M.K. Patel Memorial Young Scientist Award - Awardees

S.No.

Year

Name of Awardees

Topic of Lecture

1.

2009

Dr. K.K. Mondal

Emerging Phytobacterial Diseases in India: Research Status and Challenges

2.

2011

Dr. Samir Kr. Biswas

Induced Resistance: a novel practical approach for management of plant diseases

3.

2012

Dr. Rajeev Rathour

Towards management of rice blast disease in north western-Himalyan region through host resistance

4.

2013

Dr. Someshwar Bhagat

Exploration of Microbial Resources in Plant Disease Management

5.

2014

Dr. T.S.S.K. Patro

Emerging Maladies in Future Crops: The Potential Millets

6.

2014

Dr. P. Srinivas

Bioprospecting of agriculturally important microorganisms for disease management and plant growth promotion

7.

2015

Dr. Dharmendra Kumar

Genomic insights into the adaptation to parasitism in nematode - trapping fungi and transcriptomics during infection of Caenorhabditis briggsae and plant-parasitic nematodes

8.

2015

Dr. Pankaj Baiswar

True identity of powdery mildew pathogens in north east India- Molecular and morphological approaches

9.

2016

Dr. Prashant P. Jambhulkar

Integrated crop disease management in southern Rajasthan: ecofriendly practices in tune with biocontrol

10.

2016

Dr. Deeba Kamil

DNA Barcoding: A Modern Tool to Explore Fungal Diversity

11.

2017

Dr. Bishnu M. Bashyal

Understanding the complex etiology of an emerging bakanae disease of rice in India

12.

2017

Dr. V. Prakasam

Dynamics and sustainable approaches for the management sheath blight disease of rice in India

13.

2018

Dr. P.L. Kashyap

Diagnosis and monitoring of fungal crop pathogens using DNA barcodes

14.

2019

Dr. Malkhan Singh Gurjar

Genomics, Transcriptomics, Diagnostics and Functional Analysis of Virulence Genes in Tilletia indica inciting Karnal Bunt of Wheat

15.

2020

Dr. G. Prakash

Understanding Pathotypic diversity and Genomics of Magnaporthe for management of blast disease

16.

2021

Dr. Susheel Kumar Sharma

Development and field validation of robust diagnostics for emerging Virus and Virus-like Pathogens Infecting major horticultural crops in North East India

17.

2022

Dr. Amalendu Ghosh

New insights into the transmission biology of plant viruses by thrips and whitefly and their management

18.

2023

Dr. Udai Bhan Singh