Dilip Panthee
Associate Professor
455 Research Drive, Mills River, NC 28759
Education
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
- Application of Molecular Markers in Crop Improvement and Beyond , AGRONOMY-BASEL (2023)
- Molecular mapping of quantitative trait loci for resistance to early blight in tomatoes , FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE (2023)
- Variable Yield Responses among Grafted and Nongrafted Late blight-resistant Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) Hybrids in North Carolina , HORTSCIENCE (2023)
- Coordinated transcriptional regulation of the carotenoid biosynthesis contributes to fruit lycopene content in high-lycopene tomato genotypes , Horticulture Research (2022)
- Four bottlenecks restrict colonization and invasion by the pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum in resistant tomato (vol 71, pg 2157, 2020) , JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY (2022)
- Genomic Tools for Improving Tomato to Biotic Stress Resistance , Genomic Designing for Biotic Stress Resistant Vegetable Crops (2022)
- RNA-Seq analysis of tomato genotypes resistant to Bacterial spot (Xanthomonas perforans) race T4 , International Horticulture Congress (2022)
- Screening of tomato lines for late blight resistance , HortScience (2022)
- Tomato -Vegetable cultivar descriptions for North America, List 28 , HortScience (2022)
- ‘Mountain Bebe’: Hybrid Grape Tomato and Its Parents NC 7 Grape and NC 8 Grape , HortScience (2022)