A. Ramesh Sundar or Amalraj R.S or Sundar,A.R.

About

Sugarcane Pathologist, since 1993 and currently heading the division of Crop Protection in ICAR-Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Coimbatore, India. My specialization is Molecular Plant-pathogen interaction. Fellow of National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS), New Delhi.

Employment

• Indian Council of Agricultural Research Principal Scientist and Head, Crop Protection Division, ICAR-Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Coimbatore

Education

• CSIRO Queensland Bioscience Precinct Post-Doctoral Fellow
  2007 - 2008
• Tamil Nadu Agricultural University PhD
  1996 - 1999

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (72)

• Transient expression of small secreted proteins of Colletotrichum falcatum elicits broad-spectrum disease resistance in tobacco
  Plant Cell Reports 2026 DOI: 10.1007/s00299-026-03831-8
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• Comparative transcriptomic analysis unravels the molecular mechanism of Sporisorium scitamineum pathotypes during in vitro dimorphic transition and sugarcane interaction
  Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.pmpp.2026.103449
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• Discovering The Molecular Variations Among Distinct Sporisorium scitamineum Isolates Using Sequence-Related Amplified Polymorphism (SRAP) Markers
  Sugar Tech 2023 DOI: 10.1007/s12355-023-01276-x
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• Role of Cerato-Platanins in Inducing PAMP-Triggered Immunity in Plants
  2023 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-99-3947-3_2
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• Molecular Discrimination of Opposite Mating Type Haploids of Sporisorium scitamineum and Establishing Their Dimorphic Transitions During Interaction with Sugarcane
  Sugar Tech 2022 DOI: 10.1007/s12355-021-01085-0
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• A highly efficient stratagem for protoplast isolation and genetic transformation in filamentous fungus Colletotrichum falcatum
  Folia Microbiologica 2022 DOI: 10.1007/s12223-022-00950-z
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• Protoplast-mediated transformation in Sporisorium scitamineum facilitates visualization of in planta developmental stages in sugarcane
  Molecular Biology Reports 2021 DOI: 10.1007/s11033-021-06823-x
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• Comparative expression analysis of potential pathogenicity-associated genes of high- and low-virulent Sporisorium scitamineum isolates during interaction with sugarcane
  3 Biotech 2021 DOI: 10.1007/s13205-021-02893-7
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• Transcriptional reprogramming of major defense-signaling pathways during defense priming and sugarcane-Colletotrichum falcatum interaction
  Molecular Biology Reports 2020 DOI: 10.1007/s11033-020-05944-z
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• Tête-à-Tête during plant-pathogen interactions: Intricacies involved and beyond
  PLANT DISEASE RESEARCH 2020 DOI: 10.5958/2249-8788.2020.00020.7
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