Sunil Kumar Ganesan
Assistant Research Scientist
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Lab: Laboratory for Crop Transformation Phone: 979-847-9592 Fax: 979-862-4790 Email: sunilkumar@tamu.edu |
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Engineering Low-gossypol Cottonseeds:
Seed-specific elimination of gossypol by antisense and RNAi-mediated suppression of
delta-cadinene synthase gene in cottonseeds.
Expression and Characterization of scFv in Transgenic Rice:
Production of antibody against pathogenic bacteria in rice seeds:
Expression of the gene encoding scFv for extracellularly localized adhesin,
F5 of the
enterotoxigenic E. coli in rice seeds under the control of CaMV 35S promoter.
Insect Resistance in Cotton:
Production of cotton plants resistant to phloem feeding insects: Expression of
Galanthus nivalis aglutinin (GNA) gene under the control of phloem-specific
promoters (CoYMV promoter and Pumpkin-derived PP2 promoter).
Engineering Disease-Resistance in Cotton:
Expression of endochitinase gene from Tricoderma virens in cotton to develop fungal
disease resistance.
Enhancement of Cottonseed Oil Quality:
Antisense suppression of delta-12-desaturase by expressing anti-sense construct of
delta-12-desaturase gene in cottonseeds using cotton alpha-globulin promoter.
Promoter Analysis:
Characterization of Gossypium hirsutum. L. alpha-globulin promoter: Studied the expression
pattern of cotton alpha-globulin promoter fused to GUS gene in transgenic cotton,
Arabidopsis and tobacco. Characterization of CaMV 35S promoter expression in transgenic
cotton by using GFP as the reporter gene.
Ph.D. (Plant Biotechnology): Center for Plant Molecular Biology,
Madurai Kamaraj University, India, 1998
M.S., (Botany) Bharathidasan University, India, 1992
Book Chapter:
1. Rathore KS, Ganesan Sunilkumar, Campbell LM. 2006. Cotton. In Methods in Molecular
Biology, Vol 343: Agrobacterium Protocols, ed. Wang K (Humana Press, Totowa, NJ),
2nd Ed, Vol 1, pp 267–279.
Research papers:
1. Ganesan Sunilkumar, Campbell LM, Puckhaber L, Stipanovic RD and Rathore KS. 2006.
Engineering cottonseed for human use by tissue specific reduction of toxic gossypol.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 103: 18054-15059.
2. Ganesan Sunilkumar, Monjur HM, Campbell L, Hernandez E, Smith CW, and Rathore KS.
2005. A comprehensive study of the use of a homologous promoter in antisense cotton
lines exhibiting high-seed oleic acid phenotype. Plant Biotechnology Journal, 3: 319-330.
3. Rathore KS and Ganesan Sunilkumar. 2005. Homologous promoter use in genetic
modification. ISB News Report, September 2005: 6-7.
