Biography:
Mr. Pavan Kumar is a Ph.D research scholar at Basaveshwar Engineering College and Senior research scholar of university of Horticultural Sciences, Bagakot. He completed his M.Sc in biotechnology from university of Mysore and bachelors in life sciences from Karnataka University Dharwad, India. He is currently working on enhancement of host resistance in pomegranate against bacterial blight caused by Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. punicae and its integrated management. During his research he developed novel bio-formulation for pomegranate bacterial blight management which is successfully being adopted in the field trial by farmers. He has two publication in SCI (E) journals and one technology and a patent under communication.
Title : Real-time quantitative PCR based method for quantification of Xanthomonas axanopodis pv punicae in pomegranate