Chercheurs

Sciences de la Vie / RATHINASABAPATHI, BALA

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Position

Horticultural Sciences Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, U.S.

Thèmes de recherche

Plant Physiology/Molecular Biology

Projects:
1. Metabolic Engineering for Stress Tolerance
2. Arsenic Hyperaccumulation in Ferns

Prix et récompenses

Publications

Research publications

Rathinasabapathi B, Rangasamy M, Froeba J, Cherry RH, McAuslane HJ, Capinera JL, Srivastava M, Ma LQ (2007) Arsenic hyperaccumulation in the Chinese brake fern (Pteris vittata) deters grasshopper (Schistocerca americana ) herbivory. New Phytologist (in press).

Rathinasabapathi B (2006) Ferns represent an untapped biodiversity for improving crops for environmental stress tolerance. New Phytologist 172:385-390.

Rathinasabapathi B, Wu S, Sundaram S, Rivoal J, Srivastava M, Ma LQ (2006) Arsenic resistance in Pteris vittata L: Identification of cytosolic triosephosphate isomerase based on cDNA expression cloning in Escherichia coli. Plant Molecular Biology 62:845-857.

Rathinasabapathi B, Raman SB, Kertulis G, Ma LQ (2006) Arsenic-resistant proteobacterium from the phyllosphere of arsenic-hyperaccumulating fern Pteris vittata reduces arsenate to arsenite. Canadian Journal of Microbiology 52:695-700.

Singh N., Ma, L.Q., Srivastava, M., and Rathinasabapathi B (2006) Metabolic adaptations to arsenic-induced oxidative stress in Pteris vittata L. and Pteris ensiformis L. Plant Science 170:274-282.

Fouad WM, Rathinasabapathi B (2006) Expression of bacterial L-aspartate-alpha-decarboxylase in tobacco increases beta-alanine and pantothenate levels and improves thermotolerance. Plant Molecular Biology 60: 495-505.

Berry AD, Stall WM, Rathinasabapathi B, Macdonald GE, Charudattan R (2006) Aggressivity: Cucumber vs. Amaranth. Weed Technology 20:986-991.

Berry AD, Stall WM, Rathinasabapathi B, Macdonald GE, Charudattan R (2006) Smooth pigweed (Amaranthus hybridus L.) and livid amaranth (A. lividus) interference with cucumber (Cucumis sativus). Weed Technology 20:227-231.

Fayiga AO, Ma LQ, Santos J, Rathinasabapathi B, Stamps B, and Littell RC. (2005). Effects of arsenic species and concentrations on arsenic accumulation by different fern species in a hydroponic system. International Journal of Phytoremediation 7:231-240.

Rathinasabapathi B and Raman SB (2005). Exogenous supply of pantoyl lactone to excised leaves increases their pantothenate levels. Annals of Botany 95:1033-1037.

Rathinasabapathi B., Ferguson J., and M. Gal. (2005). Evaluation of allelopathic potential of wood chips for weed suppression in horticultural production systems. HortScience 40:711-713.

Rathinasabapathi B. (2004). Survival of Salmonella Montevideo on tomato leaves and mature green tomatoes. Journal of Food Protection 67:2277-2279.

Buker R.S., Rathinasabapathi B, Stall W.M., MacDonald G., Olson S.M. (2004) Physiological basis for differential tolerance of tomato and pepper to rimsulfuron and halosulfuron. Site of action study. Weed Science 52:201-205.

Raman S.B., Rathinasabapathi B. (2004). Pantothenate synthesis in plants. Plant Science 167:961-968.

Fayiga A.O. , Ma L.Q., Cao X., Rathinasabapathi B (2004) Effects of Cd, Ni, Zn and Pb on plant growth and arsenic uptake of the hyperaccumulator Pteris vittata in a contaminated soil. Environmental Pollution 132:289-296.

Raman S.B., Rathinasabapathi B (2003) Beta-alanine N methyltransferase of Limonium latifolium. cDNA cloning and functional expression of a novel N methyltransferase implicated in the synthesis of the osmoprotectant beta-alanine betaine. Plant Physiology 132:1642-1651.

