Dr. Amrinder Kaur joined PAU as Assistant Plant Pathologist on 22.02.2011 after completing her B.Sc. Agriculture (Hons.) from Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana in 2007 and M.Sc. in Plant Pathology from College of Agriculture, PAU, Ludhiana in 2010. She did her Ph.D (Plant Pathology) from Department of Plant Pathology, College of Agriculture, PAU, Ludhiana in 2020 as In-Service candidate. During her work period of last fourteen years, she has taught many UG and PG courses of Plant Pathology, handled various research projects (competitive and adhoc as Co-PI) and acted as reviewer of many manuscripts of NAAS rated journals. She has guided two M.Sc. students as major advisor and acted as a member of advisory committee of various M.Sc. and Ph D students. She has also attended a short course on integrated pest management and food safety in 2016 at Centre for Development and Innovation, Wageningen, Netherlands. She has published more than 40 research papers of national and international repute. She is also involved in a number of extension activities viz., participation in farmers training camp at district level, Kisan Melas and delivering of Radio, TV talks and lectures at training camp to the farmers and has published 19 popular articles. Presently she is involved in developing eco-friendly management of important diseases of fruit crops and post-harvest rots and is also actively involved in the survey and surveillance programmes for different fruit orchards of Punjab.

Professional Accomplishments:

Research Projects completed:

1. Certifying citrus nurseries against Plant Pathogens: Improved methods for detection of major plant pathogens/nematodes of citrus in Punjab in 2014 as Co-PI.
2. Pyramiding multiple resistance genes (Ty, Ph and Mi) in high yielding varieties of tomato through MAS IN 2017 as Co-PI.

Research Publications:

• Kaur A, Kaur D, Arora A and Singh H (2025) Morpho-pathological variation among Colletotrichum isolates associated with fruit drop in Kinnow mandarin (Citrus nobilis X Citrus deliciosa) in Punjab.  Indian Phytopathology https://doi.org/10.1007/s42360-025-00865-y. (NAAS Rating 5.95).

1. 1. Kaur K. Gupta M, Rattanpal H S, Kaur A, Anand S and Singh M (2025) Influence of exogeneously applied growth regulators on mitigating fruit splitting and enhancing yield and quality in Daisy mandarin in an arid irrigated region of Punjab. Applied Fruit Science 67:94 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10341-025-01323-9. (NAAS rating 7.20)

• Kaur D, Kaur A, Singh H and Arora A (2023) First report of Colletotrichum siamense causing Fruit Drop in Kinnow mandarin (Citrus nobilis x Citrus deliciosa) in Punjab, India . Crop Protection https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cropro.2023.106464. (NAAS rating 9.04).

• Kaur A, Kaur D, Arora A and Singh H (2023) Efficacy of different fungicides, botanicals, nanoformulations and bio-control agents against Colletotrichum siamense causing fruit drop in Kinnow mandarin. Plant Disease Research 38 (2): 181-190.

• Rabia, Arora A, Kaur A, Buttar DS, Singh H, Kaur K and Bhullar HS (2023). Comparative effectiveness of fungicides, botanicals, nano-formulations and bio-control agents against Colletotrichum siamense and Neopestalotiopsis sp. causing anthracnose disease of guava. Plant Disease Research 38 (2): 160-168.

Awards and Recognitions:

• ASPEE Gold Medal in Plant Protection, 2007
• Avtar Singh Atwal Gold Medal (Best M.Sc. Thesis) in 2011
• Awarded Best Poster Award on “Morphological and molecular variability in Rhizoctoniasolani infecting rice and potato” at Brain storming session on ‘Recent developments in the management of rice diseases held at PAU, Ludhiana on 9th August, 2012. 
• Awarded second Best Poster Award entitled “Association of Phytophthora nicotiana var. parastica with citrus foot rot in Punjab” at National Symposium on “Holistic Approaches for Plant Health Management” held at Nauni, Solan on September 28-29, 2015.
• Awarded Best Plant Pathologist Award in 2022 at International Conference on “Global Initiatives in Research, Innovation and sustainable development of Agriculture and allied science” GIRISDA-2022.
• Award second prize for Best Oral Presentation on “First report of Colletotrichum siamense causing Fruit Drop in Kinnow mandarin (Citrus nobilis x Citrus deliciosa) in Punjab, India” in Asian Citrus Congress- 2023 held at ICAR- Central Citrus Research Institute, Nagpur from 28-30th October, 2023.