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Abhay Kumar Pandey

Tea Research Association, World Vegetable Center, South Asia, ICRISAT Campus, Patancheru, National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management, Indian Council of Agricultural Research

ORCID iD 0000-0002-1235-5648
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Dr. Abhay Kumar Pandey is a Senior Mycologist at the Tocklai Tea Research Institute, India, exploring microbial biocontrol agents in the tea ecosystem and understanding their mode of action against fungal pathogens of tea crops. He is also working on Plant-Pathogen Interaction in tea crops. He has worked for World Vegetable Center, South Asia, ICRISAT, and Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India in the domain of biological control and host plant resistance. He obtained a Ph.D. on postharvest pathology of pigeon pea seeds from Kumaun University Nainital in 2012. He has authored more than 60 research papers and review articles in peer-reviewed journals. He is associate editor of Crop Protection, Journal of Plant Disease and Protection (DPG, Germany), ANRES Thailand, PLoS ONE, and BMC Research Notes for Mycology section and a potential reviewer of many phytopathology, food microbiology and plant science journals, including Plant Disease. He is a member of several plant pathological societies including Society of Chemical Industry, London, ACS, IPS, IBS, ISCA, Asian PGPR society etc and in 2020 he has awarded a Fellow of the Indian Botanical Society. He has also awarded Prof. O.P. Mall Gold Medal in Mycology and Plant Pathology by the Indian Botanical Society in 2012.

Employment

  • Tea Research Association Scientist C (Mycology)
    2019 - Present
  • World Vegetable Center, South Asia, ICRISAT Campus, Patancheru Scientist
    2016 - 2019
  • Directorate of Plant Protection Quarantine and Storage Post Doctoral Research Associate (Plant Pathology)
    2015 - 2016
  • National Institute of Plant Health Management Post Doctoral Research Associate (Plant Pathology)
    2014 - 2015
  • Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University Teaching Associate
    2011 - 2013
  • Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University JRA/SRA
    2007 - 2010

Education

  • National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management Post Graduate Diploma in Agricultural Extension
    2020 - 2021
  • Indian Council of Agricultural Research NET (Plant Pathology)
    2014 - 2014
  • Kumaun University PhD in Botany (Plant Pathology)
    2008 - 2012
  • Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University M.Sc. Botany (Plant Pathology)
    2004 - 2006
  • Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University B.Sc Biological Science
    2001 - 2004

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