Assistant Professor

Dr Prateek Gupta

Department of Biological Sciences

Interests

  1. Secondary metabolism in Plants
  2. Induced Mutagenesis
  3. Genomics

Faculty Details

Education

2009

CCS University, Meerut
India
BSc (Hons.)

2011

Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
India
MSc

2017

University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
India
PhD

Experience

  • March 2022- July 2023, Research Associate, University of Hyderabad
  • January 2020 – January 2022, PBC Postdoctoral Fellow, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
  • December 2017- December 2019, Research Associate, University of Hyderabad

Research Interest

  • Investigating the role of tomato Argonautes (AGOs) protein in the regulation of small RNA mediated plant growth and development.
  • Elucidating the role of ABA4 (ABSCISIC ACID-DEFICIENT4) towards better understanding of Neoxanthin biosynthesis in plants.

Awards & Fellowships

  • 2019 – PBC Postdoctoral Fellowship – Council for Higher Education, Israel
  • 2018- International Travel Support- Department of Science and Technology, India
  • 2010- Junior and Senior Research Fellowship – Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India

    • Publications

    Research Articles

      • Reduced γ-glutamyl hydrolase activity likely contributes to high folate levels in Periyakulam-1 tomato. Tyagi K, Sunkum A, Gupta P, Kilambi HV, Sreelakshmi Y, Sharma R. Horticulture Research. 10 (1), (2023).
      • Phytoene synthase 2 in tomato fruits remains functional and contributes to abscisic acid formation. Gupta P, M Rodriguez-Franco, Reddaiah B, Sreelakshmi Y, Sharma R. Plant Science, 111177, (2022).
      • Two roads diverge in the yellow pigments metabolic pathway for ABA synthesis. Gupta P, Mann V, Hirschberg J. Molecular Plant 15(1), 3-5, (2022).
      • The genetic components of a natural color palette: A comprehensive list of carotenoid pathway mutations in plants. Gupta P, Hirschberg J. Frontiers in Plant Science, 12, 806184-806184, (2021).
      • Metabolomics intervention towards better understanding of plant traits. Sharma V, Gupta P, Priscilla K, Hangargi B, Veershetty A, Ramrao DP, ... & Kumar R. Cells, 10(2), 346, (2021).
      • Reanalysis of Genome Sequences of tomato accessions and its wild relatives: Development of tomato genomic variation (TGV) database integrating SNPs and INDELs polymorphisms. Gupta P, Dholaniya PS, Devulapalli S, Tawari NR, Sreelakshmi Y, Sharma R. Bioinformatics 36 (20), 4984-4990, (2020).
      • NGS-based identification of induced mutations in a doubly mutagenized tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) population. Gupta P, Reddaiah B, Salava H, Upadhyaya P, Tyagi K, Sarma S, Datta S, Malhotra B, Thomas S, Sunkum A, Devulapalli S, Till BJ, Sreelakshmi Y, Sharma R. The Plant Journal, 92(3):495-508, (2017).
      • Tomato fruits show wide phenomic diversity but fruit developmental genes show less genomic diversity. Mohan V, Gupta S, Thomas S, Mickey H, Charakana C, Chauhan V, Sharma K, Kumar R, Tyagi K, Sarma S, Gupta S, Kilamabi H, Nongmaithem S, Kumari A, Gupta P, Sreelakshmi Y, Sharma R. PLoS One 11(4), (2016).
      • A rapid and sensitive method for determination of carotenoids in plant tissues by high performance liquid chromatography. Gupta P, Sreelakshmi Y, Sharma R. Plant Methods 11:5, (2015).

      Book Chapters

      • A low-cost high-throughput method for plant genomic DNA isolation. Gupta P, Salava H, Sreelakshmi Y, Sharma R. In: Vaschetto L. (eds) Cereal Genomics. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2072. Humana, New York, NY (2020).
      • Functional Genomics in Reverse: Genetic Technologies for Targeted Mutagenesis. Gupta P, Sreelakshmi Y, Sharma R. Edited by Rao PV, Muralidharan K and Siddiq EA. Modern Breeding Strategies For Crop Improvement, 250p. (2018)

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