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Publications: 2011 to 2015

  1. Chauhan, H., Khurana, P. 2011. Development of drought tolerant transgenic doubled haploid in wheat through Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. Plant Biotech. J. 9: 408-417.

  2. Chauhan, H., Khurana, N., Tyagi, A.K., Khurana, J.P., Khurana, P. 2011. Identification and characterization of high temperature stress responsive genes in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and their regulation at various stages of development. Plant Molecular Biology 75: 35-51.

  3. GULYANI, V., KHURANA, P. 2011. Identification and expression profiling of drought regulated genes in Morus indica by suppression subtractive hybridization of susceptible and tolerant cultivars. Tree Genetics & Genomics 7:725-738.

  4. KHURANA, P., CHECKER V.G. 2011. The advent of genomics in mulberry and perspectives for productivity enhancement. Plant Cell Reports 30: 825-838.

  5. Bandopadhyay, R., Rustgi, S., Chaudhuri, R.K., KHURANA, P., KHURANA, J.P. Tyagi, A.K., Balyan, H.S., Hoube, A., Gupta P.K. 2011. Use of methylation filtration and C0t fractionation for analysis of genome composition and comparative genomics in bread wheat. Journal of Genetics and Genomics 38: 315-325.

  6. Chauhan, H., KHURANA, N., AGGARWAL, P., Khurana, P. 2011. Heat Shock Factors in Rice (Oryza sativa L.): Genome wide expression analysis during reproductive development and abiotic stress. Mol. Gen. Genomics  286 (2): 171-187.

  7. KHURANA, P., CHAUHAN, H., KHURANA, N. 2011. Functional genomics of abiotic stress tolerance in wheat.  In: Tuteja, N., Gill S.S., Tubercio AF, and Tuteja R (Eds.) Improving crop resistance to abiotic stress, vol II. pp. 639-653, Wiley-Blackwell, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co, Germany.

  8. KHURANA, P., CHAUHAN, H., KHURANA, N. 2011. Characterization and Expression of High Temperature Stress Responsive Genes in Bread Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Czech. J Genetics & Plant Breeding (Spl. Issue) 47: S94-S97.

  9. KHURANA, P., CHAUDHARY N., 2011.  Genetic modification of cereals for biofortification and nutraceuticals. J. Plant Biol. 37: 47-57.

  10. Verma M., Kaur J. Kumar M., Kumari K., Saxena A, Anand S, Nigam A. Vydianathan R.. Raghuvanshi S., Khurana, P, Tyagi AK., Khurana JP., Lal, R.  2011. Whole Genome Sequence of the Rifamycin B-Producing Strain Amycolatopsis mediterranei S699. J. Bacteriology, Oct. 2011, Vol. 193, No. 19, 5562–5563.

  11. DWIVEDI, V., SANGWAN, N., NIGAM, A., GARG, N., NIHARIKA, N., KHURANAP., KHURANAJ.P. LAL, R. 2012. Draft genome sequence of thermos sp. Strain RL, isolated from a hot water spring located atop the Himalayan ranges at Manikaran, India. J. Bacteriology 194: No. 13, p13 (Cover page article)

  12. KHURANA, N., CHAUHAN, H., KHURANA, P. 2012. Cloning and expression analysis of a heat-inducible, myo-inositol-1-phosphate synthase (MIPS) gene from wheat and its comparative analysis in rice and Arabidopsis. Plant Cell Reports 31: 237-251.

  13. VIKRANT, MARAGATHAMANI, R., KHURANA, P. 2012. Somatic embryogenesis from mature caryopsis culture under abiotic stress and optimization of Agrobacterium-mediated transient GUS gene expression in embryogenic callus of rice (Orzya sativa L.). J. Phytology 4:16-25.

  14. CHUGH, A., VIKRANT, MAHALAKSHMI, A., KHURANA, P., 2012.  A novel approach for Agrobacterium-mediated germ line transformation of Indian bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) and pasta wheat (Triticum durum). J. Phytology 4: 22-29.

  15. CHECKER V.G., CHIBBAR, A.K., KHURANA, P., 2011. Stress-inducible expression of barley Hva1 gene in transgenic mulberry displays enhanced tolerance against drought, salinity and cold stress. Transgenic Research 21: 939- 957.

  16. Chauhan, H., Khurana, n., NIJHAWAN, A., Khurana, J.P., Khurana, P. 2012. The chloroplastic small heat shock protein (sHSP26) is necessary for tolerance to heat stress and takes part from seed maturation to germination and imparts tolerance to heat stress. Plant, Cell & Environment 35: 1912-1931.

  17. CHECKER V.G., Saeed B., KHURANA P., 2012. Analysis of expressed sequence tags from mulberry (Morus indica) roots and implications for comparative transcriptomics and marker identification. Tree Genetics & Genomics (DOI: 10.1007/s11295-012-0531-6).

  18. The Tomato Genome Consortium, 2012. The tomato genome sequence provides insights into fleshy fruit evolution. Nature 485 Number 7400 pp547-672.

  19. Malhotra J, Dua A, Saxena A, Sangwan N, Mukherjee U.,   Pandey N, Rajagopal R, Khurana P,  Khurana JP, Lal R. 2012.   Draft Genome Sequence of Acinetobacter sp. HA isolated from gut of the polyphagus insect pest Helicoverpa armigera. J. Bacteriol. 194   (12): 5156.

