International Publications

1. Nayak N, Mehrotra R, Mehrotra S (2024) The N-region sequence context impacts the chloroplast import efficiency of multi-TMD proteins. Plant Molecular Biology 114(4): 88. (5-year IF: 4.6)
2. Bhadouriya SL, Karamchandani AN, Nayak N, Mehrotra S, Mehrotra R (2024) Artificially designed synthetic promoter for a high level of salt induction using a cis-engineering approach. Scientific Reports 14(1):13657. (5-year IF: 4.3)
3. Namitha S. Nayak, Rajesh Mehrotra and Sandhya Mehrotra, 2022 Carbon Biosequestration strategies: A Review, Carbon Capture Science and Technology, Volume 4, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccst.2022.100065
4. Zaiba H Khan, Siddhant Dang, Mounil B Memaya, Sneha L. Bhadouriya, Swati Agarwal, Sandhya Mehrotra, Divya Gupta and Rajesh Mehrotra. Genome-wide analysis of AAAG and ACGT cis-elements in Arabidopsis thaliana reveals their involvement with genes downregulated under jasmonic acid response in an orientation independent manner; Genes, Genomes and Genetics, G3 (Bethesda). 2022 May 6;12(5):jkac057. doi: 10.1093/g3journal/jkac057. IF. 3.083
5. Pinky Dhatterwal, Sandhya Mehrotra, Anthony J. Miller, Raviprasad Aduri, Rajesh Mehrotra, Effect of ACGT motif in spatiotemporal regulation of AtAVT6D, which improves tolerance to osmotic stress and nitrogen-starvation, 2022 Plant Molecular Biology. 2022 May;109 (1-2):67-82.doi: 10.1007/s11103-022-01256-x. Epu. IF: 4.335; SJR: 1.448
6. Pinky Dhatterwal, Sandhya Mehrotra, Anthony J. Miller, Rajesh Mehrotra, Promoter profiling of Arabidopsis amino acid transporters: clues for improving crops.  Plant Molecular Biology, 2021 1-25; https://doi.org/10.1007/s11103-021-01193-1. IF: 4.335; SJR: 1.448
7. Gurpreet Kaur Sidhu, Panchsheela Nogia, Vandana Tomar, Rajesh Mehrotra and Sandhya Mehrotra "The in-vitro Activity of Reconstituted Rubisco Enzyme from Gloeobacter violaceus" 2021 Journal of Biosciences; 46:67. IF: 2.41; SJR: 0.568
8. Bhadouriya et al., In silico analysis of CCGAC and CATGTG cis-regulatory elements across genomes reveals their roles in gene regulation under stress, 2021 Current Genomics. IF: 3.42; SJR: 0.596
9. Snehalata Bhadouriya, Sandhya Mehrotra, Mahesh Basantani, Gary Loake and Rajesh Mehrotra: Role of chromatin architecture in plant stress responses: An update Front. Plant Sci., 12 January 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.603380. IF: 6.627; SJR: 1.63
10. Zaiba Hasan Khan, Swati Agarwal, Atul Rai, Mounil Binal Memaya, Sandhya Mehrotra and Rajesh Mehrotra: Coexpression Network analysis of PP2A genes with stress responsive genes in Arabidopsis thaliana reveals 13 key regulators. Nature Scientific Reports 2020 Dec 8;10(1):21480. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-77746-z. IF: 4.996; SJR: 1.24
11. Vaish S, Gupta D, Mehrotra R, Mehrotra S, Basantani MK. Glutathione S-transferase: a versatile protein family.   3 Biotech. 2020 Jul;10(7):321. doi: 10.1007/s13205-020-02312-3. Epub 2020 Jun 27. IF: 2.893; SJR:0.557
12. Zaiba Hasan Khan, Richa Patel, Sandhya Mehrotra and Rajesh Mehrotra In-silico analysis of seed storage protein gene promoters reveals differential occurrence of 7 cis-regulatory elements in monocot and 14 in dicot plants. 2019 Gene Reports vol 17 100520. IF: 1.51; SJR:0.3
13. Pinky Dhatterwal, Soamyadeep Basu, Sandhya Mehrotra, Rajesh Mehrtora Genome wide analysis of W box element in Arabidopsis thaliana reveals TGAC motif with genes down regulated by heat and salinity (2019) Nature Scientific reports. IF: 4.996; SJR:1.24
14. Purva Bhalothia, Sneha Lata, Zaiba Hasan Khan, Brijesh Kumar#, Sandhya Mehrotra and Rajesh Mehrotra Genome Wide Analysis of Protein Phosphatase 2C (PP2C) Genes in Glycine max and Sorghum bicolor (2018) Current Biotechnology Vol (7) 4 Pg 302-308; IF: 0.667
15. Rajesh Mehrotra, Gary Loake and Sandhya Mehrotra; Promoter Choice: Selection Vs rejection (2018) Gene reports (13) 38-41. IF: 1.51; SJR:0.31
16. Dhatterwal P, Mehrotra S, Mehrotra R., Optimization of PCR conditions for amplifying an AT-rich amino acid transporter promoter sequence with high number of tandem repeats from Arabidopsis thaliana. BMC Res Notes. 2017 Nov 28;10(1):638. doi: 10.1186/s13104-017-2982-1. IF: 2.15; SJR:0.527
17. Mahesh Kumar Basantani, Divya Gupta, Rajesh Mehrotra, Sandhya Mehrotra, Swati Vaish, Anjali Singh: An update on bioinformatics resources for plant genomics research. (2017) Current Plant Biology 11-12. IF:3.26; SJR:0.649.
