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  1. Significant Effects Due to Peptone in Kelman Medium on Colony Characteristics and Virulence of Ralstonia solanacearum in Tomato

    Article • The Open Microbiology Journal, October 2014, Bentham Science Publishers

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  2. Vulnerability of Bacillus spores and of related genera to physical impaction injury with particular reference to spread-plating

    Article • Journal of Applied Microbiology, August 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

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  3. Live cell imaging reveals extensive intracellular cytoplasmic colonization of banana by normally non-cultivable endophytic bacteria

    Article • AoB Plants, January 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

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  4. Physical impaction injury effects on bacterial cells during spread plating influenced by cell characteristics of the organisms

    Article • Journal of Applied Microbiology, January 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

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  5. Microscopic elucidation of abundant endophytic bacteria colonizing the cell wall-plasma membrane peri-space in the shoot-tip tissue of banana

    Article • AoB Plants, February 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

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  6. Alcohol-Mediated Horizontal Spread of Bacillus Spores and Assessing the Recurrent Sterilization Needs of Culture-Handling Tools Contaminated with Hardy Spores

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences India Section B Biological Sciences, November 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

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  7. Improved Recovery of Bacillus Spores from Nonporous Surfaces with Cotton Swabs over Foam, Nylon, or Polyester, and the Role of Hydrophilicity of Cotton in Governing the Recovery Efficiency

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, October 2012, ASM Journals

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  8. Nonrecovery of varying proportions of viable bacteria during spread plating governed by the extent of spreader usage and proposal for an alternate spotting-spreading approach to maximize the CFU

    Article • Journal of Applied Microbiology, May 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

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  9. Long-Term Survival of Bacillus Spores in Alcohol and Identification of 90% Ethanol as Relatively More Spori/Bactericidal

    Article • Current Microbiology, November 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

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  10. Intense association of non-culturable endophytic bacteria with antibiotic-cleansed in vitro watermelon and their activation in degenerating cultures

    Article • Plant Cell Reports, October 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

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  11. Soft rot inciting Pectobacterium carotovorum (syn. Erwinia carotovora) is unlikely to be transmitted as a latent pathogen in micropropagated banana

    Article • Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC), December 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

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  12. Inconspicuous endophytic bacteria mimicking latex exudates in shoot-tip cultures of papaya

    Article • Scientia Horticulturae, May 2010, Elsevier

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  13. Endophytic Bacteria Associated with Growing Shoot Tips of Banana (Musa sp.) cv. Grand Naine and the Affinity of Endophytes to the Host

    Article • Microbial Ecology, July 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

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  14. Identification of culturable and originally non-culturable endophytic bacteria isolated from shoot tip cultures of banana cv. Grand Naine

    Article • Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC), February 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

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  15. Ubiquitous presence of normally non-culturable endophytic bacteria in field shoot-tips of banana and their gradual activation to quiescent cultivable form in tissue cultures

    Article • Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC), February 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

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  16. Influence of cytokinin levels on in vitro propagation of shy suckering chrysanthemum “Arka Swarna” and activation of endophytic bacteria

    Article • In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Plant, August 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

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  17. Ubiquitous presence of fastidious endophytic bacteria in field shoots and index-negative apparently clean shoot-tip cultures of papaya

    Article • Plant Cell Reports, May 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

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  18. Papaya shoot tip associated endophytic bacteria isolated from in vitro cultures and host–endophyte interaction in vitro and in vivo

    Article • Canadian Journal of Microbiology, March 2007, Canadian Science Publishing

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  19. Reemergence of covert bacteria Bacillus pumilus and Brevibacillus sp. in microbe-freed grape and watermelon stocks attributable to occasional autoclaving-defying residual spores from previous cycles

    Article • Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC), October 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

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  20. Isolation of an ethanol-tolerant endospore-forming Gram-negative Brevibacillus sp. as a covert contaminant in grape tissue cultures

    Article • Journal of Applied Microbiology, October 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

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  21. Cleansing the long-term micropropagated triploid watermelon cultures from covert bacteria and field testing the plants for clonal fidelity and fertility during the 7–10 year period in vitro

    Article • Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC), April 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

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  22. Comparison of gene expression under in vitro and ex vitro conditions during rooting of grape cuttings through mRNA differential display

    Article • Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC), January 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

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  23. Sanitizing long-term micropropagated grapes from covert and endophytic bacteria and preliminary field testing of plants after 8 years in vitro

    Article • In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Plant, November 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

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  24. Isolation of Bacillus pumilus from in vitro grapes as a long-term alcohol-surviving and rhizogenesis inducing covert endophyte

    Article • Journal of Applied Microbiology, July 2004, Oxford University Press (OUP)

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  25. In vitro Decline in Plant Cultures: Detection of a Legion of Covert Bacteria as the Cause for Degeneration of Long-term Micropropagated Triploid Watermelon Cultures

    Article • Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC), May 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

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  26. Roles of leaf in regulation of root and shoot growth from single node softwood cuttings of grape (Vitis vinifera)

    Article • Annals of Applied Biology, February 2004, Wiley

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  27. Molecular identification of proline‐rich protein genes induced during root formation in grape (Vitis vinifera L.) stem cuttings

    Article • Plant Cell & Environment, August 2003, Wiley

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  28. Cloning and characterization of an actin depolymerizing factor gene from grape (Vitis vinifera L.) expressed during rooting in stem cuttings

    Article • Plant Science, February 2002, Elsevier

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  29. Effects of photo-oxidative loss of FeNa2EDTA and of higher iron supply on chlorophyll content, growth and propagation rate in triploid watermelon cultures

    Article • In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Plant, November 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

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  30. Micropropagation of pointed gourd (Trichosanthes dioica Roxb.)

    Article • Scientia Horticulturae, February 1999, Elsevier

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  31. Humid incubation period and plantlet age influence acclimatization and establishment of micropropagated grapes

    Article • In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Plant, January 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

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  32. Contribution of leaf lamina of grape nodal microcuttings to rooting, root vigour and plantlet growth in vitro

    Article • Journal of Plant Physiology, January 1998, Elsevier

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  33. Relationship between cell growth and viral antigen content of cultures of Nicotiana tabacum inoculated with tobacco mosaic virus

    Article • Journal of Experimental Botany, January 1994, Oxford University Press (OUP)

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  34. The use of plant cell cultures for studying virus resistance, and enhancing the production of virus-resistant and virus-free plants

    Article • Journal of Biotechnology, February 1992, Elsevier

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