Varun Kumar

Employment

• Mahindra University Assistant Professor
  2022 - Present
• CBGP Maria Zambrano Post Doc Fellow
  2022 - 2022
• Agricultural Research Organization Post Doctoral Fellow
  2018 - 2022
• Jaypee University of Information Technology Senior Research Fellow
  2017 - 2017
• Jaypee University of Information Technology Teaching Assistant
  2015 - 2016
• Jaypee University of Information Technology Research Scholar and Senior Research Fellow
  2012 - 2015
• Indian Agricultural Research Institute Senior Research Fellow
  2011 - 2012
• Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University Senior Research Fellow
  2010 - 2011

Education

• Kurukshetra University M.Sc.
  2008 - 2010
• Kurukshetra University B.Sc.
  2005 - 2008

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (53)

• Phenylalanine priming enhances thermotolerance in Pinellia ternata by integrating phenylpropanoid metabolism, redox homeostasis and hormonal signaling
  Industrial Crops and Products 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.indcrop.2026.123477
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• A novel transcription factor PtMYB77 from Pinellia ternata enhances heat tolerance in Arabidopsis by inducing early expression of heat shock factor genes
  Industrial Crops and Products 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.indcrop.2025.120791
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• Phenylalanine treatment induces tomato resistance to Tuta absoluta via increased accumulation of benzenoid/phenylpropanoid volatiles serving as defense signals
  Plant Journal 2024 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.16745
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• Phenylalanine encapsulation into an amphiphilic carboxymethyl cellulose-derivative enhanced plant uptake and metabolism efficiency
  Postharvest Biology and Technology 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.postharvbio.2024.112812
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• Phenylalanine in motion: A tale of an essential molecule with many faces
  Biotechnology Advances 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2023.108246
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• Arabidopsis immune responses triggered by cellulose- and mixed-linked glucan-derived oligosaccharides require a group of leucine-rich repeat malectin receptor kinases
  Plant Journal 2023 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.16088
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• Over 1000-Fold Synergistic Boost in Viniferin Levels by Elicitation of Vitis vinifera cv. Gamay Red Cell Cultures over Accumulating Phenylalanine
  Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 2022 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.2c00107
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• Arabidopsis Leucine Rich Repeat-Malectin Receptor Kinases in immunity triggered by cellulose and mixed-linked glucan oligosaccharides
  bioRxiv 2022 DOI: 10.1101/2022.08.09.503277
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• Phenylalanine treatment generates scent in flowers by increased production of phenylpropanoid-benzenoid volatiles
  Postharvest Biology and Technology 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.postharvbio.2021.111657
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• A Synchronized Increase of Stilbenes and Flavonoids in Metabolically Engineered Vitis vinifera cv. Gamay Red Cell Culture
  Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 2021 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.1c02119
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