Research Articles  

· Chinnaiah, S. and Gao, Y. 2025. First report of Ilyonectria pseudodestructans causing root rot of American Ginseng (Panax quinquefolius) in Tennessee, United States. Plant disease

· Chinnaiah, S. and Gao, Y. 2025. First report of Erysiphe heraclei causing powdery mildew in cilantro in Tennessee, United states. Plant disease. https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-04-25-0837-PDN PDF

· Chinnaiah, S et al. 2025. Novel strains of tomato spotted wilt orthotospovirus (TSWV) are transmitted by western flower thrips in a context-specific manner. Plos One. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0323037

· Karunakaran, M., Rajamahendran, R., Karuppiah, E.A.A., Chinnaiah, S et al. 2025. Computational assessment of Quinic acid as a potential inhibitor affecting multiple functions of CLas proteins. Physiol. Mol. Plant Pathol.

· Sariga, R., Manonmani, K., Ayyandurai, M., Chinnaiah, S., Akila, R., Theradimani, M., & Muthiah, C. (2024). Assessment of Huanglongbing induced changes in primary and secondary metabolites of acid Lime. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology, 102547.

· Gautam, S., Workneh, F., Chinnaiah, S., Rush, C., Xue, Q., Anderson, N., ... & Gadhave, K. R. (2024). Tsw-resistant Pepper Cultivars Offer Limited Protection Against Resistance-breaking Isolates of Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus. Plant Health Progress, (ja).

· Jangra, S#., Chinnaiah, S#., Patil,SR., Bhvaya Shukla, Devendran, R., and Kumar, M. 2024. Deciphering the role of virus receptors in plant-virus-vector interactions. Receptors. https://doi.org/10.3390/receptors3020013

· Workneh, F., Ehrlich, B., Herron, B., Chinnaiah, S., Gautam, S., Gadhave, K.R. and Rush, C.M., 2024. Quantifying seasonal thrips population dynamics in relation to temperature and wheat senescence. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata. https://doi.org/10.1111/eea.13428

· Chinnaiah, S., S. Gautam, B. Herron, F. Workneh, C. M. Rush, and K. R. Gadhave. 2023. Novel strains of a pandemic plant virus increase vector fitness and modulate virus transmission in a resistant host. Frontiers in Microbiol. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1257724

· Juárez ID, Steczkowski MX, Chinnaiah S, Rodriguez A, Gadhave KR, Kurouski D. Using Raman spectroscopy for early detection of resistance-breaking strains of tomato spotted wilt orthotospovirus in tomatoes. Front Plant Sci. 2024 Jan 3;14:1283399. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2023.1283399

·Gautam S, Chinnaiah S, Workneh F, Crosby K, Rush C, Gadhave KR.2023.2023. Seed Transmission of Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus and Triticum Mosaic Virus in Differentially Resistant Wheat Cultivars. Viruses 15(8), 1774; https://doi.org/10.3390/v15081774

·Chinnaiah, S., Perumal, R., Ganesan, M.V. et al. 2023. New record of tomato spotted wilt virus in tomato and marigold in India. J Plant Pathol. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42161-023-01470-6

·Chinnaiah S, Gautam S, Workneh F, Crosby K, Rush C, Gadhave KR. First report of Sw-5 resistance-breaking strain of tomato spotted wilt orthotospovirus infecting tomato in Texas. Plant Dis. https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-11-22-2699-PDN

·Gautam S, Chinnaiah S, Workneh F, Crosby K, Rush C, Gadhave KR.2023. First report of a resistance-breaking strain of tomato spotted wilt orthotospovirus infecting Capsicum annuum with the Tsw resistance gene in Texas. Plant Dis. https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-09-22-2274-PDN

·R, Saravanan, S Nakkeeran, N Saranya, Chinnaiah, S, P Renukadevi, A.S. Krishnamoorthy, Hesham A. El Enshasy, Hala Eldawi, V.G. Malathi, Saleh H. Salmen, M. J. Ansari, Naeem Khan, and R. Z. Sayyed 2021. "Mining the Genome of Bacillus velezensis VB7 (CP047587) for MAMP Genes and Non-Ribosomal Peptide Synthetase Gene Clusters Conferring Antiviral and Antifungal Activity" Microorganisms 9, no. 12: 2511. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9122511.

·Chinnaiah S, Varagur Ganesan Malathi, Sevugapperumal Nakkeeran, Mariappan Suganthy, Uthandi Sivakumar & Perumal Renukadevi (2021). A Sequel Study on the Occurrence of Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus (TSWV) in cut-Chrysanthemum by DAS-ELISA using Recombinant Nucleocapsid Protein to Produce Polyclonal Antiserum, J Virological Methods https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jviromet.2021.114410

·Rajarajan K, Ganesamurthy K, Raveendran M, Jeyakumar P, Yuvaraja A, Sampath P, Prathima PT, Chinnaiah S. 2021. Differential responses of sorghum genotypes to drought stress revealed by physio-chemical and transcriptional analysis. Mol Biol Rep. 48(3):2453-2462. https://doi: org/10.1007/s11033-021-06279-z.

