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Prashant Singh

Prashant Singh

Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Institute of Science, Department of Botany

Dr Prashant Singh is currently working as an Assistant Professor in Department of Botany at Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi. Dr. Singh has a strong background in plant physiology, molecular biology, seed dormancy, and plant molecular pathology. He was well trained in world-leading research labs in UK, USA and Taiwan. Dr. Singh has been recipient of several prestigious research awards, including Overseas Research Award (ORS), UK, USDA-NIFA, USA-NSF, BBSRC-UK and Taiwan- NSC Postdoctoral fellowship award. Dr. Singh has been published number of peer-reviewed research article in high impact journals. His research paper was classified by the Plant Cell in the top five papers and included in the Nature Index. Dr. Singh has also secured a US patent for his research work. He has been elected as a Fellow of Linnaean Society (FLS), London and as a Member of Royal Society of Biology (MRSB), London.

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Plants have developed a highly developed immune system to fend off pathogens and pests. Higher plants have a huge number of immunological receptors on their cell surfaces and within their cells, allowing them to detect a variety of immunogenic signals related to pathogen infections. Microbe-associated molecular patterns are immunogenic microbial patterns that are mostly consistent across taxonomic groupings (MAMPs). Additionally, infections can harm plant tissues by secreting enzymes that break down plant cell walls and release plant cell wall fragments, extracellular ATP, and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD). These molecules, which are produced from plants, can act as immune responses' damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs). These MAMPs and DAMPs are recognized by surface-localized pattern-recognition receptors (PRRs) and activate pattern-triggered immunity (PTI). Additionally, the nucleotide binding leucine-rich repeats (NB-LRR) proteins recognise pathogenic proteins in the cytoplasm and trigger the second line of plant defence, the Effector-Triggered Immunity (ETI). In addition to managing pre-programmed defence responses, plants have the ability to improve their immune system's reactivity in response to certain environmental cues. This phenomenon is known as "defence priming.". Because it minimizes unnecessary metabolic use in plants, priming is one of the most cost-efficient and effective forms of resistance

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