Ramesh Kumar Natatajan

Employment

• National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology CSIR Senior Scientist
  2015 - Present
• National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology CSIR Scientist
  2011 - 2015
• National Centre for Cell Science Project Scientist
  2009 - 2011

Education

• M.S.Swaminathan Research Foundation PhD Microbiology
  2003 - 2009
• University of Madras M.Sc Industrial Microbiology
  2001 - 2003
• KS Rangasamy College of Arts and Science B.Sc
  1997 - 2000

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (19)

• Wild rice-associated Vibrio promotes plant growth and exhibits genomic and phenotypic plasticity for plant adaptations
  mSystems 2025 DOI: 10.1128/msystems.00910-25
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• Flavobacterium pokkalii sp. nov., a novel plant growth promoting native rhizobacteria isolated from pokkali rice grown in coastal saline affected agricultural regions of southern India, Kerala.
  Microbiological research 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.micres.2020.126533
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• Taxonomic insights into the phylogeny of Bacillus badius and proposal for its reclassification to the genus Pseudobacillus as Pseudobacillus badius comb. nov. and reclassification of Bacillus wudalianchiensis Liu et al., 2017 as Pseudobacillus wudalianch…
  Systematic and applied microbiology 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.syapm.2019.03.003
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• Sphingomonas pokkalii sp. nov., a novel plant associated rhizobacterium isolated from a saline tolerant pokkali rice and its draft genome analysis.
  Systematic and applied microbiology 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.syapm.2019.02.003
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• Isolation and characterization of a novel 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate (ACC) deaminase producing plant growth promoting marine Gammaproteobacteria from crops grown in brackish environments. Proposal for Pokkaliibacter plantistimulans gen. nov., sp. …
  Systematic and applied microbiology 2018 DOI: 10.1016/j.syapm.2018.08.003
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• Antimicrobial peptide expression in a wild tobacco plant reveals the limits of host-microbe-manipulations in the field.
  eLife 2018 DOI: 10.7554/elife.28715
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• An investigation into the taxonomy of "Bacillus aminovorans" and its reclassification to the genus Domibacillus as Domibacillus aminovorans sp. nov.
  Systematic and applied microbiology 2017 DOI: 10.1016/j.syapm.2017.07.003
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• Specificity of root microbiomes in native-grown Nicotiana attenuata and plant responses to UVB increase Deinococcus colonization.
  Molecular ecology 2017 DOI: 10.1111/mec.14049
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• Arthrobacter pokkalii sp nov, a Novel Plant Associated Actinobacterium with Plant Beneficial Properties, Isolated from Saline Tolerant Pokkali Rice, Kerala, India.
  PloS one 2016 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0150322
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• Novosphingobium pokkalii sp nov, a novel rhizosphere-associated bacterium with plant beneficial properties isolated from saline-tolerant pokkali rice.
  Research in microbiology 2016 DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2016.09.001
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