Academic record & distinction

First Class First in B.Sc. (Horticulture), First Class in M.Sc. (Horticulture), PhD from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India

Areas of Specialization

Organic and Hill Horticulture, Fruit Science, PGPRs

Research Guidance:

PhD Research: 03 awarded, 07 registered

M.Sc. Dissertation: 20 plus awarded

Number of Publications & Projects:

Publications in Journals: 68; Book chapters: 10; Extension Bulletins: 20; Research projects: 10

Latest Publications

• Neizohunuo, Sharma L., Physico-chemical characterization of kiwifruit grown in different parts of India. Journal of Applied Horticulture, 2025, 27(1): 89-93. DOI: https://doi.org/10.37855/jah.2025.v27i01.17
• Singh AK, Pal P, Sahoo UK, Sharma L, Pandey B, Prakash A, Sarangi PK, Prus P, Pașcalău R, Imbrea F. Enhancing Crop Resilience: The Role of Plant Genetics, Transcription Factors, and Next-Generation Sequencing in Addressing Salt Stress. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2024, 25(23):12537. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms252312537
• Limbu S, Sharma L, Kumar R, Rana M, Upadhyay S (2024). Evaluation of hybrids of egg plants (Solanum melongena L.) under organic cultivation conditions. Ecology, Environment and Conservation. 2024. 30 (July, Suppl. Issue): S275-S283
• Kharka A., Sharma, L., Limbu, S.  Effect of Organic Manures on Growth, Yield and Quality of Solanum macrocarpon. 2024. Environment and Ecology 42 (1), 61-67
• Sherpa MT, Sharma L. Bag N, Das S. Isolation, characterization, and evaluation of native rhizobacterial consortia developed from the rhizosphere of rice grown in organic state Sikkim, India, and their effect on plant growth. 2021, Frontiers in Microbiology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.713660.
• Panneerselvam P, Senapati A, Sharma L, et.al. Understanding rice growth-promoting potential of Enterobacter spp. isolated from long-term organic farming soil in India through a supervised learning approach. Current Research in Microbial Sciences, 2021, Vol. 2: 100035 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crmicr.2021.100035
• Sherpa MT, Bag N,  Das S,  Haokip, P, Sharma, L. Isolation and characterization of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria isolated from organically grown high yielding pole type native pea (Pisum sativum L.) variety Dentami of Sikkim, India, Current Research in Microbial Sciences, 2021, Vol. 2, 100068, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crmicr.2021.100068.
• Panneerselvam P, Senapati A, Kumar U, Sharma L, Lepcha P, Prabhukarthikeyan SR, Jahan A, Parameshwaran C, Govindharaj GPP, Lenka S, Nayak PK, Mitra D, Sagarika MS, Thangappan S, Sivakumar U. Antagonistic and plant-growth promoting novel Bacillus species from long-term organic farming soils from Sikkim, India. 3 Biotech. 2019, 9(11):416.  http://doi.org/ 10.1007/s13205-019-1938-7. 
• Pradhan A, Sharma L, Tiwari A, Chettri P, Characterization of pectin extracted from Citrus reticulata L. Blanco collected from different altitudes of Sikkim Himalaya.Journal of Applied and Natural Science, 2019, Vol. 11, No. 1, 168-181 
• Singh, A.K., Srivastava, J.K., Chandel, A.K. Sharma L, Mallick N, Singh SP .Biomedical applications of microbially engineered polyhydroxyalkanoates: an insight into recent advances, bottlenecks, and solutions. Applied Microbiology & Biotechnology 103, 2007–2032 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-018-09604-y