Research Interests :
Currently, my work focuses on phenotypic and molecular diversity analysis of indigenous chickpea rhizobia. We aim to identify and characterize the indigenous chickpea rhizobia in representative soils from various areas of India and to characterize them using DNA markers.
I am also interested in utilization of bacterial endophytes as biopesticide delivery agents and isolation, identification and quantification of bacterial endophytes colonizing different crops followed by cloning of biopesticidal genes in endophyte to provide protection to the host crop.
Selected Publications:
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Rai, R. & Singh, A. (2001). Population dynamics studies on indigenous bacterial endophytes of maize. Annals of Agricultural Research , 22(3): 309 - 311.
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Rai, R., Dash, P. K. & Singh, A. (2001). Cloning of Bt gene in maize endophyte for control of bacterial endophytes of maize shoot borer ( Chito partellus ). In Biopesticide and pest management , Vol 2, Edited by O Koul, GS Dhaliwal, SS Marawaha and JK Arora. Campus Books International, New Delhi.
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Rai, R., Khanuja, S.P.S. & Koundal, K. R. (1999). Isolation and molecular characterization of ?-endotoxin gene from a native Bt. strain. J. Plant Biology 26(1): 69-75.
Email: rhitunrcpb@yahoo.com
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