Profile
Ph.D. 2005. Plant Molecular Biology dept., Delhi University South Campus. Post-doctoral Fellow (scientist) 2005-2013 in Indian Initiative on Tomato Genome Research and Wheat Genome Research Scientist at NIPGR since April 2013 working on regulatory networks in heat stress
Current Focus Areas
The mandate of the lab is to elucidate the complex non-coding RNAs-mediated regulatory-networks during heat stress in tomato, a crop plant exhibiting high temperature sensitivity at various developmental stages. This would help better understand the evolution of thermotolerance response in tomato.
Selected Publications
1. Bansal, C., Kumar, A., Shrivastava, M. and Mathur, S., (2024). Functional diversification of miR172 isoforms in tomato under abiotic stress. Environmental and Experimental Botany, p.105696.
2. Rao S, Gupta A, Bansal C, Sorin C, Crespi M and Mathur S. (2022) A conserved HSF:miR169:NF-YA loop involved in tomato and Arabidopsis heat stress tolerance. The Plant Journal 112(1): 7-26.
3. Balyan S, Rao S, Jha S, Bansal C, Das JR and Mathur S (2020). Characterization of novel regulators for heat stress tolerance in tomato from Indian sub‐continent. Plant Biotechnology Journal 18(10), p. 2118.
4. Saloni Mathur, Shailendra Vyas, Amolkumar U. Solanke, Rahul Kumar, Vikrant Gupta, Arun K. Sharma, Paramjit Khurana, Jiten Khurana, Akhilesh Tyagi, (The Tomato Genome Consortium, the list of authors from UDSC) (2012). The tomato genome sequence provides insights into fleshy fruit evolution. Nature, 485(7400), 635-641.
5. Mathur S,Vyas S, Kapoor S, Tyagi AK (2011). The mediator complex in plants: structure, phylogeny and expression profiling of representative genes in a dicot (Arabidopsis) and a monocot (Rice) during reproduction and abiotic stress. Plant Physiology, 157(4), 1609-1627.