PROFILE



Department of Entomology


Dr. Meena Agnihotri


DESIGNATION: Professor
QUALIFICATION:Ph.D. Entomology (NET)
SPECIALISATION:Insect Taxonomy, Pulse Entomology
EMAIL:meenaagnihotri12[at]gmail[dot]com
CONTACT NO.:+91-9415150733

Research Areas/Areas of interest

  • Parasitoid Taxonomy, Pulse Entomology

  • Research Projects

  • AICRP on Chickpea (PI- Entomology)

  • Selected Research Publications

    1. Reddy, M.S.S., Agnihotri, M., Jaiswal, J.P., Subbanna, A.R.N.S., Karthik, S. 2022. Intra species diversity of Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in relation to geography and host plants affiliation in Uttarakhand Himalayan population, India. Phytoparasitica, , 50(2), pp. 359–373

    2. Reddy, M.S.S., Agnihotri, M., Divija, S.D., Belal, B., Karthik, S. 2022. Host plant resistance profiling of chickpea genotypes against Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner) through SEM and GC–MS studies. International Journal of Tropical Insect Science. 42(2), pp. 1627–1638.

    3. Sai Reddy, M.S., Agnihotri, M., Divija, S.D., Belal, B., Karthik, S. 2021.Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) based Metabolomics of Promising Chickpea Genotypes against Callosobruchus chinensis (L.). Legume Research. 44(11), pp. 1371–1378, LR-4648.

    4. Samraj, J.M., Agnihotri, M. 2021. Impact of land use pattern and seasonality on butterfly diversity in a sub-tropical Terai arc landscape (TAL), Pantnagar, Uttarakhand (India). Tropical Ecology. 62(2), pp. 301–310.

    5. Ahmad, M.A., Agnihotri, M., Khan, M.S., Kumar, R., Prakash, N. 2019. Biochemical basis of resistance in chickpea varieties against Callosobruchus chinensis Linn. (Coleoptera: Bruchidae).Legume Research. 42(2), pp. 282–286.

    Students Guided

    No. Of Students under advisement in 2022

  • UG: 04
  • PG: 02
  • Ph.D.: 03

  • Total no. of PG/ Ph.D students guided till date

  • PG: 13
  • Ph.D.: 05

  • Other Information

  • Monograph on Eulophidae
  • Documented Butterfly diversity from Tarai region of Uttarakhand
  • IPM module against H. armigera
  • Sequence data of Helicoverpa armigera partial mitochondrial genome (cyt b sequence) got published in NCBI portal (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) with GenBank Accession numbers MH555124- MH555145