Deepti Singh (Ph.D Scholars)

Dr. Usha Mina’s research group of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Tel: +91-9695866103
Email: deeptiparibhu@gmail.com, deepti22_ses@jnu.ac.in

Profile & curriculum

• B.Sc. (Hons.) Botany, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India (2010-2013)
• M.Sc. Botany, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi,India(2013-2015)
• CSIR-UGC NET(2016), CSIR-UGC NET(2017)
• GATE (2016)
• PhD in Environmental Sciences, (2016-present)

Research interest

• Impact of Agricultural management practices, Land use and land management prctices on soils and crops
• Soil properties,soil microbiology and soil biodiversity,soil pollution
• Soil health and soil quality assessment
• Climate change and sustainable agriculture

Research experience

• M.Sc. Dissertation: Isolation and Characterization of Dentrifying Bacterial Strains from PaddyFields.

As dentrification is an important phenomenon of paddy fields for being the main biological process responsible for emission of nitrous oxide and considerable loss of nitrogen which is the limiting crop nutrient.Therefore its important to characterize those microbial communities involved in this process.This project work aimed to isolate, identify and characterize the heterotrophic denitrifying bacterial community from paddy soil rhizosphere using biochemical characterization, 16s rRNA gene sequencing as well as through RAPD fingerprinting.

• B.Sc. Dissertation: Isolation and Identification of Fungal Endophytes and Mycorrhiza in Pteridophytes Growing in BHU Campus.

The main objective of the project was to isolate fungal endophytes and mycorrhizal association through culture process in selected pteridophytes namely Pteris, Metteucia, Dryopteris, Polypodium, Polystichum, Adiantum and Pityrogramma.Percentage colonization with fungal endophytes was studied.

Publications

Srivastava, M., Kaushik, M. S., Singh, A., Singh, D., & Mishra, A. K. (2016). Molecular phylogeny of heterotrophic nitrifiers and aerobic denitrifiers and their potential role in ammonium removal. Journal of basic microbiology, 56(8), 907-921.