Assistant Professor
Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University
Research and Teaching

Assistant Professor (Stage-II)
Department of Botany
Publications
Research Projects
Ph.D. Scholars
Honours & Awards
A concise academic overview, expertise and current areas of scholarly interest.
Prashant singh serves as Assistant Professor (Stage-II) in the Department of Botany, contributing to teaching, research, student mentorship and academic initiatives.
Academic appointments, research roles, and administrative responsibilities.
Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University
Research and Teaching
University of Rajasthan, Jaipur
Research, Teaching and Admin.
Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
Research, Teaching and Admin.
Iowa State University, USA
Research, Teaching and Admin.
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Research and Teaching
University of California, Riverside, USA
Research
University of Essex, U.K
Research
Student Leadership and Life Skills Development Initiative Committee
Develop and motivate the students of Institute of Science professionally and organize programmes and activities that lead to nurture leadership and life skills.
AIC-MFIE-IM-BHU
Aakanksha, Institute of Science
Institute of Science, BHU in association with the NASI-Varanasi chapter
Institute of Science awareness and training programme for school students under "Azadi ka Amrut Mahotsav"
Talk and Interactive discussions with students
Institute Science Day organizing committee, BHU
Aaksnksha
Anti-Ragging Squad of Institute of Science
Research projects, funding agencies, roles and project timelines.
CCRAC
Ongoing Co-PI
7 Lakhs
2026-01-01 — 2028-01-01
DST-SERB
Ongoing PI
43 Lakhs
2023-01-01 — 2026-01-01
IoE Additional Support
Completed PI
8 lakhs
2024-01-01 — 2025-01-01
IoE Seed Grant BHU
Completed PI
16 Lakhs
2020-01-01 — 2023-01-01
UGC
Completed PI
6 Lakhs
2018-01-01 — 2021-01-01
Journal articles, conference papers, book chapters and other scholarly work.
Bandana Devi, Nidhi Yadav, Nandita Dubey, Prashant Singh
Ragini Dolhey, Kamalpreet Kaur, Mamta Bajiya , Surabhi , Prashant Puri , Bandana Devi , Nidhi Yadav , Deepika Goyal , Shiv Swaroop , Prashant Singh , Vipin Gupta , Janmejay Pandey
Nidhi Yadav, Bandana Devi, P. Thirunarayanan, Menka Tiwari and Prashant Singh
Nidhi Yadav, Bandana Devi, P. Thirunarayanan, Sanjeev Kumar, Chandan Upadhyay, Prashant Singh
Bandana Devi, Nidhi Yadav, P. Thirunarayanan and Prashant Singh
Bandana Devi, Nidhi Yadav, Menka Tiwari, Shweta Gupta, Bhumika Chhodvadiya and Prashant Singh
Menka Tiwari and Prashant Singh
Menka Tiwari, Bandana Devi, Shivangi Sinha, Nidhi Yadav and Prashant Singh
Menka Tiwari and Prashant Singh
Nidhi Yadav, Sunayana Bora, Bandana Devi, Chandan Upadhaay and Prashant Singh
Devi B, Yadav N and Singh P
Menka Tiwari & Prashant Singh
Rintu Jha, Menka Tiwari, Bandana Devi, Uday Chand Jha, Shailesh Tripathi & Prashant Singh
Bandana Devi, Menka Tiwari, Nidhi Yadav, Prashant Singh
Jha R., Yadav H.K., Jha U.C., Raiya R., Paul P.J., Tripathi S. and Singh P.
