Google Scholar || Research Gate || Orcid ID || Web of Science Researcher ID J-9743-2017
Peer reviewed research articles: 18
Book chapters: 04
Articles as the 1st (or co-1st) author: 09
h-index: 12, i10-index: 13
Number of citations: 450
Scientific presentations: 02 Oral/ 04 poster presentations
2025
Kumar, D., Saraf, M., Glick, B.R. (2025). Plants, Microbes, and Carbon: The Interplay of Carbon Cycling and Sequestration. In: Saraf, M., Goswami, D., Maheshwari, D.K. (eds) Climate Change and Soil Microorganisms for Environmental Sustainability . Microorganisms for Sustainability, vol 28. Springer, Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-96-3425-5_8
Tripathi, Animesh, Anjali Jaiswal, Dinesh Kumar, Ramesh Pandit, Damer Blake, Fiona Tomley, Madhvi Joshi, Chaitanya G. Joshi, and Suresh Kumar Dubey. "Whole genome sequencing revealed high occurrence of antimicrobial resistance genes in bacteria isolated from poultry manure." International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents (2025): 107452. doi: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2025.107452
2024
Tripathi, Animesh, Anjali Jaiswal, Dinesh Kumar, Priyank Chavda, Ramesh Pandit, Madhvi Joshi, Damer P. Blake, Fiona M. Tomley, Chaitanya G. Joshi, and Suresh Kumar Dubey. "Antimicrobial resistance in plant endophytes associated with poultry-manure application revealed by selective culture and whole genome sequencing." Journal of Hazardous Materials (2024): 136166. doi: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2024.136166
Bhardwaj, Laliteshwari, Dinesh Kumar, Udai P. Singh, Chaitanya G. Joshi, and Suresh Kumar Dubey. "Herbicide application impacted soil microbial community composition and biochemical properties in a flooded rice field." Science of The Total Environment (2024): 169911. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.169911
2023
Tripathi, Animesh, Dinesh Kumar, Priyank Chavda, Dalip Singh Rathore, Ramesh Pandit, Damer Blake, Fiona Tomley, Madhvi Joshi, Chaitanya G. Joshi, and Suresh Kumar Dubey. "Resistome profiling reveals transmission dynamics of antimicrobial resistance genes from poultry litter to soil and plant." Environmental Pollution (2023): 121517. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2023.121517
Kumar, Dinesh, Zarna Patel, Priti Raj Pandit, Ramesh Pandit, Apurvasinh Puvar, Amrutlal K. Patel, Madhvi Joshi, and Chaitanya G. Joshi. "Textile industry wastewater microbiome: Recovery of metagenome assembled genomes (MAGs) using shotgun sequencing approach from Jetpur, Gujarat, India." Ecological Genetics and Genomics 26 (2023): 100155. doi: 10.1016/j.egg.2022.100155
Patel, Zarna Z., Dinesh Kumar, Apurvasinh Puvar, Himanshu Joshi, Chaitanya Joshi, Devayani R. Tipre, and Madhvi Joshi. "Exploring bacteriome diversity of coral Goniopora sp. and Favia favus from the Gulf of Kutch, Gujarat." Journal of Sea Research (2023): 102361. doi: 10.1016/j.seares.2023.102361
2022
Kumar, Dinesh, Meenu Saraf, Chaitanya G. Joshi, and Madhvi Joshi. "Host plant rhizo-microbiome interactions: Seasonal variation and microbial community structure analysis associated with Barleria prionitis." Ecological Genetics and Genomics 22 (2022): 100109. doi: 10.1016/j.egg.2021.100109
Kumar, Dinesh, Meenu Saraf, Chaitanya G Joshi, and Madhvi Joshi. “Rhizosphere Microbiome Analysis of Healthy and Infected Cumin (Cuminum Cyminum L.) Varieties from Gujarat, India.” Current Research in Microbial Sciences (2022): 100163. doi: 10.1016/j.crmicr.2022.100163
Kumar, Dinesh, Sejalben P. Antiya, Sandipkumar S. Patel, Ramesh Pandit, Madhvi Joshi, Abhinava K. Mishra, Chaitanya G. Joshi, and Arunkumar C. Patel. 2022. "Surveillance and Molecular Characterization of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Non-Human Hosts in Gujarat, India" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 21: 14391. doi: 10.3390/ijerph192114391
Kumar, Dinesh, Ramesh Pandit, Sonal Sharma, Janvi Raval, Zarna Patel, Madhvi Joshi, and Chaitanya G. Joshi. "Nasopharyngeal microbiome of COVID-19 patients revealed a distinct bacterial profile in deceased and recovered individuals." Microbial pathogenesis (2022): 105829. doi: 10.1016/j.micpath.2022.105829
Raghwani, Jayna, Louis du Plessis, John T. McCrone, Sarah C. Hill, Kris V. Parag, Julien Thézé, Dinesh Kumar et al. "Genomic Epidemiology of Early SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Dynamics, Gujarat, India." Emerging Infectious Diseases 28, no. 4 (2022): 751. doi: 10.3201/eid2804.212053
Joshi, Madhvi, Manish Kumar, Vaibhav Srivastava, Dinesh Kumar, Dalipsingh Rathore, Ramesh Pandit, David W. Graham, and Chaitanya G. Joshi. "Genetic sequencing detected the SARS-CoV-2 delta variant in wastewater a month prior to the first COVID-19 case in Ahmedabad (India)." Environmental Pollution (2022): 119757. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2022.119757
