Amit Dhingra, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Genomics and Biotechnology
College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences
Dr. Amit Dhingra is an assistant professor of horticultural genomics and biotechnology at WSU. He earned his Ph.D. through the University of Delhi, India, and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, supported by a Rockefeller Foundation pre-doctoral fellowship. His post-doctoral training, initiated at Rutgers and completed at University of Florida, represents a confluence of disciplines within plant biology. Dr. Dhingra is widely published in top plant science journals in the areas of genomics, plastid transformation, photobiology, and photosynthesis engineering. Some of his work on green-light responses in plants is redefining the established paradigms in photobiology. He has also developed a novel biological and computational method in collaboration with a WSU colleague for targeted resequencing that is enabling biologists to conduct genomics research faster at lower cost. Some of his previous work on engineering photosynthesis holds great potential for increasing energy production in plants.
Research Focus:
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Tree fruit genomics and tissue culture
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Organelle genomics, gene expression and genome manipulation
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Photobiology and photosynthesis
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Undergraduate research and training
Professional Experience and Education
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WSU faculty member since 2006
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Post-doctoral research: Rutgers University, University of Central Florida and University of Florida
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Ph.D., Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India
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M.S., Botany, Agra University, India
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B.S., Botany, University of Delhi, India
Recent Publications
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B Sosinski, V Shulaev, A Dhingra, A Kalyanaraman, R Bumgarner, D Rokhsar, I Verde, R Velasco and A Abbott (2008) Rosaceous Genome Sequencing: Perspectivs and progress. In: Folta KM and Gardiner S (eds) Genetics and Genomics of Rosaceae. Springer, New York. In Press.
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MD Logacheva, TH Samigullin, A Dhingra & AA Penin (2008) Chloroplast genomics and phylogenetic analysis of Fagopyrum esculentum ssp ancestralis – a wild ancestor or cultivated buckwheat. BMC Plant Biology 8: 59.
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S Jian, P Soltis, M Gitzendanner, M Moore, R Li, T Hendry, Y Qiu, A Dhingra, C Bell & D Soltis (2008) Resolving an ancient, rapid radiation in Saxifragales. Systematic Biology 57: 28-57
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A Dhingra A, VA James, HU Koop, MC Mok, R De Paepe, M Gallo, KM Folta (2008). Tobacco - In: Kole C, Hall TC (eds) A Compendium of Transgenic Crop Plants. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK. In Press..
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A Dhingra, DH Bies, KR Lehner & KM Folta (2006) Green light adjusts the plastid transcriptome during early photomorphogenic development. Plant Physiology 142: 1256-1266.
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KM Folta & A Dhingra (2006) Transformation of strawberry: The basis for translational genomics in Rosaceae. In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology – Plant 42: 482-490.
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MJ Moore, A Dhingra, PS Soltis, R Shaw, WG Farmerie, KM Folta & DS Soltis (2006) Rapid and accurate pyrosequencing of angiosperm plastid genomes. BMC Plant Biology 6: 17.
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KM Folta, A Dhingra, L Howard, P Stewart & CK Chandler (2006) Characterization of LF9, an octaploid strawberry genetic line selected for rapid regeneration and transformation. Planta 224: 1058-1067.
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KM Folta, A Dhingra, SA Maruhnich, DH Bies & J Justice (2005) Terrestrial and space applications of LEDs in regulating plant growth and development. Proceedings of Light Emitting Diodes 2005 Conference, San Diego, CA, October 17-20, 2005.
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A Dhingra & KM Folta (2005) ASAP: Amplification, sequencing and annotation of plastomes. BMC Genomics 6: 176. (Highly accessed paper).
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A Dhingra & H Daniell (2005) Chloroplast transformation via organogenesis or somatic embryogenesis. Arabidopsis Protocols 2nd Ed – Methods in Molecular Biology 323: 251- 269.
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A Dhingra & H Daniell (2004) Engineering of herbicide resistance pathways via plastid genetic engineering. In: Daniell H and Chase CD (eds), Molecular Biology of Plant Organelles, pp 491-512. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
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A Dhingra, AR Portis Jr. & Henry Daniell (2004) Enhanced translation of a chloroplast expressed RbcS gene restores SSU levels and photosynthesis in nuclear antisense RbcS plants. Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, USA, 101:6315-6320.
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H Daniell, O Ruiz & A Dhingra (2004) Chloroplast transformation of higher plants. Methods in Molecular Biology 286:111-137.
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S Kumar, A Dhingra & H Daniell (2004) Plastid expressed betaine aldehyde dehydrogenase gene in carrot cultured cells, roots and leaves, confers enhanced salt tolerance. Plant Physiology, 136: 2843-2854.
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S Kumar, A Dhingra & H Daniell (2004) Stable transformation of the cotton plastid genome and maternal inheritance of transgenes. Plant Molecular Biology, 56: 203-216.
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A Dhingra, JP Khurana & AK Tyagi, (2004) Involvement of G-proteins and calmodulin in lightdependent control of the expression of (psbA, psaA and rbcL) in rice (Oryza sativa L.). Plant Science 166: 163-168.
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H Daniell & A Dhingra (2002). Multigene engineering: Dawn of an exciting new era in plant biotechnology. Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 13:136-141.
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AK Tyagi, JP Khurana, AK Sharma, A Mohanty, A Dhingra, S Raghuvanshi & T Gaur (2002). Mechanism of regulation of gene expression for chloroplast proteins. In: SK Sopory, R Oelmuller & SC Maheshwari (eds) Signal transduction in plants. Current advances, pp 297- 307. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York.
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H Daniell, A Dhingra & LA Allison (2002). Chloroplast Transformation: From Basic Molecular Biology to Biotechnology. Reviews in Plant Biotechnology and Biochemistry, 1: 1-20.
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