-350.

  19. Deepika, Ankit, Sagar S and Singh A (2020) Dark-induced hormonal regulation of plant growth and development. Frontiers in Plant Science 11: 581666.

  20. Dharajiya DT, Shah A, Galvadiya BP, Patel MP, Srivastava R, Pagi NK, Solanki SD, Parida SK and Tiwari KK (2020) Genome-wide microsatellite markers in castor (Ricinus communis L.): Identification, development, characterization, and transferability in Euphorbiaceae. Industrial Crops and Products 151: 112461.

  21. Elagamey E, Narula K, Chakraborty N and Chakraborty S (2020) Extracellular matrix proteome: Isolation of ECM proteins for proteomics studies. Methods in Molecular Biology 2057: 155-172.

  22. Florez-Sarasa I, Fernie AR and Gupta KJ (2020) Does the alternative respiratory pathway offer protection against the adverse effects resulting from climate change? Journal of Experimental Botany 71: 465-469.

  23. Gaur R, Verma S, Pradhan S, Ambreen H and Bhatia S (2020) A high-density SNP-based linkage map using genotyping-by-sequencing and its utilization for improved genome assembly of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). Functional & Integrative Genomics 20: 763-773.

  24. Ghosh S, Kamble NU and Majee M (2020) A protein repairing enzyme, PROTEIN L- ISOASPARTYL METHYLTRANSFERASE is involved in salinity stress tolerance by increasing efficiency of ROS-scavenging enzymes. Environmental and Experimental Botany 180: 104266.

  25. Ghosh S, Kamble NU, Verma P, Salvi P, Petla BP, Roy S, Roy V, Hazra A, Varshney V, Kaur H and Majee M (2020) Arabidopsis Protein L-Isoaspartyl Methyltransferase repairs isoaspartyl damage to antioxidant enzymes and increases heat and oxidative stress tolerance. Journal of Biological Chemistry 295: 783-799.

  26. Gupta A, Patil M, Qamar A and Senhil-Kumar M (2020) ath-miR164c influences plant responses to the combined stress of drought and bacterial infection by regulating proline metabolism. Environmental and Experimental Botany 172: 103998.

  27. Gupta KJ, Hancock JT, Petrivalsky M, Kolbert Z, Lindermayr C, Durner J, Barroso JB, Palma JM, Brouquisse R, Wendehenne D, Corpas FJ, Loake GJ (2020) Recommendations on terminology and experimental best practice associated with plant nitric oxide research. New Phytologist 225: 1828-1834.

  28. Gupta KJ, Kolbert Z, Durner J, Lindermayr C, Corpas FJ, Brouquisse R, Barroso JB, Umbreen S, Palma JM, Hancock JT, Petrivalsky M, Wendehenne D and Loake GJ (2020) Regulating the regulator: nitric oxide control of post-translational modifications. New Phytologist 227: 1319-1325.

  29. Gupta KJ, Mur LAJ, Wany A, Kumari A, Fernie AR and Ratcliffe RG (2020) The role of nitrite and nitric oxide under low oxygen conditions in plants. New Phytologist 225: 1143-1151.

  30. Hegenauer V, Slaby P, Körner M, Bruckmüller JA, Burggraf R, Albert I, Kaiser B, Löffelhardt B, Droste-Borel I, Sklenar J, Menke FLH, Macek B, Ranjan A, Sinha N, Nürnberger T, Felix G, Krause K, Stahl M and Albert M (2020) The tomato receptor CuRe1 senses a cell wall protein to identify Cuscuta as a pathogen. Nature Communications 11: 5299.

  31. Jaciuk M, Swuec P, Gaur V, Kasprzak JM, Renault L, Dobrychlop M, Nirwal S, Bujnicki JM, Costa A and Nowotny M (2020) A combined structural and biochemical approach reveals translocation and stalling of UvrB on the DNA lesion as a mechanism of damage verification in bacterial nucleotide excision repair. DNA Repair 85: 102746.

  32. Jency JP, Rajasekaran R, Singh RK, Muthurajan R, Prabhakaran J, Mehanathan M, Prasad M and Ganesan J (2020) Induced mutagenesis enhances lodging resistance and photosynthetic efficiency of kodomillet (Paspalum scrobiculatum). Agronomy 10: 227.

  33. Jha UC, Bohra A, Pandey S and Parida SK (2020) Breeding, genetics, and genomics approaches for improving fusarium wilt resistance in major grain legumes. Frontiers in Genetics 11: 1001.

  34. Jogawat A, Meena MK, Kundu A, Varma M and Vadassery J (2020) Calcium channel CNGC19 mediates basal defense signaling to balance colonization of Piriformospora indica on Arabidopsis roots. Journal of Experimental Botany 71: 2752-2768.

  35. Kaur N, Alok A, Shivani, Kumar P, Kaur N, Awasthi P, Chaturvedi S, Pandey P, Pandey A, Pandey AK and Tiwari S (2020) CRISPR/Cas9 directed editing of lycopene epsilon-cyclase modulates metabolic flux for β-carotene biosynthesis in banana fruit. Metabolic Engineering 59: 76-86.

  36. Khandal H, Gupta SK, Dwivedi V, Mandal D, Sharma NK, Vishwakarma NK, Pal L, Choudhary M, Francis A, Malakar P, Singh NP, Sharma K, Sinharoy S, Singh NP, Sharma R and Chattopadhyay D (2020) Root-specific expression of chickpea cytokinin oxidase/dehydrogenase 6 leads to enhanced root growth, drought tolerance and yield without compromising nodulation. Plant Biotechnology Journal 18: 2225-2240.

  37. Khandal H, Singh AP and Chattopadhyay D (2020) MicroRNA397b-LACCASE2 module regulates root lignification under water- and phosphate deficiency. Plant Physiology 182: 1387-1403.

  38. Kishorekumar R, Bulle M, Wany A and Gupta KJ (2020) An overview of important enzymes involved in nitrogen assimilation of plants. Methods in Molecular Biology 2057: 1-13.

  39. Kohli PS, Kumar Verma P, Verma R, Parida SK, Thakur JK and Giri J (2020) Genome-wide association study for phosphate deficiency responsive root hair elongation in chickpea. Functional & Integrative Genomics 20: 775-786.

  40. Kumar A, Daware A, Kumar A, Kumar V, Gopala Krishnan S, Mondal S, Patra BC, Singh AK, Tyagi AK, Parida SK and Thakur JK (2020) Genome-wide analysis of polymorphisms identified domestication-associated long low diversity region carrying important rice grain size/weight QTL. Plant Journal 103: 1525-1547.

  41. Kumar A, Kumar S, Singh KBM, Prasad M and Thakur JK (2020) Designing a mini-core collection effectively representing 3004 diverse rice accessions. Plant Communications 1: 100049.

  42. Kumar R, Barua P, Chakraborty N and Nandi AK (2020) Systemic acquired resistance specifc proteome of Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell Reports 39: 1549-1563.

  43. Kumar R and Bisht NC (2020) Heterotrimeric Ga subunit regulates plant architecture, organ size and seed weight in the oilseed Brassica juncea. Plant Molecular Biology 104: 549-560.

  44. Kumar S, Kumari R and Pandey R (2020) Lychee-associated hypoglycaemic encephalopathy: A new disease of children described in India. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences 90: 1-7.

  45. Lakhwani D, Sanchita, Pandey A, Sharma D, Asif MH and Trivedi PK (2020) Novel microRNAs regulating ripening-associated processes in banana fruit. Plant Growth Regulation 90: 223-235.

  46. Lande NV, Barua P, Gayen D, Kumar S, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2020) Proteomic dissection of the chloroplast: Moving beyond photosynthesis. Journal of Proteomics 212: 103542.

  47. Lande NV, Barua P, Gayen D, Kumar S, Varshney S, Sengupta S, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2020) Dehydration-induced alterations in chloroplast proteome and reprogramming of cellular metabolism in developing chickpea delineate interrelated adaptive responses. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 146: 337-348.

  48. Longchar B, Phukan T, Yadav S and Senthil-Kumar M (2020) An efficient low-cost xylem sap isolation method for bacterial wilt assays in tomato. Applications in Plant Sciences 8: e11335.

  49. Kamble NU and Majee M (2020) PROTEIN L-ISOASPARTYL METHYLTRANSFERASE (PIMT) in plants: regulations and functions. Biochemical Journal 477: 4453-4471.

  50. Malhotra B and Bisht NC (2020) Editorial: Glucosinolates: Regulation of biosynthesis and hydrolysis. Frontiers in Plant Science 11: 620965.

  51. Malik N, Ranjan R, Parida SK, Agarwal P and Tyagi AK (2020) Mediator subunit OsMED14_1 plays an important role in rice development. Plant Journal 101: 1411-1429.

  52. Malukani KK, Ranjan A, Hota SJ, Patel HK and Sonti RV (2020) Dual activities of receptor-like kinase OsWAKL21.2 induce immune responses. Plant Physiology 183: 1345-1363.

  53. Mandal D, Srivastava D and Sinharoy S (2020) Optimization of hairy root transformation for the functional genomics in chickpea: A platform for nodule developmental studies. Methods in Molecular Biology 2107: 335-348.

  54. Mathew IE, Priyadarshini R, Mahto A, Jaiswal P, Parida SK and Agarwal P (2020) SUPER STARCHY1/ONAC025 participates in rice grain filling. Plant Direct 4: e00249.

  55. Maurya J, Bandyopadhyay T and Prasad M (2020) Transcriptional regulators of nitrate metabolism: key players in improving nitrogen use in crops. Journal of Biotechnology 324: 121-133.

  56. Maurya R, Singh Y, Sinha M, Singh K, Mishra P, Singh SK, Verma S, Prabha K, Kumar K and Verma PK (2020) Transcript profiling reveals potential regulators for oxidative stress response of a necrotrophic chickpea pathogen Ascochyta rabiei. 3 Biotech 10: 117.

  57. Mittal D, Mishra S, Prajapati R and Vadassery J (2020) Forward genetic screen using transgenic calcium reporter aequorin to identify novel targets in calcium signaling. Jove-Journal of Visualized Experiments 162: e61259.

  58. Muthamilarasan M, Singh RK, Suresh BV, Rana S, Dulani P and Prasad M (2020) Genomic dissection and expression analysis of stress-responsive genes in C4 panicoid models, Setaria italica and Setaria viridis. Journal of Biotechnology 318: 57-67.

  59. Nambiar DM, Kumari J, Arya GC, Singh AK and Bisht NC (2020) A cell suspension based uptake method to study high affinity glucosinolate transporters. Plant Methods 16: 75.

  60. Narula K, Elagamey E, Abdellatef MAE, Sinha A, Ghosh S, Chakraborty N and Chakraborty S (2020) Chitosan-triggered immunity to Fusarium in chickpea is associated with changes in the plant extracellular matrix architecture, stomatal closure and remodelling of the plant metabolome and proteome. Plant Journal 103: 561-583.

  61. Ogunyewo OA, Randhawa A, Gupta M, Kaladhar VC, Verma PK and Yazdani SS (2020) Synergistic action of a lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase and a cellobiohydrolase from Penicillium funiculosum in cellulose saccharification under high substrate loading. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 86: e01769-20.

  62. Pandey A, Devi LL and Singh AP (2020) Review: Emerging roles of brassinosteroid in nutrient foraging. Plant Science 296: 110474.

  63. Pandey S, Prasad A, Sharma N and Prasad M (2020) Linking the plant stress responses with RNA helicases. Plant Science 299: 110607.

  64. Pandey S, Sharma N and Prasad M (2020) Role of RNA-interacting proteins in modulating plant-microbe interactions. Advances in Genetics 105: 67-94.

  65. Pareek A, Joshi R, Gupta KJ, Singla-Pareek SL and Foyer C (2020) Sensing and signalling in plant stress responses: ensuring sustainable food security in an era of climate change. New Phytologist 228: 823-827.

  66. Paul K, Saha C, Nag M, Mandal D, Naiya H, Sen D, Mitra S, Kumar M, Bose D, Mukherjee G, Naskar N, Lahiri S, Das Ghosh U, Tripathi S, Poddar Sarkar M, Banerjee M, Kleinert A, Valentine A, Tripathy S, Sinharoy S and Seal A (2020) A tripartite interaction among the basidiomycete Rhodotorula mucilaginosa, N2-fixing endobacteria, and rice improves plant nitrogen nutrition. Plant Cell 32: 486-507.

  67. Pillai SE, Kumar C, Dasgupta M, Kumar BK, Vungarala S, Patel HK and Sonti RV (2020) Ectopic expression of a cell-wall-degrading enzyme-induced OsAP2/ERF152 leads to resistance against bacterial and fungal infection in Arabidopsis. Phytopathology 110: 726-733.

  68. Prajapati R, Mittal D, Meena MK and Vadassery J (2020) Jasmonic acid (JA) induced-calcium elevation in Arabidopsis is highly variable due to time of day and conversion to JA-Ile. Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology 29: 816-823.

  69. Prajapati VK, Varma M and Vadassery J (2020) In silico identification of effector proteins from generalist herbivore Spodoptera litura. BMC Genomics 21: 819.

  70. Prasad A, Sharma N, Hari-Gowthem G, Muthamilarasan M and Prasad M (2020) Tomato yellow leaf curl virus: impact, challenges, and management. Trends in Plant Science 25: 897-911.

  71. Prasad M (2020) Omics of neglected and underutilized crop species: one small step for NUCS, one giant leap for addressing global hunger. The Nucleus 63: 213-215.

  72. Praveen A, Pandey A and Gupta M (2020) Protective role of nitric oxide on nitrogen-thiol metabolism and amino acids profiling during arsenic exposure in Oryza sativa L. Ecotoxicology 29: 825-836.

  73. Pucker B, Pandey A, Weisshaar B and Stracke R (2020) The R2R3-MYB gene family in banana (Musa acuminata): Genome-wide identification, classification and expression patterns. PLoS One 15: e0239275.

  74. Rai Y, Wardhan V, Bhushan Gupta D and Chakraborty N (2020) Calcium-dependent changes in physicochemical properties and the proteome dynamics influence dehydration responses in rice. Environmental and Experimental Botany 172 : 103965.

  75. Ramu VS, Dawane A, Lee S, Oh S, Lee HK, Sun L, Senthil-Kumar M and Mysore KS (2020) Ribosomal protein QM/RPL10 positively regulates defence and protein translation mechanisms during nonhost disease resistance. Molecular Plant Pathology 21: 1481-1494.

  76. Rani P, Gautam G, Anwar T, Gourinath S and Datta A (2020) Crystal structure of Gig2 protein from Candida albicans provides a structural insight into DUF1479 family oxygenases. International Journal Biological Macromolecules 150: 1272-1280.

  77. Rao S, Balyan S, Jha S and Mathur S (2020) Novel insights into expansion and functional diversification of MIR169 family in tomato. Planta 251: 55.

  78. Ratnaparkhe MB, Marmat N, Kumawat G, Shivakumar M, Kamble VG, Nataraj V, Ramesh SV, Deshmukh MP, Singh AK, Sonah H, Deshmukh RK, Prasad M, Chand S and Gupta S (2020) Whole genome re-sequencing of soybean accession ec241780 providing genomic landscape of candidate genes involved in rust resistance. Current Genomics 21: 504-511.

  79. Sagar S, Biswas DK and Singh A (2020) Genomic and expression analysis indicate the involvement of phospholipase C family in abiotic stress signaling in chickpea (Cicer arietinum). Gene 753: 144797.

  80. Saksena HB, Sharma M, Singh D and Laxmi A (2020) The versatile role of glucose signalling in regulating growth, development and stress responses in plants. Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology 29: 687-699.

  81. Salvi P, Kamble NU and Majee M (2020) Ectopic over-expression of ABA-responsive Chickpea galactinol synthase (CaGolS) gene results in improved tolerance to dehydration stress by modulating ROS scavenging. Environmental and Experimental Botany 171: 103957.

  82. Sarkar Das S, Majee M, Nandi AK and Karmakar P (2020) Sequestering miR165/166 enhances seed germination in Arabidopsis thaliana under normal condition and ABA treatment. Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology 29: 838-841.

  83. Saxena SC, Salvi P, Kamble NU, Joshi PK, Majee M and Arora S (2020) Ectopic overexpression of cytosolic ascorbate peroxidase gene (Apx1) improves salinity stress tolerance in Brassica juncea by strengthening antioxidative defense mechanism. Acta Physiologiae Plantarum 42: 45.

  84. Sharma N and Prasad M (2020) Silencing AC1 of Tomato leaf curl virus using artificial microRNA confers resistance to leaf curl disease in transgenic tomato. Plant Cell Reports 39: 1565-1579.

  85. Sharma NK, Gupta SK, Dwivedi V and Chattopadhyay D (2020) Lignin deposition in chickpea root xylem under drought. Plant Signaling & Behavior 15: 1754621.

  86. Singh A, Gandhi N, Mishra V, Yadav S, Rai V and Sarkar AK (2020) Role of abiotic stress responsive miRNAs in Arabidopsis root development. Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology 29: 733-742.

  87. Singh AP, Pandey BK, Mehra P, Heitz T and Giri J (2020) OsJAZ9 overexpression modulates jasmonic acid biosynthesis and potassium deficiency responses in rice. Plant Molecular Biology 104: 397-410.

  88. Singh J, Gupta SK, Devanna BN, Singh S, Upadhyay A and Sharma TR (2020) Blast resistance gene Pi54 over-expressed in rice to understand its cellular and sub-cellular localization and response to different pathogens. Scientific Reports 10: 5243.

  89. Singh P, Bharti N, Singh AP, Tripathi SK, Pandey SP, Chauhan AS, Kulkarni A and Sane AP (2020) Petal abscission in fragrant roses is associated with large scale differential regulation of the abscission zone transcriptome. Scientific Reports 10: 17196.

  90. Singh P, Kumari A, Foyer CH and Gupta KJ (2020) The power of the phytoglobin-NO cycle in the regulation of nodulation and symbiotic nitrogen fixation. New Phytologist 227: 5-7.

  91. Singh RK, Deshmukh R, Muthamilarasan M, Rani R and Prasad M (2020) Versatile roles of aquaporin in physiological processes and stress tolerance in plants. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 149: 178-189.

  92. Singh RK, Prasad A, Muthamilarasan M, Parida SK and Prasad M (2020) Breeding and biotechnological interventions for trait improvement: status and prospects. Planta 252: 54.

  93. Singh S, Qin F, Kumar S, Elfman J, Lin E, Pham LP, Yang A and Li H (2020) The landscape of chimeric RNAs in non-diseased tissues and cells. Nucleic Acids Research 48: 1764-1778.

  94. Singh S, Singh A, Singh A, Yadav S, Bajaj I, Kumar S, Jain A and Sarkar AK (2020) Role of chromatin modification and remodeling in stem cell regulation and meristem maintenance in Arabidopsis. Journal of Experimental Botany 71: 778-792.

  95. Singh N, Singh P, Pathak PK and Gupta KJ (2020) Using different forms of nitrogen to study hypersensitive response elicited by avirulent Pseudomonas syringae. Methods in Molecular Biology 2057: 79-92.

  96. Singh P, Sahoo RK, Bulle M and Gupta KJ (2020) An efficient method of mitochondrial DNA isolation from Vigna radiata for genomic studies. Methods in Molecular Biology 2107: 305-315.

  97. Singh S, Yadav S, Singh A, Mahima, Singh A, Gautam V and Sarkar AK (2020) Auxin signaling modulates LATERAL ROOT PRIMORDIUM1 (LRP1) expression during lateral root development in Arabidopsis. Plant Journal 101: 87-100.

  98. Sinha A, Haider T, Narula K, Ghosh S, Chakraborty N and Chakraborty S (2020) Integrated seed proteome and phosphoproteome analyses reveal interplay of nutrient dynamics, carbon-nitrogen partitioning and oxidative signaling in chickpea. Proteomics 20: 1900267.

  99. Shivaraj SM, Vats S, Bhat JA, Dhakte P, Goyal V, Khatri P, Kumawat S, Singh A, Prasad M, Sonah H, Sharma TR and Deshmukh R (2020) Nitric oxide and hydrogen sulfide crosstalk during heavy metal stress in plants. Physiologia Plantarum 168: 437-455.

  100. Smita S, Katiyar A, Lenka SK, Dalal M, Kumar A, Mahtha SK, Yadav G, Chinnusamy V, Pandey DM and Bansal KC (2020) Gene network modules associated with abiotic stress response in tolerant rice genotypes identified by transcriptome meta-analysis. Functional & Integrative Genomics 20: 29-49

  101. Sood P, Singh RK and Prasad M (2020) An efficient Agrobacterium-mediated genetic transformation method for foxtail millet (Setaria italica L.). Plant Cell Reports 39: 511-525.

  102. Tiwari M and Bhatia S (2020) Expression profiling of miRNAs indicates crosstalk between phytohormonal response and rhizobial infection in chickpea. Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology 29: 380-394.

  103. Tiwari S, Shweta, Prasad M and Lata C (2020) Genome-wide investigation of GRAM-domain containing genes in rice reveals their role in plant-rhizobacteria interactions and abiotic stress responses. International Journal Biological Macromolecules 156: 1243-1257.

  104. Verma D, Bhagat PK and Sinha AK (2020) MKK3-MPK6-MYC2 module positively regulates ABA biosynthesis and signalling in Arabidopsis. Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology 29: 785-795.

  105. Verma D, Jalmi SK, Bhagat PK, Verma N and Sinha AK (2020) A bHLH transcription factor, MYC2, imparts salt intolerance by regulating proline biosynthesis in Arabidopsis. FEBS Journal 287: 2560-2576.

  106. Verma P, Tandon R, Yadav G and Gaur V (2020) Structural aspects of DNA repair and recombination in crop improvement. Frontiers in Genetics 11: 574549.

  107. Vivek AT, Zahra S and Kumar S (2020) From current knowledge to best practice: A primer on Viral diagnostics using deep sequencing of virus-derived small interfering RNAs (vsiRNAs) in infected plants. Methods 183: 30-37.

  108. Wany A, Pathak PK and Gupta KJ (2020) Methods for measuring nitrate reductase, nitrite levels, and nitric oxide from plant tissues. Methods in Molecular Biology 2057: 15-26.

  109. Yadav PK, Salvi P, Kamble NU, Petla BP, Majee M and Saxena SC (2020) Deciphering the structural basis of the broad substrate specificity of myo-inositol monophosphatase (IMP) from Cicer arietinum. International Journal Biological Macromolecules 151: 967-975.

  110. Yadav SK, Das J, Kumar R and Jha G (2020) Calcium regulates the mycophagous ability of Burkholderia gladioli strain NGJ1 in a type III secretion system-dependent manner. BMC Microbiology 20: 216.
Popular articles/ latest news:
  1. Chakraborty S, Gowrishankar J, Joshi A, Kannan P, Kohli RK, Lakhotia SC, Misra G, Nautiyal CM, Ramasubramanian K, Sathyamurthy N and Singhvi AK (2020) Suggestions for a national framework for publication of and access to literature in science and technology in India. Current Science 118: 1026-1034.

  2. Dhaka A and Prasad M (2020) Imported superfood quinoa versus Indian nutricereal millets. Current Science 118: 1646-1649.

  3. Prasad A, Muthamilarasan M and Prasad M (2020) Synergistic antiviral effects against SARS-CoV-2 by plant-based molecules. Plant Cell Reports 39: 1109-1114.

  4. Prasad A and Prasad M (2020) SARS-CoV-2: the emergence of a viral pathogen causing havoc on human existence. Journal of Genetics 99: 37.

  5. Prasad A and Prasad M (2020) Single virus targeting multiple organs: what we know and where we are heading?. Frontiers in Medicine-Lausanne 7: 370.

  6. Sharma N, Muthamilarasan M, Prasad A and Prasad M (2020) Genomics approaches to synthesis plant-based biomolecules for therapeutic applications to combat SARS-CoV-2. Genomics 112: 4322-4331.

  7. Suby SB, Soujanya PL, Yadava P, Patil J, Subaharan K, Prasad GS, Babu KS, Jat SL, Yathish KR, Vadassery J, Kalia VK, Bakthavatsalam N, Shekhar JC and Rakshit S (2020) Invasion of fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) in India: nature, distribution, management and potential impact. Current Science 119: 44-51.
Book Chapter:
  1. Dwivedi A, Kumar K and Verma PK (2020) Constructing synthetic pathways in plants: Strategies and tools. In: Singh SP, Pandey A, Du G, Kumar S (eds), Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering: Synthetic Biology, Cell Engineering and Bioprocessing Technologies, Chapter 4. Elsevier B.V., pp 77-113.

  2. Jaiswal M, Zahra S and Kumar S (2020) Bioinformatics tools for epitope prediction. In: Singh S (ed), Systems and Synthetic Immunology. Springer, Singapore, pp 103-124.

  3. Kumar A and Yadav G (2020) Networks of function and shared ancestry provide insights into diversification of histone fold domain in the plant kingdom. In: Cherifi H, Gaito S, Mendes JF, Moro E, Rocha LM (eds), Complex Networks and Their Applications VIII, COMPLEX NETWORKS 2019. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 882. Springer, Cham, pp 789-801.

  4. Sagar S and Singh A (2020) Phospholipase C in abiotic stress-triggered lipid signaling in plants. In: Khan I, Singh A, Poór P (eds), Improving abiotic stress tolerance in plants, Chapter 14. CRC Press, Baca Raton, USA, pp 257-270.

  5. Sagar S and Singh A (2020) The role of extracellular ATP in plant abiotic stress signaling. In: Khan I, Singh A, Poór P (eds), Improving abiotic stress tolerance in plants, Chapter 13. CRC Press, Baca Raton, USA, pp 247-256.

  6. Singh J, Kumar K and Verma PK (2020) Functional characterization of genes involved in legume nodulation using hairy root cultures. In: Srivastava V, Mehrotra S, Mishra S (eds), Hairy Root Cultures based Application. Springer Nature, Singapore, pp 217-228.

  7. Yadav S, Sarkar Das S, Kumar P, Mishra V and Sarkar AK (2020) Tweaking microRNA-mediated gene regulation for crop improvement. In: Tuteja N, Tuteja R, Passricha N, Saifi SK (eds), Advancement in Crop Improvement Techniques, Chapter-3. Elsevier Inc. WoodHead Publishing, UK, pp 45-66.
List of Publications (2019)
Research Articles:
  1. Augustine R and Bisht NC (2019) Targeted silencing of genes in polyploids: lessons learned from Brassica juncea-glucosinolate system. Plant Cell Reports 38: 51-57.

  2. Bajpai PK, Reichelt M, Augustine R, Gershenzon J and Bisht NC (2019) Heterotic patterns of primary and secondary metabolites in the oilseed crop Brassica juncea. Heredity 123: 318-336.

  3. Barua P, Lande NV, Subba P, Gayen D, Pinto S, Prasad TSK, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2019) Dehydration-responsive nuclear proteome landscape of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) reveals phosphorylation-mediated regulation of stress response. Plant, Cell & Environment 42: 230-244.

  4. Basu U, Bajaj D, Sharma A, Malik N, Daware A, Narnoliya L, Thakro V, Upadhyaya HD, Kumar R, Tripathi S, Bharadwaj C, Tyagi AK and Parida SK (2019) Genetic dissection of photosynthetic efficiency traits for enhancing seed yield in chickpea. Plant, Cell & Environment 42: 158-173.

  5. Basu U, Narnoliya L, Srivastava R, Sharma A, Bajaj D, Daware A, Thakro V, Malik N, Upadhyaya HD, Tripathi S, Hegde VS, Tyagi AK and Parida SK (2019) CLAVATA signaling pathway genes modulating flowering time and flower number in chickpea. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 132: 2017-2038.

  6. Basu U, Upadhyaya HD, Srivastava R, Daware A, Malik N, Sharma A, Bajaj D, Narnoliya L, Thakro V, Kujur A, Tripathi S, Bharadwaj C, Hegde VS, Pandey AK, Singh AK, Tyagi AK and Parida SK (2019) ABC transporter-mediated transport of glutathione conjugates enhances seed yield and quality in chickpea. Plant Physiology 180: 253-275.

  7. Bertioli DJ, Jenkins J, Clevenger J, Dudchenko O, Gao D, Seijo G, Leal-Bertioli SCM, Ren L, Farmer AD, Pandey MK, Samoluk SS, Abernathy B, Agarwal G, Ballén-Taborda C, Cameron C, Campbell J, Chavarro C, Chitikineni A, Chu Y, Dash S, El Baidouri M, Guo B, Huang W, Kim KD, Korani W, Lanciano S, Lui CG, Mirouze M, Moretzsohn MC, Pham M, Shin JH, Shirasawa K, Sinharoy S, Sreedasyam A, Weeks NT, Zhang X, Zheng Z, Sun Z, Froenicke L, Aiden EL, Michelmore R, Varshney RK, Holbrook CC, Cannon EKS, Scheffler BE, Grimwood J, Ozias-Akins P, Cannon SB, Jackson SA and Schmutz J. (2019) The genome sequence of segmental allotetraploid peanut Arachis hypogaea. Nature Genetics 51: 877-884.

  8. Chandan RK, Singh AK, Patel S, Swain DM, Tuteja N and Jha G (2019) Silencing of tomato CTR1 provides enhanced tolerance against Tomato leaf curl virus infection. Plant Signaling & Behavior 14: e1565595.

  9. Chauhan S, Samanta S, Sharma N, Thakur JK, Dev K, Sourirajan A (2019) Saccharomyces cerevisiae polo-like kinase, Cdc5 exhibits ATP-dependent Mg2+ -enhanced kinase activity in vitro. Heliyon 5: e03050.

  10. Das A, Sharma N and Prasad M (2019) CRISPR/Cas9: A novel weapon in the arsenal to combat plant diseases. Frontiers in Plant Science 9: 2008.

  11. Das S, Parida SK, Agarwal P and Tyagi AK (2019) Transcription factor OsNF-YB9 regulates reproductive growth and development in rice. Planta 250: 1849-1865.

  12. Deb S, Gupta MK, Patel HK and Sonti RV (2019) Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae XopQ protein suppresses rice immune responses through interaction with two 14-3-3 proteins but its phospho-null mutant induces rice immune responses and interacts with another 14-3-3 protein. Molecular Plant Pathology   20: 976-989.

  13. Dhar YV, Lakhwani D, Pandey A, Singh S, Trivedi PK and Asif MH (2019) Genome-wide identification and interactome analysis of members of two-component system in Banana. BMC Genomics 20: 674.

  14. Dixit SK, Gupta A, Fatima U and Senthil-Kumar M (2019) AtGBF3 confers tolerance to Arabidopsis thaliana against combined drought and Pseudomonas syringae stress. Environmental and Experimental Botany 168: 103881.

  15. Dwivedi N, Maji S, Waseem M, Thakur P, Kumar V, Parida SK and Thakur JK (2019) The Mediator subunit OsMED15a is a transcriptional co-regulator of seed size/weight-modulating genes in rice. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)- Gene Regulatory Mechanisms 1862: 194432.

  16. Farhat S, Jain N, Singh N, Sreevathsa R, Dash PK, Rai R, Yadav S, Kumar P, Sarkar AK, Jain A, Singh NK and Rai V (2019) CRISPR-Cas9 directed genome engineering for enhancing salt stress tolerance in rice. Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology 96: 91-99.

  17. Fatima U, Bhorali P, Borah S and Senthil-Kumar M (2019) Perspectives on the utilization of resistance mechanisms from host and nonhost plants for durable protection of Brassica crops against Alternaria blight. PeerJ 7: e7486.

  18. Fatima U, Bhorali P and Senthil-Kumar M (2019) Morpho-pathological and global transcriptomic analysis reveals the robust nonhost resistance responses in chickpea interaction with Alternaria brassicae. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 32: 1598-1613.

  19. Gautam V, Singh A, Singh S, Verma S and Sarkar AK (2019) Improved method of RNA isolation from laser capture microdissection (LCM)-derived plant tissues. Methods in Molecular Biology 1933: 89-98.

  20. Gautam V, Singh A, Verma S, Singh S, Chatterjee S and Sarkar AK (2019) Whole mount in situ localization of miRNAs and target mRNA transcripts in plants. 3 Biotech 9: 193.

  21. Gayen D, Barua P, Lande NV, Varshney S, Sengupta S, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2019) Dehydration-responsive alterations in the chloroplast proteome and cell metabolomic profile of rice reveals key stress adaptation responses. Environmental and Experimental Botany 160: 12-24.

  22. Gayen D, Gayali S, Barua P, Lande NV, Varshney S, Sengupta S, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2019) Dehydration-induced proteomic landscape of mitochondria in chickpea reveals large-scale coordination of key biological processes. Journal of Proteomics 192: 267-279.

  23. Ghosh S, Mirza N, Kanwar P, Tyagi K and Jha G (2019) Genome analysis provides insight about pathogenesis of Indian strains of Rhizoctonia solani in rice. Functional & Integrative Genomics 19: 799-810.

  24. Gupta D, Bhattacharjee O, Mandal D, Sen MK, Dey D, Dasgupta A, Kazi TA, Gupta R, Sinharoy S, Acharya K, Chattopadhyay D, Ravichandiran V, Roy S and Ghosh D (2019) CRISPR-Cas9 system: A new-fangled dawn in gene editing. Life Sciences 232: 116636.

  25. Hussain A, Yun BW, Kim JH, Gupta KJ, Hyun NI and Loake GJ (2019) Novel and conserved functions of S-nitrosoglutathione reductase in tomato. Journal of Experimental Botany 70: 4877-4886.

  26. Jaiswal V, Bandyopadhyay T, Gahlaut V, Gupta S, Dhaka A, Ramchiary N and Prasad M (2019) Genome-wide association study (GWAS) delineates genomic loci for ten nutritional elements in foxtail millet (Setaria italica L.). Journal of Cereal Science 85: 48-55.