Chaudhari, Armi M., Madhvi Joshi, Dinesh Kumar, Amrutlal Patel, Kiran Bharat Lokhande, Anandi Krishnan, Katja Hanack et al. "Evaluation of Immune Evasion in SARS-CoV-2 Delta and Omicron variants." Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal (2022). doi: 10.1016/j.csbj.2022.08.010
2021
Kumar, Dinesh, Zarna Patel, Priti Pandit, Ramesh Pandit, Amrutlal Patel, Madhvi Joshi, and Chaitanya Joshi. "Textile Industry Wastewaters From Jetpur, Gujarat, India, Are Dominated by Shewanellaceae, Bacteroidaceae, and Pseudomonadaceae Harboring Genes Encoding Catalytic Enzymes for Textile Dye Degradation." Frontiers in Environmental Science (2021): 338. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2021.720707
Kumar, Raghawendra, Priti Pandit, Dinesh Kumar, Zarna Patel, Labdhi Pandya, Manish Kumar, Chaitanya Joshi, and Madhvi Joshi. "Landfill microbiome harbour plastic degrading genes: A metagenomic study of solid waste dumping site of Gujarat, India." Science of The Total Environment (2021): 146184. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146184
Pandit, Priti Raj, Raghawendra Kumar, Dinesh Kumar, Zarna Patel, Labdhi Pandya, Manish Kumar, and Chaitanya Joshi. "Deciphering the black box of microbial community of common effluent treatment plant through integrated metagenomics: Tackling industrial effluent." Journal of Environmental Management 289 (2021): 112448. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112448
Joshi, Madhvi, Apurvasinh Puvar, Dinesh Kumar, Afzal Ansari, Maharshi Pandya, Janvi Raval, Zarna Patel et al. "Genomic variations in SARS-CoV-2 genomes from Gujarat: Underlying role of variants in disease epidemiology." Frontiers in genetics 12 (2021). doi: 10.3389/fgene.2021.586569
2020
Pandit, Priti Raj, Dinesh Kumar, Labdhi Pandya, Raghawendra Kumar, Zarna Patel, Shivarudrappa B. Bhairappanavar, and Jayashankar Das. "Bio-nano Approaches: Green and Sustainable Treatment Technology for Textile Effluent Challenges." Combined Application of Physico-Chemical & Microbiological Processes for Industrial Effluent Treatment Plant (2020): 339-363. doi: 10.1007/978-981-15-0497-6_16
Kumar, Raghawendra, Dinesh Kumar, Labdhi Pandya, Priti Raj Pandit, Zarna Patel, Shivarudrappa Bhairappanavar, and Jayashankar Das. "Gene-targeted metagenomics approach for the degradation of organic pollutants." In Emerging Technologies in Environmental Bioremediation, pp. 257-273. Elsevier, 2020. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-819860-5.00010-9
2019
Kumar, Dinesh, Prabhakar D. Pandit, Zarna Patel, Shivarudrappa B. Bhairappanavar, and Jayashankar Das. "Perspectives, scope, advancements, and challenges of microbial technologies treating textile industry effluents." In Microbial Wastewater Treatment, pp. 237-260. Elsevier, 2019. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-816809-7.00011-7
2017
Kumar, Dinesh, Swapnil Kumar, Garima Ayachit, Shivarudrappa B. Bhairappanavar, Afzal Ansari, Priyanka Sharma, Subhash Soni, and Jayashankar Das. "Cross-kingdom regulation of putative miRNAs derived from happy tree in cancer pathway: a systems biology approach." International journal of molecular sciences 18, no. 6 (2017): 1191. doi: 10.3390/ijms18061191
Kumar, Dinesh, et al., Oral presentation entitled "Cumin (Cuminum cyminum L.) Rhizosphere Microbiome: Unexplored microflora and ramification in Fusarium wilts" in the National Conference "Microbiomes to macromolecules: Connecting the dots 2023" at Gujarat University, Ahmedabad. 22-23 February 2023
Kumar, Dinesh, et. al., First prize in oral presentation in Gujarat Vigyan Sammelan (GVS-2022), National Seminar organized by the Vigyan Gurjari, Gujarat Chapter, VIBHA India.
Kumar, Dinesh, et. al., poster presentation in Third One Health Poultry Hub (OHPH) Conference 2022 entitled "Optimization of AMR analysis and sequencing pipelines: Pilot study on Hub samples" 25-27 Oct, 2022, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Kumar, Dinesh, et al., poster presentation "Shotgun metagenomics approach for taxonomic and functional diversity assessment of textile industry effluents from Gujarat, India." National Conference on Synthetic Biology for Reprogramming Cells 24-25 January 2020 pp 15.
Kumar, Dinesh, et al., poster presentation "Plant microbiome interactions and the scope of rhizo-remediation as a technology for the removal of environmental pollutants." National Conference on Recent Trends and Emerging Issues in Microbiology and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Ahmedabad 15-16 March 2019 pp 65