COMPLETE CURRICULUM VITAE

Joined PAU in the year 2009as Assistant Professor of Plant Protection at KVK, Muktsar

EDUCATION

B.Sc. (Agriculture) PAU, Ludhiana; M.Sc. (Plant Pathology) PAU, Ludhiana, Ph.D. (Plant Pathology), PAU.Ludhiana

FIELD OF SPECIALIZATION

• Vegetable Pathology, Decision Support Systems,Host-pathogen interations, Disease management in protected cultivation systems

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Management of fungal and oomycete pathogens in vegetable cropping systems
• Application of Proximal and remote sensing for plant disease monitoring
• Decision support and forecast modelling analytics
• Electro-thermotherapyfor management of pathogens in soil and soil-less cultivation systems
• Fungicide evaluation and resistance monitoring

RESEARCH PROJECTS

• ‘Towards the development of monitoring and forewarning system for late blight disease of potato by integrating epidemiological, proximal and remotely sensed data’, funded under Core Research Grant (CRG) by Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India (PI) – on-going
• ‘Elucidation of inter-relationship among organ-specific infections in Pyriculariaoryzae-rice pathosystem and exploration for neck blast resistance donors’ funded by University Grant Commission (UGC), Govt. of India (Co-PI)- accomplished
• Bio-efficacy and phytotoxicitystudies on novel fungicidal molecules for potato, tomato, chilli, onion, pea diseases(PI)funded by agrochemical industry - on-going
• ‘National Information System on Pest Management on Cotton’ funded by National Centre for Integrated Pest Management (NCIPM), ICAR(Co-PI)- accomplished

PATENT

• Granted patent for an invention entitled ‘Electric Soil Disinfestor’ for non-chemical management of soil-borne plant pathogens and nematodes in situ (Patent No. 358781)

SELECTED RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

• Rani R, Negi P, Sharma S and Jain S (2022) Occurrence of oosporic stage of Pseudoperonosporacubensis on cucumber, in Punjab, India: A first report. Crop Protection: 155:105939NAAS Rating 8.57
• Negi P, Rani R, Jain S (2022) Survival and infectivity of oospores of Pseudoperonospora cubensis causing downy mildew of cucurbits in the alluvial plains of North-western India. Indian Phytopathology: 10.1007/s42360-022-00583NAAS Rating 5.95
• Jain S., Singh G., Jindal V. and Singh A. (2021) Resolving the etiological conundrum of the gummy stem, sudden death and leaf blight syndromes of bottle gourd in Indo?Gangetic plains of India. Journal of Plant Pathology https://doi.org/10.1007/s42161-021-00818-0 (NAAS Rating: 7.15)
• Kumar A., Jindal S.K., Dhaliwal M.S., Sharma A., Jain S. and Kaur S. (2019) Horticultural evaluation of advance breeding lines possessing different combinations of ty and ph genes in tomato (Solanumlycopersicum L.) Genetika 51(3): 771-788. (NAAS rating 6.46)
• Kumar A. Jindal SK, Dhaliwal MS, Sharma A. Kaur S. and Jain S. (2019) Gene pyramiding for elite tomato genotypes against ToLCV (Begomovirus spp.), late blight (Phytophthorainfestans) and RKN (Meloidogyne spp.) for northern India farmers. Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants 25(5):1197-1209. doi: 10.1007/s12298-019-00700-5.(NAAS Rating: 7.15)
• Singh J, Jain J, Jain S, Lore J S and Upmanyu S 2018. Quantification of resistance among basmati rice genotypes to neck blast, PyriculariaoryzaeCavara. Indian Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding 78(2): 519-522 (NAAS Rating: 6.32)
• Kumar A. Jindal SK, Dhaliwal MS, Sharma A. Kaur S. and Jain S. (2019) Evaluation of advance tomato lines possessing ty, ph and mi genes for horticultural traits. Agricultural Research Journal56 (3) : 410-416 (NAAS Rating: 4.71)
• Salaria P., Singh A. and Jain S. (2020) Impact of predisposing factors on development of stemphylium blight of garlic under Punjab conditions. Agricultural Research Journal57 (2): 190-195 (NAAS Rating: 4.71)
• Sekhon P.S., Singh A., Jain S, and Attri M (2017) Use of Web Based Decision Support System for the Management of Late Blight of Potato in Punjab. Indian Journal of Economics and Development 13(3): 576-80(NAAS Rating: 4.82)

AWARDS/HONOURS/DISTINCTIONS

• Awarded fellowship under Netherlands Fellowships Program (NFP) in 2016
• Farm Literature Popularization Award 2010
• Farm Literature Popularization Award 2011