ramanathancv

Education

Ph. D (1996) TNAU

Specialization

Rice Pathology

Current area of Research

Working in All India Co- ordiated Research Project (AICRP) on Rice

Courses offered

PAT 504 Principles of Plant Pathology (3+0)

PAT 613 Disease Resistances in Plants (2+0)

PAT 813 Molecular basis of disease resistance in plants (2+1)

PAT 518: Epidemiology and forecasting of plant diseases (2+1)

Awards and Medals

Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR) Junior Research Fellowship

II. Natheniel memorial gold medal for the best PhD thesis in Plant Protection including weed control.

III Best research paper award by the Indian Society of Seed Technology for the year 1992 appeared in the Seed Research Journal

Trainings undergone:

• Hands-on training in marker assisted selection for bacterial leaf blight and elongated upper-most internode in rice at Mahyco Research Foundation, Research and Training centre, Hyderabad, India

• Recent techniques in Plant Genetic Engineering and Molecular Breeding at National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology, IARI, New Delhi. India

• Advances in Molecular Techniques for Genetic Improvement of Crops with reference to resistance against biotic and abiotic stresses at Department of Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, TNAU, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu. India

Publication

International

Ramanathan, A Vidhyasekaran, P. and Samiyappan, R. 2000. Induction of defense mechanisms in greengram leaves and suspension-cultured cells by Macrophomina phaseolina and its elicitors. Journal of Plant Disease and Protection (Germany) 107: 245-257.

Ramanathan, A., Vidhyasekaran, P and Luke Rathinakumar. 2002. Selection of powdery mildew and yellow mosaic-resistant greengram plants regenerated through organogenesis. Archives of Phytopathology and Plant Pathology (Germany) 35 : 1-10.

Ramanathan, A., Vidhyasekaran, P. and Samiyappan. R. 2001. Two pathogenesis-related peroxidases in greengram (Vigna radiata (L.) wilczek) leaves and cultured cells induced by Macrophomina phaseolina (Tassi) Goid. and its elicitor. Microbiological Research (Germany) 156: 1-6.

Ramanathan. A and Vidhyasekaran. P. 1997. Detection of elicitor induced defense-related gene products in Vigna mungo. Journal of Plant Disease and Protection (Germany) 104 : 581-587.

Books Chapters :

Samiyappan, R., Balasubramanian, P., Babu, S., Nandakumar, R., Shanmugam, V., Raguchander, T and Ramanathan, A. 2001. Advances in molecular biology of phytotoxin production and its involvement in plant pathogenesis. : in Advances in microbial toxin research and its biotechnological exploitation, R. K. Upadhyay (ed), Kluwer Academic/Plenum publishers, New York, USA.231-258

Samiyappan, R., S. Nakkeeran., V. Ramamoorthy., A. Ramanathan., P. Balasubramanaian and T. Marimuthu. 2002. Molecular mechanisms involved in biological control of fungal plant pathogens of major agricultural and horticultural crops. In: Frontiers of fungal diversity in India(Prof. Kamal festschrift) p 57-74 Eds. G.P.Rao, C. Manoharachari, D. J. Bhat, R. C. Rajak, T.N. Lakhanpal. pp 906 International Book Distributing Co. Lucknow, India.

National

Ramanathan, A and Vidhyasekaran, P. 1998. Isolation and purification of elicitor molecules from Macrophomina phaseolina. Indian Phytopathology .51(3): 279-281

Ramanathan, A and Vidhyasekaran, P. 2002. Induction of PR-protein(1) in blackgram (Vigna mungo(L.) Hepper) by biotic and abiotic elicitors. Indian Phytopathology. 55 (1) : 62-64

Ramanathan, A. and Sivaprakasam, K. 1994. Effect of seed treatment with antagonists and fungicides on seed viability and seedling vigour of chilli. Seed Research. 20: 134-137.

Ramanathan, A., Marimuthu, T and Raguchander, T. 2004. Effect of Plant Extacts on Growth in Pythium aphanidermatum. J. of Mycol. and Pl. Pathol.34(2): 315-317.

Ramanathan, A., Shanmugam, V., Raguchander, T and Samiyappan, R. 2002 Induction of Systemic Resistance in Ragi against Blast Disease by Pseudomonas fluorescens. Annals of Plant Protection Sciences. 10(2) : 313-318.

Ramanathan, A., Thambidurai,G and Raguchander, T. 2004. Evaluation of fungicides and neem products against blast pathogen in finger millet. J. of Mycol. and Pl. Pathol.34(2): 344-345.