Dilip Panthee

Associate Professor
455 Research Drive, Mills River, NC 28759
(828) 684-7503. dilip_panthee@ncsu.edu WebsiteEducation
PhD University of Tennessee, Knoxville 2005
M.Phil. University of Birmingham and Reading, UK 1997
B.Sc.Ag. Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science, Tribhuvan University, Nepal 1990
Area(s) of Expertise
Breeding and development of tomato lines and cultivars with broad adaptation, resistance to major diseases, high yield and fruit quality for fresh market using conventional and molecular approaches. Investigation of genetic control and inheritance of important traits to facilitate the selection process.
Publications
- Genome assembly and comparative analysis of Alternaria Linariae reveal novel genes associated with host colonization and virulence , BMC GENOMICS (2025)
- High‐Throughput Robotic Phenotyping for Quantifying Tomato Disease Severity Enabled by Synthetic Data and Domain‐Adaptive Semantic Segmentation , Journal of Field Robotics (2024)
- Multiple Foliar Fungal Disease Management in Tomatoes: A Comprehensive Approach , International Journal of Plant Biology (2024)
- Quantitative Trait Loci Mapping for Bacterial Wilt Resistance and Plant Height in Tomatoes , Plants (2024)
- Septoria Leaf Spot of Tomatoes: Historical Insights, Present Challenges, and Future Prospects , Horticulturae (2024)
- Application of Molecular Markers in Crop Improvement and Beyond , Agronomy (2023)
- Editorial: Identification, development and use of rootstocks to improve pest and disease resistance of vegetable crops , Frontiers in Plant Science (2023)
- Identification of quantitative trait loci associated with bacterial spot race T4 resistance in intra-specific populations of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) , PLOS ONE (2023)
- Improvements in the detection power of algorithms for analyzing next-generation sequencing based bulked segregant analysis data via estimating thresholds at the genomic region level , (2023)
- Molecular mapping of quantitative trait loci for resistance to early blight in tomatoes , Frontiers in Plant Science (2023)