Dr. RICHA SRIVASTAVA

About

Stress tolerance in edible crops often accompanies unwanted growth inhibition and yield penalty. My research intends to develop versatile biotechnological tools to improve terminal stress adaptation together with the growth and yield in underutilized legume crops through a unified approach. I explore pleiotropic transcription factors that govern multiple stress responses as well as agronomic traits through the transcriptional and metabolic remodeling of energy pathways. I also engineered robust yeast strains suitable for industrial applications. I employ a combination of genetic, molecular, and computational approaches to execute my translational objectives. Broadly, I am interested in developing convenient and safer strategies to rescue crop yield by solving the mystery of growth/ tolerance trade-off.

Research Interests:
 Plant Genetic Engineering & Genomics
 Nutrition Biofortification
 Crop Biotechnology  Stress Physiology
 Transcription Factor Signaling
 Yeast-pathway

Employment

• Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar Postdoctoral Staff
  2026 - Present
• University of Massachusetts Amherst Postdoctoral Staff
  2023 - 2025
• Banaras Hindu University Malaviya Postdoctoral Fellow
  2023 - 2023
• National Botanical Research Institute Senior Project Associate
  2022 - 2023
• Gifu University Exchange Researcher
  2016 - 2017
• Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology CSIR Intern
  2014 - 2015

Education

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Projects & Funding

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Publications (9)

• Cowpea NAC1/NAC2 transcription factors improve growth and tolerance to drought and heat in transgenic cowpea through combined activation of photosynthetic and antioxidant mechanisms
  Journal of Integrative Plant Biology 2023 DOI: 10.1111/jipb.13365
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• Rapid and precise detection of cryptic tea pathogen Exobasidium vexans: RealAmp validation of LAMP approach
  World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology 2023 DOI: 10.1007/s11274-022-03506-y
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• Genome-wide analysis of cowpea NAC transcription factor family elucidating the genetic & molecular relationships that interface stress and growth regulatory signals
  Plant Gene 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.plgene.2022.100363
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• Overexpression of cowpea NAC transcription factors promoted growth and stress tolerance by boosting photosynthetic activity in Arabidopsis
  Plant Science 2022 DOI: 10.1016/J.PLANTSCI.2022.111251
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• Balancing yield trade-off in legumes during multiple stress tolerance via strategic crosstalk by native NAC transcription factors
  Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology 2021 DOI: 10.1007/S13562-021-00749-Y
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• Cowpea NAC Transcription Factors Positively Regulate Cellular Stress Response and Balance Energy Metabolism in Yeast via Reprogramming of Biosynthetic Pathways
  ACS Synthetic Biology 2021 DOI: 10.1021/ACSSYNBIO.1C00208
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• Comparative genome-wide analysis of WRKY transcription factors in two Asian legume crops: Adzuki bean and Mung bean
  Scientific Reports 2018 DOI: 10.1038/S41598-018-34920-8
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• Tailoring Microalgae for Efficient Biofuel Production
  Frontiers in Marine Science 2018 DOI: 10.3389/FMARS.2018.00382
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• Co-expression of Arabidopsis NHX1 and bar Improves the Tolerance to Salinity, Oxidative Stress, and Herbicide in Transgenic Mungbean
  Frontiers in Plant Science 2017 DOI: 10.3389/FPLS.2017.01896
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