  27. Jaiswal V, Gupta S, Gahlaut V, Muthamilarasan M, Bandyopadhyay T, Ramchiary N and Prasad M (2019) Genome-wide association study of major agronomic traits in foxtail millet (Setaria italica L.) using ddRAD sequencing. Scientific Reports 9: 5020.

  28. Jamsheer KM, Jindal S and Laxmi A (2019) Evolution of TOR-SnRK dynamics in green plants and its integration with phytohormone signaling networks. Journal of Experimental Botany 70: 2239-2259.

  29. Jamsheer K M, Singh D, Sharma M, Sharma M, Jindal S, Mannully CT, Shukla BN and Laxmi A (2019) The FCS-LIKE ZINC FINGER 6 and 10 are involved in regulating osmotic stress responses in Arabidopsis. Plant Signaling & Behavior 14: e1592535.

  30. Jha UC, Bohra A, Jha R and Parida SK (2019) Salinity stress response and 'omics' approaches for improving salinity stress tolerance in major grain legumes. Plant Cell Reports 38: 255-277.

  31. Jimenez-Aleman GH, Almeida-Trapp M, Fernandez-Barbero G, Gimenez-Ibanez S, Reichelt M, Vadassery J, Mithofer A, Caballero J, Boland W and Solano R (2019) Omega hydroxylated JA-Ile is an endogenous bioactive jasmonate that signals through the canonical jasmonate signaling pathway.Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids 1864: 158520.

  32. Kachewar NR, Gupta V, Ranjan A, Patel HK and Sonti RV (2019) Overexpression of OsPUB41, a rice E3 ubiquitin ligase induced by cell wall degrading enzymes, enhances immune responses in rice and Arabidopsis. BMC Plant Biology 19: 530.

  33. Kant R, Tyagi K, Ghosh S and Jha G (2019) Host alternative NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase serves as susceptibility factor to promote pathogenesis of Rhizoctonia solani in plants. Phytopathology 109: 1741-1750.

  34. Kanwar P and Jha G (2019) Alterations in plant sugar metabolism: signatory of pathogen attack. Planta 249: 305-318.

  35. Kaur A, Bansal K, Kumar S, Sonti RV and Patil PB (2019) Complete genome dynamics of a dominant-lineage strain of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae harbouring a novel plasmid encoding a type IV secretion system. Access Microbiology 1: e000063.

  36. Kolbert Z, Barroso JB, Brouquisse R, Corpas FJ, Gupta KJ, Lindermayr C, Loake GJ, Palma JM, Petrivalsky M, Wendehenne D and Hancock JT (2019) A forty year journey: The generation and roles of NO in plants. Nitric Oxide 93: 53-70.

  37. Kong X, Huang G, Xiong Y, Zhao C, Wang J, Song X, Giri J and Zuo K (2019) IBR5 regulates leaf serrations development via modulation of the expression of PIN1. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 20: 4429.

  38. Kumar A, Gautam V, Kumar P, Mukherjee S, Verma S and Sarkar AK (2019) Identification and co-evolution pattern of stem cell regulator miR394s and their targets among diverse plant species. BMC Evolutionary Biology 19: 55.

  39. Kumari A, Pathak PK, Bulle M, Igamberdiev AU and Gupta KJ (2019) Alternative oxidase is an important player in the regulation of nitric oxide levels under normoxic and hypoxic conditions in plants. Journal of Experimental Botany 70: 4345-4354.

  40. Kumari A, Pathak PK, Loake GJ and Gupta KJ (2019) The PHYTOGLOBIN-NO cycle regulates plant mycorrhizal symbiosis. Trends in Plant Science 24: 981-983.

  41. Kumar A, Singh A, Kumar P and Sarkar AK (2019) GAST proteins evolved through successive conjugation of novel motifs and their sub-functionalization. Plant Physiology 180: 998-1012.

  42. Kumar K, Neelam K, Singh G, Mathan J, Ranjan A, Brar DS and Singh K (2019) Production and cytological characterization of a synthetic amphiploid derived from a cross between Oryza sativa and Oryza punctata. Genome 62: 705-714.

  43. Kumar R, Lee SG, Augustine R, Reichelt M, Vassao DG, Palavalli MH, Allen A, Gershenzon J, Jez JM and Bisht NC (2019) Molecular basis of the evolution of methylthioalkylmalate synthase and diversity of methionine-derived glucosinolates. Plant Cell 31: 1633-1647.

  44. Kumar V, Irfan M and Datta A (2019) Manipulation of oxalate metabolism in plants for improving food quality and productivity. Phytochemistry 158: 103-109.

  45. Kundu A and Vadassery J (2019) Chlorogenic acid-mediated chemical defense of plants against insect herbivores. Plant Biology 21: 185-189.

  46. Kumari S, Yadav S, Patra D, Singh S, Sarkar AK and Panigrahi KCS (2019) Uncovering the molecular signature underlying the light intensity-dependent root development in Arabidopsis thaliana. BMC Genomics 20: 596.

  47. Kushwaha NK, Mansi, Sahu PP, Prasad M and Chakrabroty S (2019) Chilli leaf curl virus infection downregulates the expression of the genes encoding chloroplast proteins and stress-related proteins. Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants 25: 1185-1196.

  48. Lokesh V, Manjunatha G, Hegde NS, Bulle M, Puthusseri B, Gupta KJ and Neelwarne B (2019) Polyamine induction in postharvest banana fruits in response to NO donor SNP occurs via L-arginine mediated pathway and not via competitive diversion of S-adenosyl-L-methionine. Antioxidants (Basel) 8: 358.

  49. Maji S, Dahiya P, Waseem M, Dwivedi N, Bhat DS, Dar TH and Thakur JK (2019) Interaction map of Arabidopsis mediator complex expounding its topology. Nucleic Acids Research 47: 3904-3920.

  50. Mandal D and Sinharoy S (2019) A toolbox for nodule development studies in chickpea: a hairy-root transformation protocol and an efficient laboratory strain of Mesorhizobium sp. . Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 32: 367-378.

  51. Meena MK, Kumar Vishwakarma N, Tripathi V and Chattopadhyay D (2019) CBL-interacting protein kinase 25 contributes to root meristem development. Journal of Experimental Botany 70: 133-147.

  52. Meena MK, Prajapati R, Krishna D, Divakaran K, Pandey Y, Reichelt M, Mathew MK, Boland W, Mithöfer A and Vadassery J (2019) The Ca2+ channel CNGC19 regulates Arabidopsis defense against spodoptera herbivory. Plant Cell 31: 1539-1562.

  53. Meena MK, Sardar A and Chattopadhyay D (2019) Decoding and relay of calcium signals by CBL-CIPK module in plants. Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy 85: 143-156.

  54. Mehra P, Pandey BK, Verma L and Giri J (2019) A novel glycerophosphodiester phosphodiesterase improves phosphate deficiency tolerance in rice. Plant, Cell & Environment 42: 1167-1179.

  55. Mohanapriya G, Bharadwaj R, Noceda C, Costa JH, Kumar SR, Sathishkumar R, Thiers KLL, Macedo ES, Silva S, Annicchiarico P, Groot SPC, Kodde J, Kumari A, Gupta KJ, Arnholdt-Schmitt B (2019) Alternative oxidase (AOX) senses stress levels to coordinate auxin-induced reprogramming from seed germination to somatic embryogenesis- A role relevant for seed vigor prediction and plant robustness. Frontiers in Plant Science 10: 1134.

  56. Mur LAJ, Kumari A, Brotman Y, Zeier J, Mandon J, Cristescu SM, Harren F, Kaiser WM, Fernie AR and Gupta KJ (2019) Nitrite and nitric oxide are important in the adjustment of primary metabolism during the hypersensitive response in tobacco. Journal of Experimental Botany 70: 4571-4582.

  57. Muthamilarasan M, Singh NK and Prasad M (2019) Multi-omics approaches for strategic improvement of stress tolerance in underutilized crop species: A climate change perspective. Advances in Genetics 103: 1-38.

  58. Narula K, Choudhary P, Ghosh S, Elagamey E, Chakraborty N and Chakraborty S (2019) Comparative nuclear proteomics analysis provides insight into the mechanism of signaling and immune response to blast disease caused by Magnoporthe oryzae in rice. Proteomics 19: e1800188.

  59. Narnoliya L, Basu U, Bajaj D, Malik N, Thakro V, Daware A, Sharma A, Tripathi S, Hegde VS, Upadhyaya HD, Singh AK, Tyagi AK and Parida SK (2019) Transcriptional signatures modulating SAM morphometric and plant architectural traits enhance yield and productivity in chickpea. Plant Journal 98: 864-883.

  60. Ngangkham U, Parida SK, Singh AK and Mohapatra T (2019) Differential RNA editing of mitochondrial genes in WA-cytoplasmic based male sterile line pusa 6A, and its maintainer and restorer lines.Rice Science 26: 282-289.

  61. Pandey S, Kumari A, Shree M, Kumar V, Singh P, Bharadwaj C, Loake GJ, Parida SK, Masakapalli SK and Gupta KJ (2019) Nitric oxide accelerates germination via the regulation of respiration in chickpea. Journal of Experimental Botany 70: 4539-4555.

  62. Pandey S, Muthamilarasan M, Sharma N, Chaudhry V, Dulani P, Shweta S, Jha S, Mathur S and Prasad M (2019) Characterization of DEAD-box family of RNA helicases in tomato provides insights into their roles in biotic and abiotic stresses. Environmental and Experimental Botany 158: 107-116.

  63. Pandey SP, Singh AP, Srivastava S, Chandrashekar K and Sane AP (2019) A strong early acting wound-inducible promoter, RbPCD1pro, activates cryIAc expression within minutes of wounding to impart efficient protection against insects. Plant Biotechnology Journal 17: 1458-1470.

  64. Pareek A, Rathi D, Mishra D, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2019) Physiological plasticity to high temperature stress in chickpea: Adaptive responses and variable tolerance. Plant Science 289: 110258.

  65. Pislariu CI, Sinharoy S, Torres-Jerez I, Nakashima J, Blancaflor EB and Udvardi MK (2019) The nodule-specific PLAT-domain protein NPD1 is required for nitrogen-fixing symbiosis. Plant Physiology 180: 1480-1497.

  66. Prasad A, Sharma N, Muthamilarasan M, Rana S and Prasad M (2019) Recent advances in small RNA mediated plant-virus interactions. Critical Reviews in Biotechnology 39: 587-601.

  67. Praveen A, Pandey A and Gupta M (2019) Nitric oxide alters nitrogen metabolism and PIN gene expressions by playing protective role in arsenic challenged Brassica juncea L. . Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 176: 95-107.

  68. P Singh, AP Singh, SK Tripathi, V Kumar and AP Sane (2019) Petal abscission in roses is associated with the activation of a truncated version of the animal PDCD4 homologue, RbPCD1. Plant Science 288: 110242.

  69. Rathi D, Gayali S, Pareek A, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2019) Transcriptome profiling illustrates expression signatures of dehydration tolerance in developing grasspea seedlings. Planta 250: 839-855.

  70. Rathi D, Pareek A, Zhang T, Pang Q, Chen S, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2019) Metabolite signatures of grasspea suspension-cultured cells illustrate the complexity of dehydration response. Planta 250: 857-871.

  71. Saggu SK, Jha G and Mishra PC (2019) Enzymatic degradation of biofilm by metalloprotease from Microbacterium sp. SKS10. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology 7: 192.

  72. Sen B, Rastogi A, Nath R, Shasthry SM, Pamecha V, Pandey S, Gupta KJ, Sarin SK, Trehanpati N and Ramakrishna G (2019) Senescent hepatocytes in decompensated liver show reduced UPRMT and its key player, CLPP, attenuates senescence in vitro. Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology 8: 73-94.

  73. Sharma A, Basu U, Malik N, Daware A, Thakro V, Narnoliya L, Bajaj D, Tripathi S, Hegde VS, Upadhyaya HD, Tyagi AK and Parida SK (2019) Genome-wide cis-regulatory signatures for modulation of agronomic traits as exemplified by drought yield index (DYI) in chickpea. Functional & Integrative Genomics 19: 973-992.

  74. Sharma M, Banday ZZ, Shukla BN and Laxmi A (2019) Glucose-regulated HLP1 acts as a key molecule in governing thermomemory. Plant Physiology 180: 1081-1100.

  75. Singh A, Zahra S, Das D and Kumar S (2019) AtFusionDB: a database of fusion transcripts in Arabidopsis thaliana. Database 2019: bay135.

  76. Singh P, Ara H, Tayyeba S, Pandey C and Sinha AK (2019) Development of efficient protocol for rice transformation overexpressing MAP kinase and their effect on root phenotypic traits. Protoplasma 256: 997-1011.

  77. Singh P, Mathew IE, Verma A, Tyagi AK and Agarwal P (2019) Analysis of rice proteins with DLN repressor Motif/S. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 20: 1600.

  78. Singh P, Singh AP and Sane AP (2019) Differential and reciprocal regulation of ethylene pathway genes regulates petal abscission in fragrant and non-fragrant roses. Plant Science 280: 330-339.

  79. Singh RK, Shweta S, Muthamilarasan M, Rani R and Prasad M (2019) Study on aquaporins of Setaria italica suggests the involvement of SiPIP3;1 and SiSIP1;1 in abiotic stress response. Functional & Integrative Genomics 19: 587-596.

  80. Sinha R, Irulappan V, Mohan-Raju B, Suganthi A and Senthil-Kumar M (2019) Impact of drought stress on simultaneously occurring pathogen infection in field-grown chickpea. Scientific Reports 9: 5577.

  81. Sood P, Singh RK and Prasad M (2019) Millets genetic engineering: the progress made and prospects for the future. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture 137: 421-439.

  82. Swain DM, Sahoo RK, Chandan RK, Ghosh S, Kumar R, Jha G and Tuteja N (2019) Concurrent overexpression of rice G-protein β and γ subunits provide enhanced tolerance to sheath blight disease and abiotic stress in rice. Planta 250: 1505-1520.

  83. Vadassery J, Ballhorn DJ, Fleming SR, Mazars C, Pandey SP, Schmidt A, Schuman MC, Yeh Kai-Wun, Yilamujiang A and Mithofer A (2019) Neomycin: an effective inhibitor of jasmonate-induced reactions in plants. Journal of Plant Growth Regulation 38: 713-722.

  84. Vega-Mas I, Rossi MT, Gupta KJ, Gonzalez-Murua C, Ratcliffe RG, Estavillo JM and Gonzalez-Moro MB (2019) Tomato roots exhibit in vivo glutamate dehydrogenase aminating capacity in response to excess ammonium supply. Journal of Plant Physiology 239: 83-91.

  85. Vemanna RS, Bakade R, Bharti P, Kumar MKP, Sreeman SM, Senthil-Kumar M and Makarla U (2019) Cross-talk signaling in rice during combined drought and bacterial blight stress. Frontiers in Plant Science 10: 193.

  86. Verma S and Bhatia S (2019) A comprehensive analysis of the B3 superfamily identifies tissue-specific and stress-responsive genes in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). 3 Biotech 9: 346.

  87. Verma S and Bhatia S (2019) Analysis of genes encoding seed storage proteins (SSPs) in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) reveals co-expressing transcription factors and a seed-specific promoter. Functional & Integrative Genomics 19: 373-390.

  88. Verma S, Gautam G and Sarkar AK (2019) Improved laser capture microdissection (LCM)-based method for isolation of RNA, including miRNA and expression analysis in woody apple bud meristem. Planta 249: 2015-2020.

  89. Vishwakarma A, Wany A, Pandey S, Bulle M, Kumari A, Kishorekumar R, Igamberdiev AU, Mur LAJ and Gupta KJ (2019) Current approaches to measure nitric oxide in plants. Journal of Experimental Botany 70: 4333-4343.

  90. Wany A, Gupta AK, Kumari A, Mishra S, Singh N, Pandey S, Vanvari R, Igamberdiev AU, Fernie AR and Gupta KJ (2019) Nitrate nutrition influences multiple factors in order to increase energy efficiency under hypoxia in Arabidopsis. Annals of Botany 123: 691-705.

Book Chapters:
  1. Dixit SK, Gupta A and Senthil-Kumar M (2019) Current understanding of regulation of GBF3 under abiotic and biotic stresses and its potential role in combined stress tolerance. In: Ramakrishna A, Gill SS (eds), Metabolic Adaptations in Plants During Abiotic Stress. CRC Press, Boca Raton, pp 267-272.

  2. Morel Jean-Benoit, Senthil-Kumar M and Ballini E (eds) (2019) Biological mechanisms of plant interactions with a combination of biotic and abiotic stresses. Frontiers in Plant Science, Frontiers Media S.A., Lausanne, pp 1-131.

  3. Narayan A, Singh A and Kumar S (2019) Protein homology modeling in phytochemical research. In: Kumar S, Egbuna C (eds), Phytochemistry: An in-silico and in-vitro Update. Springer, Singapore, pp 461-478.

  4. Sagar S and Singh A (2019) Abscisic acid, a principal regulator of plant abiotic stress responses. In: Khan I, Reddy SP, Ferrante A, Khan NS (eds), Plant Signaling Molecules: Role and Regulation under Stressful Environments. Elsevier, pp 341-353.

  5. Singh A and Kumar S (2019) Study of plant exclusive virus-derived small interfering RNAs. In: Kumar S, Egbuna C (eds), Phytochemistry: An in-silico and in-vitro Update. Springer, Singapore, pp 535-544.

  6. Singh A, Zahra S and Kumar S (2019) In-silico tools in phytochemical research. In: Kumar S, Egbuna C (eds), Phytochemistry: An in-silico and in-vitro Update. Springer, Singapore, pp 351-372.

  7. Zahra S and Kumar S (2019) PtRFdb: Plant tRNA-derived fragments database. In: Kumar S, Egbuna C (eds), Phytochemistry: An in-silico and in-vitro Update. Springer, Singapore, pp 511-519.
Conference Proceedings:
  1. Deb S, Patel HK and Sonti RV (2019) Immune response induction in rice due to co-expression of XopQ and XopX. In: 18th Congress of International Society for Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions (IS-MPMI, Glasgow, Scotland, July 14-18, 2019). (Abstract) Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 32(10): S1.111-112.

  2. Ghosh S, Kanwar P and Jha G (2019) Understanding the molecular intricacies of rice-Rhizoctonia solani interactions. In: 18th Congress of International Society for Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions (IS-MPMI, Glasgow, Scotland, July 14-18, 2019). (Abstract) Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 32(10): S1.2.

  3. Madhavan VN, Patel HK, Patil PB and Sonti RV (2019) Phase variation in rice pathogen Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae. In: 18th Congress of International Society for Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions (IS-MPMI, Glasgow, Scotland, July 14-18, 2019). (Abstract) Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 32(10): S1.8.

  4. Malukani KK, Ranjan A, Hota SJ, Patel HK and Sonti RV (2019) OsWAKL21, a putative receptor of rice cell wall damage activates alternate signaling in rice and Arabidopsis to induce immunity. In: 18th Congress of International Society for Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions (IS-MPMI, Glasgow, Scotland, July 14-18, 2019). (Abstract) Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 32(10): S1.70.

  5. Swain DM, Yadav S, Tyagi I, Kumar R, Kumar R, Ghosh S, Das J and Jha G (2019) Burkholderia gladioli strain NGJ1 deploys a prophage tail-like protein to feed on fungi. In: 18th Congress of International Society for Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions (IS-MPMI, Glasgow, Scotland, July 14-18, 2019). (Abstract) Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 32(10): S1.10.
Patents:
  1. Kapuganti JG, Bulle M and Kumari A (2019) Method for extending shelf-life of fruits and vegetables using hypoxia induced nitric oxide [Indian Patent No. 201911009428 (provisional)].

  2. Jha G, Yadav SK and Swain DM (2019) Novel Protein Against Fungal Pathogens [Canada (3030660) (January 11, 2019)].

  3. Jha G, Yadav SK and Swain DM (2019) Novel Protein Against Fungal Pathogens [Australia (2017301012) (January 24, 2019)].

Popular articles/ latest news:
  1. Datta S, Dhillon BS, Gautam PL, Karihaloo JL, Mahadevappa M, Mayee CD, Padmanaban G, Parida A, Paroda RS, Sharma M, Sharma TR, Singh NK, Singh RB, Sonti RV, Tyagi AK, Varma JL and Veluthambi K (2019) India needs genetic modification technology in agriculture. Current Science 117: 390-394.
List of Publications (2018)
  1. Aggarwal PR, Nag P, Choudhary P, Chakraborty N and Chakraborty S (2018) Genotype-independent Agrobacterium rhizogenes-mediated root transformation of chickpea: a rapid and efficient method for reverse genetics studies. Plant Methods 14: 55.

  2. Ajmera I, Shi J, Giri J, Wu P, Stekel DJ, Lu C and Hodgman TC (2018) Regulatory feedback response mechanisms to phosphate starvation in rice. NPJ Systems Biology and Applications 4: 4.

  3. Ashraf N, Basu S, Narula K, Ghosh S, Tayal R, Gangisetty N, Biswas S, Aggarwal PR, Chakraborty N, Chakraborty S (2018) Integrative network analyses of wilt transcriptome in chickpea reveal genotype dependent regulatory hubs in immunity and susceptibility. Scientific Reports 8: 6528.

  4. Babu S and Yadav G (2018) Robustness through regime flips in collapsing ecological networks. In: Aiello L, Cherifi C, Cherifi H, Lambiotte R, Lio P, Rocha L (eds), Complex Networks and Their Applications VII, COMPLEX NETWORKS 2018. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 812. Springer, Cham, pp 841-853.

  5. Badmi R, Sheikh AH, Bhagat PK, Verma D, Noryang S and Sinha AK (2018) Possible role of plant MAP kinases in the biogenesis and transcription regulation of rice microRNA pathway factors. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 129: 238-243.

  6. Basu U, Srivastava R, Bajaj D, Thakro V, Daware A, Malik N, Upadhyaya HD and Parida SK (2018) Genome-wide generation and genotyping of informative SNPs to scan molecular signatures for seed yield in chickpea. Scientific Reports 8: 13240.

  7. Berger A, Brouquisse R, Pathak PK, Hichri I, Singh I, Bhatia S, Boscari A, Igamberdiev AU and Gupta KJ (2018) Pathways of nitric oxide metabolism and operation of phytoglobins in legume nodules: missing links and future directions. Plant, Cell & Environment 41: 2057-2068. 

  8. Bhatia C, Pandey A, Reddy Gaddam S, Hoecker U and Trivedi PK (2018) Low temperature enhanced flavonol synthesis requires light-associated regulatory components in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant and Cell Physiology (In Press).

  9. Bhatia H, Khemka N, Jain M and Garg R (2018) Genome-wide bisulphite-sequencing reveals organ-specific methylation patterns in chickpea. Scientific Reports 8: 9704.

  10. Bhosale R, Giri J, Pandey BK, Giehl RFH, Hartmann A, Traini R, Truskina J, Leftley N, Hanlon M, Swarup K, Rashed A, Voβ U, Alonso J, Stepanova A, Yun J, Ljung K, Brown KM, Lynch JP, Dolan L, Vernoux T, Bishopp A, Wells D, Von Wirén N, Bennett MJ and Swarup R (2018) A mechanistic framework for auxin dependent Arabidopsis root hair elongation to low external phosphate. Nature Communications 9: 1409.

  11. Chaliha C, Nath BK, Verma PK and Kalita E (2018) Synthesis of functionalized Cu:ZnS nanosystems and its antibacterial potential. Arab. J. Chem. 12: 515-524.

  12. Dirk LMA, Kumar S, Majee M and Downie AB (2018) PHYTOCHROME INTERACTING FACTOR1 interactions leading to the completion or prolongation of seed germination. Plant Signaling & Behavior 13: e1525999.

  13. Ghorai P, Irfan M, Narula A and Datta A (2018) A comprehensive analysis of Candida albicans phosphoproteome reveals dynamic changes in phosphoprotein abundance during hyphal morphogenesis. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 102: 9731-9743.

  14. Ghosh S, Kanwar P and Jha G (2018) Identification of candidate pathogenicity determinants of Rhizoctonia solani AG1-IA, which causes sheath blight disease in rice. Current Genetics (In Press).

  15. Giri J, Bhosale R, Huang G, Pandey BK, Parker H, Zappala S, Yang J, Dievart A, Bureau C, Ljung K, Price A, Rose T, Larrieu A, Mairhofer S, Sturrock CJ, White P, Dupuy L, Hawkesford M, Perin C, Liang W, Peret B, Hodgman CT, Lynch J, Wissuwa M, Zhang D, Pridmore T, Mooney SJ, Guiderdoni E, Swarup R and Bennett MJ (2018) Rice auxin influx carrier OsAUX1 facilitates root hair elongation in response to low external phosphate. Nature Communications 9: 1408.

  16. Goel R, Kumari R, Singh V, Kumari R, Srivastava S and Kumar S (2018) Perspectives of the Artemisia annua dry leaf therapy (ALT) for malaria and of its re-purposement as an affordable cure for artemisinin-treatable illnesses. Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy 84: 731-780.

  17. Gupta A, Kamalachandran D, Longchar B and Senthil-Kumar M (2018) Impact of soil moisture regimes on wilt disease in tomato: current understanding. In: Wani SH (ed), Biochemical, Physiological and Molecular Avenues for Combating Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants. Academic Press, pp 73-82.

  18. Gupta KJ, Kumari A, Florez-Sarasa I, Fernie AR and Igamberdiev AU (2018) Interaction of nitric oxide with the components of plant mitochondrial electron transport chain. Journal of Experimental Botany 69: 3413-3424.

  19. Gupta N, Singh A, Zahra S and Kumar S (2018) PtRFdb: a database for plant transfer RNA-derived fragments. Database 2018: bay063.

  20. Gupta N, Zahra S, Singh A and Kumar S (2018) PVsiRNAdb: a database for plant exclusive virus-derived small interfering RNAs. Database 2018: bay105.

  21. Huang G, Liang W, Sturrock CJ, Pandey BK, Giri J, Mairhofer S, Wang D, Muller L, Tan H, York LM, Yang J, Song Y, Kim YJ, Qiao Y, Xu J, Kepinski S, Bennett MJ and Zhang D (2018) Rice actin binding protein RMD controls crown root angle in response to external phosphate. Nature Communications 9: 2346.

  22. Irulappan V and Senthil-Kumar M (2018) Morpho-physiological traits and molecular intricacies associated with tolerance to combined drought and pathogen stress in plants. In: Gosal S, Wani S (eds), Biotechnologies of Crop Improvement, Volume 3. Springer, Switzerland, pp 59-74.

  23. Jalmi SK, Bhagat PK, Verma D, Noryang S, Tayyeba S, Singh K, Sharma D and Sinha AK (2018) Traversing the links between heavy metal stress and plant signaling. Frontiers in Plant Science 9: 12

  24. Jamsheer KM, Sharma M, Singh D, Mannully CT, Jindal S, Shukla BN and Laxmi A (2018) FCS-like zinc finger 6 and 10 repress SnRK1 signalling in Arabidopsis. Plant Journal 94: 232-245.

  25. Jamsheer KM, Shukla BN, Jindal S, Gopan N, Mannully CT and Laxmi A (2018) The FCS-like zinc finger scaffold of the kinase SnRK1 is formed by the coordinated actions of the FLZ domain and intrinsically disordered regions. Journal of Biological Chemistry 293: 13134-13150.

  26. Jha UC, Jha R, Bohra A, Parida SK, Kole PC, Thakro V, Singh D and Singh NP (2018) Population structure and association analysis of heat stress relevant traits in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). 3 Biotech 8: 43.

  27. Kaashyap M, Ford R, Kudapa H, Jain M, Edwards D, Varshney R and Mantri N (2018) Differential regulation of genes involved in root morphogenesis and cell wall modification is associated with salinity tolerance in chickpea. Scientific Reports 8: 4855.

  28. Kryvoruchko IS, Routray P, Sinharoy S, Torres-Jerez I, Tejada-Jimenez M, Finney LA, Nakashima J, Pislariu CI, Benedito VA, Gonzalez-Guerrero M, Roberts DM and Udvardi MK (2018) An iron-activated citrate transporter, MtMATE67, is required for symbiotic nitrogen fixation. Plant Physiology 176: 2315-2329.

  29. Kumar K, Purayannur S, Kaladhar VC, Parida SK and Verma PK (2018) mQTL-seq and classical mapping implicates the role of an AT-HOOK MOTIF CONTAINING NUCLEAR LOCALIZED (AHL) family gene in ascochyta blight resistance of chickpea. Plant, Cell & Environment 41: 2128-2140.

  30. Kumar M, Verma S, Gazara RK, Kumar M, Pandey A, Verma PK and Thakur IS (2018) Genomic and proteomic analysis of lignin degrading and polyhydroxyalkanoate accumulating beta-proteobacterium Pandoraea sp ISTKB. Biotechnology for Biofuels 11: 154.

  31. Kumar R and Bisht NC (2018) Duplicated RGS (Regulator of G-protein signaling) proteins exhibit conserved biochemical but differential transcriptional regulation of heterotrimeric G-protein signaling in Brassica species. Scientific Reports 8: 2176. 

  32. Kumar R, Swain DM, Yadav SK, Tyagi I, Kumar R, Das J, Ghosh S and Jha G (2018) Bacteria-fungal confrontation and fungal growth prevention assay. Bio-Protocol 8: e2694.

  33. Kumar R, Yadav SK, Swain DM and Jha G (2018) Burkholderia gladioli strain NGJ1 deploys a prophage tail-like protein for mycophagy. Microbial Cell 5: 116 - 118.

  34. Kumar V, Waseem M, Dwivedi N, Maji S, Kumar A and Thakur JK (2018) KIX domain of AtMed15a, a Mediator subunit of Arabidopsis, is required for its interaction with different proteins. Plant Signaling & Behavior 13: e1428514.

  35. Kundu A, Mishra S and Vadassery J (2018) Spodoptera litura-mediated chemical defense is differentially modulated in older and younger systemic leaves of Solanum lycopersicum. Planta 248: 981-997. 

  36. Majee M, Kumar S, Kathare P, Wu S, Gingerich D, Nayak N, Salaita L, Dinkins R, Martin K, Goodin M, Dirk L, Lloyd T, Zhu L, Chappell J, Hunt A, Vierstra R, Huq E and Downie AB (2018) Kelch f-box protein positively influences Arabidopsis seed germination by targeting phytochrome-interacting factor1. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 115: E4120-E4129.

  37. Mandal A, Mishra AK, Dulani P, Muthamilarasan M, Shweta S and Prasad M (2018) Identification, characterization, expression profiling, and virus-induced gene silencing of armadillo repeat-containing proteins in tomato suggest their involvement in tomato leaf curl New Delhi virus resistance. Functional & Integrative Genomics 18: 101-111.

  38. Mandal A, Sharma N, Muthamilarasan M and Prasad M (2019) Ubiquitination: a tool for plant adaptation to changing environments. The Nucleus 61: 253–260.

  39. Mathew IE and Agarwal P (2018) May the fittest protein evolve: favoring the plant-specific origin and expansion of NAC transcription factors. BioEssays (In Press).

  40. Mishra A, Jha G and Thakur IS (2018) Draft genome sequence of Zhihengliuella sp. strain ISTPL4, a psychrotolerant and halotolerant bacterium isolated from pangong lake, India. Microbiology Resource Announcements 6: e01533-17.

  41. Mishra D, Shekhar S, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2018) Carboxylate clamp tetratricopeptide repeat (TPR) domain containing Hsp90 cochaperones in Triticeace: an insight into structural and functional diversification. Environmental and Experimental Botany 155: 31-44.

  42. Mishra D, Shekhar S, Singh D, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2018) Heat shock proteins and abiotic stress tolerance in plants. In: Asea AAA, Kaur P (eds), Regulation of Heat Shock Protein Responses, Vol.13. Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, pp 41-69.

  43. Nagpal N, Sharma S, Maji S, Durante G, Ferracin M, Thakur JK and Kulshreshtha R (2018) Essential role of MED1 in the transcriptional regulation of ER-dependent oncogenic miRNAs in breast cancer. Scientific Reports 8: 11805.

  44. Ostria-Gallardo E, Ranjan A, Ichihashi Y, Corcuera LJ and Sinha NR (2018) Decoding the gene coexpression network underlying the ability of Gevuina avellana to live in diverse light conditions. New Phytologist 220: 278-287.

  45. Patel MK, Das S and Thakur JK (2018) GC-MS-based analysis of methanol: chloroform-extracted fatty acids from plant tissues. Bio-Protocol 8: e3014.

  46. Pandey A, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2018) Nuclear proteome: Isolation of intact nuclei, extraction of nuclear proteins, and 2-DE analysis.Methods in Molecular Biology 1696: 41-55.

  47. Pandey S, Sahu PP, Kulshreshtha R and Prasad M (2018) Role of host transcription factors in modulating defense response during plant-virus interaction. In: Patil BL (ed), Genes, Genetics and Transgenics for Virus Resistance in Plants. Caister Academic Press, pp 25-54.

  48. Parveen S, Pandey A, Jameel N, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2018) Transcriptional regulation of chickpea ferritin CaFer1 influences its role in iron homeostasis and stress response. Journal of Plant Physiology 222: 9-16.

  49. Pillai SE, Kumar C, Patel HK and Sonti RV (2018) Overexpression of a cell wall damage induced transcription factor, OsWRKY42, leads to enhanced callose deposition and tolerance to salt stress but does not enhance tolerance to bacterial infection. BMC Plant Biology 18: 177.