Prashant Singh
Uday C Jha, Harsh Nayyar, Rintu Jha, Prashant Singh, Girish Prasad Dixit, Yogesh Kumar, Biswajit Mondal, Avinash Kumar Srivastava, Eric J. B. von Wettberg, Pronob J. Paul, Ajaz A. Lone, Srinivasan Samineni, Sailesh K. Tripathi, and Kadambot H. M. Siddique
Tiwari M, Singh R, Jha R and Singh P
Jha R, Yadav HK, Raiya R, Singh RK, Jha UC, Sathee L, Singh P, Thudi M, Singh A, Chaturvedi SK and Tripathi S
Menka Tiwari ,Debasish Pati ,Reecha Mohapatra , Binod Bihari Sahu , Prashant Singh
Menka Tiwari and Prashant Singh
Kambakam S, Ngaki MN, Sahu BB, Kandel DR*, Singh P*, Sumit R*, Swaminathan S*, Rajesh MK, Bhattacharyya MK
Menka Tiwari & Prashant Singh
Sultan E, Dalei K, Singh P*, Sahu BB
Yekondi Shweta, Fu-Chun Liang1, Eiji Okuma, Amandine Radziejwoski, Hsien-Wei Mai, Prashant Singh, Mathieu Gauthier, Hsiao-Chiao Chien, Yoshiyuki Murata and Laurent Zimmerli
Srivastava Anjil, Orosa Beatriz, Singh Prashant, Walsh Charlotte, Zhang Cunjin, Grant Murray Grant, Roberts Michael,Srinivasan Ganesh and Sadanandom Ari
Binod B. Sahu, Jordan L. Baumbach, Prashant Singh, Subodh K. Srivastava, Xiaoping Yi, and Madan K. Bhattacharyya
Singh P, Dave A, Vaistij F, Worrall D, Holroyd G, Wells J, Graham IA, Roberts MR
Zhen Xu, Huawei Jiang, Binod Bihari Sahu, Sekhar Kambakam, Prashant Singh, Xinran Wang, Qiugu Wang, Madan K. Bhattacharyya, and Liang Dong
Singh, P. & Roberts, M. R.
Prashant Singh, Shweta Yekondi, Po-Wen Chen, Chia-Hong Tsai1, Chun-Wei Yu, Keqiang Wu, and Laurent Zimmerli
Prashant Singh and Laurent Zimmerli
Po-Wen Chen, Prashant Singh and Laurent Zimmerli
Ming Luo; Xuncheng Liu, Prashant Singh, Yuhai Cui, Laurent Zimmerli, K. Wu
Prashant Singh, Yi-Chun Kuo, Swati Mishra, Chia-Hong Tsai, Chih-Cheng Chien, Birgit Schulze, Thomas Boller and Laurent Zimmerli
Singh P, Chien CC, Mishra S, Tsai CH, Zimmerli L
Howard, Thomas; Fryer, Michael; Singh, Prashant; Metodiev, Metodi; Lytovchenko, Anna; Obata, Toshihiro; Fernie, Alisdair; Kruger, Nick; Quick, W; Lloyd, Julie; Raines, Christine
Chia-Hong Tsai, Prashant Singh, Ching-Wei Chen, Jerome Thomas, Johann Weber, Brigitte Mauch-Mani and Laurent Zimmerli
Chen-Chi Wu, Prashant Singh, Mao-Chuain Chen and Laurent Zimmerli
Prashant Singh, Chen-Chi Wu and Laurent Zimmerli
Singh, Prashant, Kaloudas, Dimitrios and Raines, CA
Scholars and research students guided by the faculty member.
Scholar: Menka Tiwari · Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University
Scholar: Shweta Yekondi · Institute of Plant Biology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Courses and academic offerings associated with this faculty profile.
No courses are currently listed.
Memberships in academic associations, professional societies and advisory councils.
Asian PGPR Society
Since 2025Mycological Society of India (MSI)
Since 2023Royal Society of Biology (RSB), London
Since 2023An International Journal of Life Sciences (IJLS)
Since 2021International Forum for Botanists (IFB) under the auspices of ISLS
Since 2021The Linnean Society of London
Since 2020BIRAC BHU-BIoNEST
Since 2020IBS
Since 2019Prime Minister Office (PMO), Govt. of India (GoI)
Since 2019ISCA
Since 2019Frontiers in Agronomy-Disease Management
Since 2019Frontier in Plant Science
Since 2016Frontier in Plant Science
Since 2016PLoS one
Since 2011Molecular Plant pathology
Since 2011Plant Pathology
Since 2009Journal of Plant science and Molecular breeding
Since 2009Frontiers in Plant Science
Since 2009Plant Molecular Biology Reporter
Since 2009SEB
Since 2007SEB
Since 2004Academic honours, distinctions, prizes and recognitions received by the faculty member.
Academic Recognition
Asian PGPR Society
Academic Recognition
New Phytologist Foundation
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Akhil Bhartiya Grahak Panchayat
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Indian Society of Mycology and Plant Pathology, MPUAT, Udaipur
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Iowa State University, USA
Academic Recognition
BBSRC, UK
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USDA, USA
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NSC, Taipei, Taiwan
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NSF, USA
Academic Recognition
BBSRC, UK
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The Company of Biologists, UK
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ORSAS, UK
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University of Essex, UK
Academic Recognition
Banaras Hindu Univesity (BHU), India
Notable academic, professional, research and institutional achievements.
No achievements are currently listed.
Banaras Hindu University
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