Dr. Mithila Jugulam

Professor

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Her research also focuses on the effect of climate change factors on herbicide efficacy, consequently weed management. She is an award-winning professor with the responsibility to teach graduate and undergraduate courses related to herbicide physiology, molecular biology and molecular cytogenetics at KSU. She has published about 90 peer-reviewed international journal articles. She also edited a book “Biology, Physiology and Molecular Biology of Weeds.” She serves as an Associate Editor of Pest Management Science.

Aarthy T Selvam

Research Associate
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Aarthy received her Bachelor’s in Biotechnology in Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, India and pursued her Ph.D. degree in Biological Sciences from CSIR- National Chemical Laboratory, India, where her focus area was on stable isotope labeling and histochemical approach for studying medicinal natural product biosynthesis and its localization in plants. Before joining Dr. Jugulam’s lab, Aarthy worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Oklahoma. She joined Dr. Jugulam’s lab in July 2021. Currently, she is working on the characterization of physiological and molecular mechanisms of herbicide resistance in crops.

Yai Kumam

Fellow Post-Doc

Yaiphabi Kumam has done her BSc in Agriculture from Assam Agricultural University, India and her Master’s and PhD in Plant Biotechnology from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, India. Her research area in PhD was focused on development of virus resistant rice lines using CRISPR/Ca9 and base editing mediated genome editing tools. Currently, she is working on standardisation of tissue culture protocol for weed species and weed cytology, with plans to implement genome editing tools in weed science.

Ednaldo Borgato

PhD Student

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Ednaldo received his B.S. in Agronomy (2013) and M.S. in Agronomy (Weed Science) (2018) from the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. He worked as undergraduate research assistant in the weed science program at USP and started to develop his strong interest for this discipline. He joined Kansas State University in the summer of 2018 for his PhD in Weed Science under Dr. Jugulam and Dr. Dille. His research is focused on investigating target and non-target site resistance mechanisms on Palmer amaranth, aspects of herbicide-interactions and management strategies for cropping systems in Kansas.

Susee Sudhakar

PhD Student
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Susee has completed her B.Sc. in Biochemistry and biotechnology at Avinashilingam University, India and her M.Sc. in Biotechnology at Bharathiar University, India. She Joined Dr. Jugulam’s lab as a graduate research assistant in the spring of 2021. Her Ph.D work is focused on evaluating a diverse collection of wheat germplasm including wild relatives and EMS mutant lines for tolerance to herbicides that can be used for postemergence weed control in wheat.

Manogna Adari

MS Student

Manogna Devi Adari received her bachelor’s degree from Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University (ANGRAU), India. She joined Dr. Jugulam’s Lab as a graduate research assistant in spring 2022. Her master’s work is focused on screening of the EMS mutant lines of grain sorghum for tolerance to herbicides. She is also interested in conducting temperature stress studies on herbicide efficacy in grain sorghum.