Harika Amooru

Graduate Research Assistant
Plant and Environmental Sciences Department

Office: 111, Biosystems Research Complex
Phone: 864-533-5921

Email: aharika@clemson.edu

Educational Background

Ph.D. Plant sciences
Clemson University, SC 2024

MSc. Plant Physiology
Indian Agricultural Research institute, New Delhi, India 2023

BSc(Hons.) Agriculture
SV Agricultural College, Tirupati 2021

Research Interests

Nutrient Physiology in cereals

Publications

Research paper:
Duc, N. T.#, Harika, A.#, Raju, D., Kumar, S., Pandey, R., Sathee, L., ... & Chinnusamy, V. Identification of superior rice donors with enhanced nitrogen use efficiency using a comprehensive multivariate genotype selection strategy. iScience (2025). # equally contributed (Impact factor: 4.1)
Harika A., Banavath NS. Climate change impacts on forest and agrobiodiversity: A special reference to anuppur district, madhya pradesh. J AgricSci Bot. 2023; 7(5):196. (Internship research paper, NAAS rating:6.49).

Reviews:
Harika, A., R. Dhandapani, Sudhir Kumar, S. Lekshmy, T. Vinutha, K. E. Ranjith, Mahesh Kumar, D. Madhurima, and C. Viswanathan. "Understanding the physiological, genetic and molecular basis of nitrogen deficiency tolerance and their application in rice improvement." (2023)-ORYZA- an international on rice: 45-52 (MSc review, NAAS rating: 5.08)
Ramlal, A., Harika, A., Jayasri, V., Subramaniam, S., Mallikarjuna, B. P., Raju, D., ... & Rajendran, A. (2024). Calmodulin: Coping with biotic and abiotic stresses in soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.). Plant Stress, 100602 (impact factor: 6.9).
Duc, N. T., Harika, A., Raju, D., Kumar, S., Pandey, R., Ellur, R. K., ... & Chinnusamy, V. (2025). Maximizing nitrogen stress tolerance through high-throughput phenotyping in rice. Plant Stress, 15, 100764 (impact factor: 6.9).
Rajendran, A., Ramlal, A., Harika, A., Subramaniam, S., Raju, D., & Lal, S. K. (2025). Waterlogging stress mechanism and membrane transporters in soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.). Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 109579 (impact factor: 5.7).
Rajendran, A., Ranjan, S., Noru, R. S. R., Rajarajan, K., Harika, A., Bishnoi, P., ... & Raju, D. (2025). Novel implications of molecular markers and genomic selection in tree breeding. Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy, 1-11 (impact factor: 2.1).
Noru, R. S. R., Harika, A., Ramlal, A., Rajendran, A., & Raju, D. (2024). Feeding the Future: Agricultural Research and Development of India. National Academy Science Letters, 1-9 (impact factor: 1.3).

Book chapters:
Pradeep Krishnan, S., Rajendran, S., Balamurugan, B., Elangovan, D., Ezhumalai, S., Amooru, H., ... & Sathee, L. (2024). Proteomic Responses to Salinity and Drought Stress in Plants. Plant Proteomics: Implications in Growth, Quality Improvement, and Stress Resilience; CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL, USA.
Sivapragasam, E., Harika, A., Das, M., Chinnusamy, V., Kumar, M., & Kumar, S. (2025). Imaging Techniques for High-Throughput Phenotyping: Methods and Applications. In Plant High-Throughput Phenotyping and Functional Phenomics (pp. 84-98). CRC Press.
Harika, A., Sivapragasam, E., Kumar, S., Chinnusamy, V., Kumar, M., Das, M., & Raju, D. (2025). High-Throughput Field Phenotyping: Enhancing Crop Monitoring for Food Security. Plant High-Throughput Phenotyping and Functional Phenomics, 73-83.
Harika, A., Ezhumalai, S., Singh, B., Elangovan Allimuthu, S. T., Raju, D., Kumar, S., ... & Chinnusamy, V. (2025). 37 Accelerate Crop Breeding Utilizing Modern Genomics and Phenomics Tools. In Plant Speed Breeding and High-Throughput Technologies (pp. 37-52). CRC Press.
Goel, N., Bhat, I., Harika, A., Rajendran, R. A., & Ramlal, A. (2024). Indoleamines in Abiotic Stress. Phytohormones in Abiotic Stress, 100-110.
Harika, A., Ramlal, A., Duc, N. T., Rajendran, R. A., & Raju, D. (2024). Responses of Oxylipins to Abiotic Stresses. In Phytohormones in Abiotic Stress (pp. 135-141). CRC Press.
Ramlal, A., Harika, A., Raju, D., Rajendran, R. A., & Lal, S. K. Strigolactones: Mediator in Abiotic Stress Responses. In Phytohormones in Abiotic Stress (pp. 170-182). CRC Press.
Prakash, A., Rai, A., Harika, A., Singh, R.B., Ramlal, A., Rajendran, A., and Lal, S.K. (2025). Soybean: Breeding challenges and prespective. In: Chigeza, G., Lal, S.K., Rajendran, A., and Ramlal, A. (eds) Soybean: History, Taxonomy, Genetics, Breeding, Disease and Biotechnology, Vol 1, AAP, Taylor and Francis, USA. (in production).
Kashyap, S.K., Kothari, R.V., Noru, R.S. R., Harika, A., Ramlal, A., Rajendran, A., and Lal, S.K. (2025). Soybean in medicine. In: Chigeza, G., Lal, S.K., Rajendran, A., and Ramlal, A. (eds) Soybean: History, Taxonomy, Genetics, Breeding, Disease and Biotechnology, Vol 1, AAP, Taylor and Francis, USA., (in production).