18. Regulatory components of carbon concentrating mechanisms in aquatic unicellular photosynthetic organisms (2017) Vandana Tomar, Gurpreet Kaur Sidhu, Panchsheela Nogia, Rajesh Mehrotra, Sandhya Mehrotra; Plant Cell Rep. DOI 10.1007/s00299-017-2191-3. IF:4.88; SJR:1.034
19. A RuBisCO-mediated carbon metabolic pathway in methanogenic archaea. Takunari Kono, Sandhya Mehrotra, Chikako Endo, Natsuko Kizu, Mami Matusda, Hiroyuki Kimura, Eiichi Mizohata, Tsuyoshi Inoue, Toshihisa Hasunuma, Akiho Yokota, Hiroyoshi Matsumura, Hiroki Ashida (2017); Nature Communications, 14007 (2017), doi:10.1038/ncomms/1400. IF: 15.41; SJR:4.846
20. Towards combinatorial transcriptional engineering; Rajesh Mehrotra, Kaushik Renganaath, Harsh Kanodia, Gary J Loake, Sandhya Mehrotra Biotechnology Advances 2017. (doi: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2017.03.006). IF:16.85; SJR:1.034.
21. PP2C-like Promoter and Its Deletion Variants Are Induced by ABA but Not by MeJA and SA in Arabidopsis thaliana. Purva Bhalothia, Chetna Sangwan, Anshu Alok, Sandhya Mehrotra, and Rajesh Mehrotra. Front Plant Sci. 2016; 7: 547. Published online 2016 May 3. doi: 10.3389/fpls. (2016). 00547. IF:6.627; SJR:1.63
22. Vandana Tomar, Gurpreet Kaur Sidhu, Panchsheela Nogia, Rajesh Mehrotra, Sandhya Mehrotra Role of habitat and great oxidation event on the occurrence of three multi-subunit inorganic carbon uptake systems in cyanobacteria. (2016), Journal of Genetics; 95(1), 109-118 DOI 10.1007/s12041-015-0606-x. IF:1.20; SJR:0.341
23. Mehrotra, Rajesh; Taparia, Tanvi; Manjiri, MVSS; Shukla, Paritosh; Mehrotra, Sandhya Developments and Challenges in Biodiesel Production from Microalgae: A Review (2015): 10.1002/bab. 1412, Biotechnology and applied Biochemistry. IF:3.01; SJR:0.478
24. Carbon concentrating mechanisms: In rescue of RubisCO inefficiency: Gurpreet Kaur Sidhu, Rajesh Mehrotra and Sandhya Mehrotra (2014) Acta Physiol. Plant. DOI: 10.1007/s11738-014-1652-3. IF:2.63; SJR:0.559.
25. Rajesh Mehrotra, Purva Bhalothia, Prashali Bansal, Mahesh K. Basantani, Vandana Bharti and Sandhya Mehrotra*: Abscisic acid and abiotic stress tolerance - different tiers of regulation. Journal of Plant physiology 171 (2014) 486–496. IF: 3.65; SJR:0.852
26. Panchsheela Nogia, Gurpreet Kaur Sidhu, Rajesh Mehrotra and Sandhya Mehrotra*(2013): Capturing atmospheric carbon: biological and non-biological methods. International journal of low-carbon technologies. doi:10.1093/ijlct/ctt071-9. IF:3.19; SJR:0.476
27. Soumya Bhattacharjee, Kaushik Renganaath, Mehrotra Rajesh and Mehrotra, Sandhya Mehrotra* (2013): Combinatorial control of gene expression. Biomed Research International. Article Id 407263, 11 pages. (doi.org/10.1155/2013/407263). IF:3.03 ; SJR:0.647
28. Rajesh Mehrotra, Ipshita Zutsi, Sachin Sethi, Purva Bhalothia, Sandhya Mehrotra (2013). Patterns and evolution of ACGT repeat cis element landscape across four plant genomes. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/14/203/abstract. BMC Genomics, 14:203. IF:4.26 ; SJR:1.258.
29. Vikas Mangla, Bhavya Ravi, Shobha Mehra, Sandhya Mehrotra and Rajesh Mehrotra (2013) Biofuels: An Overview with special emphasis on Biodiesel and the role of lipase enzyme in synthesis. Current Chemical Biology.7, 96-103. IF:0.69; SJR:0.142
30. Bhavya Ravi, Sandhya Mehrotra* and Rajesh Mehrotra (2013) Advances in Heterogeneous and Enzymatic catalysis for the industrial production of biodiesel by transesterification: An overview. Current Chemical Biology.7, 104-113. IF:0.69; SJR:0.142
31. Bhavya Ravi, Ujjwal Banerjee, Rajesh Mehrotra and Sandhya Mehrotra (2013): Engineering lipases for enhanced catalysis. Current chemical Biology. 7:114-120. IF:0.69; SJR:0.142
32. Rajesh Mehrotra, Gauri Gupta, Riccha Sethi, Narayan Kumar and Sandhya Mehrotra (2011) Designer promoter: An artwork of cis engineering. Plant Mol. Biol., Vol. 75 (6) 527-536. IF: 4.335; SJR: 1.448.
33. Sandhya Mehrotra, Prabodh K. Trivedi, Ajay Sethuraman and Rajesh Mehrotra (2011) The rbcL gene of Populus deltoides has multiple transcripts and is redox-regulated in vitro. Journal of Plant Physiology. 168:466-473. IF: 3.65; SJR: 0.852
34. Rajesh Mehrotra and Sandhya Mehrotra (2010) Promoter activation by ACGT in response to salicylic acid and abscisic acids is differentially regulated by the spacing between two copies of the motif. Journal of Plant Physiology. 167: 1214–1218. IF: 3.65; SJR: 0.852