  50. Potshangbam M, Sahoo D, Verma P, Verma S, Kalita MC and Indira Devi S. (2018) Draft Genome Sequence of Bacillus altitudinis Lc5, a biocontrol and plant growth-promoting endophyte strain isolated from indigenous black rice of Manipur. Genome Announcements 6: e00601-18.

  51. Priya P, Yadav A, Chand J and Yadav G (2018) Terzyme: a tool for identification and analysis of the plant terpenome. Plant Methods 14: 4.

  52. Rajkumar MS, Garg R and Jain M (2018) Genome-wide discovery of DNA polymorphisms among chickpea cultivars with contrasting seed size/weight and their functional relevance. Scientific Reports 8: 16795.

  53. Rao V, Petla B P, Verma P, Salvi P, Kamble NU, Ghosh S, Kaur H, Saxena SC and Majee M (2018) Arabidopsis SKP1-like protein 13 (ASK13) positively regulates seed germination and seedling growth under abiotic stresses. Journal of Experimental Botany 69: 3899-3915.

  54. Rathi D, Pareek A, Gayali S, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2018) Variety-specific nutrient acquisition and dehydration-induced proteomic landscape of grasspea (Lathyrus sativus L.). Journal of Proteomics 183: 45-57.

  55. Saddhe AA, Shweta, Mosa KA, Kumar K, Prasad M and Dhankher OP (2018) Genome-wide characterization of Major Intrinsic Protein (MIP) gene family in Brachypodium distachyon. Current Bioinformatics 13: 536-552.

  56. Salvi P, Kamble NU and Majee M (2018) Stress inducible galactinol synthase of chickpea (CaGolS) implicates in heat and oxidative stress tolerance through reducing stress induced excessive reactive oxygen species accumulation. Plant and Cell Physiology 59: 155-166.

  57. Sarkar Das S, Yadav S, Singh A, Gautam V, Sarkar AK, Nandi AK, Karmakar P, Majee M and Sanan-Mishra N (2018) Expression dynamics of miRNAs and their targets in seed germination conditions reveals miRNA-ta-siRNA crosstalk as regulator of seed germination. Scientific Reports 8: 1233.

  58. Senthil-Kumar M, Wang M, Chang J, Ramegowda V, Pozo OD, Liu Y, Doraiswamy V, Lee HK, Ryu CM, Wang K, Xu P, Eck JV, Chakravarthy S, Dinesh-Kumar SP, Martin GB and Mysore KS(2018) Virus-induced gene silencing database for phenomics and functional genomics in Nicotiana benthamiana. Plant Direct 2: e00055.

  59. Sharma N, Sahu PP, Kulshreshtha R and Prasad M (2018) Surfacing the role of epigenetics in host-virus interaction. In: Patil BL (ed), Genes, Genetics and Transgenics for Virus Resistance in Plants. Caister Academic Press, pp 55-86.

  60. Singh AP, Fridman Y, Holland N, Ackerman-Lavert M, Zananiri R, Jaillais Y, Henn A and Savaldi-Goldstein S (2018) Interdependent nutrient availability and steroid hormone signals facilitate root growth plasticity. Developmental Cell 46: 59-72.e1-e4.

  61. Singh A, Gautam V, Singh S, Sarkar Das S, Verma S, Mishra V, Mukherjee S and Sarkar AK (2018) Plant small RNAs: advancement in the understanding of biogenesis and role in plant development. Planta (In Press).

  62. Singh A, Sagar S and Biswas DK (2018) Calcium dependent protein kinase, a versatile player in plant stress management and development. Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences (In Press).

  63. Singh A, Yadav AK, Kaur K, Sanyal SK, Jha SK, Fernandes JL, Sharma P, Tokas I, Pandey A, Luan S and Pandey GK (2018) Protein phosphatase 2C, AP2C1 interacts with and negatively regulates the function of CIPK9 under potassium deficient conditions in Arabidopsis. Journal of Experimental Botany 69: 4003-4015.

  64. Singh N, Phukan T, Sharma PL, Kabyashree K, Barman A, Kumar R, Sonti RV, Genin S and Ray SK (2018) An innovative root inoculation method to study Ralstonia solanacearum pathogenicity in tomato seedlings. Phytopathology 108: 436-442.

  65. Singh R, Lee S, Ortega L, Blancaflor E, Ramu VS, Senthil-Kumar M, Rojas CM and Mysore KS (2018) Two chloroplast-localized proteins: AtNHR2A and AtNHR2B, contribute to callose deposition during nonhost disease resistance in Arabidopsis. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 31: 1280-1290.

  66. Singh V, Singh AP, Bhadoria J, Giri J, Singh J, T VV and Sharma PC (2018) Differential expression of salt-responsive genes to salinity stress in salt-tolerant and salt-sensitive rice (Oryza sativa L.) at seedling stage. Protoplasma (In Press).

  67. Sinha R and Senthil-Kumar M (2018) Possible strategies for the establishment of VIGS protocol in chickpea. In: Patil BL (ed), Genes, Genetics and Transgenics for Virus Resistance in Plants. Caister Academic Press, pp 327-341.

  68. Soda N, Verma L and Giri J (2018) CRISPR-Cas9 based plant genome editing: Significance, opportunities and recent advances. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 131: 2-11.

  69. Verma JK, Wardhan V, Singh D, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2018) Genome-wide identification of the Alba gene family in plants and stress-responsive expression of the rice Alba genes. Genes 9: 183.

  70. Vishwakarma A, Kumari A, Mur LAJ and Gupta KJ (2018) A discrete role for alternative oxidase under hypoxia to increase nitric oxide and drive energy production. Free Radical Biology and Medicine 122: 40-51.

  71. Wany A, Foyer CH and Gupta KJ (2018) Nitrate, NO and ROS signaling in stem cell homeostasis. Trends in Plant Science 23: 1041-1044.

  72. Wany A and Gupta KJ (2018) Reactive oxygen species, nitric oxide production and antioxidant gene expression during development of aerenchyma formation in wheat. Plant Signaling & Behavior 13: e1428515.

  73. Wu P, Yang S, Singh S, Qin F, Kumar S, Wang L, Ma D and Li H (2018) The landscape and implications of chimeric RNAs in cervical cancer. EBioMedicine 37: 158-167.

  74. Yadav CB, Pandey G, Muthamilarasan M and Prasad M (2018) Epigenetics and epigenomics of plants. In: Varshney RK, Pandey MK, Chitikineni A (eds), Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology: Plant Genetics and Molecular Biology, Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 164, pp 237-261.
List of Publications (2017)
  1. Augustine R and Bisht NC (2017) Regulation of glucosinolate metabolism: From model plant Arabidopsis thaliana to Brassica crops. In: Ramawat KG, Merillon Jean-Michel (eds), Reference Series in Phytochemistry: Glucosinolates, Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, pp 163-199.

  2. Balyan S, Kumar M, Mutum RD, Raghuvanshi U, Agarwal P, Mathur S and Raghuvanshi S (2017) Identification of miRNA-mediated drought responsive multi-tiered regulatory network in drought tolerant rice, Nagina 22. Scientific Reports 7: 15446.

  3. Bandyopadhyay T, Jaiswal V and Prasad M (2017) Nutrition potential of foxtail millet in comparison to other millets and major cereals. In: Prasad M (ed), The Foxtail Millet Genome. Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, pp 123-135.

  4. Bandyopadhyay T, Mehra P, Hairat S and Giri J (2017) Morpho-physiological and transcriptome profiling reveal novel zinc deficiency-responsive genes in rice. Functional & Integrative Genomics 17: 565-581

  5. Bandyopadhyay T, Muthamilarasan M and Prasad M (2017) Millets for next generation climate-smart agriculture. Frontiers in Plant Science 8: 1266.

  6. Barua P, Gayen D, Lande NV, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2017) Global proteomic profiling and identification of stress-responsive proteins using two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. Methods in Molecular Biology 1631: 163-179.

  7. Bhadouria J, Singh AP, Mehra P, Verma L, Srivastawa R, Parida SK and Giri J (2017) Identification of purple acid phosphatases in chickpea and potential roles of CaPAP7 in seed phytate accumulation. Scientific Reports 7: 11012.

  8. Bhattacharjee A, Sharma R and Jain M (2017) Over-expression of OsHOX24 confers enhanced susceptibility to abiotic stresses in transgenic rice via modulating stress-responsive gene expression. Frontiers in Plant Science 8: 628.

  9. Choudhary A, Gupta A, Ramegowda V and Senthil-Kumar M (2017) Transcriptomic changes under combined drought and nonhost bacteria reveal novel and robust defenses in Arabidopsis thaliana. Environmental and Experimental Botany 139 : 152-164.

  10. Daware AV, Srivastava R, Singh AK, Parida SK and Tyagi AK (2017) Regional association analysis of metaQTLs delineates candidate grain size genes in rice. Frontiers in Plant Science 8: 807.

  11. Dwivedi V, Parida SK, Chattopadhyay D (2017) A repeat length variation in myo-inositol monophosphatase gene contributes to seed size trait in chickpea. Scientific Reports. 7:4764

  12. Elagamey E, Narula K, Sinha A, Ghosh S, Abdellatef MAE, Chakraborty N and Chakraborty S (2017) Quantitative extracellular matrix proteomics suggests cell wall reprogramming in host-specific immunity during vascular wilt caused by Fusarium oxysporum in chickpea. Proteomics   17: 1600374.

  13. Elagamey E, Sinha A, Narula K, Abdellatef MAE, Chakraborty N and Chakraborty S (2017) Molecular dissection of extracellular matrix proteome reveals discrete mechanism regulating Verticillium dahliae triggered vascular wilt disease in potato. Proteomics 17: 1600373.

  14. Fatima U and Senthil-Kumar M (2017) Tissue water status and bacterial pathogen infection: how they are correlated?. In: Senthil-Kumar M (ed), Plant Tolerance to Individual and Concurrent Stresses, Springer (India) Pvt. Ltd., pp 165-178.

  15. Garg R, Singh VK, Rajkumar MS, Kumar V and Jain M (2017) Global transcriptome and co-expression network analyses reveal cultivar-specific molecular signatures associated with seed development and seed size/weight determination in chickpea. Plant Journal  91: 1088-1107.​

  16. Gautam V, Singh A, Verma S, Kumar A, Kumar P, Mahima, Singh S, Mishra V and Sarkar AK (2017) Role of miRNAs in root development of model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Indian Journal of Plant Physiology 22: 382-392.

  17. Ghosh S, Irfan M and Datta A (2017) Application of RNA silencing in improving plant traits for industrial use. In: Dalmay T (ed), Plant gene silencing: mechanisms and applications, CABI, pp 128-146.

  18. Ghosh S, Kanwar P and Jha G (2017) Alterations in rice chloroplast integrity, photosynthesis and metabolome associated with pathogenesis of Rhizoctonia solani. Scientific Reports 7: 41610.

  19. Ghosh S, Kaushik A, Khurana S, Varshney A, Singh AK, Dahiya P, Thakur JK, Sarin SK, Gupta D, Malhotra P, Mukherjee SK and Bhatnagar RK (2017) An RNAi-based high-throughput screening assay to identify small molecule inhibitors of hepatitis B virus replication. Journal of Biological Chemistry 292: 12577 - 12588.

  20. Gupta A and Senthil-Kumar M (2017) Concurrent stresses are perceived as new state of stress by the plants: overview of impact of abiotic and biotic stress combinations. In: Senthil-Kumar M (ed), Plant Tolerance to Individual and Concurrent Stresses, Springer (India) Pvt. Ltd., pp 1-15.

  21. Gupta A and Senthil-Kumar M (2017) Transcriptome changes in Arabidopsis thaliana infected with Pseudomonas syringae during drought recovery. Scientific Reports 7: 9124.

  22. Gupta A, Hisano H, Hojo Y, Matsuura T, Ikeda Y, Mori IC and Senthil-Kumar M (2017) Global profiling of phytohormone dynamics during combined drought and pathogen stress in Arabidopsis thaliana reveals ABA and JA as major regulators. Scientific Reports 7: 4017.

  23. Gupta S, Nawaz K, Parween S, Roy R, Sahu K, Pole AK, Khandal H, Srivastava R, Parida SK and Chattopadhyay D (2017) Draft genome sequence of Cicer reticulatum L., the wild progenitor of chickpea provides a resource for agronomic trait improvement. DNA Res. 24:  1-10.

  24. Huang R, Kumar S and Li H (2017) Absence of correlation between chimeric RNA and aging. Genes 8: 386.

  25. Irfan M and Datta A (2017) Improving food nutritional quality and productivity through genetic engineering.  International Journal of Cell Science & Molecular Biology 2: 555576.

  26. Kamthan A, Kamthan M and Datta A (2017) Biotechnology for drug discovery and crop improvement. The Nucleus 60: 237-242.

  27. Kamthan A, Kamthan M and Datta A (2017) Expression of C-5 sterol desaturase from an edible mushroom in fisson yeast enhances its ethanol and thermotolerance. PLoS One 12: e0173381.

  28. Kaundal A, Ramu VS, Oh S, Lee S, Pant B, Lee HK, Rojas CM, Senthil-Kumar M and Mysore KS (2017) General Control Non-repressible-4 (GCN4) degrades 14-3-3 and the RIN4 complex to regulate stomatal aperture with implications on nonhost disease resistance and drought tolerance. The Plant Cell 29: 2233-2248.

  29. Khan AU, Beg AZ and Verma PK (2017) Draft genome sequence of the first NDM-4-producing Escherichia coli strain (AK1), isolated from sewage water of a North Indian hospital. Genome Announcements 5: e01366-17.

  30. Khandal H, Parween S, Roy R, Meena MK, Chattopadhyay D. (2017) MicroRNA profiling provides insights into post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression in chickpea root apex under salinity and water deficiency. Scientific Reports. 7:4632

  31. Kumar A and Sarkar AK (2017) Apple CALCINEURIN B-LIKE PROTEIN10 genes have evolved to be novel targets of miR167s through sequence variation. Current Science 112 : 147-150.

  32. Kumar M, Singhal A, Verma PK and Thakur IS (2017) Production and characterization of polyhydroxyalkanoate from lignin derivatives by Pandoraea sp. ISTKB. ACS Omega 2: 9156-9163.

  33. Kumar P, Augustine R, Singh AK and Bisht NC (2017) Feeding behaviour of generalist pests on Brassica juncea: implication for manipulation of glucosinolate biosynthesis pathway for enhanced resistance.Plant, Cell & Environment 40: 2109 - 2120.

  34. Kumar R, Barman A, Phukan T, Kabyashree K, Singh N, Jha G, Sonti RV, Genin S and Ray RK (2017) Ralstonia solanacearum virulence in tomato seedlings inoculated by leaf clipping. Plant Pathology 66: 835-841.

  35. Kumar R, Sharma A, Chandel I and Bisht NC (2017) Pattern of expression and interaction specificity of multiple G-protein beta (Gβ) subunit isoforms with their potential target proteins reveal functional dominance of BjuGβ1 in the allotetraploid Brassica juncea. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 118: 22-30.

  36. Kumar S, Kumari R, Pandey R and Sharma V (2017) Ebola virus disease: Biology, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of epidemics. Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy 83: 103-149.

  37. Kumari A and Gupta KJ (2017) VisiSens technique to measure internal oxygen and respiration in barley roots. Methods in Molecular Biology 1670: 39-45.

  38. Kumari A, Preston GM and Gupta KJ (2017) Measurement of oxygen status in Arabidopsis leaves undergoing the hypersensitive response during Pseudomonas infection. Methods in Molecular Biology 1670: 71-76.

  39. Kushwah S and Laxmi A (2017) The interaction between glucose and cytokinin signaling in controlling Arabidopsis thaliana seedling root growth and development. Plant Signaling & Behavior 12: e1312241.

  40. Lande NV, Subba P, Barua P, Gayen D, Keshava Prasad TS, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2017) Dissecting the chloroplast proteome of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) provides new insights into classical and non-classical functions. Journal of Proteomics 165: 11-20.

  41. Lee S, Senthil-Kumar M, Kang M, Rojas CM, Tang Y, Oh S, Choudhury SR, Lee HK, Ishiga Y, Allen RD, Pandey S and Mysore KS (2017) The small GTPase, nucleolar GTP-binding protein 1 (NOG1), has a novel role in plant innate immunity. Scientific Reports 7: 9260.

  42. Mahto A, Mathew IE and Agarwal P (2017) Decoding the transcriptome of rice seed during development. In: Jimenez-Lopez JC (ed), Advances in Seed Biology. InTech, Janeza Tradine, Croatia, pp 25-44.

  43. Majee M, Wu S, Salaita L, Gingerich D, Dirk LMA, Chappell J, Hunt AG, Vierstra R and Downie AB (2017) A misannotated locus positively influencing Arabidopsis seed germination is deconvoluted using multiple methods, including surrogate splicing. Plant Gene 10: 74-85.

  44. Malik N, Agarwal P and Tyagi A (2017) Emerging functions of multi-protein complex Mediator with special emphasis on plants. Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (In Press).

  45. Mallik B, Dwivedi MK, Mushtaq Z, Kumari M, Verma PK and Kumar V (2017) Regulation of neuromuscular junction organization by Rab2 and its effector ICA69 in Drosophila. Development 144:  2032-2044.

  46. Mehra P, Pandey BK and Giri J (2017) Improvement of phosphate acquisition and utilization by a secretory purple acid phosphatase (OsPAP21b) in rice. Plant Biotechnology Journal 15: 1054-1067.

  47. Mishra BS, Jamsheer K M, Singh D, Sharma M and Laxmi A (2017) Genome-wide identification and expression, protein-protein interaction and evolutionary analysis of the seed plant-specific BIG GRAIN and BIG GRAIN LIKE gene family. Frontiers in Plant Science 8: 1812.

  48. Mishra D, Shekhar S, Agrawal L, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2017) Cultivar-specific high temperature stress responses in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) associated with physicochemical traits and defense pathways. Food Chemistry 221:  1077-1087.

  49. Mishra P, Wardhan V, Pandey A, Chakraborty S, Garg G and Chakraborty N (2017) Comparative analysis of sequence-structure function relationship of the SUN-domain protein CaSUN1. Journal of Phylogenetics Evolutionary Biology 5: 189.

  50. Mtunguja MK, Ranjan A, Laswai HS, Muzanila Y, Ndunguru J and Sinha NR (2017) Genetic diversity of farmer-preferred cassava landraces in Tanzania based on morphological descriptors and single nucleotide polymorphisms. Plant Genetic Resources 15:  138-146.

  51. Mur LAJ, Simpson C, Kumari A, Gupta AK and Gupta KJ (2017) Moving nitrogen to the centre of plant defence against pathogens. Ann. Bot. 119:  703-709.

  52. Muthamilarasan M and Prasad M (2017) Exploiting genome sequence information to develop genomic resources for foxtail millet improvement. In: Prasad M (ed), The Foxtail Millet Genome. Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, pp 37-51.

  53. Muthamilarasan M and Prasad M (2017) Genetic determinants of drought stress tolerance in Setaria. In: Doust A, Diao X (eds), Genetics and Genomics of Setaria. Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, pp 267-289.

  54. Muthamilarasan M, Shweta S and Prasad M (2017) Foxtail millet genome sequencing, assembly, annotation, and application. In: Prasad M (ed), The Foxtail Millet Genome. Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, pp 11-22.

  55. Nag P, Aggarwal PR, Ghosh S, Narula K, Tayal R, Maheshwari N, Chakraborty N and Chakraborty S (2017) Interplay of neuronal and non-neuronal genes regulates intestinal DAF-16-mediated immune response during Fusarium infection of Caenorhabditis elegans. Cell Death Discovery 3: 17073.

  56. Negi B, Salvi P, Bhatt D, Majee M and Arora S (2017) Molecular cloning, in-silico characterization and functional validation of monodehydroascorbate reductase gene in Eleusine coracana. PLoS One 12: e0187793.

  57. Nivedita, Verma PK and Upadhyaya KC (2017) Lectin protein kinase is induced in plant roots in response to the endophytic fungus, Piriformospora indica. Plant Molecular Biology Reporter 35: 323-332.

  58. Pandey BK, Mehra P, Verma L, Bhadouria J and Giri J (2017) OsHAD1, a haloacid dehalogenase-like APase enhances phosphate accumulation. Plant Physiology 174: 2316-2332.

  59. Pandey C, Augustine R, Panthri M, Zia I, Bisht NC and Gupta M (2017) Arsenic affects the production of glucosinolate, thiol and phytochemical compounds: A comparison of two Brassica cultivars. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry  111: 144-154.

  60. Pandey G, Yadav CB, Sahu PP, Muthamilarasan M and Prasad M (2017) Salinity induced differential methylation patterns in contrasting cultivars of foxtail millet (Setaria italica L.). Plant Cell Reports 36: 759-772.

  61. Pandey P and Senthil-Kumar M (2017) Plant responses to combined drought and pathogen infection: current understanding on the role of phytohormones. In: Senthil-Kumar M (ed), Plant Tolerance to Individual and Concurrent Stresses, Springer (India) Pvt. Ltd.  pp 133 -149.

  62. Pandey P, Irulappan VM, Bagavathiannan MV and Senthil-Kumar M (2017) Impact of combined abiotic and biotic stresses on plant growth and avenues for crop improvement by exploiting physio-morphological traits. Front. Plant Sc. 8: 537.

  63. Pandey S, Kumari A, Bharadwaj C and Gupta KJ (2017) Measurement of respiration and internal oxygen in germinating Cicer arietinum L. seeds using optic microsensor. Methods in Molecular Biology 1670: 57-62.

  64. Pandey S, Kumari A and Gupta KJ (2017) Isolation of physiologically active and intact mitochondria from chickpea. Methods in Molecular Biology 1670: 77-85.

  65. Parida SK, Srivastava R and Bajaj D (2017) A genome-wide mQTL-seq scan identifies potential molecular signatures regulating plant height in chickpea. Plant Mol. Biol. Rep.  35:  273-286.

  66. Pathak PK and Gupta KJ (2017) Using an oxygen microsensor to measure oxygen dynamics in tomato plants in response to Pseudomonas syringae infection. Methods in Molecular Biology 1670: 63-69.

  67. Patra B, Kon Y, Yadav G, Sevold AW, Frumkin JP, Vallabhajosyula RR, Hintze A, Østman B, Schossau J, Bhan A, Marzolf B, Tamashiro JK, Kaur A, Baliga NS, Grayhack EJ, Adami C, Galas DJ, Raval A, Phizicky EM and Ray A (2017) A genome wide dosage suppressor network reveals genomic robustness. Nucl. Acids Res.  45: 255-270.

  68. Pradhan S, Kant C, Verma S and Bhatia S (2017) Genome-wide analysis of the CCCH zinc finger family identifies tissue specific and stress responsive candidates in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). PLoS One 12: e0180469.

  69. Prakash P, Zeeshan M, Saini E, Muneer A, Khurana S, Chourasia BK, Deshmukh A, Kaur I, Dabral S, Singh N, Anam Z, Chaurasiya A, Kaushik S, Dahiya P, Kalamuddin M, Thakur JK, Mohmmed A, Ranganathan A and Malhotra P (2017) Human Cyclophilin B forms part of a multi-protein complex during erythrocyte invasion by Plasmodium falciparum. Nature Communications 8: 1548.

  70. Purayannur S, Kumar K, Kaladhar VC, Verma PK (2017) Phylogenomic analysis of MKKs and MAPKs from 16 legumes and detection of interacting pairs in chickpea divulge MAPK signalling modules. Scientific Reports 7: 5026.

  71. Purayannur S, Kumar K and Verma PK (2017) Genetic engineering to improve biotic stress tolerance in plants. In: MZ Abdin, U Khantwal, M Kamaluddin and Athar Ali (eds), Plant Biotechnology: Principles and Applications, Springer Nature, Singapore, pp 207-232.

  72. Ranjan R, Khurana R, Malik N, Badoni S, Parida SK, Kapoor S and Tyagi AK (2017) bHLH142 regulates various metabolic pathway-related genes to affect pollen development and anther dehiscence in rice. Scientific Reports 7: 43397.

  73. Ramegowda V, Gill US, Sivalingam PN, Gupta A, Gupta C, Govind G, Nataraja KN, Pereira A, Udayakumar M, Mysore KS and Senthil-Kumar M (2017) GBF3 transcription factor imparts drought tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana. Scientific Reports 7: 9148.

  74. Ramesh SV, Sahu PP, Prasad M, Praveen S and Pappu HR (2017) Geminiviruses and plant hosts: a closer examination of the molecular arms race. Viruses 9: 256.

  75. Rani P, Gautam G, Rao KH, Ghosh S, Gourinath S, Dhar SK and Datta A (2017) Cloning, expression, purification and crystallization of a novel GlcNAc metabolic protein, gig2 (duf1479) from pathogenic fungus Candida albicans. Journal of Proteins and Proteomics 8: 127-132.

  76. Sahu KK and Chattopadhyay D (2017) Genome-wide sequence variations between wild and cultivated tomato species revisited by whole genome sequence mapping. BMC Genomics 18: 430.

  77. Sahu PP, Sharma N and Prasad M (2017) Plant's defense and survival strategies versus pathogen's anti-defense and infection capabilities: The hormone-based mechanisms. In: Pandey G (ed), Mechanism of Plant Hormone Signaling under Stress. JohnWiley & Sons, pp  389 -414.

  78. Sardar A, Nandi AK and Chattopadhyay D (2017) CBL-interacting protein kinase 6 negatively regulates immune response to Pseudomonas syringae in Arabidopsis. Journal of Experimental Botany 68: 3573-3584.

  79. Samanta S and Thakur JK (2017) Characterization of mediator complex and its associated proteins from rice. Methods in Molecular Biology 1629: 123-140.

  80. Senthil-Kumar M (ed) Plant Tolerance to Individual and Concurrent Stresses, Springer (India) Pvt. Ltd., pp 1-178.

  81. Sharma G, Giri J and Tyagi AK (2017) Sub-functionalization in rice gene families with regulatory roles in abiotic stress responses. Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences  35:  231-285.

  82. Sharma N and Prasad M (2017) An insight into plant-Tomato leaf curl New Delhi virus interaction. The Nucleus 60: 335-348

  83. Sharma S, Pandey S, Muthamilarasan M, Chaudhry V, Dulani P and Prasad M (2017) Genomics resources for abiotic stress tolerance in solanaceae crops. In: Chakrabarti SK, Xie C, Tiwari JK (ed), The Potato Genome. Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, pp 195-216.

  84. Shimray PW, Bajaj D, Srivastava R, Daware A, Upadhyaya HD, Kumar R, Bharadwaj C, Tyagi AK and Parida SK (2017) Identifying transcription factor genes associated with yield traits in chickpea. Plant Molecular Biology Reporter (In Press).

  85. Singh A, Roy S, Singh S, Das SS, Gautam V, Yadav S, Kumar A, Singh A, Samantha S and Sarkar AK (2017) Phytohormonal crosstalk modulates the expression of miR166/165s, target Class III HD-ZIPsM, and KANADI genes during root growth in Arabidopsis thaliana. Scientific Reports 7: 3408.

  86. Singh M, Gupta A and Laxmi A (2017) Striking the right chord: Signaling enigma during root gravitropism. Frontiers in Plant Science 8: 1304.

  87. Singh M, Gupta A, Singh D, Khurana JP and Laxmi A (2017) Arabidopsis RSS1 mediates cross-talk between glucose and light signaling during hypocotyl elongation growth.Scientific Reports 7: 16101.

  88. Singh P and Sinha AK (2017) Interplay between auxin and cytokinin and its impact on mitogen activated protein kinase (MAPK). Methods Mol. Biol. 1569: 93-100.

  89. Singh RK, Muthamilarasan M and Prasad M (2017) Foxtail millet: An introduction. In: Prasad M (ed), The Foxtail Millet Genome. Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, pp 1-9.

  90. Singh RK and Prasad M (2017) Genome-wide association studies for improving agronomic traits in foxtail millet. In: Prasad M (ed), The Foxtail Millet Genome. Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, pp 63-75.

  91. Singh RK, Sahu PP, Muthamilarasan M, Dhaka A and Prasad M (2017) Genomics-assisted breeding for improving stress tolerance of graminaceous crops to biotic and abiotic stresses: Progress and prospects. In: Senthil-Kumar M (ed),  Plant Tolerance to Individual and Concurrent Stresses.  Springer International Publishing, Switzerland.  pp 59 -81.

  92. Singh S, Singh A, Yadav S, Gautam V, Singh A and Sarkar AK (2017) Sirtinol, a Sir2 protein inhibitor, affects stem cell maintenance and root development in Arabidopsis thaliana by modulating auxin-cytokinin signaling components. Scientific Reports 7: 42450.

  93. Singh VK, Rajkumar MS, Garg R and Jain M (2017) Genome-wide identification and co-expression network analysis provide insights into the roles of auxin response factor gene family in chickpea. Scientific Reports 7: 10895.

  94. Sinha R, Gupta A and Senthil-Kumar M (2017) Concurrent drought stress and vascular pathogen infection induce common and distinct transcriptomic responses in chickpea. Front. Plant Sc. 8: 333.

  95. Sood P and Prasad M (2017) Genetic transformation of setaria: A new perspective. In: Prasad M (ed), The Foxtail Millet Genome. Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, pp 105-121.

  96. Srivastava R, Upadhyaya HD, Kumar R, Daware A, Basu U, Shimray PW, Tripathi S, Bharadwaj C, Tyagi AK, Parida SK (2017) A multiple QTL-Seq strategy delineates potential genomic loci governing flowering time in chickpea. Frontiers in Plant Science 8: 1105.

  97. Srivastava V and Verma PK (2017) The plant LIM proteins: unlocking the hidden attractions. Planta 246: 365-375.

  98. Swain DM, Yadav SK, Tyagi I, Kumar R, Kumar R, Ghosh S, Das J and Jha G (2017) A prophage tail-like protein is deployed by Burkholderia bacteria to feed on fungi. Nature Communications 8: 404.

  99. Tiwari S, Lata C, Chauhan PS, Prasad V and Prasad M (2017) A functional genomic perspective on drought signalling and its cross talk with various phytohormone-mediated signalling pathways in plants. Current Genomics 18: 469-482.

  100. Thakore D, Srivastava AK and Sinha AK (2017) Mass production of Ajmalicine by bioreactor cultivation of hairy roots of  Catharanthus roseus. Biochemical Engineering J. 119: 84-91.

  101. Upadhyaya HD, Bajaj D, Srivastava R, Daware A, Basu U, Tripathi S, Bharadwaj C, Tyagi AK and Parida SK (2017) Genetic dissection of plant growth habit in chickpea. Functional & Integrative Genomics 17: 711-723.

  102. Verma S, Gazara RK and Verma PK (2017) Transcription factor repertoire of necrotrophic fungal phytopathogen Ascochyta rabiei: predominance of MYB transcription factors as potential regulators of secretome. Frontiers in Plant Sciences 8: 1037.

  103. Vishwakarma A and Gupta KJ (2017) Isolation and structural studies of mitochondria from pea roots. Methods in Molecular Biology 1670: 87-95.

  104. Wany A, Kumari A and Gupta KJ (2017) Nitric oxide is essential for the development of aerenchyma in wheat roots under hypoxic stress. Plant, Cell & Environment 40: 3002-3017.

  105. Yadav A, Hari-Gowthem G, Muthamilarasan M and Prasad M (2017) Regulation of development and stress response by miRNAs. In: Prasad M (ed), The Foxtail Millet Genome. Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, pp 137-152.

  106. Yadav A, Thakur JK and Yadav G (2017) KIXBASE: A comprehensive web resource for identification and exploration of KIX domains. Scientific Reports 7: 14924.

  107. Yadav CB and Prasad M (2017) Transposable elements in setaria genomes. In: Prasad M (ed), The Foxtail Millet Genome. Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, pp 23-35.
List of Publications (2016)
  1. Agarwal P, Parida SK, Raghuvanshi S, Kapoor S, Khurana P, Khurana JP and Tyagi AK (2016) Rice improvement through genome-based functional analysis and molecular breeding in India. Rice 9: 1.

  2. Amish K and Yadav G (2016) Diversification of the Histone Fold Motif (HFM) in plants: Evolution of new functional roles.  Defence Life Science Journal 1: 63-68.

  3. Babu S and Yadav G (2016) Co-authorship networks among DRDO life science scientists.  Defence Life Science Journal 1:  188-191.

  4. Badoni S, Das S, Sayal YK, Gopalakrishnan S, Singh AK, Rao AR, Agarwal P, Parida SK and Tyagi AK (2016) Genome-wide generation and use of informative intron-spanning and intron-length polymorphism markers for high-throughput genetic analysis in rice. Scientific Reports 6: 23765.

  5. Bajaj D, Srivastava R, Nath M, Tripathi S, Bharadwaj C, Upadhyaya HD, Tyagi AK and Parida SK (2016) Eco TILLING-based association mapping efficiently delineates functionally relevant natural allelic variants of candidate genes governing agronomic traits in chickpea. Front. Plant Sc. 7: 450.

  6. Bajaj D, Upadhyaya HD, Das S, Kumar V, Gowda CLL, Sharma S, Tyagi AK and Parida SK (2016) Identification of candidate genes for dissecting complex branch number trait in chickpea. Plant Science 245: 61-70.

  7. Barua P, Subba P, Lande NV, Mangalaparthi KK, Prasad TS Keshava, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2016) Gel-based and gel-free search for plasma membrane proteins in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) augments the comprehensive data sets of membrane protein repertoire. J. Proteomics  143: 199-208.

  8. Bhattacharjee A, Khurana JP and Jain M (2016) Characterization of rice homeobox genes, OsHOX22 and OsHOX24, and over-expression of OsHOX24 in transgenic Arabidopsis suggest their role in abiotic stress response. Front. Plant Sc. 7: 627.

