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• 2024 â€“ Featured researcher on serving the South Dakota grain and livestock producers.
• 2024 – Featured researcher on South Dakota Public Broadcasting radio on the program ‘’ serving the South Dakota public.
• 2022 – U.S. Department of Agriculture: , collaborator.
• 2022 – , July/August 2022.
• 2020 – Invited speaker at 2020, ninth Nano Conference and awarded National Science Foundation-supported "Early Career Researchers Award."
• 2020 – Awarded "Bayer Diversity Initiative Fund Scholar" at the 2020 American Society of Agronomy-Crop Science Society of America-Soil Science Society of America tri-societies conference.
• 2019-2019 – WheatCAP Plant Science Symposium invited speaker and Travel Award, San Diego State University, California.
• 2018-2019 – Recipient of universitywide (Top 5) North Dakota State University College of Graduate and Interdisciplinary Studies Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Award.
• 2017 – Graduate Student Travel Award, Plant Pathology Organization, North Dakota State University, for attending International Plant and Animal Genome, XXV, California.
• 2016 – International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions Congress Shimamoto Travel Award.
• 2016 – International Barley Genetics Symposium travel award.
• Nov. 15, 2016 – Recognition of scholastic achievement by the honor society of Golden Key International Honor Society.
• June 11-13, 2014 – American Phytopathological Society, Travel Award for attending North Central Regional Meeting at Madison, Wisconsin.
• June 11-13, 2014 – Second place in poster competition at North Central American Phytopathological Society meeting held at Madison, Wisconsin.
• April 11, 2013 – Recognition of scholastic achievement by the honor society of Gamma Sigma Delta.
• Nov 14, 2012 – Recognition of scholastic achievement by the honor society of Phi Kappa Phi.
• June 2011 – American Phytopathological Society, Travel Award for attending North Central Regional Meeting at Omaha, Nebraska.
• National Talent Scholarship, B.S. Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University, Hyderabad, India, (horticulture).

1. South Dakota Wheat Commission: Enhancing resilience of wheat against diseases for sustainable and profitable wheat production in South Dakota, June 2025-December 2026, as a principal investigator, $50,000.
2. National Science Foundation proposal in Building Research Capacity of New Faculty in Biology: Toward mechanistic elucidation of wall-associated kinase immunity receptors in barley-spot blotch interaction, as principal investigator, $494,829.
3. South Dakota Wheat Commission: Enhancing resilience of wheat against diseases for sustainable and profitable wheat production in South Dakota, June 2023-December 2024, as a principal investigator, $67,716.
4. South Dakota Wheat Commission: Enhancing resilience of wheat against diseases for sustainable and profitable wheat production in South Dakota Supplemental, October 2023-December 2024, as a principal investigator, $27,500.
5. South Dakota Soybean Research and Promotion Council proposal: Addressing the problem of soybean white mold disease in South Dakota. August 2024 to July 2025 as co-principal investigator, $48,746.
6. South Dakota Soybean Research and Promotion Council proposal: Assessment of mid-late season foliar diseases of soybean. May 2024 to April 2025 as co-principal investigator, $31,251.
7. South Dakota Corn Utilization Council, Harnessing soil microbiome and its enzymatic properties for sustainably improving corn nutrient absorption and disease resistance capacity, as a co-principal investigator $57,035.
8. South Dakota Wheat Commission: Enhancing resilience of wheat against diseases for sustainable and profitable wheat production in South Dakota, June 2024-Dec. 2025, as PI, $65,133.
9. º£½ÇÖ±²¥app Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Challenge Fund: Development of transient transformation and spatiotemporal tools for functional validation in crop plants, 2024-2025, as a principal investigator, $15,000.
10. US Wheat and Barley Scab Initiative: Screening of FHB resistance in superior winter and spring barley developed for the state of South Dakota, May 2022-May 2026, as a principal investigator, $104,824.
11. Minnesota Wheat Research and Promotion Council, January 2022-December 2024, "Breeding winter wheat varieties with FHB and straw strength" as a co-principal investigator $32,120.
12. South Dakota Wheat Commission: Enhancing resilience of wheat against diseases for sustainable and profitable wheat production in South Dakota, June 2022-December 2023, as a co-principal investigator, $73,234.

