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Pankaj Trivedi, an international expert in microbial ecology and plant-microbiome interactions, has been named an Associate Professor at the Institute of Genomics for Crop Abiotic Stress Tolerance and the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences at Texas Tech University. Trivedi earned his doctorate in soil microbiology from Kumaun University in Uttarakhand, India. Before joining the Texas Tech faculty, Trivedi served as an Assistant and Associate professor in Colorado State University’s Microbiome Network and Department of Agricultural Biology. Earlier he worked as a research fellow with the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment at Western Sydney University in Australia, a postdoctoral research associate within the Citrus Research & Education Center in the University of Florida’s Department of Microbiology & Cell Sciences, and a young scientist at the GB Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment & Development in Almora, India.

Research Interests

The Trivedi Lab explores multitrophic interactions among and between the microbiome and the plant environment that influence the health and productivity of managed and natural systems. We conduct lab, greenhouse, and field experiments at local to global scales and employ multi-omics and computational biology approaches to determine principles governing the assembly, dynamics, stability, and vulnerability to disturbance of the microbiome. We are particularly interested in applying advanced biotechnological methods to control, modify, or engineer the microbiome for beneficial purposes. By employing data-driven biology and systems-based approaches, the research expects to establish knowledge and evidence to enable the management and usage of complex microbial communities to achieve improved yields and plant resilience in a changing world.

Selected Publications

Trivedi, P., Leach, J.E., Tringe, S.G., Sa, T. and Singh, B.K., 2020. Plant–microbiome interactions: from community assembly to plant health. Nature reviews microbiology, 18 (11), pp.607-621.

Singh, B.K., Delgado-Baquerizo, M., Egidi, E., Guirado, E., Leach, J.E., Liu, H. and Trivedi, P., 2023. Climate change impacts on plant pathogens, food security and paths forward. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 21(10), pp.640-656.

Trivedi, P., Batista, B.D., Bazany, K.E. and Singh, B.K., 2022. Plant–microbiome interactions under a changing world: responses, consequences and perspectives. New Phytologist, 234(6), pp.1951-1959.

Bazany, K.E., Wang, J.T., Delgado‐Baquerizo, M., Singh, B.K. and Trivedi, P., 2022. Water deficit affects inter‐kingdom microbial connections in plant rhizosphere. Environmental Microbiology, 24(8), pp.3722-3734.

Delgado‐Baquerizo, M., Singh, B.K., Liu, Y.R., Sáez‐Sandino, T., Coleine, C., Muñoz‐Rojas, M., Bastida, F. and Trivedi, P., 2025. Integrating ecological and evolutionary frameworks for SynCom success. New Phytologist.