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 Name : Dr. Manmeet Brar Bhullar

Designation : Principal Acarologist cum Head Phone : +91 98729871350

E-mail : manmeet@pau.edu

Research areas: Bio-ecological studies of predatory and phytophagous mites, acaricide resistance monitoring, host plant esistance, management of mites, taxonomic and genetic variability studies of family Tetranychidae and Phytoseiidae

Researcher Ids: Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=R_K78JgAAAAJ&hl

=en

Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Manmeet- Bhullar

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1527-5977

Brief Introduction

Dr. Manmeet Brar Bhullar Born on 7th November, 1966 in Jalandhar, Dr Manmeet Brar Bhullar obtained her B Sc from Panjab University, Chandigarh in the year 1986 and M Sc and PhD from PAU, Ludhiana in 1989 and 1994, respectively. Dr Bhullar joined as Assistant Acarologist in the year 1996 and held the position till 2004. Later, she held the position of Senior Acarologist (2004-2010) and Principal Acarologist (2010 onwards).

Dr Bhullar has vast research experience and specialisation in Agricultural Acarology. Her research interest areas are bio-ecological studies on mites, management of mite pests of horticultural crops under field and protected cultivation, resistance monitoring studies in mites to acaricides, genetic variability studies on family Tetranychidae and taxonomic studies on family Phytoseiidae and Prostigmatid predatory mites. She has been involved in development of 9 technologies for integrated management of mites on vegetable and fruit crops, besides being associated with varietal screening of vegetable crops for mites. She is currently managing All India Network Project on Agricultural Acarology, ICAR, New Delhi as Principal Investigator and Biosystematic studies of phytoseiid mites on fruit crops from

Trans Gangetic plain and North Western Himalaya, SERB-DST, New Delhi as co-PI. She organised Vth” and IXth Group Meeting of All India Network Project on Agricultural Acarology” from 6-7 November, 1996 and from 11-12 April, 2005 respectively at PAU Ludhiana, India.

She has published 69 peer reviewed research papers, 8 books/bulletins, 7 extension bulletins, 1 review chapter, 8 book chapters and 12 popular articles. She has presented 30 papers in conferences/symposiums/seminars at national and international level. She delivered 25 invited lectures in various summer/winter schools in Acarology and Systematics. She is involved in Post-graduate courses viz. M. Sc. (Insect Morphology and Systematics; Principles of Insect Classification, Insect Taxonomy and General Acarology) and PhD (Advanced Insect Systematics). She has guided 6 MSc students and 3 PhD, as major advisor on different aspects of basic and applied aspects of plant associated mites.

She is the recipient of CSIR Fellowship – Bio-ecological studies on parasitic Copepoda and Branchiura of fishes from North India in 1990 and Jay A. Yoder Fellowship by the Acarology Development Foundation, Michigan, USA in 2011 for attending the Summer Acarology programme at Ohio State University, Ohio (USA).



Professional Accomplishments Research Projects completed

  1. Biosystematic studies of Phytoseiid mites on fruit crops from Trans-Gangetic plain and North Western Himalaya funded by SERB, DST, New Delhi in 2025 as PI

 

Research Publications:

  1. Kaur P and Bhullar MB (2019). Acaricide resistance in Tetranychus urticae on cucumber under protected cultivation. Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences. 89 (9)

: 1462-1467. (NAAS rating : 6.23)

  • Bhullar MB, Heikal HM, Kaur P and Kaur R (2021) Efficacy of natural products and biorationals against two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae Koch (Acari : Tetranychidae) infesting brinjal (Solanum melongena L.) under protected cultivation. International Journal of Acarology, DOI: 10.1080/01647954.2021.1987982. (NAAS rating : 7.24)
  • Doker, I, Robin, Jose A, Kaur P, Gowda CC, Bhullar MB (2025). Some species of Euseius Wainstein (Parasitiformes: Phytoseiidae) from India: description of new species, complementary description of known species with new synonyms. Systematic and Applied Acarology 30 (7): 1297-1324. https://doi.org/10.11158/saa.30.7.9 (NAAS

rating: 7.3)

  • Robin, Döker I, Kaur P, Bhullar MB, Gowda CC. (2025) A New Species of Neoseiulella Muma (Parasitiformes: Phytoseiidae) from Northwestern India. Acarologia (Accepted on 02.07.2025; https://doi.org/10.24349/wpop-gesj) (NAAS rating: 6.9)

Awards and Recognitions:

  • Second Best Research Centre Award to AINP on Agricultural Acarology, PAU Centre by the ICAR, New Delhi in 2025 in XXI Annual Group Meeting of AINP on Agricultural Acarology from 03.07.2025 to 04.07.2025 at TNAU, Coimbatore
  1. Life fellow award from Indian Ecological Society