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Awards and Honors

• 2024 - Featured researcher on serving the South Dakota grain and livestock producers.
• 2024 - Featured researcher on SDPB (South Dakota Public Broadcasting) radio on the program ‘I’ serving the South Dakota public.
• 2022 - USDA: , Collaborator
• 2022 - July/August 2022.
• 2020 - Invited speaker at 2020, 9th Nano Conference and awarded NSF-supported ‘Early Career Researchers Award’.
• 2020 - Awarded ‘Bayer Diversity Initiative Fund Scholar’ at the 2020 ASA_CSSA_SSSA tri-societies conference.
• 2019 - 2019 Wheat CAP Plant Science Symposium Invited Speaker and Travel Award, San Diego State University, CA.

Grants

1. National Science Foundation (NSF) proposal in BRC-BIO: Towards mechanistic elucidation of wall-associated kinase immunity receptors in barley-spot blotch interaction, as PI, $494,829.
2. South Dakota Wheat Commission: Enhancing resilience of wheat against diseases for sustainable and profitable wheat production in South Dakota, June 2023-December 2024, as a PI, $67,716.
3. South Dakota Wheat Commission: Enhancing resilience of wheat against diseases for sustainable and profitable wheat production in South Dakota Supplemental, October 2023-December 2024, as a PI, $27,500.
4. South Dakota Soybean Research and Promotion Council proposal: Addressing the problem of soybean white mold disease in South Dakota. August 2024 to July 2025 as co-PI, $48,746.
5. South Dakota Soybean Research and Promotion Council proposal: Assessment of mid-late season foliar diseases of soybean. May 2024 to April 2025 as co-PI, $31,251.
6. SDCUC: South Dakota Corn Utilization Council, Harnessing soil microbiome and its enzymatic properties for sustainably improving corn nutrient absorption and disease resistance capacity, as a Co-PI $57,035
7. SDWC: South Dakota Wheat Commission: Enhancing resilience of wheat against diseases for sustainable and profitable wheat production in South Dakota, June 2024-Dec. 2025, as PI, $65,133.
8. ³ÉÈËÊÓƵ RSCA Challenge Fund: Development of transient transformation and spatiotemporal tools for functional validation in crop plants, as a PI, $15,000.
9. US Wheat and Barley Scab Initiative: Screening of FHB resistance in superior winter and spring barley developed for the state of South Dakota, May 2022-May 2026, as a PI, $104,824.
10. Minnesota Wheat Research and Promotion Council, January 2022-December 2024, ‘Breeding winter wheat varieties with FHB and straw strength’ as a Co-PI $32,120.
11. South Dakota Wheat Commission: Enhancing resilience of wheat against diseases for sustainable and profitable wheat production in South Dakota, June 2022-December 2023, as a Co-PI, $73,234.

Publications

1. Alhusays, A., Galvin, C., Torres, M., Senger, M., Fitzpatrick, E., Gonzalez-Hernandez, J.L., Glover, K., Solanki, S. and Ameen, G., 2024. First Report of Pantoea ananatis causing leaf streak disease on wheat (Triticum aestivum) in the United States of America. Plant Disease, 108(9), p.2913.
2. Sharma, S., Reese, K., Kleinjan, J., Graham, C., Gonzalez Hernandez, J.L., Ali, S., Ameen, G. and Solanki, S., 2024. First report of Fusarium luffae causing soybean wilt in the USA. Plant Disease, PDIS-03-24-0556-PDN
3. Rahman Bhuiyan, Md Ziaur; Solanki, Shyam; del Rio Mendoza, Luis E; Borowicz, Pawel; Lakshman, Dilip K; Qi, Aiming; Ameen, Gazala; Khan, Mohamed FR; Histopathological Investigation of Varietal Responses to Cercospora beticola Infection Process on Sugar Beet Leaves. 2023 Plant Disease 107 (12), 3906-3912.
4. Mohamed FR Khan, MZR Bhuiyan, LE del Rio Mendoza, DK Lakhsman, A Ismaiel, A Azizi, G Ameen. First report of Fusarium solani (Mart.) Sacc. causing sugar beet seedling rot in Minnesota, USA. Journal of Plant Pathology, 2023. Journal of Plant Pathology 106 (1), 277-278.
5. Mohamed FR Khan, MZR Bhuiyan, Luis E del Río Mendoza, Dilip K Lakhsman, Abdolbaset Azizi, Gazala Ameen, Arslan Sarwar. First Report of Leaf Spot of Sugar Beet Caused by Stemphylium vesicarium in Minnesota, U.S.A., 2023. Plant Disease 107 (8), 2526.
6. First Plant Cell Atlas Symposium Report. Co-authored white paper, 2022. Published in Plant Direct. https://doi.org/10.1002/pld3.406
7. Ameen G, Solanki S, Sager-Bittara L, Richards J, Tamang P, Friesen T, Brueggeman RS. 2021. Mutations in a barley cytochrome P450 gene enhances pathogen induced programmed cell death and cutin layer instability. PLoS Genetics 17 (12), e1009473. 
8. Vision, challenges and opportunities for a plant cell atlas, published in eLife. Co-authored feature article, 2021. Elife 10, e66877.