Dr. Usha Mina - Professor, School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Pranav Kumar and Usha Mina

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Pranav Kumar and Usha Mina

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Research papers

2023

Singh, N. and Mina, U., 2023. An assessment of methane emission from the CNG cylinder testing stations in Delhi and its implication for global warming. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 195(3), p.369.
Bhardwaj, P., Chauhan, A., Ranjan, A., Mandzhieva, S.S., Minkina, T., Mina, U., Rajput, V.D. and Tripathi, A., 2023. Assessing Growth-Promoting Activity of Bacteria Isolated from Municipal Waste Compost on Solanum lycopersicum L. Horticulturae, 9(2), p.214.
Bhardwaj, P., Sharma, R.K., Chauhan, A., Ranjan, A., Rajput, V.D., Minkina, T., Mandzhieva, S.S., Mina, U., Wadhwa, S., Bobde, P. and Tripathi, A., 2023. Assessment of Heavy Metal Distribution and Health Risk of Vegetable Crops Grown on Soils Amended with Municipal Solid Waste Compost for Sustainable Urban Agriculture. Water, 15(2), p.228.

2022

Shikha, A., Dimri, A.P., Singh, K.K., Maharana, P. and Mina, U., 2022. Risk assessment and adaptation strategies for irrigated and rainfed cotton crop production under climate change. Journal of Earth System Science, 131(4), p.267.
Yadav, P., Mina, U., Bhatia, A. and Singh, B., 2022. Cultivar assortment index (CAI): a tool to evaluate the ozone tolerance of Indian Amaranth (Amaranthus hypochondriacus L.) cultivars. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, pp.1-15.
Anand, P., Mina, U., Khare, M., Kumar, P. and Kota, S.H., 2022. Air pollution and plant health response-current status and future directions. Atmospheric Pollution Research, p.101508.

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2021

Mina Usha, Kumar Ram. 2021. COVID-19 pandemic impact on food security and food system of India:Lessons for future. In: Environmental Resilience and Transformation in Times of COVID-19: A.L. Ramanathan, Chidambaram Sabarathinam, Francisco Arriola, M.V. Prasanna, Pankaj Kumar, M.P. Jonathan (Eds). Elsevier,Pages 397-408, ISBN 9780323855129, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-85512-9.00022-X
Mina, Usha, KakulSmiti, and Prachi Yadav. 2021.Thermotolerant wheat cultivar (Triticum aestivum L. var. WR544) response to ozone, EDU, and particulate matter interactive exposure. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2021, 193.6, 1-16
Bhatia, A., Mina, U., Kumar, V., Tomer, R., Kumar, A., Chakrabarti, B., Singh, R.N. and Singh, B., 2021. Effect of elevated ozone and carbon dioxide interaction on growth, yield, nutrient content and wilt disease severity in chickpea grown in Northern India. Heliyon, 7(1), p.e06049.
Yadav P, Mina U., Ozone Stress Responsive Gene Database (OSRGD ver. 1.1): a literature curated database for crop improvement. bioRxiv. 2021 Jan 1.
Shikha, A. Dimri, A.P., Singh, K. K., Mina, U., and P. Maharana. Evaluating the performance of regional climate model on the irrigated and rainfed cotton crop. Journal of Earth System science (accepted)

