Biography

Prof. Amitava Mitra

University of Nebraska, USA


Email: [email protected]


Qualifications

1985 Ph.D., University of Montana, Plant Virology

1980 M.Sc., Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi Mycology & Plant Pathology

1978 B.Sc. (Hons.), B. C. Agricultural University, Agriculture


Publications (Selected)

  1. Tokgöz, S., Ciftci, B., Soylu, İ., Kaplan, M., & Mitra, A. (2025). The impact of essential oil applications on kernel quality of wheat grains infected with fusarium head blight. Journal of Cereal Science, 121, 104101.
  2. Soylu, I., Lakshman, D. K., Tatineni, S., Galvez, L. C., & Mitra, A. (2024). Differential regulation of miRNAs involved in the susceptible and resistance responses of wheat cultivars to wheat streak mosaic virus and Triticum mosaic virus. BMC genomics, 25(1), 221.
  3. Ghozlan, M. H., Gambhir, N., Eman, E. A., Tokgöz, S., Lakshman, D. K., & Mitra, A. (2024). Erratum to “Plant Defense against Necrotrophic Pathogens”[American Journal of Plant Sciences 11 (12)(2020) 2122-2138]. American Journal of Plant Sciences, 15(2), 122-138.
  4. Tokgöz, S., Lakshman, D. K., Ghozlan, M. H., Pinar, H., Roberts, D. P., & Mitra, A. (2020). Soybean nodule-associated non-rhizobial bacteria inhibit plant pathogens and induce growth promotion in tomato. Plants, 9(11), 1494.
  5. Ghozlan, M. H., Eman, E. A., Tokgöz, S., Lakshman, D. K., & Mitra, A. (2020). Plant defense against necrotrophic pathogens. American Journal of Plant Sciences, 11(12), 2122-2138.
  6. Lakshman, D. K., Roberts, D. P., Garrett, W. M., Natarajan, S. S., Darwish, O., Alkharouf, N., ... & Mitra, A. (2016). Proteomic investigation of Rhizoctonia solani AG 4 identifies secretome and mycelial proteins with roles in plant cell wall degradation and virulence. Journal of agricultural and food chemistry, 64(15), 3101-3110.
  7. Lakshman, D. K., Alkharouf, N., Roberts, D. P., Natarajan, S. S., & Mitra, A. (2012). Gene expression profiling of the plant pathogenic basidiomycetous fungus Rhizoctonia solani AG 4 reveals putative virulence factors. Mycologia, 104(5), 1020-1035.
  8. Han, J., Lakshman, D. K., Galvez, L. C., Mitra, S., Baenziger, P. S., & Mitra, A. (2012). Transgenic expression of lactoferrin imparts enhanced resistance to head blight of wheat caused by Fusarium graminearum. BMC Plant Biology, 12, 1-9.
  9. Mitra, A., Han, J., Zhang, Z. J., & Mitra, A. (2009). The intergenic region of Arabidopsis thaliana cab 1 and cab 2 divergent genes functions as a bidirectional promoter. Planta, 229, 1015-1022.
  10. Haliloglu, K., Baenziger, P. S., & Mitra, A. (2004). Genetic transformation of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) anther culture-derived embryos by electroporation. Biotechnology & Biotechnological Equipment, 18(2), 62-68.


Profile Details

https://agronomy.unl.edu/person/amit-mitra/

https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Amitava-Mitra-7784292

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