Rishi Bhandari

Interaction between climatic variation and pathogen diversity shape endemic disease dynamics in the agricultural settings

This study shows how pathogen genetic diversity and climatic variation interact to influence disease outbreaks in agricultural settings using high-resolution sequencing and analysis.

Recently emerged and diverse lineages of Xanthomonas perforans have independently evolved through plasmid acquisition and homologous recombination originating from multiple Xanthomonas species

This study identifies two novel genetic groups of Xanthomonas perforans in Alabama, each with distinct effector proteins associated with host range expansion and pathogenicity.