Publications

• Joshi T, Deepa PR, Joshi M, Sharma PK (2023) Matters of the desert: A perspective on achieving food and nutrition security through plants of the (semi) arid regions. Journal of Agriculture and Food Research 14:100725
• Joshi T, Sehgal H, Mandal SK, Joshi M, Deepa PR, Sharma PK (2023) Nutraceutical and flavor profiles in underutilized desert legumes of India: Gene editing strategies towards sustainable food development. Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology  https://doi.org/10.1007/s13562-023-00836-2 (Special issue: Genome Editing – A precision breeding tool for sustainable food, nutrition and environmental sustainability)
• Sehgal H, Joshi M* (2022) The journey and new breakthroughs of plant growth regulators in tissue culture. In: Advances in Plant Tissue Culture - Current Developments and Future Trends (pp. 85 – 108). Elsevier Inc.
• Sharma R, Joshi M (2022) Vulnerability and Resilience of Sorghum to Changing Climatic Conditions: Lessons from the Past and Hope for the Future. In: Plant Stress: Challenges and Management in the New Decade (pp. 169 - 181). Springer, Cham.
• Joshi M, Schmilovitch Z, Ginzberg I (2021) Pomegranate fruit growth and skin characteristics in hot and dry climate. Frontiers in Plant Science 12:725479
• Joshi M, Ginzberg I (2021) Adventitious root formation in crops—Potato as an example. Physiologia Plantarum 172:124–133
• Joshi M, Baghel RS, Fogelman E, Stern RA, Ginzberg I (2018) Identification of candidate genes mediating apple fruit cracking resistance following the application of gibberellic acids 4 + 7 and the cytokinin 6-benzyladenine. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 127:436–445
• Joshi M, Fogelman E, Belausov E, Ginzberg I (2016) Potato root system development and factors that determine its architecture. Journal of Plant Physiology 205:113–123
• Patel MK, Joshi M, Mishra A, Jha B (2015) Ectopic expression of SbNHX1 gene in transgenic castor (Ricinus communis L.) enhances salt stress by modulating physiological process. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture 122:477–490
• Joshi M, Jha A, Mishra A, Jha B (2013) Developing transgenic Jatropha using the SbNHX1 gene from an extreme halophyte for cultivation in saline wasteland. PLoS ONE 8(12): e71136.DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0071136 (Correction in authorship sequence is available in html version)
• Mishra A, Joshi M, Jha B (2013) Oligosaccharide mass profiling of nutritionally important Salicornia brachiata, an extreme halophyte. Carbohydrate Polymers 92:1942-1945
• Joshi M, Mishra A, Jha B (2012) NaCl plays a key role for in vitro micropropagation of Salicornia brachiata, an extreme halophyte. Industrial Crops and Products 35:313–316
• Joshi M, Mishra A, Jha B (2011) Efficient genetic transformation of Jatropha curcas L. by microprojectile bombardment using embryo axes. Industrial Crops and Products 33:67–77
• Jha A, Joshi M, Yadav NS, Agarwal PK, Jha B (2011) Cloning and characterization of the Salicornia brachiata Na⁺/H⁺ antiporter gene SbNHX1 and its expression by abiotic stress. Molecular Biology Reports 38:1965–1973
• Singh N, Mishra A, Joshi M, Jha B (2010) Microprojectile bombardment mediated genetic transformation of embryo axes and plant regeneration in cumin (Cuminum cyminum L.). Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture 103:1–6

Seminar/ Conference/ Symposium/ Meeting/ Workshop

• Joshi M, Sehgal H, Agarwal M (2023) Physiological responses under heat stress and exploring HSPs from a thermotolerant plant Prosopis cineraria by genome-wide transcriptomic studies. In: International Conference on Food and Nutritional Security (iFANS-2023), organized by National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institution, Mohali (India), January 6 – 9, 2023.
• Joshi M (2022) Exploring known and novel HSPs in a thermotolerant plant Prosopis cineraria by genome-wide transcriptomic studies and enhanced heat stress tolerance in rice. In: Newton-Bhabha Fund Researcher Link Workshop, organized by National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institution, Mohali (India) and University of Birmingham (UK), January 18 – 21, 2022.
• Chair: Research Scholar’s Session, Kosambi International Webinar Series on Plant Genomics. July 31-August 1, 2021, Department of Botany, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune.
• Joshi M, Ginzberg I (2020) Root system development in potato and factors that determine its architecture. In: Bio@BITS-2020 Inter-Campus Webinar organized by the Department of Biological Sciences, BITS, Pilani Campus, Rajasthan. July 16-18, 2020.
• Joshi M, Singh MP, Agarwal M (2019) Physiological and biochemical studies for heat stress tolerance in Prosopis cineraria and genome-wide discovery of HSPs and HSFs. In: Regional Young Investigators’ Meeting, organized by IndiaBioscience. August 6-7, 2019, National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi. p. 15.
• Ginzberg I, Stern RA, Joshi M, Fogelman E (2017) Strengthening apple fruit resistance to skin cracking by application of plant growth regulators. In: XIII International Symposium on Plant Bioregulators in Fruit Production, organized by International Society for Horticultural Science. August 27-31, 2017, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan.
• Joshi M, Jha A, Mishra A, Jha B (2015) Enhanced salt tolerance in transgenic Jatropha curcas using the SbNHX1 gene cloned from an extreme halophyte Salicornia brachiata. In: Esra Galun Memorial Symposium jointly with the Annual Meeting of the Israeli Society of Plant Sciences, organized by the Israeli Society of Plant Sciences and Weizmann Institute of Science. February 24, 2015, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. p. 61.
• Attended Joint Israel Science Foundation (ISF) – National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Workshop: “The Biology of Crop resistance to Stress” organized by Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv and China Agricultural University, Beijing. November 24-26, 2014, Tel Aviv University and Volcani Center, Israel.
• Patel M, Joshi M, Mishra A, Jha B (2014) Overexpression of the SbNHX1 gene confers salt tolerance in transgenic castor (Ricinus communis L.). In: National conference on “Science of OMICS for agricultural productivity: Future perspectives”, organized by Society for Plant Biochemistry & Biotechnology, New Delhi. March 4-6, 2014, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar, India. p. 100.
• Joshi M, Mishra A, Jha B (2010) Efficient microprojectile bombardment mediated genetic transformation using embryo axes in Jatropha curcas L.: An important biofuel plant. In: National Conference of Plant Physiology on “Physiological and Molecular Approaches for Crop Improvement under Changing Environment”, organized by Indian Society of Plant Physiology. November 25-27, 2010, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. p. 285.