DEPARTMENT OF PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

2008

1. Borah, B.K., Johnson, A.M.A., Sai, G, DVR & Dasgupta, I. 2008. A comparison of four DNA extraction methods for the detection of Citrus yellow mosaic badnavirus from two species of citrus using PCR and dot-blot hybridisation. Journal of Virological Methods 151: 321-324.
2. Bovill, W.D., Deveshwar, P., Kapoor, S. & Able, J.A. 2008. Whole genome approaches to identify early meiotic gene candidates in cereals. Functional and Integrative Genomics DOI 10.1007/s10142-008-0097-4.
3. Dasgupta, I. 2008. Cassava Mosaic Disease, In: Govind, P. Rao, S.M., Khurana, P. & Sergio L. (eds.) Characterization, Diagnosis & Management of Plant Viruses. Vol. 1 Industrial Crops, pp 379-388, Lenardon, Studium Press, Texas, USA.
4. Godge, M.R., Purkayastha, A., Dasgupta, I. & Kumar, P.P. 2008. Virus-induced gene silencing for functional analysis of selected genes. Plant Cell Reports 27: 209-219.
5. Gupta, A., Ray, S., Kapoor, S. & Khare, S.K. 2008. Identification and nucleotide sequencing of Pseudomonas aeruginosa gene: molecular characterization and phylogenetic studoes. J. Mol. Microbiol. Biotechnol. (DOI: 10.1159/0001074888).
6. Jain, M., Khurana, P., Tyagi, A.K. & Khurana, J.P. 2008. Genome-wide comparative analysis of intronless genes in rice and Arabidopsis. Functional & Integrative Genomics 8: 69-78.
7. Jain, M., Tyagi, A.K. & Khurana, J.P. 2008. Differential gene expression of rice two-component signalling elements during reproductive development and regulation by abiotic stress. Functional & Integrative Genomics 8: 175-180.
8. Jain, M., Tyagi, A.K. & Khurana, J.P. 2008. Constitutive expression of a putative rice meiotic recombination protein gene, OsTOP6A1, confers stress tolerance in transgenic Arabidopsis plants. Plant Cell Reports 27: 767-778.
9. Jain, M., Tyagi, A.K. & Khurana, J.P. 2008. Genome-wide identification, classification, evolutionary expansion and expression analyses of homeobox genes in rice. FEBS J. 275: 2845-2861.
10. Jain M, Khurana JP 2008. Small RNA regulation of rice homeobox genes. Plant Signaling and Behaviour 3: 1024-1025.
11. Kapoor, M., Arora, R., Lama, T., Nijhawan, A., Khurana, J.P., Tyagi, A.K. & Kapoor, S. 2008. Genome-wide identification, organization and phylogenetic analysis of Dicer-like, Argonaute and RNA-dependent RNA Polymerase gene families and their ex-pression analysis during reproductive development and stress in rice. BMC Genomics 9: 451.
12. Khurana, J.P., Tyagi, A.K. & Jain, M. 2008. Regulation of plant development by auxin-induced changes in gene expression and a family of F-box proteins in Arabidopsis and rice. In: Balyan, H.S. and Gupta P.K. (eds) Proceedings of the National Symposium on “Molecular Basis of Plant Breeding” (In press).
13. Khurana, P., Chibbar, A., Singla, B., Chauhan, H., Chaudhary, N., Ratnu, V. 2008. Wheat Biotechnology: From genes to genomics.  Tree genomics. In: Arya, I.D. & Arya, S. (eds.) pp. 55-65. Utilization of biotechnology in plant sciences. Forest Res. Institute, Dehradun, India.
14. Khurana P., Chauhan, H., Desai, S.A. 2008. Wheat. In: Kole, C., Hall T.C. (Eds.), A Compendium of Transgenic Crops, Vol. I Cereals and Forage grasses, pp. 83-100.  Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK.
15. Khurana, P., Visnudasan, D. & Chibbar, A.K. 2008. Genetic approaches towards overcoming water deficit in plants – special emphasis on LEAs. Physiol. Mol. Biol. Plant 14: 277-298.
16. Khurana, P. 2008. Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, In: Nobel Laureate woman scientists. The National Academy of Sciences, India, pp. 20-22.
17. Khurana, P. 2008. Rita Levi-Montaleini, In: Nobel Laureate woman scientists. The National Academy of Sciences, India, pp. 28-30.
18. Khurana, P. 2008. Christiana Nusslein-Vollard, In: Nobel Laureate woman scientists. The National Academy of Sciences, India, pp. 35-37.
19. Lal, S., Gulyani, V., & Khurana, P. 2008. Overexpression of HVA1 gene from barley generates tolerance to salinity and water stress in transgenic mulberry (Morus indica). Transgenic Res. 17:  651-663.
20. Li, L-G. Lubomir, N., Sokolov, Yong-Hua Yang, Dong-Ping Li, Julie Ting, Pandey, G.K. & Sheng Luan. A. 2008. Mitochondrial Magnesium Transporter Functions in Arabidopsis Pollen Development. Mol Plant  1: 675-685
21. Mahajan, S., Pandey, G.K., Tuteja, N. 2008. Calcium- and salt-stress signalling in plants: shedding light on SOS pathway. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 471: 146-58.