· Dheivam, M., K. Manonmani, K. Kalpana, Chinnaiah,S, M. Theradimani and Rajangam, J. 2020. Studies on Morphological Variability of the Fungal Pathogen, Lasiodiplodia theobromae causing Dieback in Mango. Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci. 9(12): 2446-2454. doi: https://doi.org/10.20546/ijcmas.2020.912.289.

·Chinnaiah S, Varagur Ganesan Malathi, Sevugapperumal Nakkeeran, Mariappan Suganthy, Uthandi Sivakumar & Perumal Renukadevi (2020) Biological and molecular characterization of tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) infecting Chrysanthemum in India, Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology, DOI: 10.1080/07060661.2020.1856190

·Chinnaiah S., Renukadevi, P., Nakkeeran, S., Malathi, V. G. And Pappu, H. R. 2018. Occurrence of tomato spotted wilt virus infecting snapdragon (Antirrhinum majus) in India. Plant Dis., https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-02-18-0250-PDN

·Chinnaiah S, Malathi, V. G., Nakkeeran, S., Suganthy, M., Sivakumar, U. and Renukadevi, P.2018. Characterization of Tomato spotted wilt virus infecting chrysanthemum and its travel from mother stock plants to next stem cuttings generation. Indian j. of mycology and plant pathol. 14(1);22-34

·Chinnaiah, S., Gurivi Reddy, Rajeswaran, J., Kokiladevi, E and Velazhahan, R. 2018. RNA interference-mediated resistance to Tobacco streak virus in transgenic peanut. Australasian Journal of Plant Pathology. 47:227–230. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13313-018-0549-9.

·Guisuibou Daimei, Harpreet Singh Raina, Pukhrambam Pushpa Devi, Gunjan Kumar Saurav, Perumal Renukadevi, Varagur Ganesan Malathi, Chinnaiah S, Bikash Mandal and Raman Rajagopal. 2016. Influence of Groundnut bud necrosis virus on the life history traits. Phytopathol. http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-08-16-0296.

·Suganthy, M., Rageshwari, S., Chinnaiah S, Nakkeeran, S., Malathi, V. G., Ramaraju, K and Renukadevi, P. 2016. New Record of Western Flower Thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) in South India. Inter Jour of Env, Agricul Biotech. Vol-1, Issue-4, doi.org/10.22161/ijeab/1.4.33 ISSN: 2456-1878

·Sara Shomo, Shifa, H., Chinnaiah S, Madem Gurivi Reddy, V. Paranidharan and R. Velazhahan. 2016. Analysis of metabolite profiles in leaf tissues of transgenic groundnut plants modified for resistance against Tobacco streak virus. Biochem. Cell. Arch. Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 245-250.

·Sara Shomo, Chinnaiah S, and Velazhahan, R. 2016. Growth performance of transgenic groundnut (Arachis hypogaea l.) plants engineered for resistance against Tobacco streak virus. Biochem. Cell. Arch. Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 267-270.

·Gurivi Reddy, M. Chinnaiah S, Satya, V. K., Kokiladevi, E., Sudhakar, D and Velazhahan, R. 2015. Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) plants transformed with a hairpin RNA-encoding gene construct targeting Tobacco streak virus (TSV) replicase gene exhibited resistance to peanut stem necrosis disease (PSND). J Plant Dis Prot 123:205-214 Doi 10.1007/s41348-016-0039-7.

·Vinodkumar, S. Rajeshkumar, R., Chinnaiah,S., Nakkeeran, S and Dilantha Fernando W.G., 2015. First report of sclerotinia sclerotiorum causing stem rot of carnation (Dianthus caryophyllus L.) in India. First look, Plant disease, American phytopathological society.  

Book chapters  

· Patil, SR, Chinnaiah, S., and Sumaiya Parveen. 2025. Mycotoxin Management in Food crops. Future Perspectives in Agriculture and Allied Disciplines. Chapter 10. ISBN: 978-93-91900-20-5.

· Patil, SR, Chinnaiah, S., andsangeetha. 2024. Phanerogamic Plant Parasite: The Deserted Parasites. . Futuristic Trends in Agriculture Engineering & Food Sciences. IIP Series, Volume 3, Book 11, Part 5, Chapter 1

· Karthikeyan G., Nagendran K., Kumari S., Priyanka R., Chinnaiah, S., Haokip B.D. (2021) Tospovirus Diseases of Ornamental Plants: Characterization, Identification, Diagnosis and Management. In: Raj S.K., Gaur R.K., Yin Z. (eds), Springer, Singapore, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3919-7_1

·Chinnaiah, S., Muthiah,C., Indiragandhi, P, and Vimala, R. An overview on diseases infecting moringa (Moringa oleifera (Lam),2021, (ISBN:978-93-91845-23-0),Thannambikkai publication. ·        

P. Indiragandhi, C. Muthiah, R. Vimala and C. Senthilraja. Insect pests of Drumstick-Moringa oleifera (Lam), Sustainable moringa production and value addition, 2021,Thannambikai publication, (ISBN:978-93-91845-23-0).

