Dr. Amarjeet Singh
Name: Dr. Amarjeet Singh
Qualification: Ph.D.
Designation : Staff Scientist
Department: National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi
institute name : National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi
College address : Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, Near JNU Campus
New Delhi-110067
postal address : National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi
Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, Near JNU Campus
New Delhi-110067
Award for : Young Achiever Award
Publication title: Journal
Paper Title : A protein phosphatase 2C, AP2C1, interacts with and negatively regulates the function of CIPK9 under potassium-deficient conditions in Arabidopsis
Journal Name : Journal of Experimental Botany
Volume : 69
Issue No. : 16
Month of publication : May
Year : 2018
Page no. : 4003-4015
ISSN : 1460-2431
About Dr. Amarjeet Singh
Dr. Amarjeet Singh is a scientist and member of faculty at the National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), New Delhi, INDIA. After obtaining his doctoral degree from University of Delhi, INDIA, He went on to do post-doctoral research at Washington State University, Pullman, USA. He has undertaken several genomics and functional genomics studies to identify, understand the differential expression pattern at the whole genome level and functionally characterized crucial genes, such as protein phosphatases, kinases and phospholipases in ABA, abiotic stress and K+ deficiency signaling in rice and Arabidopsis. At NIPGR, his research group is interested in deciphering the signaling networks and molecular mechanism of abiotic stress (drought, salinity, cold) tolerance, particularly those regulated by calcium and lipid signaling, in crop plants. Another major research focus of the group is to understand the molecular mechanism of nutrient (N P, K) uptake, transport and homeostasis in crucial crop plants such as rice and chickpea. Emphasis is majorly on improving the nutrient use efficiency of crop plants through modulation of root system architecture and genetic manipulation of nutrient transporter and their regulatory proteins. This effort would help in generating crop plants with better NUE, consequently, will result in minimal use of very expensive and polluting chemical fertilizers in Indian agriculture system.
He has published more than 20 research/review articles in highly reputed, peer-reviewed international journals. He has edited a book entitled; Improving abiotic stress tolerance in plants, published by CRC press, Taylor and Francis group, USA. He has also published several book chapters in books by noted publishers and some short communications. For his significant contribution in the field of plant sciences and agriculture, he was awarded the prestigious Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award (2017) from National Academy of Sciences (NASI), the oldest science academy in India and Pran Vohra Award (2018-19) from The Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA). He has also been conferred with several other national and international awards/honours/fellowships during his Ph.D. and post-doctoral research including SERB-DST Young Scientist award, Young Investigator Award-DBT, D.S. Kothari Post-doctoral Fellowship, Travel Award by American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB), USA, Travel Award by CSIR-India. He has served as reviewer for several prestigious international journals including, Plant Molecular Biology, PLoS ONE, Nature Scientific Report, Plant Molecular Biology Reporter, Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology and Acta Physiologiae Plantarum.