Dr. N. Ramesh Kumar

Dr. N. Ramesh Kumar
Area of Expertise

  1. Molecular Taxonomy

  2. Plant Microbe Interactions

  3. Molecular Biology

Research Areas

Research Focus:

Molecular plant-beneficial bacteria interactions under brackish conditions: Pokkaliibacter plantistimulans-Pokkali rice as model system.

ResF1

Key Publication:

  • Krishnan R, Lang E, Midha S, Patil PB, Rameshkumar N* (2018). Isolation and characterization of a novel 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate (ACC) deaminase producing plant growth promoting marine Gammaproteobacteria from crops grown in brackish environments. Proposal for Pokkaliibacter plantistimulans gen. nov., sp. nov., Balneatrichaceae fam. nov. in the order Oceanospirillales and an emended description of the genus Balneatrix. Systematic and Applied Microbiology. Nov; 41(6): 570-580.

Molecular rhizosphere ecology: diversity, taxonomy, genome and function of root-associated bacteria

ResF2

Key Publications:

  • Menon RR, Kumari S, Tomeu Viver, Rameshkumar, N. (2020). Flavobacterium pokkalii sp. nov., a novel plant growth promoting native rhizobacteria isolated from pokkali rice grown in coastal saline affected agricultural regions of southern India, Kerala. Microbiological research, 240, 126533, 2020
  • Menon RR, Kumari S, Kumar P, Verma A, Krishnamurthi S, Rameshkumar N. (2019). Sphingomonas pokkalii sp. nov., a novel plant associated rhizobacterium isolated from a saline tolerant pokkali rice and Its draft genome analysis. Systematic and Applied Microbiology May; 42(3): 334-342.
  • Weinhold A, Karimi Dorcheh E, Li R, Rameshkumar N, Baldwin IT (2018). Antimicrobial peptide expression in a wild tobacco plant reveals the limits of host-microbe-manipulations in the field. Elife. Apr 17: 7:e28715. doi: 10.7554/eLife.28715.
  • Krishnan R, Menon RR, Likhitha, Busse HJ, Tanaka N, Krishnamurthi S, Rameshkumar N. (2017). Novosphingobium pokkalii sp nov, a novel rhizosphere-associated bacterium with plant beneficial properties isolated from saline-tolerant pokkali rice. Research in Microbiology. Feb-Mar:168(2): 113-121

If you are curious, self-motivated, broad-thinking and interested to work in above research are welcome to contact me : rameshkumar@niist.res.in with your detailed CV and an outline of your research interest in the above mentioned area.