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Dr. Nithya N. Kutty has completed her doctoral study at IIT Kharagpur. Her doctoral study focused on the dynamics of scent volatiles synthesis, storage, and emission in tuberose flowers, a widely cultivated ornamental plant in Asian countries. During her doctoral study, she has also carried out collaborative research on metabolite profiling from plant endophytes, hairy roots of carrots, and the effect of gamma rays on floral volatiles. She has also presented her research work at several national and international conferences. She pursued her post-graduation (M Tech) in Agricultural biotechnology from IIT Kharagpur and completed her graduation (B Tech Biotechnology) from JNTU Hyderabad. Her research area of interest includes plant-specialized metabolism, plant-microbe interactions, plant volatiles, and metabolomics. Before joining MIT-WPU, she was previously associated with the School of Agricultural Sciences, Sharda University, Greater Noida

Research Areas

Plant-specialized metabolism, plant-microbe interactions, plant volatiles, and metabolomics

Publications

Upashana Ghissing, Nithya N Kutty, Bimolata W., Samanta T., & Mitra A. (2022). Comparative transcriptome analysis reveals an insight into the candidate genes involved in anthocyanin and scent volatiles biosynthesis in colour changing flowers of Combretum indicum. Plant Biology, 25: 85-95.

Nithya N. Kutty, Upashana Ghissing, and Adinpunya Mitra (2021) Revealing floral metabolite network in tuberose that underpins scent volatiles synthesis, storage and emission. Plant Molecular Biology, 106: 533-554.

Nithya N Kutty, Upashana Ghissing, Mukund Kumar, Mirnal Kumar Maiti, and Adinpunya Mitra. (2020) Intense floral scent emission in Polianthes tuberosa L. (tuberose) variants sprouted from γ-irradiated tubers. Journal of Plant Growth Regulation, 39: 112–121.

Nithya N Kutty and Adinpunya Mitra. (2019) Profiling of volatile and non-volatile metabolites in Polianthes tuberosa L. flowers reveals intraspecific variation among cultivars. Phytochemistry, 162: 10-20.

Abhirup Mookherjee, Ramalingam Dineshkumar, Nithya N. Kutty, Tarun Agarwal, Ramkrishna Sen, Adinpunya Mitra, Tapas Kumar Maiti, and Mrinal Kumar Maiti (2018) Quorum sensing inhibitory activity of the metabolome from endophytic Kwoniella sp. PY016: characterization and hybrid model-based optimization. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 102:7389-7406.

Abhirup Mookherjee, Mohor Mitra, Nithya N. Kutty, Adinpunya Mitra, and Mrinal Kumar Maiti. (2020) Characterization of endo-metabolome exhibiting antimicrobial and antioxidant activities from endophytic fungus Cercospora sp. PM018. South African Journal of Botany, 134: 264-272."

Google Scholar link : https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KFtqHjwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

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ORCID link :https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2529-8080

Research Grants :DST Young Scientist and Technologist