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Kumar, Lava Head of Germplasm Health Unit/Virologist, IITA

ICRISAT
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Nigeria

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- "Breaking through the 40% adoption ceiling: Mind the seed system gaps." A perspective on seed systems research for development in One CGIAR. Outlook on Agriculture. 50:5-12. 2021
- Enhancing farmers' agency in the global crop commons through use of biocultural community protocols. Agriculture and Human Values. 38:579-594. 2021
- Gender Roles in Sourcing and Sharing of Banana Planting Material in Communities with and without Banana Bunchy Top Disease in Nigeria. Sustainability. 13. 2021
- Obituary Pothur Sreenivasulu (1950–2020). Archives of Virology. 166:1-2. 2021
- Seed Yam Production Using High-Quality Minitubers Derived from Plants Established with Vine Cuttings. AGRONOMY-BASEL. 11. 2021
- Validation of Diagnostic Markers for Streak Virus Disease Resistance in Maize. AGRICULTURE-BASEL. 11. 2021
- Adoption of Roguing to Contain Banana Bunchy Top Disease in South-East Bénin: Role of Farmers’ Knowledge and Perception. International Journal of Fruit Science. 20:720-736. 2020
- Germplasm Acquisition and Distribution by CGIAR Genebanks.. PLANTS-BASEL. 9:1296. 2020
- Global cropland connectivity: A risk factor for invasion and saturation by emerging pathogens and pests. BioScience. 70:744-758. 2020
- Distribution and virulence of fungal species isolated from yam (Dioscorea spp.) tubers in three agroecological zones of Nigeria. International Journal of Pest Management. 66:252-261. 2020
- Quantitative trait loci mapping for resistance to maize streak virus in F 2:3 population of tropical maize. Cereal Research Communications. 48:195-202. 2020
- Potential returns to yam research investment in sub-Saharan Africa and beyond:. Outlook on Agriculture. 49:215-224. 2020
- DISTRIBUTION, PREVALENCE, AND SEVERITY OF DAMAGES CAUSED BY NEMATODES ON YAM (DIOSCOREA ROTUNDATA) IN NIGERIA. Nematropica. 50:1-18. 2020
- Morphological and molecular characterization of Pratylenchus species from Yam (Dioscorea spp.) in West Africa. Journal of Nematology. 52. 2020
- Monitoring Aspergillus flavus Genotypes in a Multi-Genotype Aflatoxin Biocontrol Product With Quantitative Pyrosequencing.. Frontiers in Microbiology. 10:2529. 2019
- Open data kit (ODK) in crop farming: mobile data collection for seed yam tracking in Ibadan, Nigeria. Journal of Crop Improvement. 33:605-619. 2019
- Genome of the African cassava whitefly Bemisia tabaci and distribution and genetic diversity of cassava-colonizing whiteflies in Africa.. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 110:112-120. 2019
- Prevalence and Genome Characterization of Field Isolates of Sugarcane Mosaic Virus (SCMV) in Nigeria.. Plant Disease. 103:818-824. 2019
- Tissue culture and next-generation sequencing: A combined approach for detecting yam (Dioscorea spp.) viruses.. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology. 105:54-66. 2019
- An EST-SSR based genetic linkage map and identification of QTLs for anthracnose disease resistance in water yam (Dioscorea alata L.). PLOS ONE. 13:318378. 2018
- Understanding root, tuber, and banana seed systems and coordination breakdown: a multi-stakeholder framework. Journal of Crop Improvement. 32:599-621. 2018
- Mapping of QTLs associated with recovery resistance to streak virus disease in maize. ANNALS OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE. 63:115-121. 2018
- Rapid detection of potyviruses from crude plant extracts.. Analytical Biochemistry. 546:17-22. 2018
- Chromogenic detection of yam mosaic virus by closed-tube reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (CT-RT-LAMP). Archives of Virology. 163:1057-1061. 2018
- Rolling Circle Amplification to Screen Yam Germplasm for Badnavirus Infections and to Amplify and Characterise Novel Badnavirus Genomes. BIO-PROTOCOL. 8. 2018
- Relative susceptibility of Musa genotypes to banana bunchy top disease in Cameroon and implication for disease management. Crop Protection. 101:116-122. 2017
- Genome sequencing of the staple food crop white Guinea yam enables the development of a molecular marker for sex determination. BMC Biology. 15:86-86. 2017
- First Report of Maize yellow mosaic virus Infecting Sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) and Itch Grass (Rottboellia cochinchinensis) in Nigeria. Plant Disease. 101:1335-1335. 2017
- Global cropland connectivity: A risk factor for invasion and saturation by emerging pathogens and pests. bioRxiv. 106542. 2017
