
The Gadhave Lab
Interdisciplinary research to decipher the complexity of plant-insect-virus interactions & develop novel pest & disease management solutions
Addressing threats from insect vectors and pathogens
Insect vectors and the pathogens they transmit pose a substantial dual threat to agricultural productivity and global food security. Research of The Gadhave Lab — located at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Amarillo — aims to develop novel tools and strategies that can be integrated into current pest and disease management programs by addressing fundamental biological questions intersecting pathogenesis and insect transmission of phytopathogens.
Our lab strives to achieve this goal by conducting inter-disciplinary research in three key areas:
Fundamental
Developing new understanding of the mechanisms that drive the tri-trophic plant-vector-pathogen interactions
applied
Elucidating how certain biotic and abiotic factors influence plant health, crop production and protection
Translational
Innovating pest & disease management solutions based on fundamental and applied research outcomes
Lab News
Novel resistance-breaking strains of tomato spotted wilt virus reported
kiran.gadhaveOur lab reported the emergence of tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) resistance-breaking (RB) strains in…
First lab paper published
gabe.saldanaIn collaboration with the Kurouski lab at TAMU, College Station, we published our first-ever lab…
Gadhave named Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society
soildataTrustees of the Royal Entomological Society, the UK’s largest and oldest entomological society (Est. 1833)…
Dr Chinnaiah joins the lab
kiran.gadhaveSenthil joined our lab as a postdoctoral researcher in August 2022. He obtained his PhD…