Amrita Banerjee

Amrita Banerjee is a Scientist in Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) since 2010. Her scientific accomplishments include; new records of plant virus diseases from north-east (NE) India, exploration of molecular characteristics, diversity and evolution of virus and virus like pathogens, generating GenBank database for plant pathogens, and developing rapid, sensitive, low-cost diagnostic protocols for various plant pathogens. She currently works at the Central Rainfed Upland Rice Research Station, ICAR-National Rice Research Institute, Hazaribag, Jharkhand, India. Presently, she is focusing on pathogen evolution, host-pathogen interactions and resistance breeding for major rice diseases like blast, brown spot and false smut.