Education

PhD, Centre of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India, 2007

Current position

Scientist, Plant Microbes interaction Lab, National Institute of Plant Genome Research, India

Publications

1. Ghosh, S., Kanwar, P. and Jha, G. (2017). Identification of candidate pathogenicity determinants of Rhizoctonia solani AG1-IA, which causes sheath blight disease in rice. Curr Genet.
2. Swain, D. M., Yadav, S. K., Tyagi, I., Kumar, R., Kumar, R., Ghosh, S., Das, J. and Jha, G. (2017). A prophage tail-like protein is deployed by Burkholderia bacteria to feed on fungi. Nat Commun 8(1): 404.
3. Ghosh, S., Kanwar, P. and Jha, G. (2017). Alterations in rice chloroplast integrity, photosynthesis and metabolome associated with pathogenesis of Rhizoctonia solani. Scientific Reports.
4. Kumar, R., Barman, A., Phukan, T., Kabyashree, K., Singh, N., Jha, G., Sonti, R. V., Genin, S. and Ray, R. K. (2016). Ralstonia solanacearum virulence in tomato seedlings inoculated by leaf clipping. Plant Pathology.
5. Jha, G., Tyagi, I., Kumar, R. and Ghosh, S. (2015). Draft Genome Sequence of Broad-Spectrum Antifungal Bacterium Burkholderia gladioli Strain NGJ1, Isolated from Healthy Rice Seeds. Genome Announc 3(4).
6. Ghosh, S., Gupta, S. K. and Jha, G. (2014). Identification and functional analysis of AG1-IA specific genes of Rhizoctonia solani. Curr Genet 60(4): 327-341.
7. Kumar, R., Barman, A., Jha, G. and Ray, S. K. (2013). Identification and establishment of genomic identity of Ralstonia solanacearum isolated from a wilted chilli plant at Tezpur, North East India. Current Science 105: 1571-1578.
8. Thakur, K., Chawla, V., Bhatti, S., Swarnkar, M. K., Kaur, J., Shankar, R. and Jha, G. (2013). De novo transcriptome sequencing and analysis for Venturia inaequalis, the devastating apple scab pathogen. PLoS One 8(1): e53937.
9. Kumar, S., Haque, A. S., Jha, G., Sonti, R. V. and Sankaranarayanan, R. (2012). Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic studies of CbsA, a secretory exoglucanase from Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae. Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun 68(Pt 10): 1191-1194.
10. Bogdanove, A. J., Koebnik, R., Lu, H., Furutani, A., Angiuoli, S. V., Patil, P. B., Van Sluys, M. A., Ryan, R. P., Meyer, D. F., Han, S. W., Aparna, G., Rajaram, M., Delcher, A. L., Phillippy, A. M., Puiu, D., Schatz, M. C., Shumway, M., Sommer, D. D., Trapnell, C., Benahmed, F., Dimitrov, G., Madupu, R., Radune, D., Sullivan, S., Jha, G., Ishihara, H., Lee, S. W., Pandey, A., Sharma, V., Sriariyanun, M., Szurek, B., Vera-Cruz, C. M., Dorman, K. S., Ronald, P. C., Verdier, V., Dow, J. M., Sonti, R. V., Tsuge, S., Brendel, V. P., Rabinowicz, P. D., Leach, J. E., White, F. F. and Salzberg, S. L. (2011). Two new complete genome sequences offer insight into host and tissue specificity of plant pathogenic Xanthomonas spp. J Bacteriol 193(19): 5450-5464.
11. Bhatti, S. and Jha, G. (2010). Current trends and future prospects of biotechnological interventions through tissue culture in apple. Plant Cell Rep 29(11): 1215-1225.
12. Jha, G., Patel, H. K., Dasgupta, M., Palaparthi, R. and Sonti, R. V. (2010). Transcriptional profiling of rice leaves undergoing a hypersensitive response like reaction induced by Xanthomonasoryzaepv. oryzaecellulase. Rice (springer). 3, 1-21.
13. Jha, G., Thakur, K. and Thakur, P. (2009). The Venturia apple pathosystem: pathogenicity mechanisms and plant defense responses. Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology.
14. Jha, G. and Sonti, R. V. (2009). Attack and defense in Xanthomonas-rice interactions. Proc Indian Natn Sci Acad 75: 49-68.
15. Salzberg, S. L., Sommer, D. D., Schatz, M. C., Phillippy, A. M., Rabinowicz, P. D., Tsuge, S., Furutani, A., Ochiai, H., Delcher, A. L., Kelley, D., Madupu, R., Puiu, D., Radune, D., Shumway, M., Trapnell, C., Aparna, G., Jha, G., Pandey, A., Patil, P. B., Ishihara, H., Meyer, D. F., Szurek, B., Verdier, V., Koebnik, R., Dow, J. M., Ryan, R. P., Hirata, H., Tsuyumu, S., Won Lee, S., Seo, Y. S., Sriariyanum, M., Ronald, P. C., Sonti, R. V., Van Sluys, M. A., Leach, J. E., White, F. F. and Bogdanove, A. J. (2008). Genome sequence and rapid evolution of the rice pathogen Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae PXO99A. BMC Genomics 9: 204.
16. Jha, G., Rajeshwari, R. and Sonti, R. V. (2007). Functional interplay between two Xanthomonas oryzae pv,. oryzae secretion systems in modulating virulence on rice. Mol Plant Microbe Interact 20(1): 31-40.
17. Aparna, G., Chatterjee, A., Jha, G., Sonti, R. V. and Sankaranarayanan, R. (2007). Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic studies of LipA, a secretory lipase/esterase from Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae. Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun 63(Pt 8): 708-710.
18. Subramoni, S., Jha, G. and Sonti, R. V. (2006). Virulence functions of Xanthomonads. In: Gnanamanickam, S. (Ed). Book chapter in Plant Associated Bacteria, 535-571. Published by Springer NL.
19. Jha, G., Rajeshwari, R. and Sonti, R. V. (2005). Bacterial type two secretion system secreted proteins: double-edged swords for plant pathogens. Mol Plant Microbe Interact 18(9): 891-898.
20. Rajeshwari, R., Jha, G. and Sonti, R. V. (2005). Role of an in planta-expressed xylanase of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae in promoting virulence on rice. Mol Plant Microbe Interact 18(8): 830-837.