2020

Singh, D., Mina, U., and Sejuty, T.A., 2020, December. Soil Carbon and Nitrogen dynamics of Rice-Wheat Agro-ecosystems under Conservation and Conventional Practices. In AGU Fall Meeting 2020. AGU.
Yadav, P., Mina U. and Bhatia, A., 2020. Screening of forty Indian Amaranthus hypochondriacus cultivars for tolerance and susceptibility to tropospheric ozone stress. The Nucleus, 63(3), pp.281-291.
Farswan, S., Vishwakarma, C.A.,Mina, U., Kumar, V. and Mukherjee, S., 2020. Assessment of rainwater harvesting sites in a part of North-West Delhi, India using geomatic tools (vol 78, 329, 2019). ENVIRONMENTAL EARTH SCIENCES, 79(18).
Gupta, R., Ranjan, M.R., Mina, U. and Gupta, R.R., 2020. Predicting Pollutant Removal with Abundance of Plants in the Interest of Health: An Evidence Based Study. Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development, 11(3).
11. Bhardwaj, P., Ranjan, M.R., Tripathi, A. and Mina, U.,2020. Growth response of potato and spinach crops to varying municipal solid waste compost treatments.Plant Archives. Volume 20 (2), 4477-4484.

2019

Gupta, R., Ranjan, M.R., Mina, U. and Gupta, R.K., 2019. Vegetation and Pollution in Delhi-Frequency, Abundance and Density of Plants and Pollutant Levels: An Analysis. Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development, 10(12).
Gupta, R., Ranjan, M.R., Mina, U. and Gupta, R.K., 2019. Does Season Worsen Air Quality: Comparison of Pollutant Levels for Summer and Winter in New Delhi. Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development, 10(11).
Mina, U., Kumar, R., Gogoi, R., Bhatia, A., Harit, R.C., Singh, D., Kumar, A. and Kumar, A.J.E.I., 2019. Effect of elevated temperature and carbon dioxide on maize genotypes health index. Ecological Indicators, 105, pp.292-302.
Mina, U., Singh, S.D., Singh, B., Tiwari, S., Singh, D. and Kumar, P., 2019. Assessment of low intensity solar radiation susceptibility in 20 wheat varieties under field conditions grown in Indo-Gangetic Plains of India. Journal of Crop Science and Biotechnology, 22(3), pp.193-203.
Singh, D., Pandey, D.N. and Mina, U., 2019. Earthquake—a natural disaster, prediction, mitigation, laws and government policies, impact on biogeochemistry of earth crust, role of remote sensing and gis in management in india—an overview. J Geosci, 7(2), pp.88-96.
Mina, U., Kandpal, A., Bhatia, A., Ghude, S. D, Bisht, D., Singh, D., & Kumar, P. (2019). Quantitative assessment of individual and combined impact of ozone and aerosols on wheat cultivar: Growth, development, biochemical, physiological and yield attributes. Agricultural and forest meteorology, , . doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2019.107817
Yadav, P., Mina, U., 2019. Amaranthus: Development opportunity crop for marginal farmers livelihood and nutritional security. Indian farming, 69 (4), 27-31
Ramanathan, A.L., Singh Swati, Farswan S., Mina U., 2019. An Indian Perspective on Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+). ENVIS newsletter 23 (3), 1-12
Ramanathan, A.L., Singh Swati, Farswan S., Mina U., 2019. Waste and Waste Management in India. ENVIS newsletter 22 (4), 1-12
Singh, D., Kumar, Y. and Mina, U., 2019. Land Use Pattern Impact on Biogeochemistry of Soil in Auraiya District of Uttar Pradesh, India. American Journal of Water Resources, 7(1), pp.30-41.
Raj, A., Chakrabarti, B., Pathak, H., Singh, S.D., Mina, U. and Purakayastha, T.J., 2019. Growth, yield and nitrogen uptake in rice crop grown under elevated carbon dioxide and different doses of nitrogen fertilizer. Indian j.experimental Botany. 57, 181-187.
Singh, D., Kumar, Y., & Mina, U. (2019). Physico-chemical and Biological Characterization of Groundwater: A Case Study of Auraiya District, Uttar Pradesh, India. Applied Ecology and Environmental Sciences, 2019, Vol. 7, No. 2, 74-84

