Microbial-mediated Induced Systemic Resistance in Plants

Dr. Devendra K. ChoudharyDr. Choudhary has over fourteen years of experience in MicrobialEcology and is currentlyworking as an Assistant Professor-Grade III at Amity University, Noida. Before joiningAmity University, Dr. Choudhary spent several years at Mody University, Lakshmangarh, as an Assistant Professor, preceded by work at Peoplesand Barkatullah University, Bhopal as a Lecturer cum scientist.  Dr. Choudhary received his PhD in Microbiology in 2005 from GB PantUniversity of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar, after having received his MSc in Microbiologyfrom MDS University, Ajmer and qualifyingCSIR-UGC-NET in 2002.  Dr. Choudhary has worked on GOI sponsoredmajor projects as Principle Investigator (PI). Recently he worked on the DST FAST-TRACK project at the Department ofBiotechnology, Barkatullah University, Bhopal, along with two major projects byDBT and SERB, at AmityUniversity until the year 2015.  As an active researcher, Dr Choudhary has published research and reviewarticles along with several book chapters for reputed journals and edited books.In addition, he has served asPhD supervisor/co-supervisor for several research scholars. Dr Choudhary is a recipient of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) visitingand summer research fellowship 2014.  Further,one of his PhD studentsreceived the 2013 Dr RSRana Memorial best research award, sponsored by the Association of Microbiologists of India.  Under supervision of Dr Choudhary hisscientific team has assigned two accession numbers from MTCC, IMTECH forsubmitted bacterial cultures (MTCC, 12057 & 12058) along with one MCC no2607. Most recently,his team has filed three patents with the India Patent Office, New Delhi and others are in progress.Prof. Dr. Ajit VarmaDr. Varma completed his M.Sc. (1959) & Ph.D.(1964) degrees atAllahabad University, Allahabad, India. In the course of his professional career, he hasalso served as a Microbiologist(Assistant Professor), IARI, New Delhi (1963-1971), Senior Microbiologist(Associate Professor), IARI, New Delhi (1971-1974), Associate Professor, JNU,New Delhi (1975-1984), and Professor, JNU, New Delhi (1985-2004). He has been avisiting professor & visiting research scientist at the Technical University, Graz (Austria),University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen (Germany), Friedrich Schiller University,Jena (Germany), Philipps University, Marburg (Germany), Technical University, Munich (Germany), Kingston (Jamaica), Max PlanckVisiting Professorship (Germany), Helmholtz Zentrum, Muenchen (Germany),Gutenberg University, Mainz (Germany), CSIC, Madrid (Spain), University ofDundee (Scotland), University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), and ICGEB (Italy).Hisinternational awards/fellowships include the Commonwealth Fellowship(Australia), National Research Council (Canada), Alexander von HumboldtFoundation (Germany), National Science Foundation (USA), Indo-CzechoslovakiaExchange Programme (Prague), DAAD Fellowship (Germany), and the Deutsches BMFT Programme, George-AugustUniversity, Gottingen (Germany), RAISA. He was awarded a fellowship for Innovative Research inBiotechnology (Italy), Swiss Federal Research Fellowship (Switzerland), the BP Koirala award (Nepal)and DFG-INSA Fellowship (Indo- Germany), as well as the FAMI Award - Association ofMicrobiologists of India and Honorary Diploma, UMF, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Dr.Varma has supervised 60 PhD students.He has published over 290 research articles for national and international journals of repute, as well as several majorreview articles and chapters in books. He has published 50 books in the area of Microbial Technology,published by Academic Press, London, CRC Press, Florida, USA, IDRC, Canada andSpringer-Verlag, Germany.  Dr.Varma has been the series editor for Springer-Verlag’sSeries on Soil Biology, andhas edited fifty volumes on Soil Biology. He was also nominated as Editor-in-Chief by IKInternationals to make series of books on Microbial and BiotechnologicalResearch.  Dr. Varma has been a member of the National Academy ofAgriculture Sciences, International Society of Symbiosis, Boston, USA, IndianScience Congress Association, Executive Council, Amity University UttarPradesh, University Research Council, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, AcademicCouncil, Amity University Rajasthan, ASSOCHAM Knowledge Millennium Council,ASSOCHAM Expert Committee on Agriculture and Food Processing, and ASSOCHAM Expert Committeeon S&T and Innovation. He hasvast experience in organizing national and international trainingworkshops/symposia and congresses.

• 1. Changes in phytochemicals in response to rhizospheric microorganisms infectionMehrnaz Hatami, Mansour Ghorbanpour 2. Bacillus-mediated induced systemic resistance (ISR) against Fusarium corm rotShanu Magotra, Deepika Trakroo, Sneha Ganjoo and Jyoti Vakhlu 3. Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria: key mechanisms of actionMárcia do Vale Barreto Figueiredo, Aurenívia Bonifacio, Artenisa Cerqueira Rodrigues, Fabio Fernando de Araujo 4. Priming of plant defense and plant growth in disease challenged crops using microbial consortiaMurugan Kumar, Nanjappan Karthikeyan, and Radha Prasanna 5. Seed priming mediated induced disease resistance in arid zone plantsRakesh Pathak, Praveen Gehlot and S.K. Singh 6. Trichoderma secondary metabolites: their biochemistry and possible role in disease managementAnita Surendra Patil, Surendra Rajaram Patil and Hariprasad Madhukarrao Paikrao 7. Induced systemic resistance in riceKalaivani K. Nadarajah 8. Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria mediated acquired systemic resistance in plants against pests and diseasesS.K. Singh, Rakesh Pathak and Vipin Chaudhary 9. Acyl homoserine lactone producing rhizobacteria-elicit systemic resistance in plantsGanga Viswanath, Jegan Sekar, and V.R. Prabhavathy 10.Biological Control of chickpea Fusarium wilt using rhizobacteria “PGPR”Souad Zaim, Lakhdar Belabid, Bassam Bayaa 11. AM fungal effect on the growth of selective dicot and monocot plantsB. Sadhana*, P. K. Monica and S. Siva Sankari 12. Trichoderma spp.: Efficient Inducers of Systemic Resistance in PlantsKartikay Bisen, Chetan Keswani, J. S. Patel, B. K. Sarma, H. B. Singh 13. Induced systemic resistance by rhizospehric microbesManoj Kumar, Priyanku Teotia, Ajit Varma, Narendra Tuteja, and Vivek Kumar 14. Combinations of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) for initiation of systemic resistance against tree diseases Vivek Kumar, Ajit Varma Narendra Tuteja and Manoj Kumar 15. Plant growth promoting microbial-mediated induced systemic resistance in plants: induction, mechanism and expression Shekhar Jain, Ajit Varma, Narendra Tuteja, D.K. Choudhary