- Incidence and diversity of viruses in cowpeas and weeds in the unmanaged farming systems of savanna zones in Nigeria. Archives of Phytopathology and Plant Protection. 50:1-12. 2017
- Comparative Reliability of Screening Parameters for Anthracnose Resistance in Water Yam (Dioscorea alata). Plant Disease. 101:209-216. 2017
- Diversity of Root-knot Nematodes Associated with Tubers of Yam (Dioscorea spp.) Established Using Isozyme Analysis and Mitochondrial DNA-based Identification. Journal of Nematology. 49:177-188. 2017
- Morphological and molecular characterisation of Scutellonema species from yam (Dioscorea spp.) and a key to the species of the genus. Nematology. 19:751-787. 2017
- Relative Efficiency of Positive Selection and Tissue Culture for Generating Pathogen-free Planting Materials of Yam (Dioscorea spp.). CZECH JOURNAL OF GENETICS AND PLANT BREEDING. 53:9-16. 2017
- First Report of Outbreaks of the Fall Armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda (J E Smith) (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae), a New Alien Invasive Pest in West and Central Africa.. PLOS ONE. 11. 2016
- Evaluation of isolates of Trichoderma, Pseudomonas and Bacillus species as treatment for the control of post-harvest fungal rot disease of yam (Dioscorea spp.). Archives of Phytopathology and Plant Protection. 49:456-470. 2016
- First Report of Meloidogyne enterolobii Causing Tuber Galling Damage on White Yam (Dioscorea rotundata) in Nigeria. Plant Disease. 100:2173-2174. 2016
- A Sequence-Independent Strategy for Amplification and Characterisation of Episomal Badnavirus Sequences Reveals Three Previously Uncharacterised Yam Badnaviruses.. VIRUSES-BASEL. 8:188. 2016
- Rapid and Specific Detection of Yam Mosaic Virus by Reverse-Transcription Recombinase Polymerase Amplification. Journal of Virological Methods. 222:138-144. 2015
- Maize Lethal Necrosis (MLN), an emerging threat to maize-based food security in sub-Saharan Africa. Phytopathology. 105:956-965. 2015
- Fine mapping of Msv1, a major QTL for resistance to Maize Streak Virus leads to development of production markers for breeding pipelines. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 128:1839-1854. 2015
- Diversity, Distribution and Effects on Cassava Cultivars of Cassava Brown Streak Viruses in Malawi. Journal of Phytopathology. 163:433-443. 2015
- First Report of 16SrII-C Subgroup Phytoplasma Causing Phyllody and Witches’-broom Disease in Soybean in Tanzania. Plant Disease. 99:886-886. 2015
- Allelopathic potential of some biocontrol agents for the control of fungal rot of yellow yam (Dioscorea cayenensis Lam) 2015
- Biological and biochemical characterization of isolates of Helicoverpa armigera Nucleopolyhedrovirus (HaNPV) from different geographic locations of India 2015
- Pigeonpea sterility mosaic virus: a legume-infectingEmaravirusfrom South Asia 2015
- Role of Nucleopolyhedroviruses (NPVs) in the Management of Lepidopteran Pests in Asia 2015
- First Report of Maize chlorotic mottle virus Infecting Maize in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Plant Disease. 98:1448-1448. 2014
- Biotechnology Success Stories by the Consultative Group on International Agriculture Research (CGIAR) System 2014
- High-resolution mapping of resistance to cassava mosaic geminiviruses in cassava using genotyping-by-sequencing and its implications for breeding. Virus Research. 186:87-96. 2014
- Rapport d?atelier : Atelier de planification strategique reprise de la production bananiere dans des zones affectees par la BBTD 2014
- Health of farmer-saved maize seed in north-east Nigeria. European Journal of Plant Pathology. 137:563-572. 2013
- Variability of Soil Organic Carbon stocks under different land uses: A study in an afro-montane landscape in southwestern Uganda. Geoderma. 193:282-289. 2013
- First Report of Banana bunchy top virus in Banana and Plantain (Musa spp.) in Nigeria.. Plant Disease. 97:290-290. 2013
- Does the informal seed system threaten cowpea seed health. Crop Protection. 43:166-174. 2013
- Pathogen-derived resistance using a viral nucleocapsid gene confers only partial non-durable protection in peanut against peanut bud necrosis virus. Archives of Virology. 158:133-143. 2013
- First Report of Mango Malformation Disease Caused by Fusarium tupiense in Senegal.. Plant Disease. 96:1582-1582. 2012
- First Report of Leaf Blight of Taro (Colocasia esculenta) Caused by Phytophthora colocasiae in Ghana.. Plant Disease. 96:292-292. 2012
- Multiplex RT-PCR assays for the simultaneous detection of both RNA and DNA viruses infecting cassava and the common occurrence of mixed infections by two cassava brown streak viruses in East Africa.. Journal of Virological Methods. 179:176-184. 2012
