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Akanksha Sehgal
Researcher at Mississippi State University
Publications - 23
Citations - 886
Akanksha Sehgal is an academic researcher from Mississippi State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biology & Sowing. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 17 publications receiving 453 citations. Previous affiliations of Akanksha Sehgal include Panjab University, Chandigarh.
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Drought or/and heat-stress effects on seed filling in food crops: Impacts on functional biochemistry, seed yields, and nutritional quality
Akanksha Sehgal,Kumari Sita,Kadambot H. M. Siddique,Rakesh Kumar,Sailaja Bhogireddy,Rajeev K. Varshney,Bindumadhava HanumanthaRao,Ramakrishnan M. Nair,P. V. Vara Prasad,Harsh Nayyar +9 more
TL;DR: Findings in various food crops are highlighted, showing how their seed composition is drastically impacted at various cellular levels due to drought and heat stresses, applied separately, or in combination.
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Effects of Drought, Heat and Their Interaction on the Growth, Yield and Photosynthetic Function of Lentil (Lens culinaris Medikus) Genotypes Varying in Heat and Drought Sensitivity.
Akanksha Sehgal,Kumari Sita,Jitendra Kumar,Shiv Kumar,Sarvjeet Singh,Kadambot H. M. Siddique,Harsh Nayyar +6 more
TL;DR: Drought stress inhibited the biochemical processes of seed filling more than heat stress, and the combined stress had a highly detrimental effect; a partial cross tolerance was noticed in drought and heat-tolerant lentil genotypes against the two stresses.
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Food Legumes and Rising Temperatures: Effects, Adaptive Functional Mechanisms Specific to Reproductive Growth Stage and Strategies to Improve Heat Tolerance
Kumari Sita,Akanksha Sehgal,Bindumadhava HanumanthaRao,Ramakrishnan M. Nair,P. V. Vara Prasad,Shiv Kumar,Pooran M. Gaur,Muhammad Farooq,Kadambot H. M. Siddique,Rajeev K. Varshney,Rajeev K. Varshney,Harsh Nayyar +11 more
TL;DR: Through various breeding techniques, heat tolerance in major legumes can be enhanced to improve performance in the field and unravel different mechanisms underlying thermotolerance, which is imperative to understand the processes of molecular responses toward high-temperature stress.
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Identification of High-Temperature Tolerant Lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) Genotypes through Leaf and Pollen Traits.
Kumari Sita,Akanksha Sehgal,Jitendra Kumar,Shiv Kumar,Sarvjeet Singh,Kadambot H. M. Siddique,Harsh Nayyar +6 more
TL;DR: Control environment studies on contrasting genotypes supported the impact of heat stress and differentiated the response of HT and HS genotypes to varying temperatures and indicated that temperatures >35/25°C were highly detrimental for growth and yield in lentil.
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Influence of drought and heat stress, applied independently or in combination during seed development, on qualitative and quantitative aspects of seeds of lentil (Lens culinaris Medikus) genotypes, differing in drought sensitivity.
Akanksha Sehgal,Kumari Sita,Kalpna Bhandari,Shiv Kumar,Jitendra Kumar,P. V. Vara Prasad,Kadambot H. M. Siddique,Harsh Nayyar +7 more
TL;DR: Both heat and drought resulted in marked reduction in the rate and duration of seed filling to decrease the final seed size, suggesting a cross tolerance, which was linked to its (drought tolerant) better capacity to retain more water in leaves and hence more photo-assimilation ability, compared with drought-sensitive genotype.