  9. Biswas S, Aggarwal PR, Tayal R, Sarkar MP, Chakraborty N and Chakraborty S (2016) RNA-seq analysis identifies key genes involved in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) shoot development. Journal of Botanical Society of Bengal 70: 49-54.

  10. Chandna R, Augustine R, Kanchupati P, Kumar R, Kumar P, Arya GC and Bisht NC (2016) Class-specific evolution and transcriptional differentiation of 14-3-3 family members in mesohexaploid Brassica rapa. Front. Plant Sc. 7: 12.

  11. Choudhary A, Pandey P and Senthil-Kumar M (2016) Tailored responses to simultaneous drought stress and pathogen infection in plants. In: Hossain MA, Wani SH, Bhattacharjee S, Burritt DJ, Tran LSP (eds), Drought Stress Tolerance in Plants, Vol 1. Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, pp 427-438.

  12. Das S, Singh M, Srivastava R, Bajaj D, Saxena MS, Rana JC, Bansal KC, Tyagi AK and Parida SK (2016) mQTL-seq delineates functionally relevant candidate gene harbouring a major QTL regulating pod number in chickpea. DNA Res. 23: 53-65.

  13. Dahiya P, Bhat DS and Thakur JK (2016) Expression of AtMed15 of Arabidopsis in yeast causes flocculation and increases ethanol production in yeast culture. Scientific Reports 6: 27967.

  14. Daware A, Das S, Srivastava R, Badoni S, Singh AK, Agarwal P, Parida SK and Tyagi AK (2016) An efficient strategy combining SSR markers- and advanced QTL-seq-driven QTL mapping unravels candidate genes regulating grain weight in rice. Front. Plant Sc. 7: 1535.

  15. Elagamey E, Narula K, Sinha A, Aggarwal PR, Ghosh S, Chakraborty N, Chakraborty S (2016) Extracellular matrix proteome and phosphoproteome of potato reveals functionally distinct and diverse canonical and non-canonical proteoforms. Proteomes 4: 20.

  16. Fulop D, Ranjan A, Ofner I, Covington MF, Chitwood DH, West D, Ichihashi Y, Headland L, Zamir D, Maloof JN and Sinha NR (2016) A new advanced backcross tomato population enables high resolution leaf QTL mapping and gene identification. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics.  6: 3169-3184.

  17. Garg R, Aggarwal J and Thakkar B (2016) Genome-wide discovery of G-quadruplex forming sequences and their functional relevance in plants. Scientific Reports 6: 28211.

  18. Garg R, Shankar R, Thakkar B, Kudapa H, Krishnamurthy L, Mantri N, Varshney RK, Bhatia S and Jain M (2016) Transcriptome analyses reveal genotype- and developmental stage-specific molecular responses to drought and salinity stresses in chickpea. Scientific Reports 6: 19228.

  19. Gautam NK, Kumar K and Prasad M (2016) Leaf crinkle disease in urdbean (Vigna mungo L. Hepper): An overview on causal agent, vector and host. Protoplasma  253: 729-746.

  20. Gautam V, Singh A, Singh S and Sarkar AK (2016) An efficient LCM-based method for tissue specific expression analysis of genes and miRNAs. Scientific Reports 6: 21577.

  21. Gayali S, Acharya S, Lande NV, Pandey A, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2016) CicerTransDB 1.0: a resource for expression and functional study of chickpea transcription factors. BMC Plant Biol. 16: 169.

  22. Ghosh S, Narula K, Mittal PK, Sarkar MP, Chakraborty N and Chakraborty S (2016) Proteomic profile reveals the diversity and complexity of leaf proteins in spinach (Beta vulgaris var. all green). Journal of Proteins and Proteomics 7: 121-131.

  23. Ghosh S, Narula K, Sinha A, Ghosh R, Jawa P, Chakraborty N and Chakraborty S (2016) Proteometabolomic analysis of transgenic tomato overexpressing oxalate decarboxylase uncovers novel proteins potentially involved in defense mechanism against Sclerotinia.  J. Proteomics   143:    242-253.

  24. Ghosh S, Narula K, Sinha A, Ghosh R, Jawa P, Chakraborty N and Chakraborty S (2016) Proteometabolomic study of compatible interaction in tomato fruit challenged with Sclerotinia rolfsii illustrates novel protein network during disease progression. Front. Plant Sc. 7: 1034.

  25. Gupta A, Dixit SK and Senthil-Kumar M (2016) Drought stress predominantly endures Arabidopsis thaliana to pseudomonas syringae infection. Front. Plant Sc. 7: 808.

  26. Gupta A, Sarkar AK and Senthil-Kumar M (2016) Global transcriptional analysis reveals unique and shared responses in Arabidopsis thaliana exposed to combined drought and pathogen stress. Front. Plant Sc. 7: 686

  27. Gupta AK, Kumari A, Mishra S, Wany A and Gupta KJ (2016) The functional role of nitric oxide in plant mitochondrial metabolism.   Advances in Botanical Res.  77:   145-163.

  28. Gupta DB, Rai Y, Gayali S, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2016) Plant organellar proteomics in response to dehydration: Turning protein repertoire into insights. Front. Plant Sc. 7: 460.

  29. Gupta KJ and Igamberdiev AU (2016) Reactive nitrogen species in mitochondria and their implications in plant energy status and hypoxic stress tolerance. Front. Plant Sc. 7: 369.

  30. Gupta S, Arya GC, Malviya N, Bisht NC and Yadav D (2016) Molecular cloning and expression profiling of multiple Dof genes of Sorghum bicolor (L) Moench.  Mol. Biol. Rep.  43:  767-774.

  31. Irfan M, Ghosh S, Meli VS, Kumar A, Kumar V, Chakraborty N, Chakraborty S and Datta A (2016) Fruit ripening regulation of alpha-Mannosidase expression by the MADS box transcription factor RIPENING INHIBITOR and ethylene. Front. Plant Sc. 7: 10.

  32. Jain D, Khandal H, Khurana JP and Chattopadhyay D (2016) A pathogenesis related-10 protein CaARP functions as aldo/keto reductase to scavenge cytotoxic aldehydes. Plant Mol. Biol. 90: 171-187.

  33. Jain M, Srivastava PL, Verma M, Ghangal R and Garg R (2016) De novo transcriptome assembly and comprehensive expression profiling in Crocus sativus to gain insights into apocarotenoid biosynthesis. Scientific Reports  6: 22456.

  34. Jaijyan, DK, Verma PK and Singh AP (2016) A novel FIKK kinase regulates the development of mosquito and liver stages of the malaria.  Scientific Reports 6:  39285.

  35. Jalmi SK and Sinha AK (2016) Functional involvement of a mitogen activated protein kinase module, OsMKK3-OsMPK7-OsWRK30 in mediating resistance against Xanthomonas oryzae in rice. Scientific Reports 6: 37974.

  36. Jogawat A, Vadassery J, Verma N, Oelmuller R, Dua M, Nevo E and Johri AK (2016) PiHOG1, a stress regulator MAP kinase from the root endophyte fungus Piriformospora indica, confers salinity stress tolerance in rice plants. Scientific Reports  6: 36765.

  37. Kamthan A, Chaudhuri A, Kamthan M and Datta A (2016) Genetically modified (GM) crops: milestones and new advances in crop improvement.  Theor. Appl. Genet.  129:  1639-1655.

  38. Kamthan M and Datta A (2016) Candidiasis: A yeast infection caused by Candia albicans. In: Datta A, Sharma VP (eds),  Recent Advances in communicable and non-communicable diseases . The National Academy of Sciences, India & Capital Publishing Co., New Delhi, pp 366  -384.

  39. Kant C, Pradhan S and Bhatia S (2016) Dissecting the root nodule transcriptome of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). PLoS One 11: e0157908.

  40. Khemka N, Singh VK, Garg R and Jain M (2016) Genome-wide analysis of long intergenic non-coding RNAs in chickpea and their potential role in flower development. Scientific Reports 6: 33297.

  41. Kothari KS, Dansana PK, Giri J and Tyagi AK (2016) Rice stress associated protein 1 (OsSAP1) interacts with aminotransferase (OsAMTR1) and pathogenesis-related 1a protein (OsSCP) and regulates abiotic stress responses. Front. Plant Sc. 7: 1057.

  42. Kotwal S, Kaul S, Sharma P, Gupta M, Shankar R, Jain M and Dhar MK (2016) De novo transcriptome analysis of medicinally important Plantago ovata using RNA-seq. PLoS One 11(3): e0150273.

  43. Kujur A, Upadhyaya HD, Bajaj D, Gowda CL, Sharma S, Tyagi AK and Parida SK (2016) Identification of candidate genes and natural allelic variants for QTLs governing plant height in chickpea. Scientific Reports 6: 27968.

  44. Kumar A, Ghosh S, Bhatt DN, Narula A and Datta A (2016) Magnaporthe oryzae aminosugar metabolism is essential for successful host colonization. Environ. Microbiol. 18: 1063-1077.

  45. Kumar K, Srivastava V, Purayannur S, Kaladhar VC, Cheruvu PJ and Verma PK (2016) WRKY domain-encoding genes of a crop legume chickpea (Cicer arietinum): comparative analysis with Medicago truncatula WRKY family and characterization of group-III gene(s). DNA Res. 23: 225-239.

  46. Kumar M, Gazara RK, Verma S, Kumar M, Verma PK and Thakur IS (2016) Genome sequence of carbon dioxide-sequestering serratia sp. strain ISTD04 isolated from marble mining rocks. Genome Announcements 4: e01141-16.

  47. Kumar M, Gazara RK, Verma S, Kumar M, Verma PK and Thakur IS (2016) Genome sequence of pandoraea sp. ISTKB, a lignin-degrading betaproteobacterium, isolated from rhizospheric soil. Genome Announcements 4: e01240-16.

  48. Kumar S and Bhatia S (2016) A polymorphic (GA/CT)n- SSR influences promoter activity of Tryptophan decarboxylase gene in Catharanthus roseus L. Don. Scientific Reports 6: 33280.

  49. Kumar S, Kumari R and Sharma V (2016) Coevolution mechanisms that adapt viruses to genetic code variations implemented in their hosts. J. Genet. 95: 3-12.

  50. Kumar V, Chattopadhyay A, Ghosh S, Irfan M, Chakraborty N, Chakraborty S and Datta A (2016) Improving nutritional quality and fungal tolerance in soya bean and grass pea by expressing an oxalate decarboxylase.  Plant Biotechnol. Journal   14:  1394-1405.

  51. Kumar V, Irfan M, Ghosh S, Chakraborty N, Chakraborty S and Datta A (2016) Fruit ripening mutants reveal cell metabolism and redox state during ripening. Protoplasma 253: 581-594.

  52. Kumari A, Gupta AK, Mishra S, Wany A and Gupta KJ (2016) Nitric oxide measurement from purified enzymes and estimation of scavenging activity by gas phase chemiluminescence method. Methods Mol. Biol. 1424: 31-38.

  53. Malik N, Dwivedi N, Singh AK, Parida SK, Agarwal P, Thakur JK and Tyagi AK (2016) An integrated genomic strategy delineates candidate mediator genes regulating grain size and weight in rice. Scientific Reports 6: 23253.

  54. Mathan J, Bhattacharya J and Ranjan A (2016) Enhancing crop yield by optimizing plant developmental features. Development 143: 3283-3294.

  55. Mathew IE, Das S, Mahto A and Agarwal P (2016) Three rice NAC transcription factors heteromerize and are associated with seed size.Front. Plant Sc. 7: 1638. 1638.

  56. Mehra P and Giri J (2016) Rice and chickpea GDPDs are preferentially influenced by low phosphate and CaGDPD1 encodes an active glycerophosphodiester phosphodiesterase enzyme. Plant Cell Reports  35:  1699-1717.

  57. Mehra P, Pandey BK and Giri J (2016) Comparative morphophysiological analyses and molecular profiling reveal Pi-efficient strategies of a traditional rice genotype. Front. Plant Sc. 6: 1184.

  58. Muthamilarasan M, Dhaka A, Yadav R and Prasad M (2016) Exploration of millet models for developing nutrient rich graminaceous crops. Plant Science 242: 89-97.

  59. Muthamilarasan M, Mangu VR, Zandkarimi H, Prasad M and Baisakh N (2016) Structure, organization and evolution of ADP-ribosylation factors in rice and foxtail millet, and their expression in rice. Scientific Reports 6: 24008. .

  60. Muthamilarasan M and Prasad M (2016) Role of genomics in enhancing nutrition content of cereals. In: Al-Khayri JM, Jain SM, Johnson DV (eds), Advances in Plant Breeding Strategies, Vol 2: Agronomic, Abiotic and Biotic Stress Traits. Springer, Switzerland pp 77-96.

  61. Mutum RD, Kumar S, Balyan S, Kansal S, Mathur S and Raghuvanshi S (2016) Identification of novel miRNAs from drought tolerant rice variety Nagina 22. Scientific Reports 6: 30786.

  62. Nagulapalli M, Maji S, Dwivedi N, Dahiya P and Thakur JK (2016) Evolution of disorder in Mediator complex and its functional relevance. Nucl. Acids Res. 44: 1591-1612.

  63. Narula K, Aggarwal PR, Chakraborty N and Chakraborty S (2016) Plant fungus interaction proteomics: An update. In: Salekdeh GH (ed),  Agricultural Proteomics, Vol 2: Environmental Stresses. Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, pp 227 -249.

  64. Narula K, Ghosh S, Aggarwal PR, Sinha A, Chakraborty N and Chakraborty S (2016) Comparative proteomics of oxalate downregulated tomatoes points toward cross talk of signal components and metabolic consequences during post-harvest storage. Front. Plant Sc. 7: 1147.

  65. Narula K, Sinha A, Haider T, Chakraborty N and Chakraborty S (2016) 09:43 19-09-2017Seed proteomics: An overview. In: Salekdeh GH (ed), Agricultural Proteomics, Vol 1: Crops, Horticulture, Farm Animals, Food, Insect and Microorganisms. Springer International Publishing, Switzerland,  pp  31-52.

  66. Ostria-Gallardo E, Ranjan A, Zumstein K, Chitwood DH, Kumar R, Townsley BT, Ichihashi Y, Corcuera LJ and Sinha NR (2016) Transcriptomic analysis suggests a key role for SQUAMOSA PROMOTER BINDING PROTEIN LIKE, NAC and YUCCA genes in the heteroblastic development of the temperate rainforest tree Gevuina avellana (Proteaceae).  New Phytol.  210:  694-708.

  67. Pandey C, Augustine R, Panthri M, Zia I, Bisht NC and Gupta M (2016) Arsenic affects the production of glucosinolate, thiol and phytochemical compounds: A comparison of two Brassica cultivars. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 111: 144-154.

  68. Pandey GK, Pandey A, Prasad M and Bohmer M (2016) Editorial: Abiotic stress signaling in plants: Functional genomic intervention. Front. Plant Sc. 7: 681.

  69. Pandey G, Sharma N, Sahu PP and Prasad M (2016) Chromatin-based epigenetic regulation of plant abiotic stress response.  Current Genomics 17:  490-498.

  70. Parveen S, Gupta DB, Dass S, Kumar A, Pandey A, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2016) Chickpea ferritin CaFer1 participates in oxidative stress response, and promotes growth and development. Scientific Reports 6: 31218.

  71. Petla BP, Kamble NU, Kumar M, Verma P, Ghosh S, Singh A, Rao V, Salvi P, Kaur H, Saxena SC and Majee M (2016) Rice PROTEIN L-ISOASPARTYL METHYLTRANSFERASE isoforms differentially accumulate during seed maturation to restrict deleterious isoAsp and reactive oxygen species accumulation and are implicated in seed vigor and longevity. New Phytol. 211: 627-645.

  72. Paul A, Rao S and Mathur S (2016) The a-crystallin domain containing genes: identification, phylogeny and expression profiling in abiotic stress, phytohormone response and development in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum). Front. Plant Sc. 7: 426.

  73. Priya P, Kumari S and Yadav G (2016) Quantification of the plant terpenome: predicted versus actual emission potentials.  Indian J. Plant Physiol.  21: 569-575.

  74. Ram H, Jain M, Singh A and Chattopadhyay S (2016) Functional relationship of GBF1 with HY5 and HYH in genome-wide gene expression in Arabidopsis. Plant Mol. Biol. Rep. 34: 211-220.

  75. Ramu VS, Paramanantham A, Ramegowda V, Mohan-Raju B, Udayakumar M and Senthil-Kumar M (2016) Transcriptome analysis of sunflower genotypes with contrasting oxidative stress tolerance reveals individual- and combined- biotic and abiotic stress tolerance mechanisms. PLoS One 11: e0157522.

  76. Ranjan A, Budke J, Rowland SD, Chitwood DH, Kumar R, Carriedo LG, Ichihashi Y, Zumstein K, Maloof JN and Sinha N (2016) eQTL regulating transcript levels associated with diverse biological processes in tomato. Plant Physiol. 172: 328-340.

  77. Rao KH, Ghosh S and Datta A (2016) Env7p associates with the golgin protein Imh1 at the trans-Golgi network in Candida albicans. mSphere 1: e00080-16.

  78. Rathi D, Gayen D, Gayali S, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2016) Legume proteomics: Progress, prospects and challenges. Proteomics 16: 310-327.

  79. Sahu PP, Sharma N, Puranik S, Chakraborty S and Prasad M (2016) Tomato 26S Proteasome subunit RPT4a regulates ToLCNDV transcription and activates hypersensitive response in tomato. Scientific Reports 6: 27078.

  80. Salvi P, Saxena SC, Petla BP, Kamble NU, Kaur H, Verma P, Rao V, Ghosh S and Majee M (2016) Differentially expressed galactinol synthase(s) in chickpea are implicated in seed vigor and longevity by limiting the age induced ROS accumulation. Scientific Reports 6: 35088.

  81. Shankar R, Bhattacharjee A and Jain M (2016) Transcriptome analysis in different rice cultivars provides novel insights into desiccation and salinity stress responses. Scientific Reports 6: 23719.

  82. Sharma M and Laxmi A (2016) Jasmonates: Emerging players in controlling temperature stress tolerance. Front. Plant Sc. 6: 1129.

  83. Sheikh AH, Eschen-Lippold L, Pecher P, Hoehenwarter W, Sinha AK, Scheel D and Lee J (2016) Regulation of WRKY46 transcription factor function by mitogen-activated protein kinases in Arabidopsis thaliana. Front. Plant Sc. 7: 61.

  84. Shekhar S, Agrawal L, Mishra D, Buragohain AK, Unnikrishnan M, Mohan C, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2016) Ectopic expression of amaranth seed storage albumin modulates photoassimilate transport and nutrient acquisition in sweetpotato. Scientific Reports 6: 25384.

  85. Shekhar S, Mishra D, Gayali S, Buragohain AK, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2016) Comparison of proteomic and metabolomic profiles of two contrasting ecotypes of sweetpotato (Ipomoea batata L). J. Proteomics 143: 306-317.

  86. Singh A, Kumar P, Gautam V, Rengasamy B, Adhikari B, Udayakumar M and Sarkar AK (2016) Root transcriptome of two contrasting indica rice cultivars uncovers regulators of root development and physiological responses.  Scientific Reports  6:  39266.

  87. Singh P and Sinha AK (2016) A positive feedback loop governed by SUB1A1 interaction with Mitogen Activated Protein Kinase 3 imparts submergence tolerance in rice. Plant Cell 28: 1127-1143.

  88. Singh P and Sinha AK (2016) Differential expression of Mitogen Activated Protein Kinase (MAPK) cascade components post submergence in Oryza sativa ssp indica cv Pusa Basmati 1. Plant Signal. Behav.11: e1213936.

  89. Sinha R, Gupta A and Senthil-Kumar M (2016) Understanding the impact of drought on foliar and xylem invading bacterial pathogen stress in chickpea. Front. Plant Sc. 7: 902.

  90. Singh RK, Jaishankar J, Muthamilarasan M, Shweta S, Dangi A and Prasad M (2016) Genome-wide analysis of heat shock proteins in C4 model, foxtail millet identifies potential candidates for crop improvement under abiotic stress. Scientific Reports 6: 32641.

  91. Singh RK and Prasad M (2016) Advances in Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated genetic transformation of graminaceous crops. Protoplasma  253: 691-707.

  92. Singh SK, Verma S and Verma PK (2016) Genetically engineered crops against bacterial and fungal diseases: a war of attrition. In: Dubey S. K, Pandey A, Sangwan R. S (eds.), Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering: Crop Modification, Nutrition and Food Production, Vol VI. Elsevier, pp 125-147.

  93. Sirohi G, Pandey BK, Deveshwar P and Giri J (2016) Emerging trends in epigenetic regulation of nutrient deficiency response in plants. Mol. Biotechnol. 58: 159-171.

  94. Srivastava R, Bajaj D, Malik A, Singh M and Parida SK (2016) Transcriptome landscape of perennial wild Cicer microphyllum uncovers functionally relevant molecular tags regulating agronomic traits in chickpea. Scientific Reports 6: 33616.

  95. Srivastava R, Bajaj D, Sayal YK, Meher PK, Upadhyaya HD, Kumar R, Tripathi S, Bharadwaj C, Rao AR and Parida SK (2016) Genome-wide development and deployment of informative intron-spanning and intron-length polymorphism markers for genomics-assisted breeding applications in chickpea. Plant Science 252: 374-387.

  96. Srivastava V, Mehrotra S and Verma PK (2016) Biotechnological interventions for production of therapeutic secondary metabolites using hairy root cultures of medicinal plants. In: Dubey SK, Pandey A, Sangwan RS (eds.), Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering: Crop Modification, Nutrition and Food Production, Vol VI. Elsevier, pp 259-282.

  97. Srivastava R, Singh M, Bajaj D and Parida SK (2016) A high-resolution InDel (Insertion-Deletion) markers-anchored consensus genetic map identifies major QTLs governing pod number and seed yield in chickpea. Front. Plant Sc. 7: 1362.

  98. Trivedi DK, Srivastava A, Verma PK, Tuteja N and Gill SS (2016) Piriformospora indica: a friend in need is a friend in deed. J. Bot. Sci. 5: 16-19.

  99. Upadhyaya HD, Bajaj D, Das S, Kumar V, Gowda CLL, Sharma S, Tyagi AK and Parida SK (2016) Genetic dissection of seed-iron and zinc concentrations in chickpea. Scientific Reports 6: 24050.

  100. Upadhyaya HD, Bajaj D, Narnoliya L, Das S, Kumar V, Gowda CLL, Sharma S, Tyagi AK and Parida SK (2016) Genome-wide scans for delineation of candidate genes regulating seed-protein content in chickpea. Front. Plant Sc. 7: 302.

  101. Verma S, Gazara RK, Nizam S, Parween S, Chattopadhyay D and Verma PK (2016) Draft genome sequencing and secretome analysis of fungal phytopathogen Ascochyta rabiei provides insight into the necrotrophic effector repertoire. Scientific Reports 6: 24638.

  102. Wankhede DP, Singh P, Jaggi M, Rao KP, Raina SK and Sinha AK (2016) UV-B activates a 'group A' mitogen activated protein kinase in Oryza sativa. J. Plant Biochem. Biotechnol. 25: 392-399.

  103. Wany A, Gupta AK, Kumari A, Gupta S, Mishra S, Jaintu R, Pathak PK and Gupta KJ (2016) Chemiluminescence detection of nitric oxide from roots, leaves, and root mitochondria. Methods Mol. Biol. 1424: 15-29.

  104. Wany A and Gupta KJ (2016) Localization of nitric oxide in wheat roots by DAF fluorescence. Methods Mol. Biol. 1424: 39-47.

  105. Wardhan V, Pandey A, Chakraborty S, Chakraborty N (2016) Chickpea transcription factor CaTLP1 interacts with protein kinases, modulates ROS accumulation and promotes ABA-mediated stomatal closure. Scientific Reports 6: 38121.

  106. Yadav A, Khan Y and Prasad M (2016) Dehydration-responsive miRNAs in foxtail millet: genome-wide identification, characterization and expression profiling. Planta 243: 749-766.

  107. Yadav CB, Muthamilarasan M, Dangi A, Shweta S and Prasad M (2016) Comprehensive analysis of SET domain gene family in foxtail millet identifies the putative role of SiSET14 in abiotic stress tolerance. Scientific Reports 6: 32621.
List of Publications (2015)
  1. Ara H and Sinha AK (2015) Role of mitogen activated protein kinase cascade in combating abiotic stress in plants. In: Pandey GK (ed), Elucidation of Abiotic Stress Signaling in Plants. Springer Science, New York, USA, pp 207-229.

  2. Augustine R and Bisht NC (2015) Biofortification of oilseed Brassica juncea with the anti-cancer compound glucoraphanin by suppressing GSL-ALK gene family. Scientific Reports 5: 18005.

  3. Augustine R and Bisht NC (2015) Biotic elicitors and mechanical damage modulate glucosinolate accumulation by co-ordinated interplay of glucosinolate biosynthesis regulators in polyploid Brassica juncea. Phytochemistry 117: 43-50.

  4. Bahl JR, Bansal RP, Goel R and Kumar S (2015) Properties of the seed oil of a dwarf cultivar of the pharmaceutical silymarin producing plant Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertn. developed in India. Indian J. Nat. Prod. Resour. 6: 127-133.

  5. Bajaj D, Das S, Badoni S, Kumar V, Singh M, Bansal KC, Tyagi AK and Parida SK (2015) Genome-wide high-throughput SNP discovery and genotyping for understanding natural (functional) allelic diversity and domestication patterns in wild chickpea. Scientific Reports 5: 12468.

  6. Bajaj D, Das S and Parida SK (2015) CNMS: The preferred genic markers for comparative genomic, molecular phylogenetic, functional genetic diversity and differential gene regulatory expression analyses in chickpea. Journal of Biosciences 40: 579-592.

  7. Bajaj D, Das S, Upadhyaya HD, Ranjan R, Badoni S, Kumar V, Tripathi S, Gowda CLL, Sharma S, Singh S, Tyagi AK and Parida SK (2015) A genome-wide combinatorial strategy dissects complex genetic architecture of seed coat color in chickpea. Front. Plant Sc. 6: 979.

  8. Bajaj D, Saxena MS, Kujur A, Das S, Badoni S, Tripathi S, Upadhyaya HD, Gowda CL, Sharma S, Singh S, Tyagi AK and Parida SK (2015) Genome-wide conserved non-coding microsatellite (CNMS) marker-based integrative genetical genomics for quantitative dissection of seed weight in chickpea. J. Exp. Bot. 66:1271-1290.

  9. Bajaj D, Upadhyaya HD, Khan Y, Das S, Badoni S, Shree T, Kumar V, Tripathi S, Gowda CL, Singh S, Sharma S, Tyagi AK, Chattopadhyay D and Parida SK (2015) A combinatorial approach of comprehensive QTL-based comparative genome mapping and transcript profiling identified a seed weight-regulating candidate gene in chickpea. Scientific Reports 5: 9264.

  10. Balyan SC, Mutum RD, Kansal S, Kumar S, Mathur S and Raghuvanshi S (2015) Insights into the small RNA mediated networks in response to abiotic stress in plants. In: Pandey GK (ed), Elucidation of Abiotic Stress Signaling in Plants. Springer Science, New York, USA, pp 45-91.

  11. Barik S, Kumar A, SarkarDas S, Yadav S, Gautam V, Singh A, Singh S and Sarkar AK (2015) Coevolution pattern and functional conservation or divergence of miR167s and their targets across diverse plant species. Scientific Reports 5: 14611.

  12. Bhattacharjee A, Ghangal R, Garg R and Jain M (2015) Genome-wide analysis of homeobox gene family in legumes: identification, gene duplication and expression profiling. PLoS One 10: e0119198.

  13. Bisht NC, Jagannath A, Augustine R, Burma PK, Gupta V, Pradhan AK and Pental D (2015) Effective restoration of male-sterile (barnase) lines requires overlapping and higher levels of barstar expression: A multi-generation field analysis in Brassica juncea. J. Plant Biochem. Biotechnol. 24: 393-399.

  14. Chakraborty N (2015) Rice proteomics and beyond. J. Rice Res. 3: 1000e113.

  15. Chakraborty S, Salekdeh GH, Yang P, Woo SH, Chin CF, Gehring C, Haynes PA, Mirzaei M and Komatsu S (2015) Proteomics of important food crops in the asia oceania region: current status and future perspectives. J. Proteome Res. 14: 2723-2744.

  16. Chandra A, Verma PK, Islam MN, Grisham MP, Jain R, Sharma A, Roopendra K, Singh K, Singh P, Verma I and Solomon S (2015) Expression analysis of genes associated with sucrose accumulation in sugarcane (Saccharum spp. hybrids) varieties differing in content and time of peak sucrose storage. Plant Biol. 17: 608-617.

  17. Chitwood DH, Kumar R, Ranjan A, Pelletier JM, Townsley B, Ichihashi Y, Martinez CC, Zumstein K, Harada JJ, Maloof JN and Sinha NR (2015) Light-induced indeterminacy alters shade avoiding tomato leaf morphology. Plant Physiol. 169 2030-2047.

  18. Das S, Upadhyaya HD, Bajaj D, Kujur A, Badoni S, Laxmi, Kumar V, Tripathi S, Gowda CL, Sharma S, Singh S, Tyagi AK and Parida SK (2015) Deploying QTL-seq for rapid delineation of a potential candidate gene underlying major trait-associated QTL in chickpea. DNA Res. 22: 193-203.

  19. Das S, Upadhyaya HD, Srivastava R, Bajaj D, Gowda CL, Sharma S, Singh S, Tyagi AK and Parida SK (2015) Genome-wide insertion-deletion (InDel) marker discovery and genotyping for genomics-assisted breeding applications in chickpea. DNA Res. 22: 377-386.

  20. Datta A (2015) N-acetylglucosamine catabolism: unique side of sugar sensing. Biochem. Anal. Biochem. 4: 189.

  21. Dhariwal R, Gahlaut V, Govindraj BR, Singh D, Mathur S, Vyas S, Bandopadhyay R, Khurana JP, Tyagi AK, Prabhu KV, Mukhopadhyay K, Balyan HS and Gupta PK (2015) Stage-specific reprogramming of gene expression characterizes Lr48-mediated adult plant leaf rust resistance in wheat. Funct. Integr. Genomics 15: 233-245.

  22. Fatima U and Senthil-Kumar M (2015) Plant and pathogen nutrient acquisition strategies. Front. Plant Sc. 6: 750.

  23. Garg R, Bhattacharjee A and Jain M (2015) Genome-scale transcriptomic insights into molecular aspects of abiotic stress responses in chickpea. Plant Mol. Biol. Rep. 33: 388-400..

  24. Garg R, Chevala VVSN, Shankar R and Jain M (2015) Divergent DNA methylation patterns associated with gene expression in rice cultivars with contrasting drought and salinity stress response. Scientific Reports 5: 14922.

  25. Gaur R, Jeena G, Shah N, Gupta S, Pradhan S, Tyagi AK, Jain M, Chattopadhyay D and Bhatia S (2015) High density linkage mapping of genomic and transcriptomic SNPs for synteny analysis and anchoring the genome sequence of chickpea. Scientific Reports 5: 13387.

  26. Gautam V and Sarkar AK (2015) Laser assisted microdissection, an efficient technique to understand tissue specific gene expression patterns and functional genomics in plants. Mol. Biotechnol. 50: 299-308.

  27. Ghosh S and Datta A (2015) Agricultural biotechnology for food sufficiency and benefit to human health. In: Talwar GP, Hasnain SE, Sarin SK (eds.), Textbook of Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Allied & Molecular Medicine (Section VIII, Chapter 72). Prentice Hall of India, New Delhi, pp 877-896.

  28. Gupta A, Singh M and Laxmi A (2015) Interaction between glucose and brassinosteroid during regulation of lateral root development in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Physiol 168: 307-320.

  29. Gupta A, Singh M and Laxmi A (2015) Multiple interactions between glucose and brassinosteroid signal transduction pathways in Arabidopsis are uncovered by whole-genome transcriptional profiling. Plant Physiol. 168: 1091-1105.

  30. Gupta KJ and Ewald R (2015) Simultaneous isolation of root and leaf mitochondria from Arabidopsis. In: Gupta KJ, Mur LAJ, Neelwarne B (eds.), Alternative Respiratory Pathways in Higher Plants. John Wiley & Sons, UK, pp 359-365.

  31. Gupta KJ, Neelwarne B and Mur LAJ (2015) Integrating classical and alternative respiratory pathway. In: Gupta KJ, Mur LAJ, Neelwarne B (eds.), Alternative Respiratory Pathways in Higher Plants. John Wiley & Sons, UK, pp 3-19.

  32. Gupta S, Garg V and Bhatia S (2015) A new set of ESTs from chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) embryo reveals two novel F-box genes, CarF-box_PP2 and CarF-box_LysM, with potential roles in seed development. PLoS One 10: e0121100.

  33. Gupta S, Garg V, Kant C and Bhatia S (2015) Genome-wide survey and expression analysis of F-box genes in chickpea. BMC Genomics 16: 67.

  34. Gupta S, Kumar T, Verma S, Bharadwaj C and Bhatia S (2015) Development of gene-based markers for use in construction of the chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) genetic linkage map and identification of QTLs associated with seed weight and plant height. Mol. Biol. Rep. 42: 1571-1580.

  35. Gupta S, Malviya N, Kushwaha H, Nasim J, Bisht NC, Singh VK and Yadav D (2015) Insights into structural and functional diversity of Dof (DNA binding with one finger) transcription factor. Planta 241: 549-562..

  36. Gupta S, Wardhan V, Kumar A, Rathi D, Pandey A, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2015) Secretome analysis of chickpea reveals dynamic extracellular remodeling and identifies a Bet v1-like protein, CaRRP1 that participates in stress response. Scientific Reports 5: 18427.