Koca, U., Rathinasabapathi B, Moore G (2003) Distribution of flavonoid glycosides, polyphenolics and antioxidant potentials in different tissues of Citrus paradisi, Citrus grandis and Citrus sinensis. Proceedings of the Florida State Horticultural Society 116:197-200.

Aly M.A.M., Rathinasabapathi B., Bhalsod S (2002) Somatic embryogenesis in members of the Plumbaginaceae: ornmental statice Limonium and sea thrift Armeria maritima. HortScience 37:1122-1123.

Rathinasabapathi B (2002) Propionate, a source of β-alanine, is an inhibitor of β-alanine methylation in Limonium latifolium, Plumbaginaceae. Journal of Plant Physiology 159:671-674.

Aly M.A.M., Rathinasabapathi B., Kelly K. (2002) Somatic embryogenesis in perennial statice Limonium bellidifolium (Gouan) Durmort. Plumbaginaceae. Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture 68:127-135.

Rathinasabapathi, B., Fouad, W.M., and C.A. Sigua (2001) β-Alanine betaine synthesis in the Plumbaginaceae. Purification and characterization of a trifunctional, S-adenosyl-l-methionine-dependent N-methyltransferase from Limonium latifolium leaves. Plant Physiology 126:1241-1249.

Rathinasabapathi, B., Sigua, C., Ho, J. and Gage D.A. (2000) Osmoprotectant β-alanine betaine synthesis in the Plumbaginaceae: S-adenosyl-L-methionine dependent N-methylation of β-alanine to its betaine is via N-methyl and N,N-dimethyl β-alanines. Physiologia Plantarum 109:225-231.

Rathinasabapathi, B. (2000) Metabolic engineering for stress tolerance: installing osmoprotectant synthesis pathways. Annals of Botany 86:709-716.

Nuccio, M.L., Russell, B.L., Nolte, K.D., Rathinasabapathi, B., Gage, D.A. and A.D. Hanson (1998) The endogenous choline supply limits glycine betaine synthesis in transgenic tobacco expressing choline monooxygenase. Plant Journal 16:487- 496.

Russell, B.L., B. Rathinasabapathi, and A.D. Hanson (1998) Osmotic stress induces expression of choline monooxygenase in sugar beet and other crops. Plant Physiology 116:859-865.

Trossat C., B. Rathinasabapathi, E. A. Weretilnyk, T.-L. Shen, Z.-H. Huang, D.A. Gage and A.D. Hanson (1998) Salinity promotes accumulation of dimethylsulfoniopropionate and its precursor S-methylmethionine in chloroplasts. Plant Physiology 116:165-171.

Rathinasabapathi B, M. Burnet, B.L. Russell, D.A. Gage, P. Liao, G.J. Nye, P. Scott, J. Golbeck and A.D. Hanson (1997) Choline monooxygenase, an unusual iron-sulfur enzyme catalyzing the first step of glycine betaine synthesis in plants: prosthetic group characterization and cDNA cloning. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 94: 3454-3458.

Trossat C., B. Rathinasabapathi, and A.D. Hanson (1997) Transgenically expressed betaine aldehyde dehydrogenase efficiently catalyzes oxidation of dimethylsulfoniopropionaldehyde and ã-amino aldehydes. Plant Physiology 113: 1457-1461.

Rathinasabapathi B., K.F. McCue, D.A. Gage and A.D. Hanson (1994). Metabolic engineering of glycine betaine synthesis: plant betaine aldehyde dehydrogenases lacking typical transit peptides are targeted to tobacco chloroplasts where they confer betaine aldehyde resistance. Planta 193: 155‑162.

Hanson A.D., B. Rathinasabapathi, J. Rivoal, M. Burnet, D.A. Gage and M.O. Dillon (1994) Osmoprotective compounds in the Plumbaginaceae: A natural experiment in metabolic engineering of stress tolerance. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (U.S.A.) 91: 306‑310.k

A commentary on this work in News&Views sec. of Nature 20 Jan 1994, Vol. 367 p.221.

Paquet L., B. Rathinasabapathi, H. Saini, L. Zamir, D.A. Gage, Z.‑H. Huang and A.D. Hanson (1994) Accumulation of the compatible solute 3‑dimethylsulfoniopropionate in sugarcane and its relatives, but not other Gramineous crops. Australian Journal of Plant Physiology 21: 37‑48.