22. Mir, R.R., Rustgi, S., Sharma, S., Singh, R., Goyal, A., Kumar, J., Gaur, A., Tyagi, A.K., Khan, H., Sinha, M., Balyan, H.S. & Gupta, P.K. 2008. A preliminary genetic analysis of fibre traits and the use of new genomic SSRs for genetic diversity in jute. Euphytica 161: 413-427.
23. Mittal, D., Borah, B.K. & Dasgupta, I. 2008. Agroinfection of cloned Sri Lankan cassava mosaic virus DNA to Arabidopsis thaliana, Nicotiana tabacum and cassava. Archives Virology 153: 2149-2155.
24. Nigam, N., Singh, A., Sahi, C., Chandramouli, A. & Grover, A. 2008. SUMO conjugating enzyme (Sce) and FK506 binding protein (FKBP) encoding rice (Oryza sativa L.) genes: genome-wide analysis, expression studies and evidence for their involvement in abiotic stress response.  Molecular Genetics and Genomics 279: 371-383.
25. Nijhawan, A., Jain, M., Tyagi, A.K. & Khurana, J.P. 2008. Genomic survey and gene expression analysis of the basic leucine zipper transcription factor family in rice. Plant Physiol. 146: 1-18.
26. Pandey, G.K. 2008. Emergence of a Novel Calcium Signaling Pathway in Plants: CBL-CIPK Signaling Network. Physiol. Mol. Biol. Plants 14: 51-68.
27. Pandey, G. K., Grant, J. J., Cheong, Y.H., Kim, B-G., Li, L. G. & Luan. S., 2008. Calcineurin-B-Like Protein CBL9 Interacts with Target Kinase CIPK3 in the Regulation of ABA Response in Seed Germination. Mol. Plant 1: 238-248.
28. Paul, L.K. & Khurana, J.P. 2008. Phytochrome-mediated light signaling in plants: Emerging trends. Physiol. Mol. Biol. Plants 14:9-22.
29. Rice Annotation Project. 2008 The rice annotation projet database (RAP-DB): update. Nucl. Acids Res, Database issue: (RAP-DB):   Nucleic Acids Res 36: D1028-1033. (Co-authored as Coordinator of the Indian Initiative on Rice Genome Sequencing).
30. Ravi, V., Khurana, J.P., Tyagi, A.K. & Khurana, P. 2008. Chloroplast genomes: Organization and implications. Plant Syst. Evol. 271: 101-122.
31. Singla, B., Khurana, J.P., & Khurana, P. 2008. Characterization of three somatic embryogenesis receptor kinase genes from wheat, Triticum aestivum. Plant Cell Rep 27: 833-843.
32. Sharma, M.K, Singh, N.K., Jani, D., Sisodia, R., Thungpathra, M., Gautam, J.K., Meena, L.S., Singh, Y., Ghosh, A., Tyagi, A.K. & Sharma, A.K. 2008. Expression of toxin co-regulated pilus subunit A (TCPA) of Vibrio cholarae and its immunogenic epitopes fused to cholera toxin B subunit in transgenic tomato (Solanum lycopersicum). Plant Cell Reports 27: 307-18.
33. Sharma, M.K., Jani, D., Thungapathra, M., Gautam, J.K., Meena, L.S., Singh, Y., Ghosh, A., Tyagi, A.K., & Sharma, A.K. 2008. Expression of accessory colonization factor subunit A (ACFA) of Vibrio cholerae and ACFA fused to cholera toxin B subunit in transgenic tomato (Solanum lycopersicum). J Biotechnol 135: 22-27.
34. Sharma, P., Kumari, H., Kumar, M., Verma, M., Kumari, K., Malhotra, S., Khurana, J., & Lal, R. 2008. From bacterial genomics to metagenomics: concept, tools and recent advances. Indian  J. Microbiol 48: 173-194.
35. Singh, A. & Grover, A. 2008. Genetic engineering for heat tolerance in plants. Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants 14: 155-166.
36. Tyagi, A.K., Khurana, J., Khurana, P., Vij, S., Jain, M. & Ravi, V. 2008. Evolution and phylogenetic relationship of rice genome. In: Sharma, A.K. & Sharma, A. (eds). Plant Genome: Biodiversity and Evolution (Volume 1E: Phanerogams: Angiosperms) 15-41. Science Publishers, Inc., USA.
37. Tyagi, H., Rajasubramaniam, S., Rajam, M.V. & Dasgupta, I. 2008. RNA-interference in rice against Rice tungro bacilliform virus results in its decreased accumulation in inoculated rice plants. Transgenic Research 17: 897-904.
38. Vij, S. Giri, J., Dansana, P.K., Kapoor, S. & Tyagi, A.K. 2008. The receptor-like cytoplasmic kinase (OsRLCK) gene family in Rice: Organization, phylogenetic relationship, and ex-pression during development and stress. Molecular Plant 1–1732-750.
39. Vij, S. & Tyagi, A.K. 2008. A20/AN1 zinc-finger domain-containing proteins in plants and animals represent common elements in stress response. Funct. Integr. Genomics 8: 301-307.
40. Vyas, S., Gaur, A., Tyagi, A.K. & Purohit, S.D. 2008. Assessment of genetic diversity in Feronia limonia (L.) Swingle populations. International J. Sustainable Forestry 27: 328-342.

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