Management of Fungal Pathogens in Pulses / Fungal Biology (PDF)

Garima Singh Dr. GarimaSingh has completed her doctorate in 2018 from Mizoram University, India in plant sciences and worked on the pharmaceutical potential of selected traditional medicinal plants collected from Northeast India. Dr. Singh has 5 years of research experience and has published several research papers in national and international journals having high impact factor like Scientific reports, BMC complementary and alternative medicine, frontiers in plant sciences, etc. Dr. Singh has awarded for her work by several agencies while presenting her research work in India and abroad.







Krishna Kumar Dr. Krishna Kumar presently working as Dean, PanditDeendayalUpadhyay College of Horticulture and Forestry, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa, Samastipur-848125, Bihar, India. He worked as Post Doctoral Research Associate at Unit of Virology, IARI, New Delhi, Assistant Professor (Plant Pathology) at SK University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Jammu and then served as Senior Scientist and Principal Scientist at Central Island Agricultural Research Institute, Port Blair. He also served as Principal Scientist at Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India. He has also worked as Head, Division of Crop Protection in Indian Institute of Pulses Research, Kanpur, India. He has over 23 years of research, teaching and extension experience in mushroom production, bio-control, microbial diversity, integrated disease management, diagnosis of unknown plant diseases and suitable bio-control agents. He is a recipient of Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed Award for Outstanding Research in Tribal Farming Systems-2010 by Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, SPPS Meritorious Scientist Award-2011 by Society of Plant Protection Sciences, New Delhi, Distinguished Service Award-2010 by BIOVED Research Society, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh and PP Singhal Memorial PI Industries Award-2018 by Indian Society of Mycology & Plant Pathology, Udaipur. He is a fellow of four prestigious professional societies and a life member of 12 scientific societies. He has published 60 papers in National and International peer-reviewed journals.







S. Chandra Nayaka Dr. S. Chandra Nayaka is an agricultural biotechnology researcher specialized in the application of biotechnological tools in plant pathogen detection, host-pathogen interaction and plant disease management. Dr. Nayaka 19 years of experience in research including visiting scientist at Danish Government institute for seed pathology (Copenhagen University), Denmark, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid-Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, India. Working as Professor/Principal Scientist at the University of Mysore in the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), he was the core group member who sequenced full-length genome of a biotrophic highly virulent strain of S. graminicola (NCBI SUBID: 1589825/Bio-Project ID: PRJNA325098). During my post doc at University of Mysore in prestigious Indo-Danish programme, developed research and training program with Copenhagen University, Denmark, and African Seed Health Centre, Sokoine University of Agriculture. He is contributed to develop molecular probes and designed novel PCR primers for rapid and accurate detection of seed-borne pathogens from infected seed samples. Significant research contributions resulted in obtaining four national patents, 90 research articles in reputed National and International journals, 22 book chapters, 03 books, four edited book volume, six technical bulletins/six leaf lets, ten short publications and popular articles, two Technical notes and submitted more than thousand nucleotide sequences of seed-borne pathogens and bio-control agents to NCBI-USA, EMBL- Europe, and DDBJ- Japan database.



N. Srinivasa Dr. N. Srinivasa is working as a senior scientist at Division of Plant Pathology, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute (ICAR-IARI), New Delhi. His area of expertise is in fungal pathology and working in this area for several years and has published a good number of research papers in national and international journals.