  37. Heikrujam M, Sharma K, Prasad M and Agrawal V (2015) Review on different mechanisms of sex determination and sex-linked molecular markers in dioecious crops: a current update. Euphytica 201: 161-194.

  38. Jain M (2015) Functional genomics of abiotic stress tolerance in plants: A CRISPR approach. Front. Plant Sc. 6: 375.

  39. Jain M, Pole AK, Singh VK, Ravikumar RL and Garg R (2015) Discovery of molecular markers for Fusarium wilt via transcriptome sequencing of chickpea cultivars. Mol. Breed. 35: 198.

  40. Jaiswal V, Gahlaut V, Mathur S, Agarwal P, Khandelwal MK, Khurana JP, Tyagi AK, Balyan HS and Gupta PK (2015) Identification of novel SNP in promoter sequence of TaGW2-6A associated with grain weight and other agronomic traits in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). PLoS One 10: e0129400.

  41. Jalmi SK and Sinha AK (2015) ROS mediated MAPK signaling in abiotic and biotic stress- striking similarities and differences. Front. Plant Sc. 6: 769.

  42. Jamsheer KM and Laxmi A (2015) Expression of Arabidopsis FCS-like zinc finger genes is differentially regulated by sugars, cellular energy level, and abiotic stress. Front. Plant Sc. 6: 746.

  43. Jamsheer KM, Mannully CT, Gopan N and Laxmi A (2015) Comprehensive evolutionary and expression analysis of FCS-like zinc finger gene family yields insights into their origin, expansion and divergence. PLoS One 10: e0134328.

  44. Jisha V, Dampanaboina L, Vadassery J, Mithöfer A, Kappara S and Ramanan R (2015) Overexpression of an AP2/ERF type transcription factor OsEREBP1 confers biotic and abiotic stress tolerance in rice. PLoS One 10: e0127831.

  45. Jha G, Tyagi I, Kumar R and Ghosh S (2015) Draft genome sequence of broad-spectrum antifungal bacterium Burkholderia gladioli strain NGJ1, isolated from healthy rice seeds. Genome Announcements 3: e00803-15.

  46. Kamthan A, Chaudhuri A, Kamthan M and Datta A (2015) Small RNAs in plants: recent development and application for crop improvement. Front. Plant Sc. 6: 208.

  47. Kamthan A, Kamthan M, Kumar A, Sharma P, Ansari S, Thakur SS, Chaudhuri A and Datta A (2015) A calmodulin like EF hand protein positively regulates oxalate decarboxylase expression by interacting with E-box elements of the promoter. Scientific Reports 5: 14578.

  48. Kansal S, Devi RM, Balyan SC, Arora MK, Singh AK, Mathur S and Raghuvanshi S (2015) Unique miRNome during anthesis in drought-tolerant indica rice var. Nagina 22. Planta 241: 1543-1559.

  49. Kaur H, Petla BP, Kamble NU, Singh A, Rao V, Salvi P, Ghosh S and Majee M (2015) Differentially expressed seed aging responsive heat shock protein OsHSP18.2 implicates in seed vigor, longevity and improves germination and seedling establishment under abiotic stress. Front. Plant Sc. 6: 713.

  50. Khujuria YP, Saxena MS, Gaur R, Chattopadhyay D, Jain M, Parida SK and Bhatia S (2015) Development and integration of genome-wide polymorphic microsatellite markers onto a reference linkage map for constructing a high-density genetic map of chickpea. PLoS One 10: e0125583.

  51. Kiep V, Vadassery J, Lattke J, Maaß JP, Pieter E, Boland W and Mithöfer A (2015) Systemic cytosolic Ca2+ elevation is activated upon wounding and herbivory in Arabidopsis. New Phytol. 207:  996-1004.

  52. Kole C, Muthamilarasan M, Henry R, Edwards D, Sharma R, Abberton M, Batley J, Bentley A, Blakeney M, Bryant J, Cai H, Cakir M, Cseke LJ, Cockram J, de Oliveira AC, De Pace C, Dempewolf H, Ellison S, Gepts P, Greenland A, Hall A, Hori K, Hughes S, Humphreys MW, Iorizzo M, Ismail AM, Marshall A, Mayes S, Nguyen HT, Ogbonnaya FC, Ortiz R, Paterson AH, Simon PW, Tohme J, Tuberosa R, Valliyodan B, Varshney RK, Wullschleger SD, Yano M and Prasad M (2015) Application of genomics-assisted breeding for generation of climate resilient crops: progress and prospects. Front. Plant Sc. 6: 563.

  53. Kujur A, Bajaj D, Upadhyaya HD, Das S, Ranjan R, Shree T, Saxena MS, Badoni S, Kumar V, Tripathi S, Gowda CLL, Sharma S, Singh S, Tyagi AK and Parida SK (2015) A genome-wide SNP scan accelerates trait-regulatory genomic loci identification in chickpea. Scientific Reports 5: 11166.

  54. Kujur A, Bajaj D, Upadhyaya HD, Das S, Ranjan R, Shree T, Saxena MS, Badoni S, Kumar V, Tripathi S, Gowda CL, Sharma S, Singh S, Tyagi AK and Parida SK (2015) Employing genome-wide SNP discovery and genotyping strategy to extrapolate the natural allelic diversity and domestication patterns in chickpea. Front. Plant Sc. 6: 162.

  55. Kujur A, Upadhyaya HD, Shree T, Bajaj D, Das S, Saxena MS, Badoni S, Kumar V, Tripathi S, Gowda CL, Sharma S, Singh S, Tyagi AK and Parida SK (2015) Ultra-high density intra-specific genetic linkage maps accelerate identification of functionally relevant molecular tags governing important agronomic traits in chickpea. Scientific Reports 5: 9468.

  56. Kumar K, Muthamilarasan M, Bonthala VS, Roy R and Prasad M (2015) Unraveling 14-3-3 proteins in C4 panicoids with emphasis on model plant Setaria italica reveals phosphorylation-dependent subcellular localization of RS splicing factor. PLoS One 10:  e0123236.

  57. Kumar R, Agarwal P, Pareek A, Tyagi AK and Sharma AK (2015) Genomic survey, gene expression, and interaction analysis suggest diverse roles of ARF and Aux/IAA proteins in Solanaceae. Plant Mol. Biol. Rep. 33: 1552-1572.

  58. Kumar S and Bhatia S (2015) Isolation of Catharanthus roseus (L.) G. don nuclei and measurement of rate of Tryptophan decarboxylase gene transcription using nuclear run-on transcription assay. PLoS One 10: e0127892.

  59. Kumar S and Kumari R (2015) Occurrence of molecularly diverse Bt Cry toxin-resistant mutations in insect pests of Bt+ corn and cotton crops and remedial approaches. Current Science 108: 1483-1490.

  60. Kumar S and Kumari R (2015) Origin, structure and function of millions of chromosomes present in the macronucleus of unicellular eukaryotic ciliate, Oxytricha trifallax: a model organism for transgenerationally programmed genome rearrangements. J. Genet. 94: 171-176.

  61. Kumar S, Kumari R and Pandey R (2015) New insight-guided approaches to detect, cure, prevent and eliminate malaria. Protoplasma 252: 717-753.

  62. Kumar T, Bharadwaj C, Alam A, Singh P, Singhal T, Chauhan SK, Bhatia S and Sarker A (2015) Development and characterization of recombinant inbreed lines for seed related traits in chickpea. Int. J. Trop. Agric. 33: 639-642.

  63. Kumar V and Jain M (2015) The CRISPR-Cas system for plant genome editing: advances and opportunities. J. Exp. Bot. 66: 47-57.

  64. Kushwaha N, Sahu PP, Prasad M and Chakraborty S (2015) Chilli leaf curl virus infection highlights the differential expression of genes involved in protein homeostasis and defense in resistant chilli plants. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 99: 4757-4770.

  65. Lata C, Muthamilarasan M and Prasad M (2015) Drought stress responses and signal transduction in plants. In: Pandey GK (ed), Elucidation of Abiotic Stress Signaling in Plants. Springer Science, New York, USA, pp 195-225.

  66. Maiti P, Ghorai P, Ghosh S, Kamthan M, Tyagi RK and Datta A (2015) Mapping of functional domains and characterization of the transcription factor Cph1 that mediate morphogenesis in Candida albicans. Fungal Genet. Biol. 83: 45-57.

  67. Meena MK and Vadassery J (2015) Channels hold the key: cyclic nucleotide gated channels (CNGC) in plant biotic stress signaling. Endocytobiosis & Cell Res. 26:  25-30..

  68. Meena MK, Ghawana S, Dwivedi V, Roy A and Chattopadhyay D (2015) Expression of chickpea CIPK25 enhances root growth and tolerance to dehydration and salt stress in transgenic tobacco. Front. Plant Sc. 6: 683.

  69. Meena MK, Ghawana S, Sardar A, Dwivedi V, Khandal H, Roy R and Chattopadhyay D (2015) Investigation of genes encoding calcineurin B-like protein family in legumes and their expression analyses in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). PLoS One 10: e0123640.

  70. Meenu, Augustine R, Majee M, Pradhan AK and Bisht NC (2015) Genomic origin, expression differentiation and regulation of multiple genes encoding CYP83A1, a key enzyme for core glucosinolate biosynthesis, from the allotetraploid Brassica juncea. Planta 241: 651-665.

  71. Mehra P, Pandey BK and Giri J (2015) Genome-wide DNA polymorphisms in low phosphate tolerant and sensitive rice genotypes. Scientific Reports 5: 13090.

  72. Mukhopadhyay P and Tyagi AK (2015) OsTCP19 influences developmental and abiotic stress signaling by modulating ABI4-mediated pathways. Scientific Reports 5: 9998.

  73. Muthamilarasan M, Bonthala V, Khandelwal R, Jaishankar J, Shweta S, Nawaz K and Prasad M (2015) Global analysis of WRKY transcription factor superfamily in Setaria identifies potential candidates involved in abiotic stress signaling. Front. Plant Sc. 6: 910.

  74. Muthamilarasan M, Khan Y, Jaishankar J, Shweta S, Lata C and Prasad M (2015) Integrative analysis and expression profiling of secondary cell wall genes in C4 biofuel model Setaria italica reveals targets for lignocellulose bioengineering. Front. Plant Sc. 6: 965.

  75. Muthamilarasan M and Prasad M (2015) Advances in plant sciences for nutritional security. In: Peter KV (ed), Horticulture for Nutrition Security. Astral International Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, India, pp 125-139.

  76. Muthamilarasan M and Prasad M (2015) Advances in Setaria genomics for genetic improvement of cereals and bioenergy grasses. Theor. Appl. Genet. 128: 1-14.

  77. Mysore KS and Senthil-Kumar M(eds.) (2015) Plant Gene Silencing: Methods and Protocols. (Book Series: Methods in Mol. Biol. Vol. 1287). Springer Science, New York, USA, pp 1-307.

  78. Nagaraj S, Senthil-Kumar M, Ramu VS, Wang K and Mysore KS (2015) Plant ribosomal proteins, RPL12 and RPL19, play a role in nonhost disease resistance against bacterial pathogens. Front. Plant Sc. 6: 1192.

  79. Narula K, Pandey A, Gayali S, Chakraborty N and Chakraborty S (2015) Birth of plant proteomics in India: A new horizon. J. Proteomics 127: 34-43.

  80. Natarajan K and Datta A (2015) Gene transcription. In: Talwar GP, Hasnain SE, Sarin SK (eds.), Textbook of Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Allied & Molecular Medicine (Section VIII, Chapter 65). Prentice Hall of India, New Delhi, pp 798-808.

  81. Pandey C, Raghuram B, Sinha AK and Gupta M (2015) miRNA plays a role in the antagonistic effect of selenium on arsenic stress in rice seedlings. Metallomics 7: 857-866.

  82. Pandey P, Ramegowda V and Senthil-Kumar M (2015) Shared and unique responses of plants to multiple individual stresses and stress combinations: physiological and molecular mechanisms. Front. Plant Sc. 6: 723.

  83. Pandey P, Senthil-Kumar M and Mysore KS (2015) Advances in plant gene silencing methods. In: Mysore KS, Senthil-Kumar M (eds.), Plant Gene Silencing: Methods and Protocols (Series: Methods in Mol. Biol. Vol. 1287). Springer Science, New York, USA, pp 3-23.

  84. Pandey P, Sinha R, Mysore KS and Senthil-Kumar M (2015) Impact of concurrent drought stress and pathogen infection on plants. In: Mahalingam R (ed), Combined Stresses in Plants. Springer Science, New York, USA, pp 203-222.

  85. Parida SK, Verma M, Yadav SK, Ambawat S, Das S, Garg R and Jain M (2015) Development of genome-wide informative simple sequence repeat markers for large-scale genotyping applications in chickpea and development of web resource. Front. Plant Sc. 6: 645.

  86. Parween S, Nawaz K, Roy R, Pole AK, Venkata Suresh B, Misra G, Jain M, Yadav G, Parida SK, Tyagi AK, Bhatia S and Chattopadhyay D (2015) An advanced draft genome assembly of a desi type chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). Scientific Reports 5: 12806.

  87. Priya P, Bandhiwal N, Misra G, Mondal S and Yadav G (2015) IGMAP: An Interactive Mapping and Clustering Platform for Plants. Mol. Plant. 8: 818-821.

  88. Qamar A, Mysore KS and Senthil-Kumar M (2015) Role of proline and pyrroline-5-carboxylate metabolism in plant defense against invading pathogens. Front. Plant Sc. 6: 503.

  89. Raghuram B, Sheikh AH, Rustagi Y and Sinha AK (2015) MicroRNA biogenesis factor DRB1 is a phosphorylation target of mitogen activated protein kinase, MPK3 in both rice and Arabidopsis. FEBS Journal 282: 521-536.

  90. Rai V, Sanagala R, Sinilal B, Yadav S, Sarkar AK, Dantu PK and Jain A (2015) Iron availability affects phosphate deficiency-mediated responses, and evidences of cross talk with auxin and zinc in Arabidopsis. Plant and Cell Physiology 56: 1107-1123.

  91. Ramegowda V and Senthil-Kumar M (2015) The interactive effects of simultaneous biotic and abiotic stresses on plants: Mechanistic understanding from drought and pathogen combination. J. Plant Physiol. 176: 47-54.

  92. Royo B, Moran JF, Ratcliffe RG and Gupta KJ (2015) Nitric oxide induces the alternative oxidase pathway in Arabidopsis seedlings deprived of inorganic phosphate. J. Exp. Bot. 66: 6273-6280.

  93. Ruhela D, Kamthan M, Saha P, Majumdar SS, Datta K, Abdin MZ and Datta A (2015) In vivo role of Candida albicans β-hexosaminidase (HEX1) in carbon scavenging. MicrobiologyOpen 4: 730-742.

  94. Sahu PP and Prasad M (2015) Application of molecular antiviral compounds: novel approach for durable resistance against geminiviruses. Mol. Biol. Rep. 42: 1157-1162.

  95. Samanta S and Thakur JK (2015) Importance of mediator complex in the regulation and integration of diverse signaling pathways in plants. Front. Plant Sc. 6: 757.

  96. Samanta S and Thakur JK (2015) Role of plant mediator complex in stress response. In: Pandey GK (ed), Elucidation of Abiotic Stress Signaling in Plants. Springer Science, New York, USA, pp 3-28.

  97. Scholz SS, Reichelt M, Vadassery J and Mithofer A (2015) Calmodulin-like protein CML37 is a positive regulator of ABA during drought stress in Arabidopsis. Plant Signal. Behav. 10: e1011951.

  98. Sharma E, Sharma R, Borah P, Jain M and Khurana JP (2015) Emerging roles of auxin in abiotic stress responses. In: Pandey GK (ed), Elucidation of Abiotic Stress Signaling in Plants. Springer Science, New York, USA, pp 299-328.

  99. Sharma G, Giri J and Tyagi AK (2015) Rice OsiSAP7 negatively regulates ABA stress signalling and imparts sensitivity to water-deficit stress in Arabidopsis. Plant Science 237: 80-92.

  100. Singh AP, Pandey BK, Deveshwar P, Narnoliya L, Parida SK and Giri J (2015) JAZ repressors: Potential involvement in nutrients deficiency response in rice and chickpea. Front. Plant Sc. 6: 975.

  101. Singh D and Laxmi A (2015) Transcriptional regulation of drought response: a tortuous network of transcriptional factors. Front. Plant Sc. 6: 895.

  102. Singh M, Gupta A and Laxmi A (2015) Ethylene acts as a negative regulator of glucose induced lateral root emergence in Arabidopsis. Plant Signal. Behav. 10: e1058460.

  103. Singh P, Mohanta TK and Sinha AK (2015) Unraveling the intricate nexus of molecular mechanisms governing rice root development: OsMPK3/6 and auxin-cytokinin interplay. PLoS One 10: e0123620.

  104. Singh VK and Jain M (2015) Genome-wide survey and comprehensive expression profiling of Aux/IAA gene family in chickpea and soybean. Front. Plant Sc. 6: 918.

  105. Singh VK, Jain M and Garg R (2015) Genome-wide analysis and expression profiling suggest diverse roles of GH3 genes during development and abiotic stress responses in legumes. Front. Plant Sc. 5: 789.

  106. Srivastava S, Bharti RK, Verma PK and Thakur IS (2015) Cloning and expression of gamma carbonic anhydrase from Serratia sp. ISTD04 for sequestration of carbon dioxide and formation of calcite. Bioresource Technol. 188: 209-213.

  107. Srivastava V and Verma PK (2015) Genome wide identification of LIM genes in Cicer arietinum and response of Ca-2LIMs in development, hormone and pathogenic stress. PLoS One 10: e0138719.

  108. Thakore D, Srivastava AK and Sinha AK (2015) Model based fed batch cultivation and elicitation for the overproduction of ajmalicine from hairy roots of Catharanthus roseus. Biochemical Engineering J. 97: 73-80.

  109. Tyagi RK and Datta A (2015) Translation of genetic message. In: Talwar GP, Hasnain SE, Sarin SK (eds.), Textbook of Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Allied & Molecular Medicine (Section VIII, Chapter 66). Prentice Hall of India, New Delhi, pp 809-819.

  110. Upadhyaya HD, Bajaj D, Das S, Saxena MS, Badoni S, Kumar V, Tripathi S, Gowda CLL, Sharma S, Tyagi AK and Parida SK (2015) A genome-scale integrated approach aids in genetic dissection of complex flowering time trait in chickpea. Plant Mol. Biol. 89: 403-420.

  111. Verma M, Kumar V, Patel RK, Garg R and Jain M (2015) CTDB: an integrated chickpea transcriptome database for functional and applied genomics. PLoS One 10: e0136880

  112. Verma P, Chandra A, Roy AK, Malaviya DR, Kaushal P, Pandey D and Bhatia S (2015) Development, characterization and cross-species transferability of genomic SSR markers in berseem (Trifolium alexandrinum L.), an important multi-cut annual forage legume. Mol. Breed. 35: 23.

  113. Verma P, Goyal R, Chahota RK, Sharma TR, Abdin MZ and Bhatia S (2015) Construction of a genetic linkage map and identification of QTLs for seed weight and seed size traits in lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.). PLoS One 10: e0139666.

  114. Verma S, Gupta S, Bandhiwal N, Kumar T, Bharadwaj C and Bhatia S (2015) High-density linkage map construction and mapping of seed trait QTLs in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) using genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS). Scientific Reports 5: 17512

  115. Yadav CB, Bhareti P, Muthamilarasan M, Mukherjee M, Khan Y, Rathi P and Prasad M (2015) Genome-wide SNP identification and characterization in two soybean cultivars with contrasting Mungbean Yellow Mosaic India Virus disease resistance traits. PLoS One 10: e0123897.

  116. Yadav CB, Bonthala VS, Muthamilarasan M, Pandey G, Khan Y and Prasad M (2015) Genome-wide development of transposable elements-based markers in foxtail millet and construction of an integrated database. DNA Res. 22: 79-90.

  117. Yadav CB, Muthamilarasan M, Pandey G and Prasad M (2015) Identification, characterization and expression profiling of Dicer-like, Argonaute and RNA-dependent RNA polymerase gene families in foxtail millet. Plant Mol. Biol. Rep. 33: 43-55.

  118. Yadav M, Babu S and Yadav G (2015) Patterns of codon usage in plastidial genomes of ancient plants provide insights into evolution. Proc. Int. Conf. Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms 2015: 144-149.
List of Publications (2014)
  1. Abbas N and Chattopadhyay S (2014) CAM7 and HY5 genetically interact to regulate root growth and abscisic acid responses. Plant Signal. Behav. 9: e29763.

  2. Abbas N, Maurya JP, Senapati D, Gangappa SN and Chattopadhyay S (2014) Arabidopsis CAM7 and HY5 physically interact and directly bind to the HY5 promoter to regulate its expression and thereby promote photomorphogenesis. Plant Cell 26: 1036-1052.

  3. Adil M, Singh K, Verma PK and Khan AU (2014) Eugenol-induced suppression of biofilm-forming genes in Streptococcus mutans: An approach to inhibit biofilms. J. Global Antimicrobial Resistance 2: 286-292.

  4. Agarwal P, Parida SK, Mahto A, Das S, Mathew IE, Malik N and Tyagi AK (2014) Expanding frontiers in plant transcriptomics in aid of functional genomics and molecular breeding. Biotechnol. J. 9:1480-1492.

  5. Ahmed F, Senthil-Kumar M, Lee S, Dai X, Mysore KS and Zhao PX (2015) Comprehensive analysis of small RNA-seq data reveals that combination of miRNA with its isomiRs increase the accuracy of target prediction in Arabidopsis. RNA Biol. 11: 1414-1429.

  6. Ara H and Sinha AK (2014) Conscientiousness of mitogen activated protein kinases in acquiring tolerance for abiotic stresses in plants. Proc. Ind. Natl. Sci. Acad. 80: 211-219.

  7. Arya GC, Kumar R and Bisht NC (2014) Evolution, expression differentiation and interaction specificity of heterotrimeric G-protein subunit gene family in the mesohexaploid Brassica rapa. PLoS One 9: e105771.

  8. Augustine R, Arya GC, Nambiar DM, Kumar R, and Bisht NC (2014) Translational genomics in Brassica crops: challenges, progress, and future prospects. Plant Biotechnology Reports. 8: 65-81.

  9. Bahl JR, Bansal RP, Garg SN, Gupta MM, Singh V, Goel R and Kumar S (2014) Variation in yield of curcumin and yield and quality of leaf and rhizome essential oils among Indian land races of turmeric Curcuma longa L.. Proc. Ind. Natl. Sci. Acad. 80: 143-156.

  10. Bansal RP, Bahl JR, Lal RK, Singh V and Kumar S (2014) Development of technology for large-scale economic production of propagules in the rose-scented geranium (Pelargonium graveolens). Journal of Herbs, Spices and Medicinal Plants 20: 282-294.

  11. Barik S, Sarkardas S, Singh A, Gautam V, Kumar P, Majee M and Sarkar AK (2014) Phylogenetic analysis reveals conservation and diversification of miR166 genes among diverse plant species. Genomics 103: 114-121.

  12. Bonthala VS, Muthamilarasan M, Roy R and Prasad M (2014) FmTFDb: A foxtail millet transcription factors database for expediting functional genomics in millets. Mol. Biol. Rep. 41: 6343-6348.

  13. Dansana PK, Kothari KS, Vij S and Tyagi AK (2014) OsiSAP1 overexpression improves water-deficit stress tolerance in transgenic rice by affecting expression of endogenous stress-related genes. Plant Cell Reports 33: 1425-1440.

  14. Das A and Parida SK (2014) Advances in biotechnological applications in three important food legumes. Plant Biotechnology Reports 8: 83-99.

  15. Das B, Sengupta S, Prasad M and Ghose TK (2014) Genetic diversity of the conserved motifs of six bacterial leaf blight resistance genes in a set of rice landraces. BMC Genetics 15: 82.

  16. Gahlaut V, Mathur S, Dhariwal R, Khurana JP, Tyagi AK, Balyan HS and Gupta PK (2014) A multi-step phosphorelay two-component system impacts on tolerance against dehydration stress in common wheat. Funct. Integr. Genomics 14: 707-716.

  17. Garg R, Kumari R, Tiwari S and Goyal S (2014) Genomic survey, gene expression analysis and structural modeling suggest diverse roles of DNA methyltransferases in legumes. PLoS One 9: e88947.

  18. Garg R, Varshney RK and Jain M (2014) Molecular genetics and genomics of abiotic stress responses. Front. Plant Sc. 5: 398.

  19. Garg R, Verma M, Agrawal S, Shankar R, Majee M and Jain M (2014) Deep transcriptome sequencing of wild halophyte rice, Porteresia coarctata, provides novel insights into the salinity and submergence tolerance factors. DNA Res. 21: 69-84.

  20. Gaur R, Bhatia S, Gupta M (2014) Generation of expressed sequence tags under cadmium stress for gene discovery and development of molecular markers in chickpea. Protoplasma 251: 955-972.

  21. Ghosh S, Gupta SK and Jha G (2014) Identification and functional analysis of AG1-IA specific genes of Rhizoctonia solani. Current Genetics 60: 327-341.

  22. Ghosh S, Rao KH, Bhavesh NS, Das G, Dwivedi VP and Datta A (2014) N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) inducible gene, GIG2, is a novel component of GlcNAc metabolism in Candida albicans. Eukaryot. Cell 13: 66-76.

  23. Gupta N, Prasad VBR and Chattopadhyay S (2014) LeMYC2 acts as a negative regulator of blue light mediated photomorphogenic growth, and promotes the growth of adult tomato plants. BMC Plant Biol. 14: 38.

  24. Gupta S, Kumari K, Muthamilarasan M, Parida SK and Prasad M (2014) Population structure and association mapping of yield contributing agronomic traits in foxtail millet. Plant Cell Reports 33: 881-893.

  25. Gupta S, Kushwaha H, Singh VK, Bisht NC, Sarangi BK and Yadav D (2014) Genome wide in silico characterization of Dof transcription factor gene family of sugarcane and its comparative phylogenetic analysis with Arabidopsis, rice and sorghum. Sugar Tech 16: 372-384.

  26. Hasan S, Singh K, Danisuddin M, Verma PK, Khan AU (2014) Inhibition of major virulence pathways of Streptococcus mutans by Quercitrin and Deoxynojirimycin: a synergistic approach of infection control. PLoS ONE 9: e91736..

  27. Hema R, Ramu SV, Shivkumar S, Reddy PC, Senthil-Kumar M and Udayakumar M (2014) Stable expression of mtlD gene imparts multiple stress tolerance in finger millet. PLoS One 9: e99110.

  28. Irfan M, Ghosh S, Kumar V, Chakraborty N, Chakraborty S and Datta A (2014) Insights into transcriptional regulation of β-D-N-acetylhexosaminidase, an N-glycan-processing enzyme involved in ripening-associated fruit softening. J. Exp. Bot. 65: 5835-5848.

  29. Jain M, Chevala VVSN and Garg R (2014) Genome-wide discovery and differential regulation of conserved and novel microRNAs in chickpea via deep sequencing. J. Exp. Bot. 65: 5945-5958.

  30. Jain M, Moharana KC, Shankar R, Kumari R and Garg R (2014) Genome-wide discovery of DNA polymorphisms in rice cultivars with contrasting drought and salinity stress response and their functional relevance. Plant Biotechnol. Journal 12: 253-264.

  31. Jaiswal DK, Mishra P, Subba P, Rathi D, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2014) Membrane-associated proteomics of chickpea identifies Sad1/UNC-84 protein (CaSUN1), a novel component of dehydration signaling. Scientific Reports 4: 4177.

  32. Kamthan M, Nalla VK, Ruhela D, Kamthan A, Maiti P and Datta A (2014) Characterization of a putative spindle assembly checkpoint kinase Mps1, suggests its involvement in cell division, morphogenesis and oxidative stress tolerance in Candida albicans. PLoS One 9: e101517.

  33. Kaur C, Mustafiz A, Sarkar AK, Ariyadasa TU, Singla-Pareek SL and Sopory SK (2014) Expression of abiotic stress inducible ETHE1-like protein from rice is higher in roots and is regulated by calcium. Physiologia Plantarum 152: 1-16.

  34. Khan Y, Yadav A, Suresh VB, Muthamilarasan M, Yadav CB and Prasad M (2014) Comprehensive genome-wide identification and expression profiling of foxtail millet [Setaria italica (L.)] miRNAs in response to abiotic stress and development of miRNA database. Plant Cell Tiss. Organ Cult. 118: 279-292.

  35. K MJ and Laxmi A (2014) DUF581 is plant specific FCS-like zinc finger involved in protein-protein interaction. PLoS One 9: e99074

  36. Kujur A, Bajaj D, Saxena MS, Tripathi S, Upadhyaya HD, Gowda CLL, Singh S, Tyagi AK, Jain M, Parida SK (2014) An efficient and cost-effective approach for genic microsatellite marker-based large-scale trait association mapping: identification of candidate genes for seed weight in chickpea. Mol. Breed. 34: 241-265.

  37. Kumar K and Sinha AK (2014) Genome-wide transcriptome modulation in rice transgenic lines expressing engineered mitogen activated protein kinase kinase 6. Plant Signal. Behav. 9: e28502.

  38. Kumar R, Arya GC and Bisht NC (2014) Differential expression and interaction specificity of heterotrimeric G-protein family in Brassica nigra reveal their developmental-and condition-specific roles. Plant and Cell Physiology 55: 1954-1968.

  39. Kumar R, Kumar A, Subba P, Gayali S, Barua P, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2014) Nuclear phosphoproteome of developing chickpea seedlings (Cicer arietinum L.) and protein-kinase interaction network. J. Proteomics 105: 58-73.

  40. Kumar S, Kumari R and Sharma V (2014) Genetics of dioecy and causal sex chromosomes in plants. J. Genet. 93: 241-277.

  41. Kumar S, Shah N, Garg V, Bhatia S (2014) Large scale in-silico identification and characterization of simple sequence repeats (SSRs) from de novo assembled transcriptome of Catharanthus roseus (L.) G. Don. Plant Cell Reports 33: 905-918.

  42. Kumari S, Pundhir S, Priya P, Jeena G, Punetha A, Chawla K, Jafaree Z, Mondal S and Yadav G (2014) EssOilDB: A database of essential oils reflecting terpene composition and variability in the plant kingdom. Database 2014: bau120.

  43. Lata C, Mishra AK, Muthamilarasan M, Bonthala VS, Khan Y and Prasad M (2014) Genome-wide investigation and expression profiling of AP2/ERF transcription factor superfamily in foxtail millet (Setaria italica L.). PLoS One 9: e113092.

  44. Lata C and Prasad M (2014) Association of an allele-specific marker with dehydration stress tolerance in foxtail millet suggests SiDREB2 to be an important QTL. J. Plant Biochem. Biotechnol. 23: 119-122. Read ...

  45. Mishra AK, Muthamilarasan M, Khan Y, Parida SK and Prasad M (2014) Genome-wide investigation and expression analyses of WD40 protein family in the model plant foxtail millet (Setaria italica L.). PLoS One 9: e86852.

  46. Misra G, Priya P, Bandhiwal N, Bareja N, Jain M, Bhatia S, Chattopadhyay D, Tyagi AK and Yadav G (2014) The chickpea genomic web resource: visualization and analysis of the desi-type Cicer arietinum nuclear genome for comparative exploration of legumes. BMC Plant Biol. 14: 315.

  47. Muthamilarasan M, Bonthala VS, Mishra AK, Khandelwal R, Khan Y, Roy R and Prasad M (2014) C2H2 type of zinc finger transcription factors in foxtail millet define response to abiotic stresses. Funct. Integr. Genomics 14: 531-543.

  48. Muthamilarasan M, Khandelwal R, Yadav CB, Bonthala VS, Khan Y and Prasad M (2014) Identification and molecular characterization of MYB transcription factor superfamily in C4 model plant foxtail millet (Setaria italica L.). PLoS One 9: e109920.

  49. Muthamilarasan M, Parida SK and Prasad M (2014) Advances in wheat genomics and its potential in ensuring food security in the scenario of climate change. Proc. Ind. Natl. Sci. Acad. 80: 325-331.

  50. Muthamilarasan M and Prasad M (2014) An overview of wheat genome sequencing and its implications for crop improvement. J. Genet. 93: 619-622.

  51. Muthamilarasan M and Prasad M (2014) Impact of Impact Factor in quantifying the quality of scientific research. Current Science 107: 1233-1234.

  52. Muthamilarasan M, Venkata Suresh B, Pandey G, Kumari K, Parida SK and Prasad M (2014) Development of 5123 intron-length polymorphic markers for large-scale genotyping applications in foxtail millet. DNA Res. 21: 41-52.

  53. Nizam S, Gazara RK, Verma S, Singh K and Verma PK (2014) Comparative structural modeling of six old yellow enzymes (OYEs) from the necrotrophic fungus Ascochyta rabiei: Insight into novel OYE classes with differences in cofactor binding, organization of active site residues and stereopreferences. PLoS One 9: e95989.

  54. Nizam S, Verma S, Borah NN, Gazara RK, Verma PK (2014) Comprehensive genome-wide analysis reveals different classes of enigmatic old yellow enzyme in fungi. Scientific Reports 4: 4013.

  55. Pradhan S, Bandhiwal N, Shah N, Kant C, Gaur R and Bhatia S (2014) Global transcriptome analysis of developing chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) seeds. Front. Plant Sc. 5: 698.

  56. Raghuram B, Sheikh AH and Sinha AK (2014) Regulation of MAP kinase signaling cascade by microRNAs in Oryza sativa. Plant Signal. Behav. 9: e972130.