- Banana bunchy top virus in sub-Saharan Africa: investigations on virus distribution and diversity.. Virus Research. 159:171-182. 2011
- Comparing the regional epidemiology of the cassava mosaic and cassava brown streak virus pandemics in Africa. Virus Research. 159:161-170. 2011
- Isolation and characterization of baculoviruses from three major lepidopteran pests in the semi-arid tropics of India.. Indian Journal of Virology. 22:29-36. 2011
- First report of taro (Colocasia esculenta) leaf blight caused by Phytophthora colocasiae in Nigeria.. Plant Disease. 95:618-618. 2011
- First report of soybean witches'-broom disease caused by group 16SrII phytoplasma in soybean in Malawi and Mozambique.. Plant Disease. 95:492-492. 2011
- Identification of a virus naturally infecting sorghum in India as Sugarcane streak mosaic virus. European Journal of Plant Pathology. 127:13-19. 2010
- Occurrence of Banana Bunchy Top Disease Caused by the Banana bunchy top virus on Banana and Plantain (Musa sp.) in Cameroon.. Plant Disease. 93:1076-1076. 2009
- Breeding Peanut for Resistance to Aflatoxin Contamination at ICRISAT 2009
- Multiplex PCR for the detection of African cassava mosaic virus and East African cassava mosaic Cameroon virus in cassava. Journal of Virological Methods. 154:111-120. 2008
- First Report of the Occurrence of African cassava mosaic virus in a Mosaic Disease of Soybean in Nigeria. Plant Disease. 92:1709-1709. 2008
- Alternate hosts of African cassava mosaic virus and East African cassava mosaic Cameroon virus in Nigeria. Archives of Virology. 153:1743-1747. 2008
- First Report of Cucumber mosaic virus in Yams (Dioscorea spp.) in Ghana, Togo, and Republic of Benin in West Africa. Plant Disease. 92:833-833. 2008
- Sources of resistance to Tobacco streak virus in wild Arachis (Fabaceae: Papilionoidae) germplasm. Plant Disease. 91:1585-1590. 2007
- Broad-based resistance to pigeonpea sterility mosaic disease in wild relatives of pigeonpea (Cajanus: Phaseoleae). Annals of Applied Biology. 146:371-379. 2005
- Sterility Mosaic Disease— the "Green Plague" of Pigeonpea Advances in Understanding the Etiology, Transmission and Control of a Major Virus Disease. Plant Disease. 88:436-445. 2004
- Transmission of Pigeon pea sterility mosaic virus by the Eriophyid Mite, Aceria cajani (Acari: Arthropoda).. Plant Disease. 86:1297-1302. 2002
- Cytopathology of Plgeonpea sterility mosaic virus in pigeonpea and Nicotiana benthamiana: similarities with those of eriophyid mite-borne agents of undefined aetiology. Annals of Applied Biology. 140:87-96. 2002
- Assessment of variation in Aceria cajani using analysis of rDNA ITS regions and scanning electron microscopy: implications for the variability observed in host plant resistance to pigeonpea sterility mosaic disease. Annals of Applied Biology. 139:61-73. 2001
- Resistance to groundnut rosette disease in wild Arachis species. Annals of Applied Biology. 139:45-50. 2001
- Characterization of a Virus from Pigeonpea with Affinities to Species in the Genus Aureusvirus, Family Tombusviridae. Plant Disease. 85:208-215. 2001
- Identification of cecidophyopsis mites (Acari: Eriophyidae) based on variable simple sequence repeats of ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacer-1 sequences via multiplex PCR.. Insect Molecular Biology. 8:347-357. 1999
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editorial article
- A global alliance declaring war on cassava viruses in Africa. Food Security. 6:231-248. 2014
- First report of Banana bunchy top virus in banana and plantain (Musa spp.) in Angola. Plant Pathology. 58:402-402. 2009
- First report of the occurrence of East African cassava mosaic virus -Uganda (EACMV-UG) in Angola. Plant Pathology. 58:402-402. 2009
review
- Phytosanitary Interventions for Safe Global Germplasm Exchange and the Prevention of Transboundary Pest Spread: The Role of CGIAR Germplasm Health Units. PLANTS-BASEL. 2021
- CGIAR Operations under the Plant Treaty Framework. Crop Science. 819-832. 2019
- Seed degeneration of banana planting materials: strategies for improved farmer access to healthy seed. Plant Pathology. 207-228. 2019
- Why interventions in the seed systems of roots, tubers and bananas crops do not reach their full potential.. Food Security. 23-42. 2019
- Biology, etiology, and control of virus diseases of banana and plantain.. ADVANCES IN VIRUS RESEARCH, VOL 66. 229-269. 2015
- Cassava virus diseases: biology, epidemiology, and management.. ADVANCES IN VIRUS RESEARCH, VOL 66. 85-142. 2015