I am a Ph.D. student working on Prospois juliflora, an exotic weed in arid and semiarid regions of India.

I am interested in finding out the causes of invasion success of Prosopis juliflora in its non-native range, India. Prosopis juliflora is leguminous species native to Central America, northern South America and the Caribbean islands. It has spread to all hot arid and semi-arid regions of India inhabiting diverse substrata, for this I have selected study sites in different regions of India like Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan and Gujarat.

Publications

• Kaur H., Kaur R., Kaur S., Baldwin I.T., and Inderjit. 2009 Taking ecological function seriously: soil microbial communities can obviate allelopathic effects of released metabolites. PLoS One 4(3): e4700.
• Inderjit, Kaur R, Kaur S. and Callaway, R.M. 2009. Impact of (±)-catechin on soil microbial communities. Communicative & Integrative Biology 2: 1-3.
• Inderjit, Evans H., Crocoll C., Bajpai D., Kaur R., Feng Y., Silva C., Carreón J.T., Valiente-Banuet A., Gershenzon J., and Callaway R.M. (2011) Volatile chemicals from leaf litter are associated with invasiveness of a neotropical weed in Asia. Ecology (in press)

 
Pictures from my field sites

Prosopis juliflora
Mikania micrantha
Chromolaena odorata