Rathinasabapathi B., D.A. Gage, D.J. Mackill and A.D. Hanson (1993). Cultivated and wild rices do not accumulate glycinebetaine due to deficiencies in two biosynthetic steps. Crop Science 33: 534‑538.

Rathinasabapathi B. and J. King (1992). Physiological response of herbicide‑resistant cell variants of Datura innoxia to branched‑chain amino acids. Plant Science 81: 191‑198.

Rathinasabapathi B. and J. King (1992). An ultrastructural investigation on the uptake of isolated nuclei and micronuclei by plant protoplasts. Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture 29: 207‑214.

Hanson A.D., B. Rathinasabapathi, B. Chamberlin and D.A. Gage (1991). Comparative physiological evidence that ß‑alanine betaine and holine‑O‑sulfate act as compatible osmolytes in halophytic Limonium species. Plant Physiology 97: 1199‑1205.

Rathinasabapathi B. and J. King (1991). Herbicide resistance in Datura innoxia: Kinetic characterization of acetolactate synthase from wild‑type and sulfonylurea‑resistant cell variants. Plant Physiology 96: 255‑261.

Mukherjee S.K., Rathinasabapathi B., and N. Gupta (1991) Low sugar and osmotic requirements for shoot regeneration from leaf pieces of Solanum melongena L. Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture 25:13-16.

Rathinasabapathi, B., Williams, D., and J. King (1990) Altered feedback sensitivity to valine, leucine and isoleucine of acetolactate synthase from herbicide-resistant variants of Datura innoxia. Plant Science 67:1-6.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Rathinasabapathi B., Ma LQ., Srivastava M. (2006) Arsenic hyperaccumulating ferns and their application to phytoremediation of arsenic-contaminated sites. In: “Floricultural Advances” Edited by Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva, Global Science Books, Ikenobe, Japan pp.304-311.

Rathinasabapathi B., Kaur R. (2006) Metabolic engineering for stress tolerance. In: “Physiology and Molecular Biology of Stress Tolerance in Plants”. Edited by K.V.M. Rao, A.S. Raghavendra and K.J. Reddy, Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, pp. 255-299. .

Rathinasabapathi, B., Raman, S.B., Sigua C., Aly M.A.M. (2002) Beta-alanine betaine: A nitrogenous osmoprotectant implicated in plant tolerance to salinity and hypoxic stress. In: ABiochemical and Molecular Responses of Plants to the Environment. Edited by A.J. Wood Research Signpost, Trivandrum, India, ISBN ., pp. 69-77.

Rathinasabapathi, B (2002) Quaternary ammonium osmoprotectants: Engineering their synthetic pathways to enhance crop stress tolerance. In: AReviews in Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology. Edited by A. Goyal, Mehta SL and Lodha ML, Vol I, The Society for Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, New Delhi, India, pp 127-134.

Rathinasabapathi, B. (2000) Progress and prospects in engineering crops for osmoprotectant synthesis. In: APlant Tolerance to Abiotic Stresses in Agriculture: Role of Genetic Engineering, edited by J. Cherry Kluwer Academic, pp. 139-154.

Gage D.A. and B. Rathinasabapathi (1999) Role of glycine betaine and dimethyl sulfoniopropionate in water-stress tolerance. In: ADrought, Salt, Cold and Heat Stress: Molecular responses in higher plants, edited by K. Shinozaki, Landes Biosciences publishers pp. 125-152.

Hanson A.D., J. Rivoal, M. Burnet and B. Rathinasabapathi (1994) Biosynthesis of quaternary ammonium and tertiary sulphonium compounds in response to water deficit. In: Environment and Plant Metabolism (N. Smirnoff, ed.) Bios Scientific Publications, Oxford pp.189‑198.

Hanson A.D. and B. Rathinasabapathi (1993) Replacement of glycine betaine by ß‑alanine betaine, choline‑O‑sulfate or dimethylsulfoniopropionate in plants adapted to interacting stresses. In:Interacting stresses on plants in a changing climate (eds Jackson M.B. & Black C.R.), NATO ASI series Vol I 16 Springer, Berlin pp.593‑601.