Kiran Kumar. Kommu obtained his graduate (Ph D) degree from Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi in the subject of Nematology in the year 2017. He was joined in Agricultural Research Service as scientist at ICAR- Central Citrus Research Institute (CCRI), Nagpur on 18th October, 2016. During his doctoral programme he worked at University of Hertfordshire (UH), United Kingdom (UK) for 3 months under DST-UKIERI project. He awarded ICAR- SRF(PGS) during the year 2014. He is a recipient of Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship by University Grants Commission (UGC)
for pursuing Ph D at Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi during 2013-2016. He is a recipient of International Best Scientist Award in Crop Protection (Agriculture) by RULA in the year 2020. He was honoured on the 36th Foundation Day of ICAR-CCRI for his significant contributions in the development of the Institute. His current research areas are 1) Diversity and distribution of plant parasitic nematodes associated with citrus in India 2) Studies on the influence of root exudates on Tylenchulus semipenetrans and Meloigyne indica.
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| 1 | Mohan, S., Kiran Kumar, K., Sutar, V., Saha, S., Rowe, J. and Davies, K.G. (2020) Plant root-exudates recruit hyperparasitic bacteria of phytonematodes by altered cuticle aging: Implications for biological control strategies. Frontiers in Plant Science 11:763. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2020.00763 |
| 2 | Kumar, K.K., Sridhar, J., Murali-Baskaran, R.K., Senthil-Nathan, S., Kaushal, P., Dara, S.K. and Arthurs, S. (2019) Microbial biopesticides for insect pest management in India: Current status and future prospects. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 165:74-81 |
| 3 | Kumar, K.K. and Das, A.K. (2019) Diversity and community analysis of plant parasitic nematodes associated with citrus at citrus research station, Tinsukia, Assam. Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies 7(3):187-189 |
| 4 | Kumar, K.K. and Babu, P.K. (2019) Diversity of Weed Flora in Citrus at ICAR-Regional Research Centre for Citrus, Biswanath Chariali, Assam, India. International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences 8(4):2100-2107 |
| 5 | Kumar, K.K. and Mohan, S (2013) Insecticidal activity of primary, secondary and maternally linked mutant form variants of Photorhabdus luminescens cells on Galleria mellonella. Indian Journal of Nematology 43(2):195-199 |
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