Publications in Indian Journals

35.  Relative efficiencies of transient transformation of Arabidopsis thaliana and Nicotiana tabacum upon heterologous expression of membrane proteins. Panchsheela Nogia, Vandana Tomar, Gurpreet Kaur Sidhu, Rajesh Mehrotra, Sandhya Mehrotra (2017) Indian Journal of Biotechnology. 16:195-198. IF: 0.324

36. Rajesh Mehrotra, Sanjeev Kumar, Sandhya Mehrotra and BD Singh (2009) Seed storage protein gene regulation: A jigsaw puzzle. Indian J. Biotechnology. 8:147-158. IF: 0.324

Chapters in books 

1)       Dhatterwal, P., Mehrotra, S., Mehrotra, R. (2022). Primer Designing for Amplifying an AT-Rich Promoter from Arabidopsis thaliana. In: Basu, C. (eds) PCR Primer Design. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2392. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1799-1_9

2)       Namitha Nayak, Rajesh Mehrotra, Sandhya Mehrotra; Biological sequestrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide with strategies to enhance storage of the gas. Year of Publication 2020 ISBN 9781789243277 DOI 10.1079/9781789243277.0044 Editor(s) Woo, P. T. K., Leong, J. A., Buchmann, K. Book Climate change and infectious fish diseases.

3)    Rajesh Mehrotra, U Balasubramanyam, Purva Bhalothia, Bhavya Ravi and Sandhya Mehrotra: Biotechnological interventions to combat abiotic stress in Plants. Lap Lambert Academic Publishing Ag & Co. Kg, Dudweller Landstr, Germany. 

4)   Bhavya Ravi, Madhulika Rai, Sandhya Mehrotra and Rajesh Mehrotra. 2011. Lipase catalyzed transesterification reaction for biodiesel production: Current status and future prospects. Nova Press, USA. Edited by Dhingra, PN Jha.