Sabarinath Sundaram

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Lab: Laboratory for Crop Transformation Phone: 979-847-9592 Fax: 979-862-4790 Email: ssundaram@ag.tamu.edu

Area of Special Interest: Stress Physiology and Molecular Biology

    Artificial miRNA mediated suppression of delta-Cadinene synthase gene in cotton for
    low-gossypol cotton seed.

    Biochemical and molecular characterization of transgenic cotton plants.

    Evaluation of the delta-Cadinene synthase silenced cotton lines against biotic stress.

    Understanding the mechanism of arsenic resistance from an arsenic hyperaccumulating
    plant, brake fern (Pteris vittata).

    Metabolic engineering of plants for stress tolerance.

Post Doctoral, PMCB program, University of Florida, Jan 2006- July 2008

Ph.D., (Life Sciences/Plant Biochemistry) Indian Agricultural Research Institute,
       and Devi Ahilya Viswa Vidyalaya, India. 2005

M.S., (Botany, Spln in Microbiology) Madurai Kamaraj University, India. 1999

Selected Publications:

1. Sundaram S, Rathinasabapathi B, Ma LQ, Rosen BP (2008). An arsenate–activated glutaredoxin from the arsenic hyperaccumulator fern Pteris vittata L. regulates intracellular arsenite. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 283: 6095-6101.

2. Rathinasabapathi B, Wu S, Sundaram S, Rivoal J, Srivastava M, Ma LQ.(2006). Arsenic resistance in Pteris vittata L.: identification of a cytosolic triosephosphate isomerase based on cDNA expression cloning in Escherichia coli. Plant Molecular Biology 62:845-57.

3. Sabarinath S and Khanna –Chopra R (2005). A review on superoxide dismutase and abiotic stress tolerance. Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants, 11:187-198.

4. Renu-Khanna Chopra and Sabarinath S (2004). Heat stable Chloroplastic Cu/Zn Superoxide dismutase in Chenopodium murale. Biochemical Biophysical Research Communication, 320:1187-1192.