​​​​​Narayan Chandra PAUL

Sweet Potato and Potato Disease Management:

• Biocontrol and Integrated Disease Management (Lab., greenhouse, and field assay)

• Plant-Pathogen-Biocontrol Bacterium Interaction

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Beneficial Microbes, and Plant Growth Promotion:

• Soybean, Tomato, and Strawberry

• Plant-Microbe Interactions

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Turfgrass Pathology:

• Brown patch and large patch disease management (Caused by Rhizoctonia solani) (Lab., greenhouse and field assay)

• Biocontrol by Bacillus velezensis and Integrated disease management

• Genome and gene cluster analysis

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Sweet Potato Viral and Fungal Disease Detection and Resistant Variety Selection

• Detected eight (8) viruses by multiplex PCR

• Selected disease-free resistant variety in different generations

• Monitored, characterized, and pathogenicity analysis of fungal diseases

• Developed methods for rapid resistance variety selection against Fusarium oxysporum and Ceratocystis fimbriata

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Medicinal Plants: Corm gromwell (Lithospermum arvense)​

• Soil health analysis and microbial population study

• Endophytic microbial diversity and richness analysis

 

Survey and Detection of Indigenous Fungi

• From agricultural and environmental sources

• Detection and taxonomy study by molecular and morphological character analysis

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Endophytes Research

• Fungi and bacteria: diversity and species richness analysis in chili pepper and medicinal plants including Ginseng

• Detection and taxonomy study by molecular and morphological character analysis

• Sequential screening against plant pathogens

• Antagonistic compound extraction by TLC and Sephadex LH 20-column chromatography

• Compound identification by HPLC