Profile
Dr Ramu S Vemanna is a Associate Professor at Regional Centre for Biotechnology. He is an expert in the area of Plant Molecular biology and Genetic Engineering. He received his Ph.D. from the Dept of Biotechnology, Bangalore University in 2013. After his doctoral research studies at UAS, GKVK, bengaluru he moved to the Noble research institute, Oklahoma, USA on Fulbright- Nehru postdoctoral fellowship. His doctoral program on insect resistance transgenic plants and postdoctoral training on plant pathology and has good publication track on abiotic stress tolerance. Dr. Ramu has received many prestigious awards such as Fulbright-Nehru post-doctoral award from USIEF, Ramanujan Fellowship, and Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award (IYBA). Presently at RCB his group is working on translation mechanisms contributing to plant development and drought stress adaptation genome editing. His group’s focus is on functional characterisation of genes associated with translation mechanisms and rRNA biogenesis.
Current Focus Areas
Translation mechanisms contributing to plant development and drought stress adaptation
Protein translational mechanisms in plants
Extra-ribosomal functions of ribosomal proteins
Ribosome biogenesis factors in plant growth and development
Regulatory proteins of ribosome biogenesis
Drought stress adaptation of plants
Developing strategies to improve resistance against bacterial leaf blight disease in rice
Selected Publications
Dawane A, Deshpande S, Vijayaraghavreddy P, Vemanna RS.( 2024). Polysome-bound mRNAs and translational mechanisms regulate drought tolerance in rice. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 208:108513.
Pal, G., Ingole, K.D., Yavvari, P.S., Verma, P., Kumari, A., Chauhan, C. Chaudhary D, Srivastava A, Bajaj A, Vemanna RS (2024). Exogenous application of nanocarrier-mediated double-stranded RNA manipulates physiological traits and defence response against bacterial diseases.Molecular Plant Pathology, ,25, e13417.
Pal G, Bakade R, Deshpande S, Sureshkumar V, Patil SS, Dawane A, Agarwal S, Niranjan V, PrasannaKumar MK, Vemanna RS. (2022). Transcriptomic responses under combined bacterial blight and drought stress in rice reveal potential genes to improve multi-stress tolerance.BMC Plant Biol 22, 349.
Vanitha PA, Vijayaraghavareddy P, Uttarkar A, Dawane A, Sujitha D, Ashwin V, Babitha KC, Niranjan V, Sheshshayee MS, Anuradha CV, Makarla U, Vemanna RS. (2022) Novel small molecules targeting bZIP23 TF improve stomatal conductance and photosynthesis under mild drought stress by regulating ABA. FEBS J, doi: 10.1111/febs.16461
Karthika V, Babitha K. Chandrashekar, Kiranmai K, Shankar AG, Udayakumar Makarla, and Vemanna S. Ramu, (2021) Disruption in the DNA Mismatch Repair Gene MSH2 by CRISPR-Cas9 in Indica Rice Can Create Genetic Variability. J. Agric. Food Chem. /doi.org/10.1021/acs.jafc.1c00328