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…]