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Name : Dr P. A. Kumar

Ph.D. : IARI, New Delhi

Post-doctoral experience : University of Hannover, Germany

Designation : Project Director

 

Research Interests :

The work in Bt Laboratory is focused on isolation and characterization of novel Bt ( Bacillus thuringiensis ) genes, protein engineering of δ-endotoxins in E. coli , expression in transgenic plant systems and development of efficient plant transformation techniques such as gene targeting.

Selected Publications:

  1. Kumar, P. S., Janaiah, K., Govil, J. N., Kumar, P. A. and Sharma, P. C. (2005). AFLP fingerprinting in pigeonpea ( Cajanus cajan (L). Millsp) and its wild Relatives. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 53 (3): 523-531.

  2. Aziz, M. A, Sikriwal, D., Singh, S., Jarugula, S. and Kumar, P. A.; Bhatnagar, R. (2005). Transformation of an edible crop with pag E gene of Bacillus anthracis . FASEB Journal 19 (11): 1501-03.

  3. Nain, V., Jaiswal, R., Dalal, M., Ramesh, B. and Kumar, P. A. (2005). Polymerase chain reaction analysis of transgenic plants contaminated by Agrobacterium . Plant Molecular Biology Reporter 23: 59-65.

  4. Bhalla, R., Dalal, M., Panguluri, S K., Jagadish, B., Mandaokar, A., Singh, A. K., and Kumar, P. A. (2005). Isolation, characterization and expression of a novel vegetative insecticidal protein gene of Bacillus thuringiensis. FEMS Microbiology Letters 243: 467-472.

  5. Kumar, P. A. (2003) Insect pest-resistant transgenic crops. In: Advances in Microbial Control of Insect Pests (Ed. Upadhyay, R K.), pp. 71-82, Kluwer Academic, New York.

  6. Aziz, M. A., Singh, S., Kumar, P. A. and Bhatnagar, R. (2002) Expression of protective antigen in transgenic plants: A step towards edible vaccine against anthrax. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 299: 345-351.

  7. Mandaokar, A., Goyal, R. K., Shukla, A., Bhalla, R., Chaurasia, A., Reddy, V. S., Altosaar, I., Sharma, R. P. and Kumar, P. A. (2000) Transgenic tomato plants resistant to fruit borer ( Helicoverpa armigera Hubner). Crop Protection 19: 307-312.

  8. Chandra, A., Ghosh, P., Mandaokar, A., Bera, A K., Sharma, R P., Das, S. and Kumar, P. A.. (1999) Amino acid substitution in α-helix 7 of Cry1Ac δ-endotoxin of Bacillus thuringiensis leads to enhanced toxicity to Helicoverpa armigera Hubner. FEBS Letters 458: 175-179.

  9. Kumar, P. A., Mandaokar, A., Sreenivasu, K., Chakrabarti, S. K., Sharma, S. R., Bisaria, S., Kaur, S. and Sharma, R P. (1998). Insect-resistant transgenic brinjal plants. Molecular Breeding 4: 33-37.

  10. Kumar, P. A., Malik, V. S. and Sharma, R P. (1996) Insecticidal proteins of Bacillus thuringiensis . Advances in Applied Microbiology 42:1-43.

Email: pakumar@nrcpb.org
 
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