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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. Rajam, M V. Prabhavati V, Rotino G L, Sihachakr D, Mansur E and Kumar, P. A.  (2008) Eggplant. In: Kole C, Hall TC (eds). “Compendium of Transgenic Crop Plants: Transgenic Vegetable Crops”, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK, 2008, pp 47-72.
  2. Chen, Z. J., ----, Kumar, P. A., ---- and Paterson, A.H. (2007). Towards sequencing cotton (Gossypium) genomes. Plant Physiology 145: 1303-1310.
  3. Dalal M., Dani R. G. and Kumar P. A. (2006). Current trends in the genetic engineering of vegetable crops Scientia Horticulturae 107: 215-225.
  4. 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: 1501-03.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  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: kumarpa@nrcpb.org
 
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