Dr. Sujoy Saha

• Screened rice varieties against sheath blight, blast, bacterial leaf blight and sheath rot diseases and potato germ plasm against late blight disease to identify resistant donors.
• Bioefficacy and safety assessment of new fungicides, against vegetable diseases.
• Identification of components like alternative chemicals of antibiotics, use of salicylic acid as pre-, co- and post-inoculation with bacterial pathogens of vegetables and antagonistic phylloplane bacteria to be incorporated in the package of practices of vegetables to thwart the attack of bacterial pathogens.
• Developing talc based formulations of isolated and identified PGPRs like Bacillus subtilis and B. amyloliquefaciens for the management of wilt of tomato and leaf spot of cowpea.
• Identification of novel source of resistance in chilli germplasm against anthracnose disease as well as to demarcate the variation of virulence of pathogen based on symptom variability.
• Identification of Alternaria spp infecting tomato and cauliflower in Uttar Pradesh region using RAPD markers.
• Identification and characterization of Xanthomonas campestris pv. viticola causing bacterial leaf spot of grapes.

• Ph.D.- 04 (ongoing)

Best paper award:

• Sujoy Saha, M. Loganathan, Atul Kumar Pandey and A. B. Rai(2014) Role of a new fungicide Zoxamide 33%+Cymoxanil 33% WP in the management of early blight of tomato and its compatibility with Trichoderma sp In: National seminar on Climate Change and Environmental Threat to Public health & Sustainable Agriculture, 30-31st August, Sunbeam College for Women , Varanasi-221005, U.P.
• S.Saha, A.Varma and R.K.Jain (1997) Biological and N-terminal Serological properties of a strain of Henbane Mosaic virus causing mosaic disease of Datura metel Linn. at the 9th Annual Congress of the Post Graduate Institute of Agriculture University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka ; 20th – 21st November, 1997.

Best oral presentation:

• Sujoy Saha, R G Somkuwar, A K Upadhyay, D S Yadav, K Roy and R Das. 2023. Introduction and adaptation of prime table and juice varieties of grapes in Bankura, West Bengal: A success story. 10th Annual Convention and National Seminar on Next-gen Management of Agro-chemicals for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals. 24th March. Society for Fertilizers and Environment. Kolkata. Pg.no.84. (First Prize)
• Yogita Ranade, Sujoy Saha, Pranav Pathak and Madhura Chandrashekar. 2023. Biodegradation of pyrethroid insecticide in different matrices by Bacillus species isolated from Thompson Seedless grape berry. 10th Annual Convention and National Seminar on Next-gen Management of Agro-chemicals for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals. 24th March. Society for Fertilizers and Environment. Kolkata. Pg.no. 67. (Second Prize)

Best poster award:

• M. Loganathan, V. Venkataravanappa, S. Saha, S. Tripathi, M. K. Verma and A. B. Rai(2014) Molecular pathogenic variability of Fusarium species infecting tomato and chilli. In: National Conference on Pre-/Post-harvest Losses & Value Addition in Vegetables, 12-13th July, 2014, IIVR, Varanasi-221305
• Sawant SD, Ghule MR, Savardekar RM, Sawant IS, Saha S.(2016) Effective use of potassium salts of phosphorus (96%) in the control of fungicide resistant Plasmopara viticola causing downy mildew in grapes. In:6th International Conference on “Plant, Pathogens and People” organized by the Indian Phytopathological Society, New Delhi from 23.02.2016 26.02.2016 at New Delhi, India.
• Ratna Thosar, Dimpi Das, Vijayshree Chavan and Sujoy Saha. (2022). In vitro and field analysis of compatability of biocontrol agents with metrafenone 50% SC in controlling the powdery mildew of grapevine. National Symposium on Novel strategies in Plant Stress Diagnosis and Management. May 6-7, 2022. Himalayan Phytopathological Society and Dr. YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni, Solan (HP). P-119. Pg no- 116. (Fourth Prize).
• IARI Merit Medal for outstanding research in MSc, 1996
• IARI Senior Fellowship, 1996
• IARI Junior Fellowship, 1994
• ICAR Junior Fellowship in Plant Pathology, 1994

Recognized as a guide for Ph.D. and M. Phil by,

• University of Horticultural Sciences, Bagalkot, Karnataka