Scientist Profile

Dr.K. Nithya

Dr.K. Nithya

Senior Scientist ,Division of Crop Protection
ICAR-SBI, Coimbatore- 641 007

  • Sugarcane viral and phytoplasma disease diagnosis, host plant -virus-vector- phytoplasma interactions, epidemiology and management

  • Indian Phytopathological Society (IPS)
  • Society for Sugarcane Research and Development (SSRD)
  • Society for Sugar Research and Promotion (SSRP)
  • Nithya K, Vishnu Vardhan J,  Balasaravanan S, Kaverinathan K, Visalatchi D, and Viswanathan R (2023).  First report of maize yellow mosaic virus (MaYMV) infecting maize in India. Indian Phytopathology  https://doi.org/10.1007/s42360-023-00603-2  
  • Nithya K, Raja Muthuramalingam T, Parameswari B, and  Viswanathan R (2022).  Micro structuring and host tissue patterning of sugarcane grassy shoot phytoplasma through scanning electron microscopy,   Indian Phytopathology  https://doi.org/10.1007/s42360-022-00591-9
  • Nithya K, Vishnu Vardhan J,  Balasaravanan S, Kaverinathan K, and Viswanathan R (2022).   Natural infection of Ca. Phytoplasma sacchari causing sugarcane grassy shoot disease in Sorghum bicolor. Vegetos  https://doi.org/10.1007/s42535-022-00560-7
  • Raja Muthuramalingam T, Nithya K, Parameswari B, and Viswanathan R (2022). Ultrasensitive nano‑gold labelled, duplex lateral flow immunochromatographic assay for early detection of sugarcane mosaic viruses, Scientific Reports 12:4144 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-07950-6
  • Janiga PK, Nithya K,  and Viswanathan R (2022).  Dynamics of Genetic Diversity Among Indian Sugarcane Bacilliform Virus Species and Implications of Associated Recombination Events in the Virus, Sugar Tech  https://doi.org/10.1007/s12355-022-01224-1
  • Sanju Balan, Nithya K, Anita Cherian K, and Viswanathan R (2022). True Seed Transmission of Sugarcane bacilliform virus (SCBV) in Sugarcane, Sugar Tech 24(2):513-521, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12355-021-01031-0
  • Nithya K,  VishnuVardhan J, Balasaravanan S, Vishalakshi D,  Kaverinathan  K, and  Viswanathan R (2021). First report of Maize yellow mosaic virus (MaYMV) infecting sugarcane in India and its molecular characterization, Australasian Plant Pathology 50: 633- 638 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13313-021-00809-w
  • Parameswari B, Nithya K, Shubham Kumar,  Somnath K. Holkar,  Chabbra M. L., Praveen Kumar,  and Viswanathan R (2021). Genome wide association studies in sugarcane host pathogen system for disease resistance: an update on the current status of research, Indian Phytopathology  https://doi.org/10.1007/s42360-021-00323-5
  • Holkar SK, Parameswari B, Kumar A, Nithya K, Shingote PR, Chhabra ML, Kumar S, Kumar P, Viswanathan R, Jain RK, and Pathak AD (2020). Present status and future management strategies for sugarcane yellow leaf virus: A major constraint to the global sugarcane production: An overview,  Plant Pathology Journal 36(6):1-22

https://doi.org/10.5423/PPJ.RW.09.2020.0183 PMID: 33312090; PMCID: PMC7721539

  • Nithya K, Parameswari B, Bertaccini A, Rao GP, and Viswanathan R. (2020). Grassy shoot: the destructive disease of sugarcane, Phytopathogenic Mollicutes 10 (1): 10-24, doi.5958/2249-4677.2020.00002.X
  • Nithya K, Parameswari B, and Viswanathan R. (2020). Mixed infection of Sugarcane Yellow Leaf Virus and Grassy Shoot Phytoplasma in yellow leaf affected Indian sugarcane cultivars Plant Pathology Journal 36(4) : 364-377, https://doi:10.5423/PPJ.OA.06.2020.0092 PMID: 32788895; PMCID: PMC7403522