2018

Mina, U., Chandrashekara, T.K., Kumar, S.N., Meena, M.C., Yadav, S., Tiwari, S., Singh, D., Kumar, P. and Kumar, R., 2018. Impact of particulate matter on basmati rice varieties grown in Indo-Gangetic Plains of India: Growth, biochemical, physiological and yield attributes. Atmospheric environment, 188, pp.174-184.
R Mittal, B Chakrabarti, A Tripathi, U Mina, T Jindal, RS Jatav, R Dhupper. Carbon footprint of rice and wheat crop under conventional and conservation agricultural practices. International Journal of Tropical Agriculture 36 (4), 931-934
Chakrabarti, B., Mina, U., Chakraborty, D., Pathak, H., Sharma, D.K., Jain, N., Jatav, R.S., Dixit, P., Katiyar, R. and Harit, R.C., 2018. Water, carbon and nitrogen footprints of major crops in Indo-gangetic plains. In Geospatial Infrastructure, Applications and Technologies: India Case Studies (pp. 401-411). Springer, Singapore.
Mittal, R., Chakrabarti, B., Jindal, T., Tripathi, A., Mina, U., Dhupper, R., Chakraborty, D., Jatav, R.S. and Harit, R.C., 2018. Carbon footprint is an indicator of sustainability in Rice-Wheat cropping system: A Review. Chem Sci Rev Lett, 7, pp.774-784
U Mina, D. Singh and P. Kumar. Climate Change Impacts on Plants Population and Community Ecological Attributes, Mitigation Strategies and Policy Interventions - A Review. Applied Ecology and Environmental Sciences. 2018; 6(3):84-92. doi: 10.12691/aees-6-3-3
Shrivastava, M., Mina, U., Thaplial, S., Srivastava, A., Khuant, M. and Singh, S.D., 2018. Rice Crop Growth and Rhizospheric Microbial Dynamics in Heavy Metals Contaminated Inceptisol. In Water Quality Management (pp. 281-297). Springer, Singapore.

2017

H. Pathak, B. Chakrabarti, Usha Mina, P. Pramanik, Dinesh Sharma (2017), Ecosystem services of wheat production with conventional and conservation agricultural practices in the Indo-Gangetic Plains. Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 87(8), 987–91
Sachin D. Ghude, G. S. Bhat, Thara Prabhakaran, R. K. Jenamani, D. M. Chate, P. D. Safai, A. K. Karipot, M. Konwar, Prakash Pithani, V. Sinha, P. S. P. Rao, S. A. Dixit, S. Tiwari, K. Todekar, S. Varpe, A. K. Srivastava, D. S. Bisht, P. Murugavel, Kaushar Ali, Usha Mina, M. Dharua, J. Rao, B. Padmakumari, A. Hazra, N. Nigam, U. Shende, D. M. Lal, B. P. Chandra, A. K. Mishra, A. Kumar, H. Hakkim, H. Pawar, P. Acharja, Rachana Kulkarni, C. Subharthi, B. Balaji, M. Varghese, S. Bera and M. Rajeevan (2017), Winter fog experiment over the Indo-Gangetic plains of India. Current Science, 112, 4, 1-17.
Yadav, S.; Koli, P.; Mina, U.; Devi, S. Crop Residue Burning and Air Pollution. Popular Kheti 2017, 5, 105−109.

