Ramesh V Sonti
Chief Scientist
Molecular Biology
Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology
India
Biography
Ramesh Venkata Sonti is an Indian Plant Geneticist. He did his M.Phil in Life sciences from University of Hyderabad. He holds Doctor of philosophy in bacterial genetics from the University of Utah, supplemented with Post Doctoral training in Plant genetics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[citation needed] He is positioned as a Senior Scientist at Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology in Hyderabad, India.
Research Interest
Dr. Ramesh's lab is interested in understanding the mechanisms of attack and defense in the interaction between plants and their pathogens. Our model is the interaction between the bacterial pathogen, Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo) and it host plant which is rice. A major focus of our current research is to identify the rice functions that are involved in induction of innate immunity and Xoo effector proteins that work inside rice cells to suppress innate immune responses.
Publications
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Dipanwita Sinha, Mahesh Kumar Gupta, Hitendra Kumar Patel, Ashish Ranjan, Ramesh V. Sonti. 2013. Cell Wall Degrading Enzyme Induced Rice Innate Immune Responses Are Suppressed by the Type 3 Secretion System Effectors XopN, XopQ, XopX and XopZ of Xanthomonas oryzaepv. oryzae. PLoS ONE 8(9): e75867. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0075867.
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Ashish Ranjan, JyothilakshmiVadassery, Hitendra Kumar Patel, Alok Pandey, Ramesh Palaparthi, Axel Mithofer, Ramesh V Sonti. 2015. Upregulation of jasmonate biosynthesis and jasmonate-responsive genes in rice leaves in response to a bacterial pathogen mimic. Functional & integrative genomics. 15:363-373.
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Mahesh Kumar Gupta, RajkanwarNathawat, Dipanwita Sinha, Asfarul S. Haque, RajanSankaranarayanan, and Ramesh V. Sonti. 2015. Mutations in the Predicted Active Site of Xanthomonas oryzaepv. oryzaeXopQ Differentially Affect Virulence, Suppression of Host Innate Immunity, and Induction of the HR in a Nonhost Plant. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 28:2, 195-206.
