Aparna C. Sekhar

Optimization of single plate-serial dilution spotting (SP-SDS) with sample anchoring as an assured method for bacterial and yeast cfu enumeration and single colony isolation from diverse samples

Pious Thomas, Aparna C. Sekhar, Reshmi Upreti et al. · Biotechnology Reports · 2015 · 243 citations · Full text

Live cell imaging reveals extensive intracellular cytoplasmic colonization of banana by normally non-cultivable endophytic bacteria

Pious Thomas, Aparna C. Sekhar · AoB Plants · 2014 · 71 citations · Full text

Isolation and Identification of Shoot-Tip Associated Endophytic Bacteria from Banana cv. Grand Naine and Testing for Antagonistic Activity against <i>Fusarium oxysporum</i> f. sp. <i>cubense</i>

Aparna C. Sekhar, Pious Thomas · American Journal of Plant Sciences · 2015 · 46 citations · Full text

Effects Due to Rhizospheric Soil Application of an Antagonistic Bacterial Endophyte on Native Bacterial Community and Its Survival in Soil: A Case Study with Pseudomonas aeruginosa from Banana

Pious Thomas, Aparna C. Sekhar · Frontiers in Microbiology · 2016 · 43 citations · Full text

Effective Translation, Endophyte Research, Soil Microbiota +13

Cultivation Versus Molecular Analysis of Banana (Musa sp.) Shoot-Tip Tissue Reveals Enormous Diversity of Normally Uncultivable Endophytic Bacteria

Pious Thomas, Aparna C. Sekhar · Microbial Ecology · 2016 · 37 citations

Biology, Plant-microbe Interaction, Genetics +6