2016

Ram Kumar, Usha Mina, Robin Gogoi, Arti Bhatia, R.C.Harit (2016), Effect of elevated temperature and carbon dioxide levels on maydis leaf blight disease tolerance attributes in maize. Agriculture, Ecosystem and Environment, 231, 98-104.
Usha Mina, Anshul Fuloria, Rashmi Aggarwal (2016), Effect of ozone and antioxidants on wheat pathogen-Bipolarissorokinana. Cereal Research Communications, 44(4), 594 –604.
Deepak Singh, Amit Kumar, Krishan Kumar, Buphinder Singh, Usha Mina, Braj Bihari Singh, Vinod Kumar Jain (2016), Statistical modeling of O3, NOx, CO, PM2.5, VOCs and noise levels in commercial complex and associated health risk assessment in an academic institution. Science of the Total Environment, 572, 586-594
Deepak Singh, Amit Kumar, Bhupendra Pratap Singh, Kumar Anandam, Manoj Singh, Usha Mina, Krishan Kumar, and Vinod Kumar Jain (2016), Spatial and temporal variability of VOCs and its source estimation during rush/non-rush hours in ambient air of Delhi, India. Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health, 9(5), 483-493
A. Raj, B. Chakrabarti, H Pathak, S.D. Singh, Usha Mina, and R. Mittal (2016), Growth, yield components and grain yield response of rice to temperature and nitrogen levels. Journal of Agrometeorology 18 (1), 1-6
Ram Kumar, Usha Mina, Robin Gogoi, Arti Bhatia, R.C.Harit (2016), Effect of elevated carbon dioxide and temperature on tolerance potential of maize genotypes for maydis leaf blight disease. Journal of Agricultural Engineering and Food Technology, 3(2), 95-98.

2015

Usha Mina, S.D. Singh, Bhupinder Singh and MunmiKhaund (2015), Response of wheat and chickpea cultivars to reduced levels of solar irradiance. Journal of Agrometeorology, 17 (2), 165-171.
K.R Sheetal, S.Singh, S. Prasad, Usha Mina, S.P. Datta and A. Anand (2015), Physiological and biochemical response of different vegetables to chromium. Biochemical and Cellular Archives, 15 (2), 3-7.
Ram Kumar and Usha Mina (2015). Environmental auditing: Mileposts, standards and career opportunity. Everymens Science, 1, 48-55.
Pragati Pramanik, Usha Mina and Nimisha Sharma (2015), Bioplastics: A revolutionary and sustainable green technology. Science Reporter, December, 26-27.
B. Chakrabarti, Usha Mina and P. Pramanik (2015), Krishi aur Carbon byapar. Vigyan Pragati, February, 52-53

2014

B. Chakrabarti. P. Pramanik, Usha Mina, D.K. Sharma and R. Mittal (2014), Impact of conservation agricultural practices on soil physicochemical properties. International Journal on Agricultual Sciences, 5(1), 55-59. 3

2013

Sarad Kumar, Ruckminee Mall, Gaurav Naik and Usha Mina (2013). Purification and characterization of a thermostable soluble peroxidase from Citrus medica leaf. Preparative Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 43, 137–151.
Usha Mina, R. Singh, B. Chakrabarti (2013), Agriculture production and air quality: an emerging challenge. International Journal of Environment Science: Development and Monitoring, 4 (2), 80 -85.
Renu Singh, Sapna Tiwari, Monica Srivastava and Usha Mina (2013), Effect of combination of microwave and hydrogen peroxide pretreatment on enzymatic saccharification of rice straw. International Journal on Environmental Engineering and Management, 4 (5), 529-542.
B. Chakrabarti Usha Mina, D.K.Sharma, S.Naresh Kumar and S.K.Gupta (2013), Economic valuation of soil nutrients in agroforestry system. International Journal of Environment Engineering and Management, 3(1), 85-87.

2012

Usha Mina and Anita Choudhary (2012), Impact of transgenic cotton varieties on activity of enzymes in their rhizosphere. Indian Journal of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 49, 195-201.
Usha Mina, Arti Bhatia and Uttam Kumar (2012), Response of Maize and its pest Chilopartellusto ozone and carbon dioxide exposure. Maydica, 57. 183-187.
Usha Mina, Anita Choudhary and Anju Kamra (2011), Effect of transgenic Bacillus thuringiensis cotton on enzymes and microbial communities of its rhizosphere. Journal of Agriculture Sciences, 3(1), 97-104.
Usha Mina, Arti Bhatia BidishaChakarbarti, R. C. Harit and Uttam Kumar (2012), Impact of ozone and carbon dioxide on growth and development of ChiloPartellus (maize stalk borer). Journal of Entomological Research, 36(4), 363-366
Vivek Singh, Parimal Sinha, Usha Mina and V. P. Yadav (2012), Pathogenesis- related proteins and their importance in plant protection. Indian Farming, 62(2), 6-10.
Usha Mina, Arti Bhatia and S.C.Dubey (2012), Impact of ozone and carbon dioxide on wilt disease development in chickpea. International Journal of Environment Engineering and Management, 3(3), 373-376.

