Pandit Sagar
Assistant Professor
Biology
The Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research
India
Biography
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, IISER, Pune.
Research Interest
Chemical and molecular ecology of multitrophic interactions involving plant, herbivore and its natural enemies
Publications
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Kumar P$, Pandit SS$, Steppuhn A, Baldwin IT (2014) Natural history-driven, plant-mediated RNAi-based study reveals CYP6B46’s role in a nicotine-mediated antipredator herbivore defense. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 111(4): 1245-1252.
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Kumar P, Rathi P, Schoettner M, Baldwin IT and (2014) Differences in nicotine metabolism of two herbivores render them differentially susceptible to a common native predator, PLOS ONE 9(4): e95982.
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Poreddy S, Mitra S, Schöttner M, Chandran JN, Schneider B, Baldwin IT, Kumar P, (2015) Detoxification of hostplant’s chemical defense rather than its anti-predator co-option drives ß-glucosidase-mediated lepidopteran counter-adaptation. Nat Commun, 6: 8525.
