Devika Malkanthi De Costa
Professor
Department of Agricultural Biology
University of Peradeniya
Sri Lanka
Biography
Ph.D. degree - Obtained from Hiroshima University, Japan on 21 March 2002. M.Sc. degree (Technology of Crop Protection) - Obtained from University of Reading, U.K. in October 1991. B.Sc. degree (Agriculture) Second Class Upper Division Honours - Obtained from University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka on February 1988.
Research Interest
Biological control of field and postharvest diseases by antagonistic microflora, Biological control of plant pathogenic nematodes using naturally-inhabiting microbial antagonists, Structural and functional genome analysis of prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes, Elucidation of transcriptomes of salt and drought tolerance in rice, Proteomics on systemically-induced resistance in host plants by microbial antagonists.
Publications
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De Costa, D.M. and Chandima, A. A.G. (2014) Effects of exogenous pH on anthracnose development on different banana varieties of Sri Lanka, Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka. 42(3), 203-214.
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Rienzie, K.D.R., Wickramaarachchi, W.A.R.T., De Costa, D.M. and Wijesooriya, W.M.G.U. (2015) Molecular detection and characterization of begomovirus causing bean yellowing disease in Sri Lanka, Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka (accepted for publication)
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Aruna Kumara, U.M. and De Costa, D.M. (2015) Analysis of differentially expressed gene profiles in a resistant banana cultivar after infection by Colletotrichum musae, Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology. 92, 88-100 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pmpp.2015.08.011