2011

Usha Mina and A.Bhatia (2011), The greenhouse gas ozone-its effect on agriculture. Indian Farming, 61(2), 9-18
Abhai Pratap Singh, Rashmi Singh, Usha Mina, Manesh Pratap Singh, Chandra Kumar Varshney (2011), Emissions of monoterpene from tropical Indian plant species and assessment of VOC emission from the forest of Haryana state, Atmospheric pollution Research, 2, 72-79
H. Pathak, A. N. Tewari, S. Sankhyan, D.S. Dubey, Usha Mina,V K, Singh, N Jain and A Bhatia (2011), Direct-seeded rice: Potential, performance and problems – A review. Current Advances in Agricultural Sciences, 3(2), 77-88.

2010

Usha Mina, Pranav Kumar and C.K.Varshney (2010), Response of different growth stages of Potato (Solanum tuberosum) to ozone stress. Phyton, 49(2), 253-266.
Usha Mina, Pranav Kumar and C.K.Varshney (2010), Effect of ozone exposure on growth, yield and isoprene emission from Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) plants. Vegetable Crops Research Bulletin, 72, 35-48.
Abhai Pratap Singh, Rashmi Singh, Usha Mina, M.P. Singh and C.K. Varshney (2010), Effects of different doses of nitrogen treatments on isoprene emission from Ficus glomerata. Journal of Applied and Natural Science, 2(1), 17-21

2009

Usha Mina, Abhai Pratap Singh and C.K.Varshney, (2009), Response of radish (Raphanus sativus) plants at different growth stages to ozone exposure. Journal of Tropical Agriculture, 47 (1-2), 53-57.
Usha Mina and S.C.Dubey(2009), Effect of environmental variable on development of Fusarium wilt in chickpea (Cicer arietinum) cultivars. Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 80(3), 231-234.

2008

Usha Mina, Shakeel A. Khan,Anita Choudhary, R. Choudhary,P. K. Aggarwal (2008), An approach for impact assessment of transgenic plants on soil ecosystem. Applied Ecology and Environmental Research, 6(3), 1-18.
Usha Mina and C.K.Varshney (2008), Response of Indian crops to ozone phytotoxicity. Environment and Ecology, 26(2), 700-703
Usha Mina and Parimal Sinha (2008), Effect of climate change on plant pathogens. Environews Newsletter, 14 (4), 6-10.

Kulshrestha, U.C. and Mina, U., 2020. Special Issue on COVID-19: Environmental Changes. JNU ENVIS RP Newsletter 25 (1).
Kulshrestha, U.C. and Mina, U., 2020.Special Issue on Clean Water.JNU ENVIS RP Newsletter 25(2).
Kulshrestha, U.C. and Mina, U., 2021. Special Issue on Clean Energy. JNU ENVIS RP Newsletter 25(3)
Kulshrestha, U.C. and Mina, U., 2021. Special Issue on Sensitivity of Himalayan Environment. JNU ENVIS RP Newsletter 25(4)
Kulshrestha, U.C. and Mina, U., 2020. Clean Energy.JNU ENVIS RP Newsletter 25(3)
Kulshrestha, U.C. and Mina, U., 2020. Clean water.JNU ENVIS RP Newsletter 25(2)
Kulshrestha, U.C. and, Mina, U., 2020. COVID-19: Environmental Changes. JNU ENVIS RP Newsletter 25(1)

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