| Professional Information | |
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| 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. |
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| Detection of Mosaic Virus disease in cassava plants by sun-light induced fluorescence imaging |
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| Development of non-radioactive probes for specific detection of Dasheen mosaic virus infecting Amorphophallus paeoniifolius |
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| Established variations in cassava whitefly, its role in virus transmission |
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| Virus elimination in Elephant foot yam |
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| Regeneration of cassava popular cultivars of India, H226 and H165 via somatic embryogenesis |
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| A simple protocol for isolating small RNA from Cassava |
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| Virus elimination in cassava |
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| Genetic transformation of elephant foot yam |
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| Production of Synthetic seeds in Cassava |
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| ELISA based diagnosis for Sri Lankan Cassava Mosaic virus, Sweet potato feathery mottle virus, Dasheen mosaic virus |
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| Lateral flow based detection of Dasheen mosaic virus and Sweet potato feathery mottle virus |
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| LAMP based detection of Sri Lankan Cassava mosaic virus, Sweet potato feathery mottle virus, Dasheen mosaic virus |