1. Alhusays, A., Galvin, C., Torres, M., Senger, M., Fitzpatrick, E., Gonzalez-Hernandez, J.L., Glover, K., Solanki, S. and Ameen, G., 2024. First Report of Pantoea ananatis causing leaf streak disease on wheat (Triticum aestivum) in the United States of America. Plant Disease, 108(9), p. 2913.
2. Sharma, S., Reese, K., Kleinjan, J., Graham, C., Gonzalez Hernandez, J.L., Ali, S., Ameen, G. and Solanki, S., 2024. First report of Fusarium luffae causing soybean wilt in the USA. Plant Disease, PDIS-03-24-0556-PDN.
3. Rahman Bhuiyan, Md Ziaur; Solanki, Shyam; del Rio Mendoza, Luis E.; Borowicz, Pawel; Lakshman, Dilip K.; Qi, Aiming; Ameen, Gazala; Khan, Mohamed FR; Histopathological Investigation of Varietal Responses to Cercospora beticola Infection Process on Sugar Beet Leaves. 2023 Plant Disease 107 (12), 3906-3912.
4. Mohamed FR Khan, MZR Bhuiyan, LE del Rio Mendoza, DK Lakhsman, A. Ismaiel, A. Azizi, G. Ameen. First report of Fusarium solani (Mart.) Sacc. causing sugar beet seedling rot in Minnesota, USA. Journal of Plant Pathology, 2023. Journal of Plant Pathology 106 (1), 277-278.
5. Mohamed FR Khan, MZR Bhuiyan, Luis E. del Río Mendoza, Dilip K. Lakhsman, Abdolbaset Azizi, Gazala Ameen, Arslan Sarwar. First Report of Leaf Spot of Sugar Beet Caused by Stemphylium vesicarium in Minnesota, 2023. Plant Disease 107 (8), 2526.
6. . Co-authored white paper, 2022. Published in Plant Direct. DOI: 10.1002/pld3.406
7. Ameen G., Solanki S., Sager-Bittara L., Richards J., Tamang P., Friesen T., Brueggeman R.S. 2021. Mutations in a barley cytochrome P450 gene enhances pathogen induced programmed cell death and cutin layer instability. PLoS Genetics 17 (12), e1009473.
8. Vision, challenges and opportunities for a plant cell atlas, published in eLife. Co-authored feature article, 2021. Elife 10, e66877.
9. Ameen G., Bittara-Sager, L., Richards, J., Tamang, P., Solanki, S., Friesen, T.L., and Brueggeman, R.S. 2021. The Nec3 Gene is a Putative Negative Regulator of Pathogen Induced Programmed Cell Death in Barley. PLOSGenetics.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1009473.
10. Tamang, P., Richards, J., Solanki, S., Ameen, G., Sharma Poudel, R., Deka, P., Effertz, K.,Clare, S., Hegstad, J., Bezbaruah, A., Li, X., Horsley, R., Friesen, T., and Brueggeman, R.S. 2021. The barley HvWRKY6 transcription factor is required for resistance against Pyrenophora teres f. teres. Frontiers in Genetics. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2020.601500).
11. Jin, Z., Solanki, S., Ameen, G., Gross, T., Poudel, R.S., Borowicz, P., Brueggeman, R.S., Schwarz, P. 2021. Localization of hyphal growth associated with mycotoxin production during the malting of Fusarium head blight infected grains. Molecular Plant Microbe Interaction.
12. Ameen,G., Solanki,S., Drader, T., Sager, L., Steffenson, B., Kleinhofs, A. and Brueggeman, R.S. 2020. . bioRxiv, DOI: 10.1101/2020.04.13.040238.
13. Solanki, S., Ameen, G., Zhao, J., Schwarz, P., Jain, S., Flaten, J., Bororwicz, P., and Brueggeman, R.S. 2020. Visualization of spatial gene expression in plants by modified RNAscope fluorescent in situ hybridization. Plant Methods. 16, 1-9.
14. Sanyal, D., Solanki, S., Ameen, G., Brueggeman, R., and Chatterjee, A. 2020. Understanding the expression dynamics of symbiont rhizobial nifH and nitrogen assimilatory NR and GS genes in Phaseolus vulgaris, L. at various growth stages. Legume Science.
15. Solanki, S., Richards, J., Ameen, G., Wang, X., Khan, A., Ali, H., Stangel, A., Tamang, P., Gross, P., Gross, T., Fetch, T. G. and Brueggeman, R. 2019. Characterization of genes required for both Rpg1 and rpg4-mediated wheat stem rust resistance in barley. BMC Genomics. 20 (1), 495.
16. Solanki, S., Ameen, G., Borowicz, P. and Brueggeman, R. 2019. Shedding light on penetration of cereal host stomata by wheat stem rust using improved methodology. Scientific reports. 9 (1), 7939.
17. Ameen, G., Kariyawasam, G., Shi, G., Friesen, T.L., Faris, J.D., Ali, S., Rasmussen, J.B., and Liu, Z. 2017. Molecular manipulation of the mating-type system and development of a new approach for characterizing pathogen virulence in Pyrenophora tritici-repentis. Fungal Genet Biol. Dec.; 109: 16–25.
18. Solanki, S., Richards, J., Ameen, G., Brueggeman, R.S. 2016. Modulation of integrated decoy R-genes/transcription factor assembly elicits wheat stem rust resistance responses in barley: rpg4/Rpg5-mediated Ug99 resistance. International barley genome consortium, International Barley Genetics Symposium (IBGS), Minnesota, USA.

Book chapter

1. Brueggeman, R.S., Solanki S., Ameen G., Effertz, K., Sharma Poudel, R. and Karakaya A. 2020.  Fungal Diseases Affecting Barley in Achieving sustainable cultivation of barley, chapter 10, Burleigh dodds science publishing (book chapter).
2. Richards, J., Ameen, G. and, Brueggeman, R. 2016. Inverse Gene-For-Gene: Necrotrophic Specialist’s Modus operandi in Barley and Wheat, Management of Wheat and Barley Diseases, chapter 23, Apple Academic Press (book chapter).
3. Solanki, S., Ameen, G., Sanyal, D., Jain, S., Elakhdar, A., Lall, S., Chittem, K., Brueggeman, L., Kumar, A. and Brueggeman, R. 2020. Friends and Foes: Phyto-microbial interactions in molecular perspective. Springer Nature.