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
- 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)
- Development of codominant SCAR markers to detect the Pto , Tm2 2 , I3 and Sw5 genes in tomato ( Solanum lycopersicum ) , Plant Breeding (2021)
- Evaluation of tomato breeding lines for Bacterial speck resistance , HortScience (2021)
- Identification of potential rootstocks for tomato grafting from bacterial wilt screening trials in North Carolina , Acta Horticulturae (2021)