Council of Scientific and Industrial Research

Taruna Madan Gupta

Yogendra Singh

Puranam Usha Sarma

Anupam Varma

Preetida Jagdish Bhetariya

Savneet Kaur

Steffen Thiel

Three important species ofandare known to contribute to the pathogenicity of allergic and invasive diseases in humans. They are also known to be plant pathogens. Several important ESTs/genes ofspecies are now identified and characterized. Efforts are still needed to explore 30% genes ofspecies for their valuable products which need to be explored. Polyketide biosynthetic pathway inspecies produce important secondary metabolites like polyketide toxins such as Aflatoxins, drugs such as Lovastatins and several other important pharmaceutically important polyketide compounds etc. With the availability ofgenome sequences it is possible today to characterize the structure and function of important genes ofspecies. Based on the gene sequence information on PKS enzymes in medically and agriculturally importantspecies such asandsequences of diagnostic use are identified and a multiplex PCR assay is developed using clinical and agricultural samples.

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Taruna Madan Gupta