Profile
Ph.D. Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi | Post-doctorate - Washington State University, USA | INSA Associate Fellow, Indian National Science Academy (INSA)-2023 | Prof. S.K. Sopory Young Scientist Award-2023, Indian Society For Plant Physiology | Pran Vohra Award - 2018-19 from Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) | Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award (2017) from the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) | SERB-DST Young Scientist Award, 2015, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India | Member of the "National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI)"-2020 onwards | Member of INSA- National Committee for International Union of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (IUBMB), 2024-2026.
Current Focus Areas
Improving Nutrient Uptake and Nutrient Use Efficiency in Crop Plants
Enhancing abiotic stress tolerance and climate resilience in plants
Selected Publications
Ankit A, Ajeet S, Kumar S, Singh A* (2023) Morphophysiological and transcriptome analysis reveal that reprogramming of metabolism, phytohormones and root development pathways governs the potassium (K+) deficiency response in two contrasting chickpea cultivars. Frontiers in Plant Science, 13:1054821.
Deepika D, Ankit, Jonwal S, Mali KV, Sinha AK, Singh A* (2022) Molecular analysis indicates the involvement of Jasmonic acid biosynthesis pathway in low-potassium (K+) stress response and development in chickpea (Cicer arietinum). Environmental and Experimental Botany. 194, 104753.
Sagar S, Deepika, Biswas DK, Chandrasekar R, Singh A* (2021) Genome-wide identification, structure analysis and expression profiling of phospholipases D under hormone and abiotic stress treatment in chickpea (Cicer arietinum). International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 169; 264-273.
Singh A, Yadav AK, Kaur K, Sanyal SK, Jha SK, Fernandes JL, Sharma P, Tokas I, Pandey A, Luan S, Pandey GK (2018) Protein phosphatase 2C, AP2C1 interacts with and negatively regulates the function of CIPK9 under potassium deficient conditions in Arabidopsis. Journal of Experimental Botany, 69(16): 4003-4015.
Singh A, Jha SK, Bagri J, Pandey GK (2015) ABA inducible rice protein phosphatase 2C confers ABA insensitivity and abiotic stress tolerance in Arabidopsis. PLoS ONE, 10(4): e0125168.