Professional Information
Area of specialization Plant Pathology
Area of interest Virology, Disease diagnosis, Transgenics, Integrated Disease management
Number of institute projects completed 6
Number of Institute projects being handled 1
Number of externally funded projects completed 4
Number of externally funded projects being handled 1
Technologies developed

Nanopore based detection and characterization of yam viruses.

Rapid and sensitive detection of Dasheen mosaic virus infecting elephant foot yam by reverse transcription loop mediated isothermal ampliļ¬cation of coat protein gene.

Detection of Mosaic Virus disease in cassava plants by sun-light induced fluorescence imaging

Development of non-radioactive probes for specific detection of Dasheen mosaic virus infecting Amorphophallus paeoniifolius

Established variations in cassava whitefly, its role in virus transmission

Virus elimination in Elephant foot yam

Regeneration of cassava popular cultivars of India, H226 and H165 via somatic embryogenesis

A simple protocol for isolating small RNA from Cassava

Virus elimination in cassava

Genetic transformation of elephant foot yam

Production of Synthetic seeds in Cassava

ELISA based diagnosis for Sri Lankan Cassava Mosaic virus, Sweet potato feathery mottle virus, Dasheen mosaic virus

Lateral flow based detection of Dasheen mosaic virus and Sweet potato feathery mottle virus

LAMP based detection of Sri Lankan Cassava mosaic virus, Sweet potato feathery mottle virus, Dasheen mosaic virus