Education

PhD., Tezpur University, India, 2015

Current position

Senior Research Associate, Plant Microbes Interaction Lab, National Institute of Plant Genome Research, Indiia

Publications

1. 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.
2. Singh, N., Phukan, T., Sharma, P. L., Kabyashree, K., Barman, A., Kumar, R., Sonti, R., Genin, S. and Ray, S. K. (2017). An Innovative Root Inoculation Method to Study Ralstonia solanacearum Pathogenicity in Tomato Seedlings. Phytopathology.
3. 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.
4. Kumar, R., Barman, A., Phukan, T., Kabyashree, K., Jha, G., Sonti, R. V., Genin, S. and Ray, S. K. (2016). Ralstonia solanacearum virulence in tomato seedlings inoculated by leaf clipping. Plant Pathol.
5. Manhar, A. K., Bashir, Y., Saikia, D., Nath, D., Gupta, K., Konwar, B. K., Kumar, R., Namsa, N. D. and Mandal, M. (2016). Cellulolytic potential of probiotic Bacillus Subtilis AMS6 isolated from traditional fermented soybean (Churpi): An in-vitro study with regards to application as an animal feed additive. Microbiol Res 186-187: 62-70.
6. Aziz, R., Barman, A., Bhattacharjee, U., Kumar, R., Kalita, E. and Ray, S. K. (2015). Tendril perversion in cucurbits. Everymans Science 5.
7. Ray, S. K., Kumar, R., Peeters, N., Boucher, C. and Genin, S. (2015). rpoN1, but not rpoN2, is required for twitching motility, natural competence, growth on nitrate, and virulence of Ralstonia solanacearum. Front Microbiol 6: 229.
8. Barman, A., Kumar, R., Kumar, P. and Ray, S. K. (2013). Exclusion of replicative transposons from linear chromosome: an interesting observation. Ind J Fund Appl Life Sci 85-90.
9. Phukan, M. M., Chutia, R. S., Kumar, R., Kalita, D., Konwar, B. K. and Kataki, R. (2013). Assessment of antimicrobial activity of bio-oil from Pongamia glabra, Mesua ferrea and Parachlorella spp deoiled cake. Int J Pharm Biol Sci 4: 910.
10. Chaturvedi, M., Singh, M., Kumar, R. and Chugh, M. R. (2011). Seaweeds: A diet with nutritional, medicinal and industrial value. J Med Plants Res 1819-3455.
11. Chaturvedi, M., Singh, M., Kumar, R. and Chugh, M. R. (2010). Isolation of lipase producing bacteria from oil contaminated soil for the production of lipase bysolid state fermentation using coconut oil cake. Int J Biochem Biotechnol 6: 585–595.