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Research Interest 

(Host-pathogen interaction, Resistance screening, Diagnostics)

Our group is interested to unravel the precise role of bacterial T3SS effectors in modulating the immune responses of crop plants.  Presently we are working on two important  plant-bacterial systems, rice::Xanthomomnas oryzae pv. oryzae (bacterial leaf blight pathogen) and pomegranate: X. axonopodis pv. punicae (pomegranate blight pathogen). Screening of R-gene responses in rice for resistance to bacterial blight, diagnostics, genomic fingerprints of emerging bacterial pathogens, disease management are the applied research programmes.