Top 10 Publications having NAAS rating 6 and above with first or corresponding author only

1. Pankaj, Shakil, N.A., Kumar, J., Singh, M.K. and Singh, Khajan (2012). Bioefficacy evaluation of controlled release formulations based on amphiphilic nanopolymer of carbofuran against Meloidogyne incognita infecting tomato. Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part B: Pesticides, Food Contaminants, and Agricultural Wastes, 47(6): 520-528. (NAAS RATING : 7.99)
2. Pankaj, Muttucumaru, N., Stephen J. Powers, Hari S. Gaur, Kurup, S and Rosane H.C. Curtis (2012).Differential defence response due to jasmonate seed treatment in cowpea and tomato against root-knot and potato cyst nematodes. Nematology 15 (1): 15 (NAAS RATING : 7.44)
3. Rosane H.C. Curtis, Pankaj, Stephen J. Powers, Jonathan Napier and Michaela C. Matthes (2013). The Arabidopsis F-box/Kelch repeat protein At2g44130 is up-regulated in giant-cells and promotes nematode susceptibility. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 26 (1): 36-43. (NAAS RATING : 10.17)
4. Priyank Hanuman Mhatre, Pankaj, S. K. Malik, Sukhdeep Kaur, A.K. Singh, Sharad Mohan and Anil Sirohi (2015). Histopathological Changes and Evaluation of Resistance in Asian Rice (Oryza sativa) against rice root knot nematode, Meloidogyne graminicola. Indian Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding 75(1): 41-48. (NAAS RATING: 6.51)
5. Priyank Hanuman Mhatre, Pankaj, Anil Sirohi, Ashok Kumar Singh, Ranjith K. Ellur, Prolay Kumar Bhowmick and Vivek Kumar Singh (2017). Molecular mapping of rice root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne graminicola) resistance gene in Asian rice (Oryza sativa L.) variety Abhishek using STMS markers. Indian Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding 77(1): 163-165 (NAAS RATING: 6.51)
6. Yadav, D.K., Kaushik Parshant, Pankaj; Rana, V.S., Deeba Kamil, Khatri Dilip and Shakil, N.A., (2019). Microwave synthesis, characterization and biological activities of ferrocenyl chalcones and their QSAR analysis. GC-ART-06-2019-001943) Frontiers in Chemistry 7: 184. (NAAS RATING: 11.22)
7. M Ajith, Pankaj, Najam Akhtar Shakil, Prashant Kaushik & Virendra Singh Rana (2020) Chemical composition and nematicidal activity of essential oils and their major compounds against Meloidogyne graminicola (Rice Root-Knot Nematode), Journal of Essential Oil Research, 32:6, 526-535. (NAAS IF – 7.96)
8. Baghel J. K.; Das, T. K.; Pankaj, I. Mukherjee, Nath Chaitanya. P., Bhattacharyya Ranjan, and Ghosh S., Raj Rishi (2020). Impacts of conservation agriculture and herbicides on weeds, nematodes, herbicide residue and productivity in direct-seeded rice. Soil and Tillage Research 201:104634; DOI: 10.1016/j.still.2020.104634 (NAAS RATING: 11.37)
9. Pankaj, Virendra Singh Rana, Parshant Kaushik, H. Kumar, K.P. Devaraja, Abhishek Gowda and Najam Akhtar Shakil (2021). Bioefficacy Evaluation of Chalcone derivatives against Meloidogyne graminicola infecting rice, Oryza sativa L. Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part B, 56 (9): 801-808 DOI: 10.1080/03601234.2021.1956249 (NAAS RATING : 7.99)
10. Devaraja, K.P., Ranjith Kumar Ellur, Pankaj, Singh, A.K., Gowda, Abhishek A.P., and Anil Sirohi (2022). Response of rice genotypes to RRKN (Meloidogyne graminicola) infection under varying temperature regimes. Plant Pathology DOI: 10.1111/ppa.13647 (NAAS IF – 8.59)

Patent / Technologies / Methodologies / System etc. (Upto Five) :

1. Integrated Management of Rice root-knot nematode infecting rice

2. Patent ; Nano-formulation of carbofuran for nematode management

Awards / Recognitions / Fellowship (Upto Five) :

1. RASSA Yashashvi SAMMAN' 2017 PP Singhal Award, Society of Plant Protection Sciences - 2018

2. Distinguished Scientist Award (SPPS)- 2024; Prof. HM Shah Memorial Award (NSI)

3. Fellow Society of Plant Protection Sciences (SPPS)Fellow Nematological Society of India (NSI)

4. President, NSI (2024-26), Vice-President, NSI (2019-21) ; Editor-In-Chief IJN (2021-23)

5. International Visiting Scientist, Rothamsted Research Station, UK, 2009-10