Premchand U

Biography:

Mr. Premchand U is a Ph.D. research scholar at University of Horticultural Sciences Bagalkot, India. He completed his M.Sc. in Plant Pathology from University of Horticultural Sciences Bagalkot, India. He is awarded with Mohit Subba Memorial COBACAS Best Thesis Award at National Conference, Cooch Behar Association for Cultivation of Agricultural Science (COBACAS) in collaboration with UBKV, Westbengal, India and University gold medal for his MS.c studies and His research contributions during Master’s programme have reported diversity in newly emerged yellow mosaic disease on ridge gourd [Luffa acutangula (L.) Roxb.] in southern states of India. He is currently engaged with whole genome sequencing and diversity analysis of different viruses infecting Papaya (Carica papaya) in Southern states of India. He has one publication in Virusdisease journal.