  57. Ramegowda V, Mysore KS and Senthil-Kumar M (2014) Virus-induced gene silencing is a versatile tool for unraveling the functional relevance of multiple abiotic-stress-responsive genes in crop plants. Front. Plant Sc. 5: 323.

  58. Ram H, Priya P, Jain M and Chattopadhyay S (2014) Genome-wide DNA binding of GBF1 is modulated by its heterodimerizing protein partners, HY5 and HYH. Mol. Plant 7: 448-451..

  59. Rao KH, Ruhela D, Ghosh S, Abdin MZ and Datta A (2014) N-acetylglucosamine kinase, HXK1 contributes to White-Opaque morphological transition in Candida albicans. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. 445: 138-144.

  60. Rojas CM, Senthil-Kumar M, Tzin V and Mysore KS (2014) Regulation of primary plant metabolism during plant-pathogen interactions and its contribution to plant defense. Front. Plant Sc. 5: 17.

  61. Sahu PP, Sharma N, Puranik S, Muthamilarasan M and Prasad M (2014) Involvement of host regulatory pathways during geminivirus infection: a novel platform for generating durable resistance. Funct. Integr. Genomics 14: 47-58.

  62. Sahu PP, Sharma N, Puranik S and Prasad M (2014) Post-transcriptional and epigenetic arms of RNA silencing: a defense machinery of naturally tolerant tomato plant against Tomato leaf curl New Delhi virus. Plant Mol. Biol. Rep. 32: 1015-1029.

  63. Saroj S, Kumar K, Prasad M and Singh RP (2014) Differential expression of peroxidase and ABC transporter as the key regulatory components for degradation of azo dyes by Penicillium oxalicum SAR-3. Funct. Integr. Genomics 14: 631-642.

  64. Saxena MS, Bajaj D, Das S, Kujur A, Kumar V, Singh M, Bansal KC, Tyagi AK and Parida SK (2014) An integrated genomic approach for rapid delineation of candidate genes regulating agro-morphological traits in chickpea. DNA Res. 21: 695-710.

  65. Saxena MS, Bajaj D, Kujur A, Shouvik S, Saurabh B, Kumar V, Singh M, Bansal KC, Tyagi AK and Parida SK (2014) Natural allelic diversity, genetic structure and linkage disequilibrium pattern in wild chickpea. PLoS One 9: e107484.

  66. Schrick K, Bruno M, Khosla A, Cox PN, Marlatt SA, Roque RA, Nguyen HC, He C, Snyder MP, Singh D and Yadav G (2014) Shared functions of plant and mammalian StAR-related lipid transfer (START) domains in modulating transcription factor activity. BMC Biology 12: 70.

  67. Sengupta S, Das B, Acharyya P, Prasad M and Ghose T (2014) Genetic diversity analysis in a set of Caricaceae accessions using resistance gene analogues. BMC Genetics 15: 137.

  68. Senthil-Kumar M and Mysore KS (2014) Tobacco rattle virus-based virus-induced gene silencing in Nicotiana benthamiana. Nature Protocols 9: 1549-1562.

  69. Sethi V, Raghuram B, Sinha AK and Chattopadhyay S (2014) A mitogen-activated protein kinase cascade module, MKK3-MPK6 and MYC2, is involved in blue light-mediated seedling development in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 26: 3343-3357.

  70. Sharma M, Singh A, Shankar A, Pandey A, Baranwal V, Kapoor S, Tyagi AK and Pandey GK (2014) Comprehensive expression analysis of rice Armadillo gene family during abiotic stress and development. DNA Res. 21: 267-283.

  71. Sharma R, Sahoo A, Devendran R and Jain M (2014) Over-expression of a rice tau class glutathione S-transferase gene improves tolerance to salinity and oxidative stresses in Arabidopsis. PLoS One 9: e92900.

  72. Sharma V, Kumar A and Kumar S (2014) An analysis of vascular system in the compound tendrilled afila leaf in Pisum sativum. Indian J. Exp. Biol. 52: 664-668.

  73. Shekhar S, Mishra D, Buragohain AK, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2014) Comparative analysis of phytochemicals and nutrient availability in two contrasting cultivars of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas L.). Food Chemistry 173: 957-965.

  74. Sheikh AH, Raghuram B, Eschen-Lippold L, Scheel D, Lee J and Sinha AK (2014) Agroinfiltration by cytokinin-producing Agrobacterium strain GV3101 primes defense responses in Nicotiana tabacum. Mol. Plant Microbe Interactions 27: 1175-1185.

  75. Shrivastava D, Verma P and Bhatia S (2014) Expanding the repertoire of microsatellite markers for polymorphism studies in Indian accessions of mung bean (Vigna radiata L. Wilczek). Mol. Biol. Rep. 41: 5669-5680.

  76. Singh A, Kanwar P, Yadav AK, Mishra M, Jha SK, Baranwal V, Pandey A, Kapoor S, Tyagi AK and Pandey GK (2014) Genome-wide expressional and functional analysis of calcium transport elements during abiotic stress and development in rice. FEBS Journal 281: 894-915.

  77. Singh A, Singh S, Panigrahi KCS, Reski R and Sarkar AK (2014) Balanced activity of microRNA166/165 and its target transcripts from the class III homeodomain leucine-zipper family regulates root growth in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell Reports 33: 945-953.

  78. Singh M, Gupta A and Laxmi A (2014) Glucose control of root growth direction in Arabidopsis thaliana. J. Exp. Bot. 65: 2981-2993.

  79. Singh M, Gupta A and Laxmi A (2014) Glucose and phytohormone interplay in controlling root directional growth in Arabidopsis. Plant Signal. Behav. 9: e29219.

  80. Singh VK and Jain M (2014) Transcriptome profiling for discovery of genes involved in shoot apical meristem and flower development. Genomics Data 2: 135-138.

  81. Srivastava S, Pandey R, Kumar S and Nautiyal CS (2014) Correspondence between flowers and leaves in terpenoid indole alkaloid metabolism of the phytoplasma-infected Catharanthus roseus plants. Protoplasma 251: 1307-1320.

  82. Suresh BV, Roy R, Sahu K, Misra G and Chattopadhyay D (2014) Tomato genomic resources database: an integrated repository of useful tomato genomic information for basic and applied research. PLoS One 9: e86387.

  83. Thakur JK, Yadav A and Yadav G (2014) Molecular recognition by the KIX domain and its role in gene regulation. Nucl. Acids Res. 42: 2112-2125.

  84. Tyagi H, Jha S, Sharma M, Giri J and Tyagi AK (2014) Rice SAPs are responsive to multiple biotic stresses and overexpression of OsSAP1, an A20/AN1 zinc-finger protein, enhances the basal resistance against pathogen infection in tobacco. Plant Science 225: 68-76.

  85. Varshney RK, Mir RR, Bhatia S, Thudi M, Hu Y, Azam S, Zhang Y, Jaganathan D, You FM, Gao J, Riera-Lizarazu O and Luo MC (2014) Integrated physical, genetic and genome map of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). Funct. Integr. Genomics 14: 59-73.

  86. Verma JK, Gayali S, Dass S, Kumar A, Parveen S, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2014) OsAlba1, a dehydration-responsive nuclear protein of rice (Oryza sativa L. ssp. indica), participates in stress adaptation. Phytochemistry 100: 16-25.

  87. Verma M, Ghangal R, Sharma R, Sinha AK and Jain M (2014) Transcriptome analysis of Catharanthus roseus for gene discovery and expression profiling. PLoS One 9: e103583.

  88. Verma P, Sharma TR, Srivastava PS, Abdin MZ and Bhatia S (2014) Exploring genetic variability within lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) and across related legumes using a newly developed set of microsatellite markers. Mol. Biol. Rep. 41: 5607-5625.
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  89. Yadav CB, Muthamilarasan M, Pandey G, Khan Y and Prasad M (2014) Development of novel microRNA-based genetic markers in foxtail millet for genotyping applications in related grass species. Mol. Breed. 34: 2219-2224.

  90. Yadav RK and Chattopadhyay D (2014) Differential soybean gene expression during early phase of infection with Mungbean yellow mosaic India virus. Mol. Biol. Rep. 41: 5123-5134.
List of Publications (2013)
  1. Agrawal L, Narula K, Basu S, Shekhar S, Ghosh S, Datta A, Chakraborty N and Chakraborty S (2013) Comparative proteomics reveals a role for seed storage protein, AmA1 in cellular growth, development and nutrient accumulation. J. Proteome Res. 12: 4904-4930.

  2. Augustine R, Majee M, Gershenzon J, Bisht NC (2013) Four genes encoding MYB28, a major transcriptional regulator of aliphatic glucosinolate pathway, are differentially expressed in the allopolyploid Brassica juncea. J. Exp. Bot. 64: 4907-4921.

  3. Augustine R, Mukhopadhyay A, Bisht NC (2013) Targeted silencing of BjMYB28 transcription factor gene directs development of low glucosinolate lines in oilseed Brassica juncea. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 11: 855-866.

  4. Bhattacharjee A, Jain M (2013) Homeobox genes as potential candidates for crop improvement under abiotic stress. In: Tuteja N, Gill SS (eds.), Plant Acclimation to Environmental Stress, Springer Science+Business Media, New York, USA, pp 163-176.

  5. Bhattacharjee A, Jain M (2013) Transcription factor mediated abiotic stress signaling in rice. Plant Stress 7: 16-25.

  6. Bhatt D, Saxena SC, Jain S, Dobriyal AK, Majee M and Arora S (2013) Cloning, expression and functional validation of drought inducible ascorbate peroxidase (Ec-apx1) from Eleusine coracana. Mol. Biol. Rep. 40: 1155-1165.

  7. Chakraborty N, Ghosh R, Ghosh S, Narula K, Tayal R, Datta A and Chakraborty S (2013) Reduction of oxalate levels in tomato fruit and consequent metabolic remodeling following overexpression of a fungal oxalate decarboxylase. Plant Physiol. 162: 364-378.

  8. Das B, Sengupta S, Parida SK, Roy B, Ghosh M, Prasad M and Ghose TK (2013) Genetic diversity and population structure of rice landraces from Eastern and North Eastern States of India. BMC Genetics 14: 71.

  9. Deswal R, Gupta R, Dogra V, Singh R, Abat JK, Sarkar A, Mishra Y, Rai V, Sreenivasulu Y, Amalraj RS, Raorane M, Chaudhary RP, Kohli A, Giri AP, Chakraborty N, Zargar SM, Agrawal VP, Agrawal GK, Job D, Renaut J and Rakwal R (2013) Plant proteomics in India and Nepal: current status and challenges ahead. Physiol. Mol. Biol. Plants 19: 461-477.

  10. Dixit N, Dokku P, Amitha Mithra SV, Parida SK, Singh AK, Singh NK and Mohapatra T (2013) Haplotype structure in grain weight gene GW2 and its association with grain characteristics in rice. Euphytica 192: 55-61.

  11. Dutta A, Sen J and Deswal R (2013) New evidences about strictosidine synthase (Str) regulation by salinity, cold stress and nitric oxide in Catharanthus roseus. J. Plant Biochem. Biotechnol. 22: 124-131.

  12. Gangappa SN and Chattopadhay S (2013) MYC2 differentially regulates GATA-box conaining promoters during seedlling development in Arabidopsis. Plant Dignal. Behav. 8: e25679.

  13. Gangappa SN, Maurya JP, Yadav V and Chattopadhyay S (2013) The regulation of the Z- and G-box containing promoters by light signaling components, SPA1 and MYC2, in Arabidopsis. PLoS One 8: e62194.

  14. Garg B, Puranik S, Misra S, Tripathi BN and Prasad M (2013) Transcript profiling identifies novel transcripts with unknown functions as primary response components to osmotic stress in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Plant Cell Tiss. Organ Cult. 113: 91-101.

  15. Garg R and Jain M (2013) RNA-seq for transcriptome analysis in non-model plants. Methods Mol. Biol. 1069: 43-58.

  16. Garg R and Jain M (2013) Transcriptome analyses in legumes: A resource for functional genomics. The Plant Genome 6(3): 1-9.

  17. Ghangal R, Chaudhary S, Jain M, Purty RS and Sharma PC (2013) Optimization of de novo short read assembly of seabuckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides L.) transcriptome. PLoS One 8: e72516.

  18. Ghosh S, Singh UK, Meli VS, Kumar V, Kumar A, Irfan M, Chakraborty N, Chakraborty S and Datta A (2013) Induction of senescence and identification of differentially expressed genes in tomato in response to monoterpene. PLoS One 8: e76029.

  19. Giri J, Dansana PK, Kothari KS, Sharma G, Vij S and Tyagi AK (2013) SAPs as novel regulators of abiotic stress response in plants. BioEssays 35: 639-648.

  20. Gupta S, Kumari K, Muthamilarasan M, Subramanian A and Prasad M (2013) Development and utilization of novel SSRs in foxtail millet [Setaria italica (L.) P. Beauv.]. Plant Breeding 132: 367-374.

  21. Jaggi M, Gupta M, Tuteja N and Sinha AK (2013) Mitogen-activated protein kinases in abiotic stress tolerance in crop plants: "-omics" approaches. In: Tuteja N, Gill SS, Tuteja R (eds), Improving Crop Production in Sustainable Agriculture. Wiley-Blackwell, Germany, pp 107-132.

  22. Jain D and Chattopadhyay D (2013) Promoter of CaZF, a chickpea gene that positively regulates growth and stress tolerance, is activated by an AP2-family transcription factor CAP2. PLoS One 8: e56737.

  23. Jain D and Chattopadhyay D (2013) Role of DREB-Like proteins in improving stress tolerance of transgenic crops. In: Tuteja N, Gill SS (eds), Plant Acclimation to Environmental Stress. Springer Science, New York, USA, pp 147-162.

  24. Jain M, Misra G, Patel RK, Priya P, Jhanwar S, Khan AW, Shah N, Singh VK, Garg R, Jeena G, Yadav M, Kant C, Sharma P, Yadav G, Bhatia S, Tyagi AK and Chattopadhyay D (2013) A draft genome sequence of the pulse crop chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). Plant Journal 74: 715-729.

  25. Jaiswal DK, Ray D, Choudhary MK, Subba P, Kumar A, Verma J, Kumar R, Datta A, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2013) Comparative proteomics of dehydration response in the rice nucleus: new insights into the molecular basis of genotype-specific adaptation. Proteomics 13: 3478-3497.

  26. Kamthan M, Kamthan A, Ruhela D, Maiti P, Bhavesh NS and Datta A (2013) Upregulation of galactose metabolic pathway by N-Acetylglucosamine induced endogenous synthesis of galactose in Candida albicans. Fungal Genet. Biol. 54: 15-24.

  27. Kaur H, Verma P, Petla BP, Rao V, Saxena SC and Majee M (2013) Ectopic expression of the ABA-inducible dehydration-responsive chickpea L-myo-inositol 1-phosphate synthase 2 (CaMIPS2) in Arabidopsis enhances tolerance to salinity and dehydration stress. Planta 237: 321-335.

  28. Khurana R, Kapoor S and Tyagi AK (2013) Spatial and temporal activity of upstream regulatory regions of rice anther-specific genes in transgenic rice and Arabidopsis. Transgenic Res. 22: 31-46.

  29. Khurana R, Kathuria H, Mukhopadhyay A, Kapoor S and Tyagi AK (2013) A 286 bp upstream regulatory region of a rice anther-specific gene, OSIPP3, confers pollen-specific expression in Arabidopsis. Biotechnol. Lett. 35: 455-462.

  30. Kujur A, Bajaj D, Saxena MS, Tripathi S, Upadhyaya HD, Gowda CLL, Singh S, Jain M, Tyagi AK and Parida SK (2013) Functionally relevant microsatellite markers from chickpea transcription factor genes for efficient genotyping applications and trait association mapping. DNA Res. 20: 355-373.

  31. Kujur A, Saxena MS, Bajaj D, Laxmi and Parida SK (2013) Integrated genomics and molecular breeding approaches for dissecting the complex quantitative traits in crop plants. Journal of Biosciences 38: 1-17.

  32. Kumar A, Sharma V and Kumar S (2013) Interaction between cochleata and stipule-reduced mutations results in exstipulate hypertrophied leaves in Pisum sativum L.. Indian J. Exp. Biol. 51: 492-501.

  33. Kumar A, Sharma V, Khan M, Hindala MR and Kumar S (2013) Auxin transport inhibitor induced low complexity petiolated leaves and sessile leaf-like stipules and architectures of heritable leaf and stipule mutants in Pisum sativum suggest that its simple lobed stipules and compound leaf represent ancestral forms in angiosperms. J. Genet. 92: 25-61.

  34. Kumar A, Sharma V, Khan M, Tripathi BN and Kumar S (2013) Pisum sativum wild-type and mutant stipules and those induced by an auxin transport inhibitor demonstrate the entire diversity of laminated stipules observed in angiosperms. Protoplasma 250: 223-234.

  35. Kumar K, Muthamilarasan M and Prasad M (2013) Reference genes for quantitative Real-time PCR analysis in the model plant foxtail millet (Setaria italica L.) subjected to abiotic stress conditions. Plant Cell, Tissue & Organ Culture 115: 13-22.

  36. Kumar K and Sinha AK (2013) Over expression of constitutively active mitogen activated protein kinase kinase 6 enhances tolerance to salt stress in rice. Rice 6: 25.

  37. Kumar K and Verma PK (2013) Plant pathogen interactions: crop improvement under adverse conditions. In: Tuteja N, Gill SS (eds), Plant Acclimation to Environmental Stress. Springer Science, New York, USA, pp 433-459.

  38. Kumar K, Wankhede DP and Sinha AK (2013) Signal convergence through the lenses of MAP kinases: paradigms of stress and hormone signaling in plants. Frontiers Biology. 8: 109-118.

  39. Kumar K, Yadav S, Purayannur S, Verma PK (2013) An alternative approach in Gateway cloning when the bacterial antibiotic selection cassettes of the entry clone and destination vector are the same. Mol. Biotechnol. 54: 133-140.

  40. Kumar R, Barman A, Jha G and Ray SK (2013) Identification and establishment of genomic identity of Ralstonia solanacearum isolated from a wilted chilli plant at Tezpur, North East India. Current Science 105: 1571-1578.

  41. Kumar S, Kumari R, Sharma V and Sharma V (2013) Roles, and establishment, maintenance and erasing of the epigenetic cytosine methylation marks in plants. J. Genet. 92: 629-666.

  42. Kumar S, Kumari R, Sharma V and Yadav G (2013) Common and distinguishing characteristics of genes and genomes and their evolution in the genome sequenced legumes. Proc. Ind. Natl. Sci. Acad. 79: 277-286.

  43. Kumar S and Sharma V (2013) Abnormal Leaf morphologies associated with primary and secondary vein patterning defects in Catharanthus roseus: mid-vein defect converts simple leaf into binate compound leaf. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. India 83: 241-253.

  44. Kumari K, Muthamilarasan M, Misra G, Gupta S, Subramanian A, Parida SK, Chattopadhyay D and Prasad M (2013) Development of eSSR-markers in Setaria italica and their applicability in studying genetic diversity, cross-transferability and comparative mapping in millet and non-millet species. PLoS One 8: e67742.

  45. Kumari R, Sharma V, Sharma V and Kumar S (2013) Pleiotropic phenotypes of the salt-tolerant and cytosine hypomethylated leafless inflorescence, evergreen dwarf and irregular leaf lamina mutants of Catharanthus roseus possessing Mendelian inheritance. J. Genet. 92: 369-394.

  46. Kumari R, Yadav G, Sharma V, Sharma V and Kumar S (2013) Cytosine hypomethylation at CHG and CHH sites in the pleiotropic mutants of Mendelian inheritance in Catharanthus roseus. J. Genet. 92: 499-511.

  47. Kumari S, Priya P, Misra G and Yadav G (2013) Structural and biochemical perspectives in plant isoprenoid biosynthesis. Phytochemistry Reviews 12: 255-291.

  48. Kushwaha H, Gupta S, Singh VK, Bisht NC, Sarangi BK and Yadav D (2013) Cloning, In Silico Characterization and Prediction of Three Dimensional Structure of SbDof1, SbDof19, SbDof23 and SbDof24 Proteins from Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench]. Mol. Biotechnol 54: 1-12.

  49. Kushwah S and Laxmi A (2013) The interaction between glucose and cytokinin signal transduction pathway in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell and Environment 37: 235-253.

  50. Lata C, Gupta S and Prasad M (2013) Foxtail millet: A model crop for genetic and genomic studies in bioenergy grasses. Critical Reviews in Biotechnology 33: 328-343.

  51. Lata C and Prasad M (2013) Setaria genome sequencing: an overview. J. Plant Biochem. Biotechnol. 22: 257-260.

  52. Lata C and Prasad M (2013) Validation of an allele-specific marker associated with dehydration stress tolerance in a core set of foxtail millet accessions. Plant Breeding 132: 496-499.

  53. Muthamilarasan M and Prasad M (2013) Barley genome sequence emerges as a promising candidate in genetic research and breeding. Current Science 104: 998-999.

  54. Muthamilarasan M and Prasad M (2013) Cutting-edge research on plant miRNAs. Current Science. 104(3): 287-289. Read ...

  55. Muthamilarasan M and Prasad M (2013) Plant innate immunity: an updated insight in defense mechanism. Journal of Biosciences 38: 433-449. Read ...

  56. Muthamilarasan M and Prasad M (2013) Wheat genome sequencing: A milestone in cereal genomics and its future potentials. Current Science 104(3): 286. Read ...

  57. Narula K, Datta A, Chakraborty N and Chakraborty S (2013) Comparative analyses of nuclear proteome: extending its function. Front. Plant Sc. 4: 100.

  58. Nayar S, Sharma R, Tyagi AK and Kapoor S (2013) Functional delineation of rice MADS29 reveals its role in embryo and endosperm development by affecting hormone homeostasis. J. Exp. Bot. 64: 4239-4253.

  59. Pandey BK, Mehra P and Giri J (2013) Phosphorus starvation response in plants and opportunities for crop improvement. In: Tuteja N, Gill SS(eds), Climate Change and Abiotic Stress Tolerance. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co, Weinheim, Germany, pp 991-1012.

  60. Pandey G, Misra G, Kumari K, Gupta S, Parida SK, Chattopadhyay D and Prasad M (2013) Genome-wide development and use of microsatellite markers for large-scale genotyping applications in foxtail millet [Setaria italica (L.)]. DNA Research 20: 197-207. Read ...

  61. Pasrija R and Thakur JK (2013) Tissue specific expression profile of Mediator genes in Arabidopsis. Plant Signal. Behav. 8: e23983.

  62. Prasad M (2013) 9th Solanaceae Conference 2012. National Academy of Science Letters 36: 111-114 Read ...

  63. Priya P and Jain M (2013) RiceSRTFDB: A database of rice transcription factors containing comprehensive expression, cis-regulatory element and mutant information to facilitate gene function analysis. Database 2013: bat027.

  64. Puranik S and Prasad M (2013) Transcription Factors: Modulating plant adaption in the scenario of changing climate. In: Tuteja N & Gill SS (eds) Climate Change and Abiotic Stress Tolerance, Wiley, Germany, pp 589-604.

  65. Puranik S, Sahu PP, Mandal SN, Venkata Suresh B, Parida SK and Prasad M (2013) Comprehensive genome-wide survey, genomic constitution and expression profiling of the NAC transcription factor family in foxtail millet (Setaria italica L.). PLoS One 8: e64594.

  66. Raina SK, Wankhede DP and Sinha AK (2013) Catharanthus roseus mitogen-activated protein kinase 3 confers UV and heat tolerance to Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Plant Signal. Behav 8: 116-119.

  67. Ram H and Chattopadhyay S (2013) Molecular interaction of bZIP domains of GBF1, HY5 and HYH in Arabidopsis seedling development. Plant Signal. Behav. 8: 47-49.

  68. Rao KH, Ghosh S, Natarajan K and Datta A (2013) N-acetylglucosamine kinase, HXK1 is involved in morphogenetic transition and metabolic gene expression in Candida albicans. PLoS One 8: e53638.

  69. Sahu PP, Pandey G, Sharma N, Puranik S, Muthamilarasan M and Prasad M (2013) Epigenetic mechanisms of plant stress responses and adaptation. Plant Cell Reports 32: 1151-1159.

  70. Saxena SC, Kaur H, Verma P, Petla BP, Rao V and Majee M (2013) Osmoprotectants: potential for crop improvement under adverse conditions. In: Tuteja N, Gill SS (eds), Plant Acclimation to Environmental Stress. Springer Science, New York, USA, pp 197-232.

  71. Saxena SC, Salvi P, Kaur H, Verma P, Petla BP, Rao V, Kamble N and Majee M (2013) Differentially expressed myo-inositol monophosphatase gene (CaIMP) in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) encodes a lithium-sensitive phosphatase enzyme with broad substrate specificity and improves seed germination and seedling growth under abiotic stresses. J. Exp. Bot. 64: 5623-5639.

  72. Sengupta S, Das B, Prasad M, Acharyya P and Ghose TK (2013) A comparative survey of genetic diversity among a set of Caricaceae accessions using microsatellite markers. SpringerPlus 2: 345.

  73. Sharma N, Sahu PP, Puranik S and Prasad M (2013) Recent advances in plant-virus interaction with emphasis on small interfering RNAs (siRNAs). Mol. Biotechnol. 55: 63-77.

  74. Sharma R, Priya P and Jain M (2013) Modified expression of an auxin-responsive rice CC-type glutaredoxin gene affects multiple abiotic stress responses. Planta 238: 871-884.

  75. Sharma S, Verma S, Vasudevan M, Samanta S, Thakur JK and Kulshreshtha R (2013) The interplay of HuR and miR-3134 in regulation of AU rich transcriptome. RNA Biol. 10: 1283-1290.

  76. Sharma V and Kumar S (2013) Parallelismic homoplasy of leaf and stipule phenotypes among genetic variants of Pisum sativum and Medicago truncatula and some taxa of papilionoideae, caesalpinioideae and mimosoideae subfamilies of the leguminosae flora of Delhi. Plant Syst. Evol. 299: 887-911.

  77. Sharma V, Tripathi BN and Kumar S (2013) The lld mutation in Pisum sativum used as a genetic tool to discern the plant leaflet/leaf developmental process. Indian J. Exp. Biol. 51: 421-434.

  78. Sheikh AH, Raghuram B, Jalmi SK, Wankhede DP, Singh P and Sinha AK (2013) Interaction between two rice mitogen activated protein kinases and its possible role in plant defense. BMC Plant Biol. 13: 121.

  79. Shekhar S, Agrawal L, Buragohain AK, Datta A, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2013) Genotype independent regeneration and agrobacterium-mediated genetic transformation of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas L.). Plant Tissue Cult. Biotech. 23: 87-100.

  80. Singh A, Kanwar P, Pandey A, Tyagi AK, Sopory SK, Kapoor S and Pandey GK (2013) Comprehensive genomic analysis and expression profiling of phospholipase C gene family during abiotic stresses and development in rice. PLoS One 8: e62494.

  81. Singh RK, Jena SN, Khan S, Yadav S, Banarjee N, Raghuvanshi S, Bhardwaj V, Dattamajumder SK, Kapur R, Solomon S, Swapna M, Srivastava S and Tyagi AK (2013) Development, cross-species/genera transferability of novel EST-SSR markers and their utility in revealing population structure and genetic diversity in sugarcane. Gene 524: 309-329.

  82. Singh VK, Garg R and Jain M (2013) A global view of transcriptome dynamics during flower development in chickpea by deep sequencing. Plant Biotechnol. Journal 11: 691-701.

  83. Subba P, Barua P, Kumar R, Datta A, Soni KK, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2013) Phosphoproteomic dynamics of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) reveals shared and distinct components of dehydration response. J. Proteome Res. 12: 5025-5047.

  84. Subba P, Kumar R, Gayali S, Shekhar S, Parveen S, Pandey A, Datta A, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2013) Characterization of the nuclear proteome of a dehydration-sensitive cultivar of chickpea and comparative proteomic analysis with a tolerant cultivar. Proteomics 13: 1973-1992.

  85. Thakur JK, Agarwal P, Parida SK, Bajaj D and Pasrija R (2013) Sequence and expression analyses of KIX domain proteins suggest their importance in seed development and determination of seed size in rice, and genome stability in Arabidopsis. Mol. Genet. Genomics 288: 329-346.

  86. Venkata Suresh B, Muthamilarasan M, Misra G and Prasad M (2013) FmMDb: A versatile database of foxtail millet markers for millets and bioenergy grasses research. PLoS One 8: e71418.

  87. Verma P, Kaur H, Petla BP, Rao V, Saxena SC and Majee M (2013) PROTEIN L- ISOASPARTYL METHYLTRANSFERASE2 gene is differentially expressed in chickpea and enhances seed vigor and longevity by reducing abnormal isoaspartyl accumulation predominantly in seed nuclear proteins. Plant Physiol. 161: 1141-1157.

  88. Verma P, Shah N and Bhatia S (2013) Development of an expressed gene catalogue and molecular markers from the de novo assembly of short sequence reads of the lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) transcriptome. Plant Biotechnol. Journal 11: 894-905.

  89. Verma S, Nizam S and Verma PK (2013) Biotic and abiotic stress signaling in plants. In: Sarwat M, Ahmad A, Abdin MZ (eds), Stress Signaling in Plants: Genomics and Proteomics Perspective, Volume 1. Springer Science, New York, USA pp 25-49.

  90. Wankhede DP, Biswas DK, Rajkumar S and Sinha AK (2013) Expressed sequence tags and molecular cloning and characterization of gene encoding pinoresinol/lariciresinol reductase from Podophyllum hexandrum. Protoplasma 250: 1239-1249.

  91. Wankhede DP, Gupta M and Sinha AK (2013) Arsenic toxicity in crop plants: approaches for stress resistance. In: Tuteja N, Gill SS (eds), Crop Improvement Under Adverse Conditions. Springer Science, New York, USA, pp 347-360.

  92. Wankhede DP, Kumar K, Singh P and Sinha AK (2013) Involvement of mitogen activated protein kinase kinase 6 in UV induced transcripts accumulation of genes in phytoalexin biosynthesis in rice. Rice 6: 35.

  93. Wankhede DP, Misra M, Singh P and Sinha AK (2013) Rice mitogen activated protein kinase kinase and mitogen activated protein kinase interaction network revealed by in-silico docking and yeast two-hybrid approaches. PLoS One 8: e65011.

  94. Yadav G, Anand S and Mohanty D (2013) Prediction of inter domain interactions in modular polyketide synthases by docking and correlated mutation analysis. J. Biomol. Struct. Dyn. 31: 17-29.
List of Publications (2012)
  1. Agarwal G, Jhanwar S, Priya P, Singh VK, Saxena MS, Parida SK, Garg R, Tyagi AK and Jain M (2012) Comparative analysis of kabuli chickpea transcriptome with desi and wild chickpea provides a rich resource for development of functional markers. PLoS One 7: e52443.

  2. Agrawal GK, Sarkar A, Agrawal R, Ndimba BK, Tanou G, Dunn MJ, Kieselbach T, Cramer R, Wienkoop S, Chen S, Rafudeen MS, Deswal R, Barkla BJ, Weckwerth W, Heazlewood JL, Renaut J, Job D, Chakraborty N and Rakwal R (2012) Boosting the globalization of plant proteomics through INPPO: current developments and future prospects. Proteomics 12: 359-368.

  3. Baranwal VK, Mikkilineni V, Zehr UB, Tyagi AK and Kapoor S (2012) Heterosis: emerging ideas about hybrid vigour. J. Exp. Bot. 63: 6309-6314.

  4. Chandna R, Augustine R and Bisht NC (2012) Evaluation of candidate reference genes for gene expression normalization in Brassica juncea using real time quantitative RT-PCR. PLoS One 7: e36918.

  5. Chaudhary S, Pandey R, Tripathi BN, Goel R and Kumar S (2012) Detection and mapping of quantitative trait loci for the contents of the terpenoid indole alkaloids, vindoline and catharanthine, in the leaves of Catharanthus roseus using bulk segregant analysis. Journal of Horticultural Sci. and Biotechnol. 87: 179-185.

  6. Choudhary S, Guar R, Gupta S and Bhatia S (2012) EST-derived genic molecular markers: development and utilization for generating an advanced transcript map of chickpea. Theor. Appl. Genet. 124: 1449-1462.

  7. Choudhury SR, Westfall CS, Laborde JP, Bisht NC, Jez JM and Pandey S (2012) Two chimeric regulators of G-protein signaling (RGS) proteins differentially modulate soybean heterotrimeric G-protein cycle. J. Biol. Chem. 287: 17870-17881.

  8. Das M, Banerjee S, Dhariwal R, Vyas S, Mir RR, Topdar N, Kundu A, Khurana JP, Tyagi AK, Sarkar D, Sinha MK, Balyan HS and Gupta PK (2012) Development of SSR markers and construction of a linkage map in jute. J. Genet. 91: 21-31.

  9. Garg B, Jaiswal JP, Misra S, Tripathi BN and Prasad M (2012) A comprehensive study on dehydration-induced antioxidative responses during germination of Indian bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L. em Thell) cultivars collected from different agroclimatic zones. Physiol. Mol. Biol. Plants 18: 217-228.

  10. Garg B, Puranik S, Tuteja N and Prasad M (2012) Abiotic stress-responsive expression of wali1 and wali5 genes from wheat. Plant Signal. Behav. 7: 1393-1396.

  11. Garg R, Tyagi AK and Jain M (2012) Microarray analysis reveals overlapping and specific transcriptional responses to different plant hormones in rice. Plant Signal. Behav. 7: 951-956.

