Akanksha Sehgal

Postdoctoral Research Associate
Plant and Environmental Sciences Department

Office: 202 Biosystems Research Complex
Phone: 662-617-3945

Email: akansks@clemson.edu

Educational Background

Ph.D. Plant Physiology
Panjab University, India 2019

M.Sc. Botany
Panjab University, India 2014

B.Sc. Life Sciences
Himachal Pradesh University 2012

Profile

Dr. Sehgal is originally from India. Her passion lies in exploring how plants adapt to harsh conditions and leveraging this knowledge to strengthen food security. Sehgal’s research focuses on developing strategies to enhance abiotic stress tolerance in food crops, particularly in the face of climate change. She is driven by the goal of creating sustainable agriculture solutions that ensure crop productivity. She is driven to understand how plants adapt to environmental stress and how we can leverage physiological strategies to optimize plant performance.

Research Interests

Dr. Sehgal is interested in understanding how far our food crop varieties can be pushed and what methods can be used to buffer the worst impacts of climate chaos.

Publications

1. Sehgal, A., Singh, G., Quintana, N., Kaur, G., Eberlhar, W., Nelson, K.A., & Dhillon,
J. (2023). Long-term crop rotation affects crop yield and economic returns in humid subtropical climate. Field Crops Research, 298, 108952 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2023.108952
2. Sita, K., Sehgal, A., Bhardwaj, A., Bhandari, K., Jha, U., Prasad, P.V.V., Singh, Sarvjeet., Kumar, S., Siddique, K.H.M., & Nayyar, H. (2023). Selenium supplementation to lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) under combined heat and drought stress improves photosynthetic ability, antioxidant systems, reproductive function and yield traits. Plant and Soil, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-022-05310-x
3. Sehgal, A., Reddy, K. R., Walne, C. H., Barickman, T. C., Brazel, S., Chastain, D., & Gao, W. (2022). Climate Stressors on Growth, Yield, and Functional Biochemistry of two Brassica Species, Kale and Mustard. Life, 12, 1546. https://doi.org/10.3390/life12101546
4. Sita, K., Sehgal, A., Kumar, S., & Nayyar, H. (2022). Individual and combined effects of selenium and silica on enhancing the heat tolerance of lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) genotypes. Plant Physiology Reports, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40502- 022-00669-6
6. Sehgal, A., Reddy, K.R., Walne, C. H., Barickman, T.C., Brazel, S., Chastain, D., & Gao, W. (2022). Individual and Interactive Effects of Multiple Abiotic Stress Treatments on Early-Season Growth and Development of Two Brassica Species. Agriculture, 12, 453. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture12040453

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