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    Transgenic sugarcane with higher levels of BRK1 showed improved drought tolerance

    Transgenic sugarcane overexpressing BRK1 showed improved tolerance to drought stress through modulation of actin polymerization and formation of interlocking marginal lobes in epidermal leaf cells, a typical feat...

    J. Ashwin Narayan, V. M. Manoj, Gauri Nerkar, M. Chakravarthi in Plant Cell Reports (2023)

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    Isolation and Characterization of Nuclear Localized Abiotic Stress Responsive Cold Regulated Gene 413 (SsCor413) from Saccharum spontaneum

    Winter survival develops efficient tolerance mechanisms in plants by regulating cold-responsive and cold-regulated genes at the transcriptional level. Hence, an insight into the expression would provide the mo...

    S. Dharshini, V. M. Manoj, G. S. Suresha in Plant Molecular Biology Reporter (2020)

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    Development of Transgenic Sugarcane for Insect Resistance

    Sugarcane is an economically important crop across the world. Demand for sugar and sugarcane by-products increases in both domestic and industrial sectors daily. In order to meet this demand, sustainable sugar...

    J. Ashwin Narayan, Chakravarthi Mohan in Climate Change, Photosynthesis and Advance… (2020)

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    Current Transformation Methods for Genome–Editing Applications in Energy Crop Sugarcane

    Sugarcane is an important worldwide cash crop used for both sugar and ethanol production. Improvement of sugarcane through conventional breeding practices has been limited by its complex polyploid genome. Cons...

    Chakravarthi Mohan, J. Ashwin Narayan in Climate Change, Photosynthesis and Advance… (2020)

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    Isolation and characterization of water-deficit stress-responsive α-expansin 1 (EXPA1) gene from Saccharum complex

    In this study, full-length (1282–1330 bp) α-expansin 1 (EXPA1) gene from three different accessions belonging to Saccharum complex (Saccharum officinarumSoEXPA1, Erianthus arundinaceusEaEXPA1, and Saccharum spp...

    J. Ashwin Narayan, S. Dharshini, V. M. Manoj, T. S. Sarath Padmanabhan in 3 Biotech (2019)

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    Introduction of Pea DNA Helicase 45 into Sugarcane (Saccharum spp. Hybrid) Enhances Cell Membrane Thermostability and Upregulation of Stress-Responsive Genes Leads to Abiotic Stress Tolerance

    DNA helicases are motor proteins that play an essential role in nucleic acid metabolism, by providing a duplex-unwinding function. To improve the drought and salinity tolerance of sugarcane, a DEAD-box helica...

    Sruthy Maria Augustine, J. Ashwin Narayan, Divya P. Syamaladevi in Molecular Biotechnology (2015)

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    Overexpression of EaDREB2 and pyramiding of EaDREB2 with the pea DNA helicase gene (PDH45) enhance drought and salinity tolerance in sugarcane (Saccharum spp. hybrid)

    EaDREB2 overexpressed in sugarcane enhanced tolerance to drought and salinity. When co-transformed with plant DNA helicase gene, DREB2 showed greater level of salinity tolerance than in single-...

    Sruthy Maria Augustine, J. Ashwin Narayan, Divya P. Syamaladevi in Plant Cell Reports (2015)