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Ravinder Kumar
Summary
Ravinder Kumar is working as Sr. Scientist (Plant Pathology) at the Division of Plant Protection, ICAR-Central Potato Research Institute, Shimla, India. His present project is 'Diagnosis and management of viral diseases of potato'. He was Principal Investigator of Accredited lab for virus indexing under National Certification System for tissue culture raised plants funded by Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India. He has over 15 years of research experience in the management of biotic and abiotic stresses in plants, plant biotechnology, specifically the formulation of dsRNA for plant diseases, the development of transgenic lines against pathogen resistance, plant genetic resource management, molecular characterization, and genome sequencing of plant pathogens. He was associated in developing infectious clones of virus isolates for virus resistance testing. He was also involved in the first demonstration of RNAi-mediated resistance against bacteria, as well as the ability of siRNA to inhibit the Avr3a gene responsible for virulence in susceptible potato cultivars using an RNAi approach, and confirmed moderate resistance to late blight. For the past 12 years, he has been involved with potato research in molecular diagnostics of potato diseases, and he has developed several diagnostic tools for the detection of potato pathogens, such as uniplex/multiplex RT-PCR, real-time RT-PCR, LAMP, and RT-RPA protocols, which are being successfully used in healthy seed potato production systems, mother plants, germplasm, and post-entry. He has over 60 articles published in national/international peer-reviewed journals and have received awards such as the IPA-Kaushalya Sikka Memorial Award, the Chandra Prabha Singh Young Scientist Award, the Young Scientist Associate Award, and best oral/poster awards from various scientific professional societies/institutions. He is acting as reviewer for many internationally recognized and reputed scientific journals. He is a member of editorial board as an Academic editor of the "Life and Environment - PeerJ", Academic editor of PLOS ONE, Associate Editor of BMC Plant Biology, Associate Editor of Journal of Plant Growth Regulation, Associate Editor of Plant Growth Regulation, Associate Editor of Frontiers in Microbiology, Guest Associate editor of Frontiers in Plant Science and Frontiers in Agronomy.
Agricultural Science Biotechnology Entomology Food Science & Technology Microbiology Molecular Biology Mycology Plant Science Virology
