College of Agriculture & Natural Resources Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences

Degrees:

Ph.D. in Biotechnology (2016), Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology (GJUS&T), Haryana jointly with National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI), Mohali, India.
M.Sc. Biotechnology (2010), Pondicherry Central University (PCU), India.
B.Sc. Botany Hons (2008), Banaras Hindu University (BHU), India. 

Postdoctoral research experience:

2018-2021 (July):             Post-Doctoral Fellow, Ben Gurion University of Negev (BGU), Israel.
2016-2018:                          Post-Doctoral Fellow, National Institute of Plant Genome Research, India. 

Research Interests

My research interests are crop ecophysiology, photosynthesis, sugar homeostasis, source-sink partitioning, leaf senescence, plant – aphids interactions, and chemical ecology. As part of Plant, Soil and Microbial department (Dr. Addie Thompson Lab), my research is focused on genomic and phenomic analyses in maize and sorghum under various environmental conditions through the integration of statistical and high throughput physiological modeling.

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Selected Publications 

1. Mathan J^#, Singh A^#, Jathar V^#, Ranjan A (2021) High photosynthesis rate in two wild rice species is driven by leaf anatomy mediating high Rubisco activity and electron transport rate. Journal of Experimental Botany, erab313; ^#Equal contribution

2. Singh A, Dilkes B, Sela H and Tzin V (2021) The Effectiveness of Physical and Chemical Defense Responses of Wild Emmer Wheat Against Aphids Depends on Leaf Position and Genotype. Frontiers in Plant Science, 12: 667820.

3. Mathan J, Singh A, Ranjan A (2021) Sucrose transport and metabolism control carbon partitioning between stem and grain in rice. Journal of Experimental Botany, 28;72, 4355-4372. 

4. Mathan J, Singh A, Ranjan A (2020) Sucrose transport in response to drought and salt stress involves ABA-mediated induction of OsSWEET13 and OsSWEET15 in rice. Physiologia Plantarum, 171, 620-637.

5. Gyan NM, Yaakov B, Weinblum N, Singh A, Cna’ani A, Ben-Zeev S, Saranga Y, Tzin V (2020) Variation between three Eragrostistef accessions in defense responses to Rhopalosiphum padiaphid infestation. Frontiers in Plant Science, 11, 598483.

6. Batyrshina ZS, Yaakov B, Shavit R, Singh A, Tzin V (2020) Comparative transcriptome and metabolic analysis of wild and domesticated wheat genotypes reveals differences in chemical and physical defense mechanisms against aphids. BMC Plant Biology, 20:19

7. Mishra A^#, Singh A^#, Sharma M, Kumar P, Roy J (2016) Development of EMS treated mutation lines for dynamic range of amylose variation in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum). BMC Plant Biology, 16:217; ^#Equal contribution.

8. Singh A, Kumar P, Sharma M, Tuli R, Dhaliwal HS, Chaudhury A, Pal D, Roy J (2015) Expression patterns of genes involved in starch biosynthesis during seed development in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum). Molecular Breeding, 35: 184

9. Singh A, Mantri S, Sharma M, Chaudhury A, Tuli R, Roy J (2014) Genome-wide transcriptome study in wheat identified candidate genes related to processing quality, majority of them showing interaction (quality x development) and having temporal and spatial distributions. BMC Genomics, 15: 29

10. Sharma M, Sandhir R, Singh A, Kumar P, Mishra A, Jachak S, Singh SP, Singh J, Roy J (2016) Comparative analysis of phenolic compound characterization and their biosynthesis genes between two diverse bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) varieties differing for chapatti (unleavened flat bread) quality. Frontiers in Plant Science, 7: 1870

11. Aggarwal S, Shukla V, Bhati KK, Kaur M, Sharma S, Singh A, Mantri S, Pandey AK (2015) Hormonal Regulation and Expression Profiles of Wheat Genes Involved during Phytic Acid Biosynthesis Pathway. MDPI Plants 4: 298-319