Name: Dr. Achuit Kumar Singh

Designation: Principal Scientist (Agricultural Biotechnology)

Email: achuits@gmail.com

Mobile: +91-9415540595

Education:

• B.Sc. (Biology), Purvanchal University — 1996
• M.Sc. (Botany), VBS Purvanchal University — 1998
• Ph.D. (Molecular Virology), VBS Purvanchal University — 2006

Professional Experience:

Research interests: Understanding and managing abiotic stresses in vegetable crops; developing resistant cultivars through biotechnological interventions; plant molecular virology; transgenic approaches and stress-responsive gene studies.

1. Karkute S.G., Krishna R., Ansari W.A., Singh B., Singh P.M., Singh M., Singh A.K. (2019). Heterologous expression of AtDREB1A in tomato confers chilling tolerance. Biologia Plantarum 63:268–277.
2. Chandan R.K., Singh A.K., Patel S., Swain D.M., Tuteja N., Jha G. (2019). Silencing of tomato CTR1 provides enhanced tolerance against Tomato leaf curl virus. Plant Signaling & Behavior 14:1–7.
3. Chahwala F.D., Singh D., Singh A.K. et al. (2020). A novel monopartite begomovirus and satellites associated with yellow mosaic disease of Sida spp. in India. Archives of Virology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-020-04843-9
4. Karkute S.G., Ansari W.A., Singh A.K. et al. (2021). Characterization of high-temperature stress-tolerant tomato genotypes by biochemical analysis and expression profiling. 3 Biotech 11:45.
5. Sangeeta, Ranjan P., Kumar R.V., Bhatt B.S., Chahwala F.D., Yadav B.K., Patel S., Singh A.K. (2021). Two distinct monopartite begomovirus-betasatellite complexes in western India cause tomato leaf curl disease. Virus Research.
6. Krishna R., Ansari W.A., Jaiswal D.K., Singh A.K., Verma J.P., Singh M. (2021). Co-overexpression of AtDREB1A and BcZAT12 increases drought tolerance and fruit production in tomato. Environmental and Experimental Botany. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envexpbot.2021.104396
7. Krishna R., Ansari W.A., Jaiswal D.K., Singh A.K., Verma J.P., Singh M. (2021). Overexpression of AtDREB1 and BcZAT12 confers drought tolerance in double transgenic tomato. Plant Cell Reports. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00299-021-02725-1.
8. Singh A.K., Yadav B.K., Krishna R., Kumar R.V., Mishra G.P., Karkute S.G. et al. (2021). Bhendi yellow vein mosaic virus and betasatellite cause enation leaf curl and alter host phytochemical contents in okra. Plant Disease. https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-12-20-2655-RE
9. Kumar R.V., Yadav B.K., Bhatt B.S., Krishna R., Krishnan N., Karkute S.G., Kumar S., Singh B., Singh A.K. (2023). Diverse begomovirus-betasatellite complexes cause tomato leaf curl disease in western India. Virus Research.
10. Krishna R., Ansari W.A., Altaf M., Jaiswal D.K., Pandey S., Singh A.K., Kumar S., Verma J.P. (2024). Impact of PGPM consortium on biochemical properties and yields of tomato under drought stress. Life (Basel) 14(10):1333. https://doi.org/10.3390/life14101333