  12. Gaur R, Azam S, Jeena G, Khan AW, Choudhary S, Jain M, Yadav G, Tyagi AK, Chattopadhyay D and Bhatia S (2012) High-Throughput SNP discovery and genotyping for constructing a saturated linkage map of Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). DNA Res. 19: 357-373.

  13. Gupta A, Singh M, Jones AM and Laxmi A (2012) Hypocotyl directional growth in Arabidopsis: a complex trait. Plant Physiol 159: 1463-1476.

  14. Gupta M, Verma B, Kumar N, Chahota RK, Rathour R, Sharma SK, Bhatia S and Sharma TR (2012) Construction of intersubspecific molecular genetic map of lentil based on ISSR, RAPD and SSR markers. J. Genet. 91: 279-287.

  15. Gupta S, Ghose TK, Jaiswal JP and Prasad M (2012) Molecular marker technology in plants. In: Kumar A, Pareekh A, Gupta SM (eds), Biotechnology in Medicine and Agriculture: Principles and Practices. IK International Publishers, New Delhi, pp 479-498.

  16. Gupta S, Kumari K, Sahu PP, Vidapu S and Prasad M (2012) Sequence based novel genomic microsatellite markers for robust genotyping purposes in foxtail millet [Setaria italica (L.) P. Beauv.]. Plant Cell Reports 31: 323-337.

  17. Hampp C, Richter A, Osorio S, Zellnig G, Sinha AK, Jammer A, Fernie AR, Grimm B, Roitsch T (2012) Establishment of a photoautotrophic cell suspension culture of Arabidopsis thaliana for photosynthetic, metabolic, and signaling studies. Mol. Plant 5(2): 524-527.

  18. Hasan S, Danishuddin M, Adil M, Singh K, Verma PK and Khan AU (2012) Efficacy of E. officinalis on the cariogenic properties of Streptococcus mutans: a novel and alternative approach to suppress quorum sensing mechanism. PLoS One 7: e40319.

  19. Islam MN, Nizam S and Verma PK (2012) A highly efficient Agrobacterium mediated transformation system of chickpea wilt pathogen Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceri using DsRed-Express to follow root colonization. Microbiol. Res. 167: 332-338.

  20. Jain M (2012) Next-generation sequencing technologies for gene expression profiling in plants. Brief. Funct. Genomics 11: 63-70.

  21. Jaiswal DK, Ray D, Subba P, Mishra P, Gayali S, Datta A, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2012) Proteomic analysis reveals the diversity and complexity of membrane proteins in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). Proteome Sci. 10: 59.

  22. Jaiswal P, Cheruku JR, Kumar K, Yadav S, Singh A, Kumari P, Dube SC, Upadhyaya KC and Verma PK (2012) Differential transcript accumulation in chickpea during early phases of compatible interaction with a necrotrophic fungus Ascochyta rabiei. Mol. Biol. Rep. 39: 4635-4646.

  23. Jhanwar S, Priya P, Garg R, Parida SK, Tyagi AK and Jain M (2012) Transcriptome sequencing of wild chickpea as a rich resource for marker development. Plant Biotechnol. Journal 10: 690-702.

  24. Kamthan A, Kamthan M, Azam M, Chakraborty N, Chakraborty S and Datta A (2012) Expression of a fungal sterol desaturase improves tomato drought tolerance, pathogen resistance and nutritional quality. Scientific Reports 2: 951.

  25. Kamthan M, Mukhopadhyay G, Chakraborty N, Chakraborty S and Datta A (2012) Quantitative proteomics and metabolomics approaches to demonstrate N-acetyl-D-glucosamine inducible amino acid deprivation response as morphological switch in Candida albicans. Fungal Genet. Biol. 49: 369-378.

  26. Khan R, Adil M, Danishuddin M, Verma PK and Khan AU (2012) In vitro and in vivo inhibition of Streptococcus mutans biofilm by Trachyspermum ammi seeds: an approach of alternative medicine. Phytomedicine 19: 747-755.

  27. Khurana R, Kapoor S and Tyagi AK (2012) Anthology of anther/pollen-specific promoters and transcription factors. Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences 31: 359-390.

  28. Korekar G, Sharma RK, Kumar R, Meenu, Bisht NC, Srivastava RB, Ahuja PS and Stobdan T (2012) Identification and validation of sex-linked SCAR markers in dioecious Hippophae rhamnoides L. (Elaeagnaceae). Biotechnol. Lett. 34: 973-978.

  29. Kumar K and Verma PK (2012) Genomics of filamentous phytopathogens: new insight in pathogenesis and virulence. In: Chowdappa, P (ed), Molecular Approaches for Plant Fungal Disease Management. Westville Pub., New Delhi, India, pp 133-151

  30. Kumar R, Agarwal P, Tyagi AK and Sharma AK (2012) Genome-wide investigation and expression analysis suggest diverse roles of auxin-responsive GH3 genes during development and response to different stimuli in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum). Mol. Genet. Genomics 287: 221-235.

  31. Kumar R, Sharma MK, Kapoor S, Tyagi AK and Sharma AK (2012) Transcriptome analysis of rin mutant fruit and in silico analysis of promoters of differentially regulated genes provides insight into LeMADS-RIN-regulated ethylene-dependent as well as ethylene-independent aspects of ripening in tomato. Mol. Genet. Genomics 287: 189-203.

  32. Kumar S, Chaudhary S, Kumari R, Sharma V and Kumar A (2012) Development of improved horticultural genotypes characterized by novel over-flowering inflorescence trait in periwinkle Catharanthus roseus. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. India 82: 399-404.

  33. Kumar S, Jaggi M and Sinha AK (2012) Ectopic overexpression of vacuolar and apoplastic Catharanthus roseus peroxidases confers differential tolerance to salt and dehydration stress in transgenic tobacco. Protoplasma 249: 423-432.

  34. Kumar S, Mishra RK, Kumar A, Chaudhary S, Sharma V and Kumari R (2012) Genetic interaction and mapping studies on the leaflet development (lld) mutant in Pisum sativum. J. Genet. 91: 325-342.

  35. Kumar S, Sharma V, Chaudhary S, Kumar A and Kumari R (2012) Agronomic characteristics of autumn and winter seeded photoperiod insensitive spring wheat in agro-climate of north-west India. Proc. Ind. Natl. Sci. Acad. 78: 71-89.

  36. Kumar S, Sharma V, Chaudhary S, Tyagi A, Mishra P, Priyadarshini A and Singh A (2012) Genetics of flowering time in bread wheat Triticum aestivum: complementary interaction between vernalization-insensitive and photoperiod-insensitive mutations imparts very early flowering habit to spring wheat. J. Genet. 91: 33-47.

  37. Kumari R, Jain VK and Kumar S (2012) Biodiesel production from seed oil of Cleome viscosa L.. Indian J. Exp. Biol. 50: 502-510.

  38. Kumari R, Mallavarapu GR, Jain VK and Kumar S (2012) Chemical composition of the fatty oils of the seeds of Cleome viscosa accessions. Nat. Prod. Commun. 7: 1363-1364.

  39. Kumari R, Tyagi A, Sharma V, Jain VK and Kumar S (2012) Variability in the accessions from aravali range assessed for domestication of the Cleomaceae biodiesel plant Cleome viscosa Linn. Indian J. Nat. Prod. Resour. 3: 246-255.

  40. Kumari S, Shridhar S, Singh D, Farmer R, Hundal J, Priya P, Sharma P, Bhavishi K, Schrick K and Yadav G (2012) The role of lectins and HD-ZIP transcription factors in isoprenoid based plant stress responses. Proc. Ind. Natl. Sci. Acad. 78: 671-691.

  41. Mir RR, Kumar N, Jaiswal V, Girdharwal N, Prasad M, Balyan HS and Gupta PK (2012) Genetic dissection of Grain Weight (GW) in bread wheat through QTL interval and association mapping. Mol. Breed. 29: 963-972.

  42. Mishra AK, Puranik S, Bahadur RP and Prasad M (2012) The DNA-binding activity of an AP2 protein is involved in transcriptional regulation of a stress-responsive gene, SiWD40, in foxtail millet. Genomics 100: 252-263. Read...

  43. Mishra AK, Puranik S and Prasad M (2012) Structure and regulatory networks of WD40 protein in plants. J. Plant Biochem. Biotechnol. 21: S32-S39

  44. Mishra RK, Gangadhar BH, Nookaraju A, Kumar S and Park SW (2012) Development of EST-derived SSR markers in pea (Pisum sativum) and their potential utility for genetic mapping and transferability. Plant Breeding 131: 118-124.

  45. Narula K, Elagamy E, Datta A, Chakraborty N and Chakraborty S (2012) Comparative analyses of extracellular matrix proteome: an under-explored area in plant research. In: Goyal A(ed), Crop Plants. InTech, Janeza Tradine, Croatia, pp145-166.

  46. Nizam S, Verma S, Singh K, Aggarwal R, Srivastava KD and Verma PK (2012) High reliability transformation of the wheat pathogen Bipolaris sorokiniana using Agrobacterium tumefaciens. J. Microbiol. Methods 88: 386-392.

  47. Pasrija R and Thakur JK (2012) Analysis of differential expression of mediator subunit genes in Arabidopsis. Plant Signal. Behav. 7: 1676-1686

  48. Patel RK and Jain M (2012) NGS QC Toolkit: A toolkit for quality control of next generation sequencing data. PLoS One 7: e30619.

  49. Prasad VBR, Kumar SV, Nandi A and Chattopadhyay S (2012) Functional interconnections of HY1 with MYC2 and HY5 in Arabidopsis seedling development. BMC Plant Biol. 12: 37.

  50. Prasad VBR, Gupta N, Nandi A and Chattopadhyay S (2012) HY1 genetically interacts with GBF1 and regulates the activity of the Z-box containing promoters in light signaling pathways in Arabidopsis thaliana. Mechanisms of Development 129: 298-307.

  51. Puranik S and Prasad M (2012) Role of NACs in regulation of abiotic stress responses in plants. In: Goyal A, Maheshwari P (eds), Current Advances in Plant Science. Bentham Science Publishers, USA, pp 137-148

  52. Puranik S, Sahu PP, Srivastava PS and Prasad M (2012) NAC proteins: regulation and role in stress tolerance. Trends Plant Sci. 17: 369-381.   Read...

  53. Purwar S, Sundaram S, Verma P, Srivastava S and Kumar A (2012) A physiologically regulated multidomain cystatin of wheat shows stage-dependent immunity against karnal bunt (Tilletia indica). Appl. Biochem. Biotechnol. 168: 2344-2357.

  54. Raina SK, Wankhede DP, Jaggi M, Singh P, Jalmi SK, Raghuram B, Sheikh AH and Sinha AK (2012) CrMPK3, a mitogen activated protein kinase from Catharanthus roseus and its possible role in stress induced biosynthesis of monoterpenoid indole alkaloids. BMC Plant Biology. 12: 134.

  55. Ray S, Kapoor S and Tyagi AK (2012) Analysis of transcriptional and upstream regulatory sequence activity of two environmental stress-inducible genes, NBS-Str1 and BLEC-Str8, of rice. Transgenic Res. 21: 351-366.

  56. Sahu PP, Gupta S, Malaviya DR, Roy AK, Kaushal P and Prasad M (2012) Transcriptome analysis of differentially expressed genes during embryosac development in apomeiotic non parthenogenetic interspecific hybrid of Pennisetum glaucum. Mol. Biotechnol 51: 262-271.

  57. Sahu PP, Puranik S, Khan M and Prasad M (2012) Recent advances in tomato functional genomics: utilization of VIGS. Protoplasma 249: 1017-1027.

  58. Sahu PP, Rai NK, Puranik S, Roy A, Khan M and Prasad M (2012) Dynamics of defense related components in two contrasting genotypes to tomato upon infection with tomato leaf curl New Delhi virus. Mol. Biotechnol 52: 140-150.

  59. Sharma R, Agarwal P, Ray S, Deveshwar P, Sharma P, Sharma N, Nijhawan A, Jain M, Singh AK, Singh VP, Khurana JP, Tyagi AK and Kapoor S (2012) Expression dynamics of metabolic and regulatory components across stages of panicle and seed development in indica rice. Funct. Integr. Genomics 12: 229-248.

  60. Sharma V, Chaudhary S, Kumar A and Kumar S (2012) COCHLEATA controls leaf size and secondary inflorescence architecture via negative regulation of UNIFOLIATA (LEAFY ortholog) gene in garden pea Pisum sativum. Journal of Biosciences 37: 1041-1059

  61. Sharma V, Chaudhary S, Srivastava S, Pandey R and Kumar S (2012) Characterization of variation and quantitative trait loci related to terpenoid indole alkaloid yield in a recombinant inbred line mapping population of Catharanthus roseus. J. Genet. 91: 49-69.

  62. Sharma V and Kumar S (2012) Nodal spine pairs present in the mimosoid Prosopis juliflora are not stipules but define a distinct class of lateral organs. American Journal of Plant Sciences 3: 1159-1161.

  63. Sharma V and Kumar S (2012) Stipules are the principal photosynthetic organs in the papilionoid species Lathyrus aphaca. National Academy of Science Letters 35: 75-78.

  64. Sharma V, Sinha AK, Chaudhary S, Priyadarshini A, Tripathi BN and Kumar S (2012) Genetic analysis of structure and function of stipules in pea (Pisum sativum). Proc. Ind. Natl. Sci. Acad. 78: 9-34.

  65. Sharma V, Tripathi BN and Kumar S (2012) Organ-wise homologies of stipule, leaf and inflorescence between Pisum sativum genetic variants, Delonix regia and Caesalpinia bonduc indicate parallel evolution of morphogenetic regulation. Plant Syst. Evol. 298: 1167-1175.

  66. Singh A, Ram H, Abbas N and Chattopadhyay S (2012) Molecular interactions of GBF1 with HY5 and HYH during light-mediated seedling development in Arabidopsis thaliana. J. Biol. Chem. 287: 25995-26009.

  67. Singh K, Nizam S, Sinha M and Verma PK (2012) Comparative transcriptome analysis of the necrotrophic fungus Ascochyta rabiei during oxidative stress: insight for fungal survival in the host plant. PLoS One 7: e33128.

  68. Singh S, Singh A, Roy S and Sarkar A (2012) SWP1 negatively regulates lateral root initiation and elongation in Arabidopsis. Plant Signal. Behav. 7: 1522-1525.

  69. The Tomato Genome Consortium (2012) The tomato genome sequence provides insights into fleshy fruit evolution. Nature 485: 635-641.

  70. Wardhan V, Jahan K, Gupta S, Chennareddy S, Datta A, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2012) Overexpression of CaTLP1, a putative transcription factor in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.), promotes stress tolerance. Plant Mol. Biol. 79: 479-493.

  71. Yadav G and Babu S (2012) NEXCADE: Perturbation analysis for complex networks. PLoS One 7: e41827.

  72. Yadav S, Kushwaha HR, Kumar K and Verma PK (2012) Comparative structural modelling of a monothiol GRX from chickpea: insight in iron-sulfur cluster assembly. Int. J. Biol. Macromol. 51: 266-273.
List of Publications (2011)
  1. Agrawal GK, Bourguignon J, Rolland N, Ephritikhine G, Ferro M, Jaquinod M, Alexiou KG, Chardot T, Chakraborty N, Jolivet P, Doonan JH and Rakwal R (2011) Plant organelle proteomics : collaborating for optimal cell function. Mass Spectrometry Reviews 30: 772-853.

  2. Agrawal L, Sharma A, Narula K, Datta A, Chakraborty N and Chakraborty S (2011) Insights into genetic engineering of crop plants for improved protein and molecular mechanism of transgene function. In: Muralidharan K, Siddiq EA (eds), National Symposium on Genomics and Crop Improvement: Relevance and Reservations. Institute of Biotechnology, Acharya NG Ranga Agricultural University, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad, India, pp 387-391.

  3. Agarwal P, Kapoor S and Tyagi AK (2011) Transcription factors regulating the progression of monocot and dicot seed development. BioEssays 33: 189-202.

  4. Bhardawaj D, Sheikh AH, Sinha AK, and Tuteja N (2011) Stress induced beta subunit of heterotrimeric G-proteins from Pisum sativum interacts with mitogen activated protein kinase. Plant Signal. Behav. 6: 287-292.

  5. Bhushan D, Jaiswal DK, Ray D, Basu D, Datta A, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2011) Dehydration-responsive reversible and irreversible changes in the extracellular matrix: comparative proteomics of chickpea genotypes with contrasting tolerance. J. Proteome Res. 10: 2027-2046.

  6. Chattopadhyay A, Subba P, Pandey A, Bhushan D, Kumar R, Datta A, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2011) Analysis of the grasspea proteome and identification of stress-responsive proteins upon exposure to high salinity, low temperature, and abscisic acid treatment. Phytochemistry 72: 1293-1307.

  7. Chaudhary S, Sharma V, Prasad M, Bhatia S, Tripathi BN, Yadav G, Kumar S (2011) Characterization and genetic linkage mapping of the horticulturally important mutation leafless inflorescence (lli) in periwinkle Catharanthus roseus. Scientia Horticulturae 129: 142-153.

  8. Chaudhary SR, Bisht NC, Thompson R, Todorov O and Pandey S (2011) Conventional and novel Ga protein families constitute the heterotrimeric G-protein signaling network in soybean. PLoS One 6: e23361.

  9. Chauhan H, Khurana N, Tyagi AK, Khurana JP and Khurana P (2011) Identification and characterization of high temperature stress responsive genes in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and their regulation at various stages of development. Plant Mol. Biol. 75: 35-51.

  10. Dasgupta S, Bhattacharya S, Maitra S, Pal D, Majumdar SS and Datta A (2011) Mechanism of lipid induced insulin resistance: activated PKCe is a key regulator. Biochem. Biophys. Acta 1812: 495- 506.

  11. Dhariwal R, Vyas S, Bhaganagare GR, Jha SK, Khurana JP, Tyagi AK, Prabhu KV, Balyan HS and Gupta PK (2011) Analysis of differentially expressed genes in leaf rust infected bread wheat involving seeding resistance gene Lr28. Func. Plant Biol. 38: 479-492.

  12. Dwivedi S, Upadhyay H, Senthilvel S, Hash C, Fukunaga K, Diao X, Santra D, Baltensperger D and Prasad M (2011) Millets: genetic and genomic resources. In: Janick J (ed), Vol. 35: Plant Breeding Reviews. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., USA, pp 247-375.

  13. Garg R and Jain M (2011) Pyrosequencing data reveals tissue-specific expression of lineage-specific transcripts in chickpea. Plant Signal. Behav. 6: 1868-1870.

  14. Garg R, Patel RK, Jhanwar S, Priya P, Bhattacharjee A, Yadav G, Bhatia S, Chattopadhyay D, Tyagi AK and Jain M (2011) Gene discovery and tissue-specific transcriptome analysis in chickpea with massively parallel pyrosequencing and web resource development. Plant Physiol. 156: 1661-1678.

  15. Garg R, Patel RK, Tyagi AK and Jain M (2011) De novo assembly of chickpea transcriptome using short reads for gene discovery and marker identification. DNA Res. 18: 53-63.

  16. Gaur R, Sethy NK, Choudhary S, Shokeen B, Gupta V and Bhatia S (2011) Advancing the STMS genomic resources for defining new locations on the intraspecific genetic linkage map of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). BMC Genomics 12: 117.

  17. Ghawana S, Paul A, Kumar H, Kumar A, Singh H, Bhardwaj PK, Rani A, Singh RS, Raizada J, Singh K and Kumar S (2011) An RNA isolation system for plant tissues rich in secondary metabolites. BMC Res. Notes 4: 85.

  18. Goel R, Goel D, Chaudhary S, Sharma V and Kumar S (2011) Cropping of the artemisinin (antimalarial drug) yielding Artemisia annua cultivars, over a ten year period in the agroclimate of north-west India, has not led to the species becoming a weed. National Academy of Science Letters 34: 307-315.

  19. Gosh S, Meli VS, Chakraborty N, Chakraborty S and Datta A (2011) Genetic engineering of fruits and vegetables for long shelf life. In: Muralidharan K, Siddiq EA (eds), National Symposium on Genomics and Crop Improvement: Relevance and Reservations. Institute of Biotechnology, Acharya NG Ranga Agricultural University, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad, India, pp 417-421.

  20. Ghosh S, Meli VS, Kumar A, Thakur A, Chakraborty N, Chakraborty S and Datta A (2011) The N-glycan processing enzymes α-mannosidase and β-D-N-acetylhexosaminidase are involved in ripening-associated softening in the non-climacteric fruits of Capsicum. J. Exp. Bot. 62: 571-582.

  21. Ghosh S, Rao KH, Sengupta M, Bhattacharya SK and Datta A (2011) Two gene clusters co-ordinate for a functional N-acetylglucosamine catabolic pathway in Vibrio cholerae. Mol. Microbiol. 80: 1549-1560.

  22. Giri J (2011) Glycinebetaine and abiotic stress tolerance in plants. Plant Signal. Behav. 6: 1746- 1751.

  23. Giri J, Vij S, Dansana P and Tyagi AK (2011) Rice A20/AN1 zinc-finger containing stress-associated proteins (SAP1/11) and a receptor-like cytoplasmic kinase (OsRLCK253) interact via A20 zinc-finger and confer abiotic stress tolerance in transgenic Arabidopsis plants. New Phytol. 191: 721-732.

  24. Gujaria N, Kumar A, Dauthal P, Dubey A, Hiremath P, Bhanu Prakash A, Farmer A, Bhide M, Shah T, Gaur PM, Upadhyaya HD, Bhatia S, Cook DR, May GD and Varshney RK (2011) Development and use of genic molecular markers (GMMs) for construction of a transcript map of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). Theor. Appl. Genet. 122: 1577-1589.

  25. Gupta S, Kumari K, Das J, Lata C, Puranik S and Prasad M (2011) Development and utilization of novel intron length polymorphic markers in foxtail millet [Setaria italica (L.) P. Beauv.]. Genome 54: 586-602. Read...

  26. Gupta S, Wardhan V, Verma S, Gayali S, Rajamani U, Datta A, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2011) Characterization of the secretome of chickpea suspension culture reveals pathway abundance and the expected and unexpected secreted proteins. J. Proteome Res. 10: 5006-5015.

  27. Hyun TK, Kumar K, Rao KP, Sinha AK and Roitsch T (2011) Role of α-tocopherol in cellular signaling: α-tocopherol inhibits stress-induced mitogen activated protein kinase activation. Plant Biotechnology Reports 5: 19-25.

  28. Jaggi M, Kumar S and Sinha AK (2011) Overexpression of an apoplastic peroxidase gene CrPrx in transgenic hairy root lines of Catharanthus roseus. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 90: 1005-1016.

  29. Jain M (2011) A next generation approach to the characterization of a non-model plant transcriptome. Current Science 101: 1435-1439.

  30. Kapoor S, Khurana R, Baranwal V, Agarwal P, Ray S and Tyagi A (2011) Genome-wide strategies for genetic enhancement of rice. In: Muralidharan K, Siddiq EA (eds), National Symposium on Genomics and Crop Improvement: Relevance and Reservations. Institute of Biotechnology, Acharya NG Ranga Agricultural University, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad, India, pp 11-25.

  31. Kumar K, Rao KP, Biswas D and Sinha AK (2011) Rice WNK1 is regulated by abiotic stress and involved in internal circadian rhythm. Plant Signal. Behav. 6: 316-320.

  32. Kumar R, Tyagi AK and Sharma AK (2011) Genome-wide analysis of auxin response factor (ARF) gene gamily from tomato and analysis of their role in flower and fruit development. Mol. Genet. Genomics 285: 245-260.

  33. Kumar S, Jaggi M, Taneja J and Sinha AK (2011) Cloning and characterization of two new Class III peroxidase genes from Catharanthus roseus. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 49: 404-412.

  34. Kumar S, Sharma V, Chaudhary S, Kumari R, Kumari N and Mishra P (2011) Interaction between COCHLEATA and UNIFOLIATA genes enables normal flower morphogenesis in the garden pea, Pisum sativum. J. Genet. 90: 309-314.

  35. Kushwah S, Jones AM and Laxmi A (2011) Cytokinin interplay with ethylene, auxin and glucose signaling controls Arabidopsis seedling root directional growth. Plant Physiol. 156: 1851-1866.

  36. Kushwah S, Jones AM and Laxmi A (2011) Cytokinin-induced root growth involves actin filament reorganization. Plant Signal. Behav. 6: 1848-1850.

  37. Kushwaha HR, Kumar G, Verma PK, Singla-Pareek SL and Pareek A (2011) Analysis of a salinity induced BjSOS3 protein from Brassica indicate it to be structurally and functionally related to its ortholog from Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 49: 996-1004.

  38. Lata C, Jha S, Dixit V, Sreenivasulu N and Prasad M (2011) Differential antioxidative responses to dehydration-induced oxidative stress in core set of foxtail millet cultivars [Setaria italica (L.)]. Protoplasma 248: 817-828.

  39. Lata C, Bhutty S, Bahadur RP, Majee M and Prasad M (2011) Association of SNP in a novel DREB2-like gene SiDREB2 with stress tolerance in foxtail millet [Setaria italica (L.)]. J. Exp. Bot. 62: 3387-3401.

  40. Lata C and Prasad M (2011) Role of DREBs in regulation of abiotic stress responses in plants. J Exp Bot. 62: 4731-4748.

  41. Lata C, Yadav A and Prasad M (2011) Role of transcription factors in abiotic stress tolerance. In: Venkateswarlu B, Shankar A (eds), Abiotic Stress Response in Plants. INTECH Open Access Publishers, Rijeka, Croatia, pp 269-296.

  42. Mathur S, Vyas S, Kapoor S and Tyagi AK (2011) The mediator complex in plants: structure, phylogeny and expression profiling of representative genes in a dicot (Arabidopsis) and a monocot (Rice) during reproduction and abiotic stress. Plant Physiol. 157: 1609-1627.

  43. Patel RK and Jain M (2011) PlantRGS: a web server for the identification of most suitable candidate reference genes for quantitative gene expression studies in plants. DNA Res. 18: 463-470.

  44. Prasad M (2011) Solanaceae Conferance: a report on the 7th Solanaceae Conferance (SOL) held during 5-9 September 2010 at Dundee, Scotland. Current Science 100: 610-612.

  45. Puranik S, Bahadur RP, Srivastava PS and Prasad M (2011)Molecular cloning and characterization of a membrane associated NAC family gene, SiNAC from foxtail millet [Setaria italica (L.) P. Beauv.]. Mol. Biotechnol. 49: 138-150.

  46. Puranik S, Jha S, Srivastava PS, Sreenivasulu N and Prasad M (2011) Comparative transcriptome analysis of contrasting foxtail millet cultivars in response to short-term salinity stress. J. Plant Physiol. 168: 280-287.

  47. Puranik S, Kumar K, Srivastava PS and Prasad M (2011) Electrophoretic mobility shift assay reveals a novel recognition sequence for Setaria italica NAC protein. Plant Signal. Behav. 6: 1588-1590. Read...

  48. Rao KP, Vani G, Kumar K, Wankhede DP, Misra M, Gupta M and Sinha AK (2011) Arsenic stress activates MAP kinase in rice roots and leaves. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 506: 73-82.

  49. Ray S, Dansana PK, Giri J, Deveshwar P, Arora R, Agarwal P, Khurana JP, Kapoor S and Tyagi AK (2011) Modulation of transcription factor and metabolic pathway genes in response to water-deficit stress in rice. Funct. Integr. Genomics 11: 157-178.

  50. Shokeen B, Choudhary S, Sethy NK and Bhatia S (2011) Development of SSR and gene-targeted markers for construction of a framework linkage map of Catharanthus roseus. Ann. Bot. 108: 321- 336.

  51. Sinha AK, Jaggi M, Raghuram B and Tuteja N (2011) Mitogen activate dprotein kinase signaling in plant under abiotic stress. Plant Signal. Behav. 6: 196-203.

  52. Swapna L, Khurana R, Vijaya Kumar S, Tyagi AK and Rao KV (2011) Pollen-Specific expression of Oryza sativa Indica pollen allergen gene (OSIPA) promoter in rice and Arabidopsis transgenic systems. Mol. Biotechnol. 48: 49-59.

  53. Verma PK and Nizam S (2011) Genome sequencing and its reference to plant pathogens. In: Thind TS, Jain RK, Sharma P, Khurana SMP, Aggarwal R, Sharma RK, Singh D, Dubey SC, Kumar A (compiled by), Plant Pathology in India: Vision 2030. Indian Phytopathological Society, New Delhi, India, pp186-190.

  54. Yadav RK and Chattopadhyay D (2011) Enhanced viral intergenic region specific siRNA accumulation and DNA methylation correlates with resistance against a geminivirus. Mol. Plant Microbe Interactions 24: 1189-1197.
List of Publications (2010)
  1. Anand S and Tyagi AK (2010) Characterization of a pollen-preferential gene OSIAGP from rice (Oryza sativa L. subspecies indica) coding for an arabinogalactan-protein homolog and analysis of its promoter activity during pollen development and pollen tube growth. Transgenic Res. 19: 385-397.

  2. Anand S, Prasad MV, Yadav G, Kumar N, Shehara J, Ansari MZ and Mohanty D(2010) SBSPKS: structure based sequence analysis of polyketide synthases. Nucl. Acids Res. 38: W487-W496.

  3. Bonfig KB, Gabler A, Simon UK, Luschin-Ebengreuth N, Hatz M, Berger S, Muhammad N, Zeier J, Sinha AK and Roitsch T (2010) Post-translational depression of invertase activity in source leaves via down regulation of invertase inhibitor expression is part of the plant defense response. Molecular Plant 3: 1037-1048.

  4. Chakraborty M, Chattopadhyay S and Saraf A (2010) Role of ZBF1 in light signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana. Electronic Journal of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Chemistry 9: 1584-1586.

  5. Chakraborty S, Chakraborty N, Agrawal L, Ghosh S, Narula K, Shekhar S, Naik PS, Pande PC, Chakrborty SK and Datta A (2010) Next-generation protein-rich potato expressing the seed protein gene AmA1 is a result of proteome rebalancing in transgenic tuber. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA107: 17533-17538.

  6. Chandna R, Gupta S, Ahmad A, Iqbal M and Prasad M (2010) Variability in Indian bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) varieties differing in nitrogen efficiency as assessed by microsatellite markers. Protoplasma 242: 55-67.

  7. Gangappa SN and Chattopadhyay S (2010) MYC2, a bHLH transcription factor, modulates the adult phenotype of SPA1. Plant Signal. Behav. 5: 1650-1652.

  8. Gangappa SN, Prasad VB and Chattopadhyay S (2010) Functional interconnection of MYC2 and SPA1 in the photomorphogenic seedling development of Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol. 154: 1210-1219.

  9. Garg R, Jhanwar S, Tyagi AK and Jain M (2010) Genome-wide survey and expression analysis suggest diverse roles of glutaredoxin gene family members during development and response to various stimuli in rice. DNA Res. 17: 353-367.

  10. Garg R, Sahoo A, Tyagi AK and Jain M (2010) Validation of internal control genes for quantitative gene expression studies in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. 396: 283-288.

  11. Gupta V, Raghuvanshi S, Gupta A, Khan MS, Gupta RS, Singh J, Dattamajumder SK, Srivastava S, Suman A, Khurana JP, Kapoor R and Tyagi AK (2010) The water-deficit stress and red-rot-related genes in sugarcane. Funct. Integr. Genomics 10: 207-214 .

  12. Jain D and Chattopadhyay D (2010) Analysis of gene expression in response to water deficit of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) varieties differing in drought tolerance. BMC Plant Biol. 10: 24.

  13. Jain M, Ghanashyam C and Bhattacharjee A (2010) Comprehensive expression analysis suggests overlapping and specific roles of glutathione S-transferases during development and stress responses in rice. BMC Genomics 11: 73.

  14. Kumar S, Chaudhary S, Kumari R, Mishra RK, Kumar A, Chowdhary DR, Jha R and Kumar A (2010) Genetic control of leafblade morphogenesis by the Insecatus gene in Pisum sativum. J. Genet. 89: 201-211.

  15. Kumar S, Mishra RK, Chaudhary S, Pandey R and Yadav G (2010) Co-regulation of biomass partitioning by leafblade morphology genes AFILA, MULTIFOLIATE-PINNA, TENDRIL-LESS and UNIFOLIATA in grain pea Pisum sativum. Proc. Ind. Natl. Sci. Acad. 75: 15-25.

  16. Lata C, Sahu PP and Prasad M (2010) Comparative transcriptome analysis of differentially expressed genes in foxtail millet (Setaria italica L.) during dehydration stress. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. 393: 720-727.

  17. Meli VS, Ghosh S, Prabha TN, Chakraborty N, Chakraborty S and Datta A (2010) Enhancement of fruit shelf life by suppressing N-glycan processing enzymes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 107: 2413-2418.

  18. Mishra RK, Chaudhary S, Pandey R, Gupta S, Mallavarapu GR and Kumar S (2010) The inflorescence (flower) essential oil is linalool-richer than the leaf oil of Lippia alba cultivar 'Kavach'. Journal of Essential Oil Research 22: 3-7.

  19. Nizam S, Singh K and Verma PK (2010) Expression of the fluorescent proteins DsRed and EGFP to visualize early events of colonization of the chickpea blight fungus Ascochyta rabiei. Current Genetics 56: 391-399.

  20. Pandey A, Rajamani U, Verma J, Subba P, Chakraborty N, Datta A, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2010) Identification of extracellular matrix proteins of rice (Oryza sativa L.) involved in dehydration-responsive network: a proteomic approach. J. Proteome Res. 9: 3443-3464.

  21. Raghuvanshi S, Kapoor M, Tyagi S, Kapoor S, Khurana P, Khurana JP and Tyagi AK (2010) Rice genomics moves ahead. Mol. Breed. 26: 257-273.

