Education

Ph.D. - University of Bombay

Research & Teaching Interests

• Molecular biology of stress tolerance in plants.
• Edible vaccines. 
• Genetic manipulation of higher fungi.

Selected Publications

Wu, H-Z., K.S. Gunn, N.K. Singh, R.D. Locy, and J.J. Giambrone. 2005. Yeast derived sigma C protein induced immunity against avian reovirus. Avian Disease 49:281-285.

Lugo, S.K., M. Kunnimalayaan, N.K. Singh, and B.L. Nielsen. 2004. Required sequence elements for chloroplast DNA replication activity in vitro and in electroporated chloroplast. Plant Sci. 166:151-161.

Wu, H-Z, N.K. Singh, R.D. Locy, K.S. Gunn, and J.J. Giambrone. 2004. Expression of immunogenic VP2 of IBDV in transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana. Biotechnology Letters 26:787-792.

Narsimhan, M.L., H. Lee, B. Damsz, N.K. Singh, J.I. Ibeas, T.K. Mastmuto, C.P. Woloshuk, and R.A. Bressan. 2003. Overexpression of a cell wall glycoprotein in Fusarium oxysporum increases virulence and resistance to a plant PR-5 protein. Plant Journal 36:390-400.

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