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Ravinder Kumar

Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Central Potato Research Institute, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture & Technology, Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University

ORCID iD 0000-0001-9034-7742
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Ravinder Kumar, Male, Plant Pathologist, born on 15th July, 1979 at Bijnor, UP, India. He did his BSc (Ag) from Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, MSc (Plant Pathology) and Ph.D. (Plant Pathology) from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture & Technology, Meerut, UP, India. He joined the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) of the Government of India in 2011. Presently he is working as Sr. Scientist at the Division of Plant Pathology, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India, and his area of research is Plant Pathology. His present project is 'Diagnosis and management of viral diseases of plants'. He was the Principal Investigator of an Accredited lab for virus indexing under the National Certification System for tissue culture-raised plants funded by the 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 with developing infectious clones of virus isolates for virus resistance testing. He was also involved in the first demonstration of RNAi-mediated resistance against bacteria and 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 has 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 a reviewer for many internationally recognized and reputed scientific journals. He is a member of the 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 Frontiers in Microbiology, Associate Editor of Heliyon, Associate Editor of Functional Plant Biology, Associate Editor of Journal of Plant Growth Regulation, Associate Editor of Plant Growth Regulation, Associate Editor of Journal of Plant Diseases and Protection, Associate Editor of European Journal of Plant Pathology, Editor of Indian Phytopathology, Guest Associate Editor of Frontiers in Plant Science, Guest Associate Editor of Frontiers in Agronomy, Guest Associate Editor of Frontiers in Genetics.

Employment

  • Indian Agricultural Research Institute Senior Scientist
    2023 - Present
  • Central Potato Research Institute Senior Scientist
    2020 - 2023
  • Central Potato Research Institute Scientist (Senior Scale)
    2015 - 2020
  • Central Potato Research Institute Scientist
    2011 - 2015
  • National Academy of Agricultural Research Management Scientist
    2011 - 2011
  • ICAR Vivekananda Parvatiya Krishi Anusandhan Sansthan Research Associate
    2008 - 2011

Education

  • Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture & Technology Ph. D (Plant Pathology)
    2006 - 2009
  • Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture & Technology M. Sc. (Plant Pathology)
    2003 - 2005
  • Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University B.Sc. (Ag)
    1997 - 2001

Projects & Funding

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Publications (222)