  20. Dwivedi, V., Sangwan, N., Nigam, A., Garg, N., Niharika, N., Khurana P, Khurana J.P, Lal R. 2012. Draft genome sequence of Thermus sp. strain RL, isolated from a hot water spring located atop the   himalayan ranges at Manikaran, India. J. Bacteriol. 194 (13): 3534.

  21. Anand S., Sangwan N, Lata P, Kaur J, Singh AK, Verma M, Kaur J, Khurana JP, Khurana P, Raghuvanshi S, Lal R. 2012.  Draft genome sequence of Sphingobium indicum B90A, a hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) degrading bacterium. J. Bacteriol. 194 (16): 4471-4472.

  22. Sangwan, N., Lata, P., Dwivedi,V, Singh, A., Niharika, N.,   Kaur  J, Anand, S., Malhotra, J., Jindal, S., Nigam, A., Lal, D.,  Dua ,A., Saxena A,  Garg N,  Verma M, Kaur J, Mukherjee, U,  Dowd SE, Rajagopal R, Khurana P,  Khurana JP, Lal R. 2012. Comparative metagenomic analysis of soil microbial communities across three  hexachlorocyclohexane gradients. PLoS ONE 7(9): e46219. 

  23. KHURANA N, CHAUHAN H, KHURANA P. 2013. Wheat Chloroplast Targeted sHSP26 Promoter Confers Heat and Abiotic Stress Inducible Expression in Transgenic Arabidopsis Plants. PLoS ONE 8(1): e54418.

  24. CHAUDHARY, N., KHURANA, P.  2013. Cloning, functional characterization and transgenic manipulation of vitamin E biosynthesis genes of wheat. Functional Plant Biology. 40: 1129-1136.

  25. CHECKER V.G., KHURANA, P., 2013. Molecular and functional characterization of mulberry remorin (MiREM) involved in abiotic stress tolerance. Plant Cell Reports 32:1729-1741.

  26. SINGH B, CHAUHAN H, KHURANA JP, KHURANA P, SINGH P. 2013. Evidence for the role of wheat eukaryotic translation initiation factor 3 subunit g (TaeIF3g) in abiotic stress tolerance. Gene 532:177-185.

  27. DAS, M., Tetoriya, M., HAQ, Q.M.R., KHURANA, P. 2013. Screening and expression analysis of HAL3a, dehydrin and NHX1 in ten genotypes of mulberry for abiotic stress tolerance. Sericologia 53(2): 1-1

  28. Chauhan, H., KHURANA, N., Khurana, J.P., Khurana, P. 2013. A seed preferential wheat heat shock transcription factor TaHsfA2d provides abiotic stress tolerance and yield enhancement in transgenic Arabidopsis under heat stress environment. PLoS ONE Vol 8 (11).

  29. MATHITHUMILAN B, KADAM NN, BIRADAR J, REDDY SH, ANKAIAH M, NARAYANAN MJ, UDAYAKUMAR M, KHURANA P, SHESHSHAYEE MS, 2013.  Development and characterization of microsatellite markers for Morus spp. and assessment of their transferability to other closely related species. BMC Plant Biology 2013, 13:194.

  30. Sangwan, N., Verma H., Kumar R., Negi V., lax S., Khurana P, Khurana, JP, Gilbert J., Lal R. 2014. Reconstructing an ancestral genotype of two hexachlorocyclohexane-degrading Sphingobium species using metagenomic sequence data. The ISME Journal 8: 398-408.

  31. SAEED, B., DAS, M., HAQ, Q.M.R., KHURANA, P. 2015. Over expression of beta carotene hydroxylase-1 (bch1) in mulberry, Morus indica cv. K2, confers tolerance against high-temperature and high-irradiance stress induced damage. Plant Cell Tissue & Organ Culture 120 (3): 1003- 1015.  

  32. HAIRAT S., KHURANA, P. 2015. Evaluation of Aegilops tauschi and Aegilops speltoides for acquired thermotolerance: Implications in wheat breeding programmes. Plant Physiol. Biochem. 95: 65-74.

  33. HAIRAT S., KHURANA, P. 2015. Improving photosynthetic responses during recovery from heat treatments with brassinosteroids and calcium chloride in Indian bread wheat cultivars. Amer. J Plant Sci. 6: 1827-1849.

  34. SANGWAN N., LAMBERT C., SHARMA A., GUPTA V., KHURANA P., KHURANA J.P., SOCKETT R.E., GILBERT J.A., LAL R. 2015. Arsenic rich Himalayan hot spring metagenomics reveal genetically novel predator-prey genotypes. Environ. Microbiol. Reports DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12297.

  35. KHURANA N, CHAUHAN H, KHURANA P. 2015. Characterization of a chloroplast localized wheat membrane protein (TaRCI) and its role in heat, drought and salinity stress tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Gene 4 (2015) 45–54.

  36. TYAGI, A., AGARWAL, P., PARIDA, SK., RAGHUVANSHI, S., KAPOOR, S., KHURANA, P., KHURANA, JP, 2015. Rice improvement through genome-based functional analysis and molecular breeding in India. Rice (2016) 9:1-17.

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