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Awards

December 2012 INSA Young Scientist Award

March 2013 SERB Women Excellence Award

Degrees:

2009
Doctorate     Agricultural Sciences

Publications resulting from Research
Corresponding author publications:
i. Mathew I E, Agarwal P (2018) May the fittest protein evolve: favoring the plant-specific origin and expansion of NAC transcription factors. Bioessays 40 (doi: 10.1002/bies.201800018)
(IF – 4.725)
ii. Mathew I E, Das S, Mahto A, Agarwal P (2016) Three rice NAC transcription factors heteromerize and are associated with seed size. Front Plant Sci 7:1638.
(IF - 4.298)
First author publications:
iii. Agarwal P, Parida S K, Raghuvanshi S, Kapoor S, Khurana P, Khurana J P, Tyagi A K (2016) Rice improvement through genome-based functional analysis and molecular breeding in India. Rice (N Y) 9 (1):1.
(IF – 3.739)
iv. Agarwal P, Parida S K, Mahto A, Das S, Mathew I E, Malik N, Tyagi A K (2014) Expanding frontiers in plant transcriptomics in aid of functional genomics and molecular breeding. Biotechnol J 9:1480-1491.
(IF – 3.446)
v. Sharma R*, Agarwal P*, Ray S, Deveshwar P, Sharma P, Sharma N, Nijhawan A, Jain M, Singh A K, Singh V P, Khurana J P, Tyagi A K, Kapoor S. (2012) Expression dynamics of metabolic and regulatory components across stages of panicle and seed development in indica rice. Funct Integr Genomics 12:229-248 (*-equal contribution)
(IF – 3.496)
vi. Agarwal P, Kapoor S, Tyagi A K. (2011) Transcription factors regulating the progression of monocot and dicot seed development. BioEssays 33:189-202.
(IF – 4.725)
vii. Agarwal P, Arora R, Ray S, Singh A K, Singh V P, Takatsuji H, Kapoor S, Tyagi A K. (2007) Genome-wide identification of C2H2 zinc-finger gene family in rice and their phylogeny and expression analysis. Plant Mol Biol 65:467-485.
(IF – 3.356)
Contributing author publications:
viii. Malik N, Agarwal P, Tyagi A K (2017) Emerging functions of multi-protein complex Mediator with special emphasis on plants. Crit Rev Biochem Mol Biol 52: 475-502.
(IF – 7.714)
ix. Daware A, Das S, Srivastava R, Badoni S, Singh AK, Agarwal P, Parida SK, Tyagi AK (2016) An efficient strategy combining SSR markers- and advanced QTL-seq-driven QTL mapping unravels candidate genes regulating grain weight in rice. Front Plant Sci 7:1535.
(IF – 4.298)
x. Badoni S, Das S, Sayal Y K, Gopalakrishnan S, Singh A K, Rao AR, Agarwal P, Parida S K, Tyagi A K (2016) Genome-wide generation and use of informative intron-spanning and intron-length polymorphism markers for high-throughput genetic analysis in rice. Sci Rep 6:23765.
(IF – 4.259)
xi. Malik N, Dwivedi N, Singh A K, Parida S K, Agarwal P, Thakur J K, Tyagi A K (2016) An integrated genomic strategy delineates candidate mediator genes regulating grain size and weight in rice. Sci Rep 6:23253.
(IF – 4.259)
xii. Thakur J K, Agarwal P, Parida S, Bajaj D, Pasrija R (2013) Sequence and expression analyses of KIX domain proteins suggest their importance in seed development and determination of seed size in rice, and genome stability in Arabidopsis. Mol Genet Genomics 288:329-46.
(IF – 2.979)
xiii. Chauhan H, Khurana N, Agarwal P, Khurana P (2011) Heat shock factors in rice (Oryza sativa L.): genome-wide expression analysis during reproductive development and abiotic stress. Mol Genet Genomics 286:171-187.
(IF – 2.979)
xiv. Ray S, Dansana, P K, Giri J, Deveshwar P, Arora R, Agarwal P, Khurana J P, Kapoor S, Tyagi A K. (2011). Modulation of transcription factor and metabolic pathway genes in response to water-deficit stress in rice. Funct Integr Genomics 11:157-78.
(IF – 3.496)
xv. Ray S, Agarwal P, Arora R, Kapoor S, Tyagi A K. (2007) Expression analysis of calcium- dependent protein kinase gene family during reproductive development and abiotic stress conditions in rice (Oryza sativa L. ssp. indica). Mol Genet Genomics 278:493-505.
(IF –2.979)
xvi. Arora R, Agarwal P, Ray S, Singh A K, Singh V P, Tyagi A K, Kapoor S. (2007) MADS-box gene family in rice: Genome wide identification, organization and expression profiling during reproductive development and stress. BMC Genomics 8:242.
(IF – 3.729)
xvii. Jain M, Nijhawan A, Arora R, Agarwal P, Ray S, Sharma P, Kapoor S, Tyagi A K, Khurana J P. (2007) F-box proteins in rice: Genome-wide analysis, classification, spatial and temporal gene expression during panicle and seed development, and regulation by light and abiotic stress. Plant Physiol 143:1467-1483.
(IF – 6.280)