Dr Avtar K Handa was a Keynote speaker at the Indian Horticulture Congress-2025 and International Meet on Horticulture for Inclusive, equitable and sustainable Growth. This conference was organized by Indian Academy of Horticultural Sciences and was held at University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK Campus, Bengaluru, India from November 06-09, 2025. The topic for Professor Handa[Read More…]
Professor Avtar Handa has published a refereed manuscript with his collaborators in Mexico, entitled “Engineering Crops for Enhanced Drought Stress Tolerance: A Strategy for Sustainable Agriculture”. Agronomy 2025, 15(8), 1912. Authors are: Heriberto García-Coronado; Angel-Javier Ojeda-Contreras.: Guillermo Berumen-Varela; Jesús-Martín Robles-Parra; Avtar K. Handa; and Martín-Ernesto Tiznado-Hernández. This article belongs to the Special Issue Physiological, Biochemical,[Read More…]
Professor Avtar Handa has published a refereed paper in CBI Agriculture and Bioscience entitled “SALT TOLERANCE INDEX AND MORPHO-PHYSIOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF TOMATO F2 SEGREGATING LINES UNDER SALINITY STRESS” with his previous technician Tanya Datsenka and two collaborators from University of Abomey, Cotonou, Benin. This manuscript describe potential developing salt-tolerant genotypes of tomato by crossing a cultivated salt-sensitive[Read More…]
Professor Handa’s Group has published a new referred manuscript entitled “**Unlocking the role of novel primary/di-amine oxidases in crop improvement: Tissue specificity leads to specific roles connected to abiotic stress, hormone responses and sensing nitrogen” in Journal of Plant Physiology 153 (2024) 154374, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jplph.2024.154374** Summary: This investigation provided new insights to the roles of copper amine oxidation[Read More…]
Dr. Avtar Handa and collaborators has published an original refereed paper in Plant Growth Regulation entitled “A comprehensive endogenous phytohormone metabolite landscape identifies new metabolites associated with tomato fruit”. In this manuscript they report characterization of endogenous levels of 47 compounds including active plant hormones. Several of this compound has been quantified first time during[Read More…]
Professor Avtar Handa attended the International Conference on Biochemical and Biotechnological Approaches for Crop Improvement at the National Agricultural Science Complex in New Delhi, India October 30 – November 1. He was an invited member of the advisory committee for the conference. He delivered a lead lecture entitled “Agriculture Biotechnology and Human Health and Longevity”[Read More…]
Dr. Avtar Handa has received a $100,000 grant from the Agricultural Research Service for his research on the Identification and regulation of Critical Transcriptional Regulators under Biotic and Abiotic Stresses in Solanaceous Crops. Title: Identification and Regulation of Critical Transcriptional Regulators under Biotic and Abiotic Stresses in Solanaceous Crops PI: Avtar Handa Project Period: 08/30/2022[Read More…]
Research.com, a prominent academic platform for scientists, has just published the 2022 Edition of their Ranking of Top 1000 Scientists in the area of Biology and Biochemistry. The ranking is constructed using the H-index data gathered by Microsoft Academic and includes only prominent scientists with an H-index of at least 40 for scientific papers published[Read More…]