Profile
Dr. Prashant Pawar is an Assistant Professor with a robust academic background. He earned his PhD in 2015 from the Umea Plant Science Centre at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Umea, Sweden. Following his doctoral studies, Dr. Pawar pursued postdoctoral research at Purdue University in West Lafayette, USA. With expertise in plant science and agricultural research, Dr. Pawar contributes significantly to his field. As an Assistant Professor, he continues to make valuable contributions to research and education, mentoring students and advancing knowledge in his areas of expertise.
Current Focus Areas
Using Arabidopsis as a model system, we identify proteins involved, elucidate interactions between cell wall components, and tailor compositions for efficient degradation during biofuel production. These strategies are applied to manipulate biomass from crops like Poplar and Rice.
To identify the protein or protein-complexes involved in the plant cell wall biosynthesis. To elucidate the interactions between plant cell wall components. To tailor the plant cell wall composition making it amenable for degradation during biofuel production.
nravelling the plant cell wall biosynthesis and architecture for bioenergy applications Plant cell wall is an outermost layer of cell which has complex and dynamic structures, with central role in plant growth, development, physiology and defense.
Selected Publications
Dewangan BP, Gupta A, Sah RK, Das S, Kumar S, Bhattacharjee S, Pawar PM-A (2023). Xylobiose treatment triggers a defence-related response and alters cell wall composition. Special issue on Plant Cell Wall Dynamics in Plant Molecular Biology, 113 (6):383-400. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11103-023-01391-z.
Dutta H, Shivprasad KM, Aski MS, Mishra MS, Sinha SK, Vijay D, Prasad M, Das S, Pawar PM-A, Mishra DC, Singh AK, Kumar A, Tripathi K, Kumar RR, Gupta S, Kumar S, Dikshit HK. Morpho-biochemical characterization of a RIL population for seed parameters and identification of candidate genes regulating seed size trait in lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) (2022). Front Plant Sci 14: 1091432. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2023.1091432.
Thapliyal, Garima, Ramu S Vemanna, Prashant Mohan Pawar, Santan Barthwal, Rajendra K Meena, Shailesh Pandey, and Maneesh S Bhandari. 2020. First Record of Off-Season Flowering in Populus Deltoides from India: Paradigm of Climate Change Indicator. International Journal of Biometeorology 64 (9) 1629–34.https://doi.org/10.1007/s00484-020-01915-y.
Pawar, Prashant Mohan Anupama, Anna Schnürer, Ewa J. Mellerowicz, and Ann Christin Rönnberg-Wästljung. 2018. “QTL Mapping of Wood FT-IR Chemotypes Shows Promise for Improving Biofuel Potential in Short Rotation Coppice Willow (Salix Spp.).” Bioenergy Research 11 (2): 351–63. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12155-018-9901-8.
Ratke, Christine, Prashant Mohan Anupama Pawar, Vimal K. Balasubramanian, Marcel Naumann, Mathilda Lönnäs Duncranz, Marta Derba-Maceluch, András Gorzsás, Satoshi Endo, Ines Ezcurra, and Ewa J. Mellerowicz. 2015. “Populus GT43 Family Members Group into Distinct Sets Required for Primary and Secondary Wall Xylan Biosynthesis and Include Useful Promoters for Wood Modification.” Plant Biotechnology Journal 13 (1): 26–37.https://doi.org/10.1111/pbi.12232.