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

1. Pradeep Krishnan, S., Suriyaprakash Rajendran, Balaji Balamurugan, Dharani Elangovan, Sivapragasam Ezhumalai, Harika Amooru, Shricharan Senthilkumar, Manduparambil Subramanian Nimmy, Shailendra K. Jha, and Lekshmy Sathee. "Proteomic Responses to Salinity and Drought Stress in Plants." Plant Proteomics: Implications in Growth, Quality Improvement, and Stress Resilience (2024).

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Goel, N., Bhat, I., Harika, A., Rajendran, R. A., & Ramlal, A. (2024). Indoleamines in Abiotic Stress. Phytohormones in Abiotic Stress, 100-110.

5. 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.

6. 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 nitrogendeficiency tolerance and their application in rice improvement." (2023): 45-52.

7. 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.