Sairam Rudrabhatla, Ph.D. is Scientific Consultant to Hi-Genomics. He is also the Assistant Director of the Plant Science Research Center at the University of Toledo, Ohio. His degrees are B.S. Botany, Zoology, Chemistry, Andhra University; M.S. Tissue Culture & Plant Physiology, University of Baroda; and Ph.D. Genetics, Osmania University, India, 1995.
Previous Work
- Worked at ICRISAT as a Scientist-Cell and molecular biology division
- Worked as Subject Expert-Biotechnology for A.P ( India)- Netherlands biotechnology program
- Worked with Professor Ingo Potrykus at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich
- Worked at Aventis Crop Science
Current Collaborators
Floyd Schanbacher, OSU
Kevin Folta, UF, Gainesville
Professor T Ed Cocking, Nottingham, UK
Professor Henry Daniell, UCF, Florida
Dr. Autar Matoo, USDA-ARS, Beltsville
Areas of interest: Plant Transformation, Gene discovery, Disease resistance, Phytoremediation, Functional genomics in legumes
Publications
Diaa Al-Abed, Rudrabhatla, Sairam, Talla, Reddy and Goldman, Stephen. Split-seed: A new tool for maize researchers. Planta – Accepted 2006, In Press.
Rudrabhatla Sairam, Siva Chennareddy, Madasamy Parani, Shulu Zhang, Diaa Al-Abed, Wissam Abou-Alaiwi and Stephen Goldman. OPBC Symposium: Maize 2004 & Beyond – Plant Regeneration, Gene Discovery and Genetic Engineering of Plants for Crop Improvement. In Vitro Cell. Dev. Biol.-Plant – 41, 411-423, 2005.
R.V. Sairam and C.S. Prakash. Can Agricultural Biotechnology Contribute to Global Food Security? In Vitro Cell. Dev. Biol.-Plant – 41, 424-430, 2005.
R.V. Sairam, Franklin, G., Carpenter, L., Al.Abed, D., Abou Alawai, W., Parani, M., Goldman, S.L. Factors influencing regeneration of soybean from mature and immature cotyledons. Plant Growth Regulation : 43: 73-79, 2004.
R.V. Sairam, Parani Madasamy, Rachel Myers, Heatherbea Weirich, Bruce Smith, Douglas W. Leaman, S.L. Goldman. Microarray analysis of nitric oxide responsive transcripts in arabidopsis. Plant Biotechnology Journal : 2: 359-366, 2004.
R.V.Sairam, G. Franklin, R. Hassel, B. Smith, K. Meeker, N. Kashikar, M. Parani, D. Al. Abed, S. Ismail, K. Berry & S.L. Goldman. A study on the effect of genotypes, plant growth regulators and sugars in promoting plant regeneration via organogenesis from soybean cotyledonary nodal callus. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture : 75: 79-85, 2003.
R.V.Sairam, Parani M., Franklin G., Lifeng Z., Smith B., Mac Dougall, J., Wilber C., Sheiki H., Kashikar N., Meeker K., Al-Abed D., Berry K., Chen H., Vierling R., Goldman S.L. Shoot meristem: An ideal explant for Zea mays transformation. Genome, v.46, p.323-329, 2003.
R.V.Sairam, Wilber, C., Franklin, J., Smith, B., Frutiger, K., Bazil, J., Blakey, C.A., Vierling, R., and Goldman, S.L. High frequency callus induction and plant regeneration in Tripsacum dactyloides (L.), In Vitro Plant Cell Dev.Biol.-Plant. 38:435-440, 2002.
R.V. Sairam, N. Seetharama and T.S. Rani. Regeneration of sorghum from shoot tip cultures and field performance of the progeny. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture 61: 169-173, 2000.
R.V.Sairam, N Seetharama, T. Shyamala and P.S. Devi. Plant regeneration from scutella of immature embryos of diverse sorghum genotypes. Cereal Research Communications. Vol. 28, No3. 279-285, 2000.
R.V. Sairam, N. Seetharama, P.S. Devi, A. Verma, U.R. Murthy and I. Potrykus. Culture and regeneration of medophyll-derived protoplasts of sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench]. Plant Cell Reports : 18: 972-977, 1999.
Book Chapters
P.K. Mythili, T.S. Rani, R.V. Sairam, V.D. Reddy, D. Harshavardhan and N. Seetharama. Sorghum tissue culture and transformation research. Sorghum Tissue Culture & Transformation: 7: 51-56, 2004.
R.V. Sairam, Seetharama, N., Nwanze, K.F., and Subramanian, V. Biotechnology and sorghum improvement for insect resistance. Pages 127-131, In: Plant resistance to insects in sorghum (Eds: Sharma, H.C and Faujdar Singh) 1997.
Patents Published
R.V. Sairam and Goldman, S.L. US patent published 2005. A method for producing In Vitro flowering in a plant and plants produced therefrom. WO 2005/117569 A2.
R.V. Sairam, Goldman, S.L., and D. Al-Abed. US patent published 2005. Novel Maize Split-Seed Explant and Methods for In Vitro Regeneration of Maize. WO2005/122750 A2.
Goldman, S.L. and R.V. Sairam. US patent published 2001. Methods for transformation of Mono- and dicotyledonous plants using meristematic tissue.
Patents Pending
Parani Madasamy, R.V. Sairam and Goldman, S.L. US Patent Pending 2005. A novel transcription factor (Petcbf4) that is induced by cold, drought and salinity stress in plants.
Shulu Zhang, R.V. Sairam and Goldman, S.L. US Patent Pending 2005. Isolation and genetic manipulation of geranium SGT1 genes.
Shulu Zhang, R.V. Sairam and Goldman, S.L. US Patent Pending 2005. Isolation and genetic manipulation of geranium cysteine proteinase inhibitor genes.
Shulu Zhang, R.V. Sairam and Goldman, S.L. US Patent Pending 2005. Isolation and genetic manipulation of geranium auxin-inducible genes.
R.V. Sairam and Goldman, S.L. US patent pending 2001. Methods for transformation of Mono- and dicotyledonous plants using meristematic tissue.
Current Grants
R.V. Sairam and Stephen L. Goldman: USDA, Agrobacterium mediated transformation of forage grasses – Pearl millet. 09/15/04-09/14/06, $82,813
R.V. Sairam, Stephen L. Goldman: OPBC, Engineering of the cereal plastid genomes-Developing plastid transformation protocols for rice and maize for incorporation of value added traits. 10/01/05-09/30/06, $40,000
R.V. Sairam, Stephen L. Goldman: USDA/AUB-Lebanon, Partnership for Pharmaceutical and economic development of wild Lebanese plants. 10/01/05-09/14/06, $464,599
Memberships
Society for In Vitro Biology
International Society of Plant Molecular Biology
American Society of Plant Biologists
Ohio Plant Biotechnology Consortium
American Association of Advancement of Science
The American Phytopathological Society
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