·Vinodkumar, S., Chinnaiah, S, Dheepa, R. and Nakkeeran, S. Anti-Microbial Peptides of Bacillus spp: An Introduction on Biosynthesis,Biocontrol of soil borne pathogens and nematodes (ISBN: 978-93-87590-63-2), Jeya Publishing house, New Delhi.

·Vinodkumar, S., Chinnaiah, S, Vanthana, M. and Nakkeeran, S. Novel Biocontrol Strategies with Multifaceted Approach for the Management of Plant Diseases, Biocontrol of soil borne pathogens and nematodes (ISBN: 978-93-87590-63-2), 2018, Jeya Publishing house, New Delhi.

·Fungal Antagonists Against Phytonematodes, Biocontrol of soil borne pathogens and nematodes,(ISBN: 978-93-87590-63-2),2018, Jeya Publishing house, New Delhi.

·Nakkeeran, S., Vinodkumar, S., Chinnaiah, S and Renukadevi, P. Antimicrobial peptides of Bacillus species: Biosynthesis, mode of action and their role in plant disease management, Microbial Antagonists: Role in biological control of plant diseases (ISBN: 81-7019-591-4),2017, Indian Phytopathological Society, New Delhi.

Books  

·Sneha R. Patil, Chinnaiah,S., Dr. K. Manonmani, Dr. K. Kannan. 2020, An essential guide to mushroom cultivation(ISBN: 978-93-87443-32-7). Sri sakthi press, Coimbatore, India.

·Sankar, C., Chinnaiah, S, Sneha R. Patil. 2021. Fundamentals of Horticulture at A Glance. (ISBN: 978-93-90835-23-2). Rudhra Publication, Chattishgarh, India.  

Popular articles  

·K.kannan, V. K. Satya, Chinnaiah, S., and M.Guivireddy. 2014. Defense mechanism involving Bacterial Type-III secretion system in phytopathogenic bacteria. Agrobios. 13 (6):148.

·Rageshwari,S., Chinnaiah, S., and Shanmuga Prema. 2018. CRISPR-Cas9 in Plant Pathology. Agrobios. 17 (3):98 ·         Senthilraja,C., Shanmuga Prema and Rageshwari,S.2018. Aptamer based detection of Plant Viruses. Agrobios. 17 (4):79.

·Shanmuga Prema., Chinnaiah, S., and Rageshwari,S. 2018. Nano based green technology for insect pest management. Agrobios. 17 (4):79.

·Chinnaiah, S., Shanmuga Prema and Rageshwari,S.2018. Bacterial Blight of anthurium: Their cause and management. Agrobios. 17 (6):79.

· Shanmuga Prema., Chinnaiah, S., and Rageshwari,S. 2018. Journey of Begomovirus, Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl virus (TYLCV) in the body of its vector, whitefly. Agrobios. 17 (6):79.

·Shanmuga Prema., Chinnaiah, S., and Rageshwari,S. 2018. Modified atmospheric storage: An residue free post-harvest Pest management technology. Agrobios. 17 (5):79.

·Chinnaiah, S., 2020. Meloidogyne incognita – A Threaten to Cucumber Cultivation under Protected Condition. Biotica Research Today 2(12): 1242-1244.

·Sneha and Chinnaiah, S. 2020. Modulation of Plant Immunity by Circadian Rhythm. Biotica Research Today 2(10): 1063-1064.

·Sneha and Chinnaiah, S. 2021. Bacterial Bioagents: An Effective Tool for Plant Disease Management. Biotica Research Today 3(1): 017-018.

·C. Sankar, Chinnaiah, S., J. Rajangam and Sneha R. Patil. 2020. Floral Biology and Sex Expression in Papaya. Biotica Research Today 2(12): 1268-1270

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· Young Plant Pathologist award in international conference on “Innovative Approaches in Agriculture, Horticulture & Allied Sciences-31 March, conducted Jointly organized by ICAR & SGT University, Gurugram, Chandigarh.

· Best poster presentation award in international conference on Moringa, 2022 conducted by Horticultural College and Research Institute, TNAU, Periyakulam, India.

· Dr. R. Samiyappan Endowment award with gold medal for the best Ph.D thesis work in molecular Plant Pathology- Awarded by Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India.

· Professor K. Ramakrishnan award with gold medal for best outgoing student in Ph.D (Plant Pathology) in the field of Plant virology- Awarded by Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India.

· Best oral presentation award in international Tamil conference, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India.

· Best Poster Presentation award in National symposium on cutting edge approaches for sustainable Plant Disease Management and ensuring Farmers' profit – Awarded by Indian Phytopathological Society and ICAR

. PR VERMA student award-2017 in international conference on ‘Plant Health for Human Welfare' conducted by Indian society for Mycology and Plant Pathology and Department of Botany, University of Rajasthan, India.

·Best Poster presentation award in international conference on international conference on ‘Global Perspective in Virus Disease Management- 2016'conducted by Indian Virological society.

·Best Poster presentation award in international conference on international conference on ‘Global Perspective in Virus Disease Management- 2016'conducted by Indian Virological society.  

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