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Niran Jambunathan
| Research Area | Selected Publications | Lab Members |
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Title | Assistant Research Professor |
| Office | 357A NRC | |
| Phone | 405-744-6760 | |
| niran.jambunathan@okstate.edu | ||
| Degree | Ph.D. 2003. Molecular Plant Physiology. The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA | |
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Perception and response to stress in plants
My research focuses on understanding how plants perceive and signal under different abiotic and biotic stress conditions. My research interests include signal transduction pathways associated with cell death and oxidative stress in plants. I am currently working with model plant Arabidopsis and Medicago and I have extended my research to crop plant wheat. I use several biochemical, molecular, genomic tools to understand redox signaling in plants. My long term goals are to understand stress signaling responses in plants using genomics approaches and to engineer plants with enhanced tolerance to multiple stresses. I am particularly interested in studying the relationship in energy homeostasis and stress tolerance.
Peal. L, Jambunathan,N, Mahalingam, R. (2008) Phylogenetic and expression analysis of RNA-binding proteins with triple recognition motifs in plants. Genomics (In review).
Mahalingam, R, Jambunathan, N, Penaganti, A. (2007) Pyridine Nucleotide
Homeostasis in Plant Development and stress. International Journal of Plant
Developmental Biology.
Jambunathan N and Mahalingam R. (2006) Analysis of Arabidopsis Growth factor gene
1 (GFG1) encoding a nudix hydrolase during oxidative signaling. Planta 224:1-11.
Mahalingam R*, Jambunathan N*, Gunjan SK, Faustin E, Ayoubi P, Weng H. (2006)
Analysis of oxidative signaling induced by ozone in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell and
Environment 29:1357-1371 (* co first authors).
Liu J *, Jambunathan N* and McNellis TW. (2005) Transgenic expression of the Von
Willebrand A Domain of the BONZAI 1/ COPINE 1 Protein Triggers a Lesion-Mimic
Phenotype in Arabidopsis. Planta 221 85-94 (* co first authors)
Jambunathan, N and McNellis TW. (2003) Regulation of Arabidopsis COPINE 1 Gene
Expression in Response to Pathogens and Abiotic Stimuli. Plant Physiology 132: 1370-
1381.
Jambunathan, N., Siani, JM., McNellis, TW. (2001) A humidity-sensitive Arabidopsis
copine mutant exhibits precocious cell death and increased disease resistance. Plant Cell
13 (10): 2225-2240.