  22. Rao KP, Richa T, Kumar K, Raghuram B and Sinha AK (2010) In silico analysis reveals 75 members of mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase gene family in Rice. DNA Res. 17:139-153.

  23. Sahu PP, Rai NK, Chakraborty S, Singh M, Prasanna HC, Ramesh B, Chattopadhyay, D and Prasad M (2010) Tomato cultivar tolerant to Tomato leaf curl New Delhi virus infection induces virus-specific siRNA accumulation and defense associated host gene expression. Mol. Plant Pathology 11: 531-544.

  24. Sharma MK, Kumar R, Solanke AU, Sharma R, Tyagi AK and Sharma AK (2010) Identification, phylogeny and transcript profiling of ERF family genes during development and abiotic stress treatments in tomato. Mol. Genet. Genomics 284: 455-475.

  25. Sharma R, Kapoor M, Tyagi AK and Kapoor S (2010) Comparative transcript profiling of TCP family genes provide insight into gene functions and diversification in rice and Arabidopsis. J. Plant Mol. Biol. Biotechnol. 1: 24-38.

  26. Singh A, Giri J, Kapoor S, Tyagi AK and Pandey GK (2010) Protein phosphatase complement in rice: genome-wide identification and transcriptional analysis under abiotic stress conditions and reproductive development. BMC Genomics 11: 435.

  27. Taneja J, Jaggi M, Wankhade DP and Sinha AK (2010) Effect of loss of T-DNA genes on MIA biosynthetic pathway gene regulation and alkaloid accumulation in Catharanthus roseus hairy roots. Plant Cell Reports 29: 1119-1129.

  28. Verma P, Singh A, Kaur H and Majee M (2010) PROTEIN L -ISOASPARTYL METHYLTRANSFERASE1 (CaPIMT1) from chickpea mitigates oxidative stress-induced growth inhibition of Escherichia coli. Planta 231: 329-336.

  29. Walker AK, Yang F, Jiang K, Ji JY, Watts JL, Purushotham A, Boss O, Hirsch ML, Ribich S, Smith JJ, Israelian K, Westphal CH, Rodgers JT, Shioda T, Elson SL, Mulligan P, Najafi-Shoushtari H, Black JC, Thakur JK, Kadyk LC, Whetstine JR, Mostoslavsky R, Puigserver P, Li X, Dyson NJ, Hart AC, Naar AM (2010) Conserved role of SIRT1 orthologs in fasting-dependent inhibition of the lipid/cholesterol regulator SREBP. Genes Dev. 24: 1403-1417.

List of Publications (2009)
  1. Ashraf N, Ghai D, Barman P, Basu S, Gangisetty N, Mandal MK, Chakraborty N, Datta A and Chakraborty S (2009) Comparative analyses of genotype dependent expressed sequence tags and stress-responsive transcriptome of chickpea wilt illustrate predicted and unexpected genes and novel regulators of plant immunity. BMC Genomics 10: 415  

  2. Bisht NC, Ramchiary N, Gupta V, Mukhopadhyay A, Arumugam N, Sodhi YS, Pental D and Pradhan AK (2009) Fine mapping of loci involved with glucosinolate biosynthesis in oilseed mustard (Brassica juncea) using genomic information from allied species. Theor. Appl. Genet. 118: 413-421.

  3. Bhatia S and Shokeen B (2009) Isolation of microsatellites from Catharanthus roseus (L.) G. Don using enriched libraries. Methods Mol. Biol. 547: 289-302.  

  4. Choudhary MK, Basu D, Datta A, Chakraborty N and Chakraborty S (2009) Dehydration-reponsive nuclear proteome of rice (Oryza sativa L.) illustrates protein network, novel regulators of cellular adaptation and evolutionary perspect. Mol. Cell. Proteomics 8: 1579-1598.  

  5. Choudhary S, Sethy NK, Shokeen B and Bhatia S (2009) Development of chickpea EST-SSR markers and analysis of allelic variation across related species. Theor. Appl. Genet. 118: 591-608.  

  6. Ghanshyam C and Jain M (2009) Role of auxin-responsive genes in biotic stress responses. Plant Signal. Behav. 4: 846-848.  

  7. Gupta A, Singh M, Mishra BS, Kushwah S and Laxmi A (2009) Role of glucose in spatial distribution of auxin regulated genes. Plant Signal. Behav. 4: 862-863.  

  8. Gupta M, Sharma P, Sarin NB and Sinha AK (2009). Differential responses of arsenic stress in two varieties of Brassica juncea. Chemosphere 74: 1201-1208.  

  9. Gupta S and Prasad M (2009). Development and characterization of genic SSR-markers in Medicago truncatula and its transferability in leguminous and non- leguminous species. Genome 52: 761-771.  

  10. Hyun TK, Hoffmann A, Sinha AK and Roitsch T (2009) Tomato mitogen activated protein kinases regulate the expression of extracellular invertase Lin6 in response to stress related stimuli. Func. Plant Biol. 36: 1088-1097.  

  11. Jain D, Roy N and Chattopadhyay D (2009) CaZF, a plant transcription factor functions through and parallel to HOG and calcineurin pathways in Saccharomyces cerevisiae to provide osmotolerance. PLoS One 4: e5154.   

  12. Jain M (2009) Genome-wide identification of novel internal control genes for normalization of gene-expression during various stages of development in rice. Plant Science 176: 702-706.  

  13. Jain M and Khurana JP (2009) Transcript profiling reveals diverse roles of auxin-responsive genes during reproductive development and abiotic stress in rice. FEBS Journal 276: 3148-3162.  

  14. Kathuria H, Giri J, Nataraja KN, Murata N, Udayakumar M and Tyagi AK (2009) Glycinebetine-Induced water-stress tolerance in Cod A-expressing transgenic India rice is associated with up-regulation of several stress responsive genes. Plant Biotechnol. Journal 7: 512-526.  

  15. Kumar S, Mishra RK, Kumar A, Srivastava S and Chaudhary S (2009) Regulation of stipule development by COCHLEATA and STIPULE-REDUCED genes in pea Pisum sativum. Planta 230: 449-458.  

  16. Mallavarupu GR, Mishra RK, Chaudhary S, Pandey R, Gupta S, Kumar S, Kaul VK and Pathania V (2009) 2-Hydroxyacetophenone, the main component of the essential oil of the roots of Carissa opaca Stapf ex Haines. Journal of Essential Oil Research 21: 385-387.

  17. Mishra BS, Singh M, Aggrawal P and Laxmi A (2009) Glucose and auxin signaling interaction in controlling Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings root growth and development. PLoS One 4: e4502.  

  18. Mishra RK, Chaudhary S, Kumar A and Kumar S (2009) Effects of MULTIFOLIATE-PINNA, AFILA, TENDRIL-LESS and UNIFOLIATA genes on leafblade architecture in Pisum sativum. Planta 230: 177-190.  

  19. Mishra RK, Kumar A, Chaudhary S and Kumar S (2009) Mapping of the multifoliate pinna (mfp) leaf-blade morphology mutation in grain pea Pisum sativum. J. Genet. 88: 227-232.  

  20. Mohan A, Kulwal P, Singh R, Kumar V, Mir RR, Kumar J, Prasad M, Balyan HS and Gupta PK (2009) Genome-wide QTL analysis for pre-harvest sprouting tolerance in bread wheat. Euphytica 168: 319-329.  

  21. Mueller LA, Lankhorst RK, Tanksley SD, Giovannoni JJ, White R, Vrebalov J, Fei Z, Van Eck J, Buels R, Mills AA, Menda N, Tecle IY, Bombarely A, Stack S, Royer SM, Chang SB, Shearer LA, Kim BD, Jo SH, Hur CG, Choi D, Li CB, Zhao J, Jiang H, Geng Y, Dai Y, Fan H, Chen J, Lu F, Shi J, Sun S, Yang X, Lu C, Chen M, Cheng Z, Li C, Ling H, Xue Y, Wang Y, Seymour GB, Bishop GJ, Bryan G, Rogers J, Sims S, Butcher S, Buchan D, Abbott J, Beasley H, Nicholson C, Riddle C, Humphray S, McLaren K, Mathur S, Vyas S, Solanke AU, Kumar R, Gupta V, Sharma AK, Khurana P, Khurana JP, Tyagi A, Chowdhury P, Shridhar S, Chattopadhyay D, Pandit A, Singh P, Kumar A, Dixit R, Singh A, Praveen S, Dalal V, Yadav M, Ghazi IA, Gaikwad K, Sharma TR, Mohapatra T, Singh NK, Szinay D, De Jong H, Peters S, Van Staveren M, Datema E, Fiers MWEJ, Van Ham RCHJ, Lindhout P, Philippot M, Frasse P, Regad F, Zouine M, Bouzayen M, Asamizu E, Sato S, Fukuoka H, Tabata S, Shibata D, Botella MA, Perez-Alonso M, Fernandez-Pedrosa V, Osorio S, Mico A, Granell A, Zhang Z, He J, Huang S, Du Y, Qu D, Liu L, Liu D, Wang J, Ye Z, Yang W, Wang G, Vezzi A, Todesco S, Valle G, Falcone G, Pietrella M, Giuliano G, Grandillo S, Traini A, D'Agostino N, Chiusano ML, Ercolano M, Barone A, Frusciante L, Schoof H, Jocker A, Bruggmann R, Spannagl M, Mayer KXF, Guigo R, Camara F, Rombauts S, Fawcett JA, Van De Peer Y, Knapp S, Zamir D, Stiekema W (2009) The Tomato Genome Sequencing Consortium. A snapshot of the emerging tomato genome sequence. The Plant Genome 2: 78-92.

  22. Nayak SN, Balaji J, Upadhyay HD, Hash CT, KaviKishore PB, Chattopadhyay D, Rodrigues LM, Blair MW, Baum M, McNally K, This D, Hosington D and Varshney R (2009) Isolation and sequence analysis of DREB2A homologues in three cereal and two legume species. Plant Science 177: 460-467.

  23. Rao KP, Vani G, Kumar K and Sinha AK (2009) Rhythmic expression of mitogen activated protein kinase activity in rice. Molecules and Cells 28: 417-422.  

  24. Saini V, Raghuvanshi S, Talwar GP, Ahmed N, Khurana JP, Hasnain SE, Tyagi Akhilesh K and Tyagi Anil K (2009) Polyphasic taxonomic analysis establishes Mycobacterium indicus pranii as a distinct species. PLoS One 4: e6263.

  25. Shridhar S, Chattopadhyay D and Yadav G (2009) PLecDom: A program for identification and analysis of plant lectin domains. Nucl. Acids. Res. 37: W452-458.  

  26. Shukla RK, Tripathi V, Jain D, Yadav RK and Chattopadhyay D (2009) CAP2 enhances germination of transgenic tobacco seeds at high temperature and promotes heat stress tolerance in yeast. FEBS J. 276: 5252-5262.  

  27. Solanke AU, Sharma MK, Tyagi AK and Sharma AK (2009) Characterization and phylogenetic analysis of environmental stress responsive SAP gene family encoding A20/AN1 zinc-finger proteins in tomato. Mol. Genet. Genomics 282: 153-164.

  28. Tripathi V, Parasuraman B, Laxmi A and Chattopadhyay D (2009) CIPK6, a CBL-interacting protein kinase is required for development and salt tolerance in plant. Plant Journal 58: 778-790.  

  29. Tripathi V, Syed N, Laxmi A and Chattopadhyay D (2009) Role of CIPK6 in root growth and auxin transport. Plant. Signal. Behav. 4: 663-665  

  30. Yadav G, Ghokhale RS and Mohanty D (2009) Towards prediction of metabolic products of polyketide synthases: An in silico analysis. PLoS Comp. Biol. 5: e1000351.   

  31. Yadav G, Prasad BLA, Jha BK, Rai V, Bhakuni VK and Datta K (2009) Evidence for inhibitory interaction of hyaluronan binding protein 1 with S. pneumoniae hyaluronidase. J. Biol. Chem. 284: 3897-3905.  

  32. Yadav RK, Shukla RK and Chattopadhyay D (2009) Soybean cultivar resistant to mungbean yellow mosaic India virus infection induces viral RNA degradation earlier than the susceptible cultivar. Virus Res. 144: 89-95.  
List of Publications (2008)
  1. Agrawal L, Chakraborty S, Jaiswal DK, Gupta S, Datta A and Chakraborty N (2008) Comparative proteomics of tuber induction, development and maturation reveal the complexity of tuberization process in potato (Solanum tuberosum L.). J. Proteome Res. 7: 3803-3817.  

  2. Bhatia S, Gangappa SN, and Chattopadhyay S (2008) SHW1, a common regulator of abscisic acid (ABA) and light signaing pathways. Plant Signal. Behav. 10: 862-864.  

  3. Bhatia S, Gangappa SN, Kushwaha R, Kundu S and Chattopadhyay S (2008) SHORT HYPOCOTYL IN WHITE LIGHT1, a serine-arginine-aspartate rich protein in Arabidopsis, acts as a negative regulator of photomorphogenic growth. Plant Physiol. 147: 169-178.  

  4. Chakraborty S, Pandey A, Datta A and Chakraborty N (2008) Nucleus. In: Agrawal GK, Rakwal R (eds) Plant Proteomics : Technology, Strategies and Applications, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New Jersey, USA, pp 327-338.

  5. Chopra T, Banerjee S, Gupta S, Yadav G, Anand S, et al. (2008) Novel Intermolecular Iterative Mechanism for Biosynthesis of Mycoketide Catalyzed by a Bimodular Polyketide Synthase. PLoS Biol. 6: e163.  

  6. Goel D, Mallavarupu GR, Kumar S, Singh V and Ali V (2008) Volatile metabolite compositions of the essential oil from aerial parts of ornamental and artemisinin rich cultivars of Artemisia annua. Journal of Essential Oil Research 20: 1-6.

  7. Hofmann MG, Sinha AK, Proels RK and Roitsch T (2008) Cloning and characterization of a novel LpWRKY1 transcription factor in tomato. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 46: 533-540.  

  8. Jain M, Khurana JP (2008). Small RNA regulation of rice homeobox genes. Plant Signal. Behav. 3: 1024-1025.  

  9. Jain N, Shasany AK, Singh S, Khanuja SPS and Kumar S (2008) SCAR markers for correct identification of Phyllanthus amarus, P. fraternus, P. debilis and P. urinaria used in scientific investigations and dry leaf bulk herb trade. Planta Medica 74: 296-301.

  10. Jayaraman A, Puranik S, Rai NK, Vidapu S, Sahu PP, Lata C and Prasad M (2008) cDNA-AFLP analysis reveals differential gene expression in response to salt stress in foxtail millet (Setaria italica L.). Mol. Biotechnol. 40: 241-251.  

  11. Kaur H, Shukla RK, Yadav G, Chattopadhyay D and Majee M (2008) Two divergent genes encoding L-myo-inositol 1-phosphate synthase1 (CaMIPS1) and 2 (CaMIPS2) are differentially expressed in chickpea. Plant, Cell and Environment 31: 1701-1716.  

  12. Kota R, Varshney RK, Prasad M, Zhang H, Stein B, Graner A (2008) EST-derived single nucleotide polymorphism markers for assembling genetic and physical map of the barley genome. Functional & Integrative Genomics 8: 223-233.  

  13. Kumar K, Rao KP, Sharma P and Sinha AK (2008) Differential regulation of rice mitogen activated protein kinase kinase (MKK) by abiotic stress. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 46: 891-897.  

  14. Kushwaha R, Singh A, Chattopadhyay S (2008) Calmodulin 7 plays an important role as transcriptional regulator in Arabidopsis seedling development. Plant Cell 20: 1747-1759.  

  15. Laxmi A, Pan J, Morsy M and Chen R (2008) Light plays an essential role in intracellular distribution of auxin efflux carrier PIN2 in Arabidopsis thaliana. PLoS ONE 3: e1510.  

  16. Mallappa C, Singh A, Ramu H, Chattopadhyay S (2008) GBF 1, a transcription factor of blue light signaling in Arabidopsis, is degraded in the dark by a proteasome - mediated pathway independent of COP 1 and SPA 1. J. Biol. Chem. 19: 35772-35782.  

  17. Mishra RK, Chaudhary S, Gupta S, Mallavarupu GR and Kumar S (2008) Volatile metabolite components of Catharanthus roseus root. Journal of Medicinal and Aromatic Plant Science 30: 69-72.

  18. Pandey A, Chakraborty S, Datta A and Chakraborty N (2008) Proteomics approach to identify dehydration responsive nuclear proteins from chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). Mol. Cell. Proteomics 7: 88-107.  

  19. Panjabi P, Jagannath A, Bisht NC, Padmaja L, Sharma S, Gupta V, Pradhan AK and Pental D (2008) Comparative mapping of Brassica juncea and Arabidopsis thaliana using intron polymorphism (IP) markers: homeologous relationships, diversification and evolution of the A, B and C Brassica genomes. BMC Genomics 9: 113.  

  20. Saxena G, Rahman LU, Verma PC, Banerjee S and Kumar S (2008) Field performance of somaclones of rose scented geranium (Pelargonium graveolens L' Her Ex Ait.) for evaluation of their essential oil yield and composition. Industrial Crops and products 27: 86-90.

  21. Saxena G, Verma PC, Rahman LU, Banerjee S, Shukla RS and Kumar S (2008) Selection of leaf blight resistant Pelargonium graveolens plants regenerated from callus resistant to culture filterate of Alternaria. Alternate Crop Protection 27: 558-565.

  22. Sharma K, Agrawal V, Gupta S, Kumar R and Prasad M (2008) ISSR marker assisted selection of male and female plants in a promising dioecious crop-Jojoba (Simmondsia chinensis), Plant Biotechnology Reports 2: 239-243.

  23. Shen H, Zhu L, Castillon L, Majee M, Downie B and Haq E (2008) Light-induced phosphorylation and degradation of the negative regulator PIF1 depends upon its direct physical interactions with photoactivated phytochromes. Plant Cell 20: 1586-1602.  

  24. Singh A, Singh IK and Verma PK (2008) Differential Transcript Accumulation in Cicer arietinum L. in Response to a Chewing Insect Helicoverpa armigera and Defense Regulators Correlate with Reduced Insect Performance. J. Exp. Bot. 59: 2379-2392.  

  25. Singh D, Rai SK, Rai SP, Srivastava S, Mishra RK, Chaudhary S, Sharma S and Kumar S (2008) Predominance of the serpentine route in monoterpenoid indole alkaloid pathway of Catharanthus roseus. Proc. Ind. Natl. Sci. Acad. 74: 97-109.
List of Publications (2007)
  1. Agrawal V, Sharma K, Gupta S, Kumar R and Prasad M (2007) Identification of sex in Simmondsia chinensis (Jojoba) using RAPD markers. Plant Biotechnology Reports 1: 207-210.

  2. Berger S, Sinha AK and Roitsch T (2007) Plant physiology meets phytopathology: relations between plant primary metabolism and plant-pathogen-interactions. J. Exp. Bot 58: 4019-4026.

  3. Bhushan D, Pandey A, Choudhary MK, Datta A, Chakraborty S and Chakraborty N (2007) Comparative proteomics analysis of differentially expressed proteins in chickpea extracellular matrix during dehydration stress. Mol. Cell. Proteomics 6: 1868 -1884.

  4. Biswas S, Van Dijck P, Datta A. (2007) Environmental sensing and signal transduction pathways regulating morphopathogenic detrminants of Candida albicans. Microbiol Mol. Biol. Reviews 71: 348-376.

  5. Dutta A, Sen J and Deswal R (2007) Downregulation of terpenoid indole alkaloid biosynthetic pathway by low temperature and cloning of a AP2 type C-repeat binding factor (CBF) from Catharanthus roseus (L). G. Don. Plant Cell Reports 26: 1869-1878.

  6. Dutta A, Singh D, Kumar S and Sen J (2007) Transcript profiling of terpenoid indole alkaloid pathway genes and regulators reveals strong expression of repressors in Catharanthus roseus cell cultures. Plant Cell Reports 26: 907-15.

  7. Goel D, Goel R, Singh V, Ali M, Mallavarupu GR and Kumar S (2007) Composition of the essential oil from the roots of Artemisia annua. Journal of Natural Medicines 61: 458-461.

  8. Gupta S, Pandey-Rai S, Srivastava S, Naithani SC, Prasad M and Kumar S (2007) Construction of primary genetic linkage map of medicinal plant Catharanthus roseus. J. Genet. 86: 259-268.

  9. Kumar S (2007) Mechanisms of heritable epigenetic variation mediated by cytosine methylation of nuclear genome in plants. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. India 77B: 19-30.

  10. Kumar S (2007) Tomato crop as a weed. Current Science 93: 747.

  11. Kumar S (2007) Taxonomy, the legacy of Linnaeus, transformed to phylogenomics. Current Science 92: 1475.

  12. Kumar S (2007) Conventional and new concepts of species and genetic mechanisms for the origin of species. Proc. Ind. Natl. Sci. Acad. 73: 111-120.

  13. Kumar S, Datta A, Sinha AK and Sen J (2007) Cloning, characterization and localization of a novel basic peroxidase gene from Catharanthus roseus. FEBS Journal 274: 1290-1303.

  14. Kumar S, Pandey-Rai S and Rai SK (2007) The cultivation of mints in India. In Mint: The Genus Mentha, Lawrence BM (Ed), CRC Press, Boca Raton 137-164.

  15. Kumar S and Prasad M (2007) Crop breeding prospects in the genomics era. Journal of New Seeds 8: 29-49.

  16. Shokeen B, Sethy NK, Kumar S and Bhatia S (2007) Isolation and characterization of microsatellite markers for analysis of molecular variation in the medicinal plant Madagascar periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus (L.) G. Don.). Plant Science 172: 441-451.

  17. Stein N, Prasad M, Scholz U, Thiel T, Zhang H, Wolf M, Kota R, Varshney RK, Perovich D, Grosse I and Graner A (2007). A 1000 loci transcript map of the barley genome - new anchoring points for integrative grass genomics. Theor. Appl. Genet. 114: 823-839.

  18. Varshney RK, Hoisington DA, Upadhyaya HD, Gaur PM, Nigam SN, Saxena K, Vadez V, Sethy NK, Bhatia S, Aruna R, Gowda MVC and Singh NK (2007) Molecular genetics and breeding of grain legume crops for the semi-arid tropics. In Springer publication: Genomic Assisted Crop Improvement: Vol 2: Genomics Applications in Crops; R. Varshney and R. Tuberosa (eds.) pp. 207-241.
List of Publications (2006)
  1. Bhushan D, Pandey A, Chattopadhyay A, Choudhary MK, Chakraborty S, Datta A and Chakraborty N (2006) Extracellular matrix proteome of chickpea (Cicer arietinum) illustrates pathway abundance, novel protein functions and evolutionary perspect. J. Proteome Res. 5: 1711-1720.

  2. Choudhary S, Sethy NK, Shokeen B and Bhatia S (2006) Development of sequence-tagged microsatellite site markers for chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). Mol. Ecology Notes 6: 93-95.

  3. Goel D, Singh V, Ali M, Mallavarupu GR and Kumar S (2006) Essential oils of petal, leaf and stem of the antimalarial plant Artemisia annua. Journal of Natural Medicine 61: 187-191.

  4. Kumar S (2006) Apomixis revisited. Current Science 90: 277-278.

  5. Kumar S (2006) Progress in understanding of the genetic phenomenon paramutation. Current Science 91: 1002-1004.

  6. Kumar S (2006) Climate change and crop breeding objectives in the twenty first century. Current Science 90: 1053-1054.

  7. Kumar S, Chattopadhyaya D and Prasad M (2006): Criteria for the choice of plant species for genome sequencing, to advance plant biology and agriculture. Current Science 91:569-570.

  8. Kumar S and Prasad M (2006) Crop breeding prospects in the genomic era. Journal of New Seeds 8: 29-49.

  9. Mallappa C, Yadav V, Negi P and Chattopadhyay S (2006) A basic Leucine Zipper Transcription Factor, G-box-binding Factor 1, Regulates Blue Light-mediated Photomorphogenic Growth in Arabidopsis. J. Biol. Chem. 281: 22190-22199.

  10. Pandey A, Choudhary MK, Bhushan D, Chattopadhyay A, Chakraborty S, Datta A and Chakraborty N (2006) The Nuclear Proteome of Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) reveals predicted and unexpected proteins. J. Proteome Res. 5: 3301-3311.

  11. Pandey-Rai S, Mallavarupu GR, Naqvi AA, Yadav A, Rai SK, Srivastava S, Singh D, Mishra R and Kumar S (2006) Volatile compounds of leaves and flowers of periwinkle Catharanthus roseus (L.) G. Don from New Delhi. Flavour and Fragnance Journal 21: 427-430.

  12. Sethy NK, Shokeen B, Edwards KJ and Bhatia S (2006) Development of microsatellite markers and analysis of intraspecific genetic variability in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). Theor. Appl. Genet. 112: 1416-1428.

  13. Sethy NK, Choudhary S, Shokeen B and Bhatia S (2006) Identification of microsatellite markers from Cicer reticulatum: molecular variation and phylogenetic analysis. Theor. Appl. Genet. 112: 347-357.

  14. Shukla RK, Raha S, Tripathi V and Chattopadhyay D (2006) Expression of CAP2, an AP2-family transcription factor from Chickpea enhances growth and tolerance to dehydration and salt tress in transgenic tobacco. Plant Physiol. 142:113-123

List of Publications (2005)
  1. Dutta A, Batra J, Pandey-Rai S, Singh D, Kumar S and Sen J (2005) Expression of terpenoid indole alkaloid biosynthetic pathway genes corresponds to accumulation of related alkaloids in Catharanthus roseus (L.) G. Don. Planta 220: 376-383.

  2. Hettiarachchi GHCM, Reddy MK, Sopory SK and Chattopadhyay S (2005) Regulation of TOP2 by Various Abiotic Stresses Including Cold and Salinity in Pea and Transgenic Tobacco Plants. Plant and Cell Physiology 46: 1154-1160.

  3. Kumar S (2005) Prospects for sustainable production of the antimalarial molecule artemisinin in India. National Academy of Science Letters 28: 325-338.

  4. Kumar S and Srivastava S (2005) Establishment of artemisinin combination therapy as first line treatment for combating malaria: Artemisia annua cultivation in India needed for providing sustainable supply chain of artemisinin . Current Science 89: 1097-1102.

  5. Mueller LA, Tanksley SD, Giovannoni JJ, Van Eck J, Stack S, Choi D, Kim BD, Chen M, Cheng Z, Li C, Ling H, Xue Y, Seymour G, Bishop G, Bryan G, Sharma R, Khurana J, Tyagi A, Chattopadhyay D, Singh NK, Stiekema W, Lindhout P, Jesse T, Lankhorst RK, Bouzayen M, Shibata D, Tabata S, Granell A, Botella MA, Giuliano G, Frusciante L, Causse M and Zamir D (2005) The tomato sequencing project, the first cornerstone of the international Solanaceae project (SOL). Comparative and Functional Genomics 6: 153-158.

  6. Shokeen B, Sethy NK, Choudhary S and Bhatia S (2005) Development of STMS markers from the medicinal plant Madagascar periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus L.) G. Don. Mol. Ecology Notes 5: 818-820.

  7. Yadav V, Chandrashekara M, Sreeramaiah NG, Bhatia S and Chattopadhyay S (2005) A basic helix-loop-helix transcription factor in Arabidopsis, MYC2, acts as a repressor of of blue light-mediate photomorphogenic growth. Plant Cell 17: 1953-1966.
List of Publications (2004)
  1. Batra J, Dutta A, Singh D, Kumar S and Sen J (2004) Growth and terpenoid indole alkaloid production in Catharanthus roseus hairy root clones in relation to left- and right-termini-linked Ri T-DNA gene integration. Plant Cell Reports 23: 148-154.

  2. Boominathan P, Shukla R, Kumar A, Manna D, Negi D, Verma PK and Chattopadhyay D (2004) Long term transcript accumulation during the development of dehydration adaptation in Cicer arietinum L. Plant Physiol. 135: 1608-1620.

  3. Kumar S, Gupta SK, Singh P, Bajpai P, Gupta MM, Singh D, Gupta AK, Ram G, Shasany AK and Sharma S (2004) High yields of artemisinin by multi-harvest of Artemisia annua crops. Industrial Crops and products 19: 77-90.

  4. Kumar S, Rai SK, Pandey-Rai S, Srivastava S and Singh D (2004) Regulation of unipinnate character in the distal tendrilled domain of compound leaf-blade by the gene MULTIFOLIATE PINNA (MFP) in pea Pisum sativum. Plant Science 166: 929-940.

  5. Tewrai-Singh N, Sen J, Kiesecker H, Reddy VS, Jacobsen HJ and Guha-Mukherjee (2004) Use of a herbicide or lysine and threonine for non-antibiotic selection of transgenic chickpea. Plant Cell Reports 22: 576-583.
List of Publications (2003)
  1. Basak S, Raha T, Chattopadhyay D, Majumder A, Shaila MS and Chattopadhyay DJ (2003) Leader RNA Binding Ability of Chandipura Virus P protein is Regulated by its Phosphorylation Status: A Possible Role in Genome Transcription-Replication Switch. Virology 307: 372-385.

  2. Hettiarachchi GHCM, Yadav V, Reddy MK, Chattopadhyay S and Sopory SK, (2003) Light mediated regulation defines a minimal promoter region of TOP2. Nucl. Acids Res. 31: 5256-5265.

  3. Panday Rai S, Luthra R and Kumar S (2003) Salt tolerant mutants in GLYCOPHYTIC SALINITY RESPONSE (GSR) genes in Catharanthus roseous. Theor. Appl. Genet. 106: 221-280.

  4. Sethy NK, Shokeen B and Bhatia S (2003) Isolation and characterization of sequence-tagged microsatellite sites markers in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). Mol. Ecol. Notes 3: 428-430.
List of Publications (2002)
  1. Azam M, Kesarwani M, Chakraborty S, Natarajan K and Datta A (2002) Cloning and characterization of 5'-flanking region of oxalate decarboxylase gene from Flammulina velutipes. Biochemical J. 367: 66-75.

  2. Bajpai S, Gupta AP, Gupta MM, and Kumar S (2002) Inter-relationships between morphine and codeine in the Indian genetic resources of opium poppy Papaver Somniferum. Journal of Herbs, Spokes and Medicinal Plants 8: 75-81.

  3. Chakraborty S, Chakraborty N, Jain D, Salunke DM and Datta A (2002) Active site geometry of oxalate decarboxylase from Flammulina velutipes: Role of histidine coordinated manganese in substrate recognition. Protein Sci. 11: 2138-2147.

  4. Chakraborty S, Sarmah B, Chakraborty N and Datta A (2002) Premature termination of RNA polymerase II mediated transcription of a seed protein gene in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Nucl. Acids Res. 30: 2940-2949.

  5. Prajapati S, Bajpai S, Singh D, Luthra R, Gupta MM and Kumar S (2002) Alkaloid profiles of the Indian land races of the opium poppy Papaver somniferum L. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 49: 158-180.

  6. Sarmah B, Chakraborty N, Chakraborty S and Dutta A (2002) Plant pre-mRNA splicing in fission yeast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Biochem. Biophy. Res. Comm. 293: 1209-1216.

  7. Sen J, Kalia S and Guha-Mukherjee S (2002) Level of endogenous free amino acids during various stages of culture of Vigna mungo (L.) Hepper - somatic embryogenesis, organogenesis and plant regeneration. Current Science 82: 429-433.

  8. Thakur IS, Verma PK and Upadhyaya KC (2002) Molecular cloning and characterization of pentachlorophenol-degrading monooxygenase genes of Pseudomonas sp. from the chemostat. Biochem. Biophy. Res. Comm. 290: 770-774.

  9. Yadav V, Kundu S, Chattopadhyay D, Negi P, Wei N, Deng XW and Chattopadhyay S (2002) Light regulated modulation of Z-box containing promoters by photoreceptor and downstream regulatory components, COP1 and HY5 in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Journal 31: 741-753.
List of Publications (2001)
  1. Azam M, Kesharwani M, Natrajan K and Dutta A (2001) A secretion signal is present in the Collybia velutipes oxalate decatboxylase gene. Biochem. Biophy. Res. Comm. 289: 807-812.

  2. Prajapati S, Bajpai S, Gupta MM and Kumar S (2001) The floral androcarpel organ (ACO) mutation permits high alkaloid yields in opium poppy Papaver somniferum. Current Science 81: 1109-1112.

  3. Prajapati S and Kumar S (2001) Role of LLD, a new locus for leaflet/pinna morphogenesis in Pisum sativum. Journal of Biosciences 26: 607-625.

  4. Singh P, Ghosh S and Datta A (2001) Attenuation of virulence and changes in morp-hology in Candida albicans by disruption of the N-acetylglucosamine catabolic pathway. Infection and Immunity 69: 7898-7903.

  5. Thakur IS, Verma PK and Upadhyaya KC (2001) Involvement of plasmid in degradation of pentachlorophenol by Pseudomonoas sp. From a chemostat. Biochem. Biophy. Res. Comm. 286: 109-113.
List of Publications (2000)
  1. Chakraborty S, Chakraborty N and Datta A (2000) Increased nutritive value of transgenic potato by expressing a nonallergenic seed albumin gene from Amaranthus hypochondriacus. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci, USA. 97: 3724-3729.

  2. Kesarwani M, Azam M, Natarajan K, Mehta A and Datta A (2000) Oxalate Decarboxylase from Collybia velutips: Molecular Cloning and Its Over Expression to Confer Resistance to Fungal Infection in Transgenic Tobacco and Tomato. J. Biol. Chem. 275: 7230-7238.