Appointment:
- 100% Research
Education:
- BSc (Honors) Botany, Delhi University, Delhi India, 1974
- MSc Botany, Delhi University, Delhi, India, 1976
- PhD Plant physiology and Biochemistry, University of California-Davis, 1984
Professional Responsibilities and Activities:
- Research molecular biologist studying traits controlling biomass and forage qualities in warm-season prairie grasses at the physiological, biochemical and molecular levels. Involved in collaborative research with Drs. Fred Baxendale, Tiffany Heng-Moss and Leon Higley.
Publications:
4 book chapters and 88 published abstracts.
Refereed Manuscripts (95)
Publications last four years:
- Chew YC, Camporeale G, Kothapalli N, Sarath G, Zempleni J (2006) Lysine residues in N- and C-terminal regions of human histone H2A are targets for biotinylation by biotinidase. J Nutr Biochem. 17: 225-233
- Tobias CM, Hayden DM, Twigg P, Sarath G (2006) Genic microsatellite markers derived from EST sequences of switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.). Mol Ecol Notes. 6: 185-187
- Anderson W, Heng-Moss T, Baxendale F, Baird L, Sarath G, Higley L (2006) Chinch bug (Hemiptera: Blissida) mouthpart morphology, probing frequencies and locations on resistant and susceptible germplasms. J Econ Entomol. 99: 212-221
- Heng-Moss T, Macedo T, Franzen L, Baxendale F, Higley L, Sarath G (2006) Physiological responses of resistant and susceptible buffalograsses to chinch bug feeding. J Econ Entomol. 99: 222-228
- Alvarez-VenegasR, Sadder M, Hlavacka A, Baluska F, Xia Y, Lu G, Firsov A, Sarath G, Moriyama H, Dubrovsky JG, Avramova Z (2006) The Arabidopsis homolog of trithorax, ATX1, binds phosphatidylinositol 5-phosphate, and the two regulate a common set of target genes. Proc Natl Acad Sci (USA) 103: 6049-6054
- Sarath G, Bethke PC, Jones RL, Baird LM, Vogel KP, Mitchell RB (2006). Nitric oxide stimulates seed germination in warm-season C4 grasses. Planta. 223: 1154-1164
- Dien BS, Jung HG, Vogel KP, Casler MD, Lamb JFS, Weimer PJ, Iten L, Mitchell RB, Sarath G (2006) Chemical composition and response to dilute-acid pretreatment and enzymatic saccharification of alfalfa, reed canarygrass, and switchgrass. Biomass Bioenergy. Epub ahead of print.
- Sanderson MA, Adler, PR, Boateng A, Casler MD, Sarath G. (2006). Switchgrass for biomass feedstock in the USA. Can. J. Plant Sci. accepted.
- Smagghe BJ, Sarath G, Ross E, Hilbert JL, Hargrove MS. (2006). Slow ligand binding kinetics dominate ferrous hexacoordinate hemoglobin reactivities and reveal differences between plants and other species. Biochemistry 45: 561-570.
- Franzen L, Heng-Moss T, Higley L, Sarath G, Burd J (2007) Physiological and biochemical responses of resistant and susceptible wheat to the Russian wheat aphid, Diuraphis noxic (Mordvilko). J Econ Entomol. 100:1692-1703.
- Chew YC, Sarath G, Zempleni J (2007) An avidin-based debiotinylase activity in human cell nuclei. J Nutr Biochem. 18: 475-481.
- Gulsen O, Shearman RC, Heng-Moss T, Mutlu N, Lee DJ, Sarath G (2007) Peroxidase gene polymorphism in buffalograsses and other grasses. Crop Sci. 47: 767-774.
- Sarath G, Baird LM, Vogel KP, Mitchell R (2007) Internode structure and cell wall composition in maturing tillers of switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.[Panicoideae]. Bioresource Tech. 98: 2985-2992.
- Camporeale G, Oommen AM, Grffin JB, Sarath G, Zempleni J (2007) K12-biotinylated histone H4 marks heterochromatin in human lymphoblstoma cells. J Nutr Biochem. 18: 760-768.
- Sarath G, Hou G, Baird L, Mitchell RB (2007) Hydrogen peroxide, ABA and nitric oxide interactions on the germination of warm-season C4 grasses. Planta. 226: 697-708.
- Londono DK, Wang H, Siqueria HAA, Sarath G, Lydy MJ, Siegfried BD (2007) Cloning and expression of an atrazine inducible cytochrome P450 from Chrionomas tentans. (Diptera: Chironomidae). Pesticide Biochem Physiol. 89: 104-110.
- Sarath G, Hou G, Baird L, Mitchell RB (2007) ABA, ROS, and NO are key players during switchgrass seed germination. Plant Signal Behav. 2:492-493.
- Chastain CJ, Xu W, Parsley K, Sarath G, Hibberd JM, Chollet R (2007) The Arabidopsis pyruvate,orthophosphate dikinase regulatory proteins encode a novel, unprecedented Ser/Thr protein kinase primary structure. Plant J. Epub ahead of print.
- Kobza, KA, Chaiseeda K, Sarath G, Takacs JM, Zempleni J (2007) Biotinyl-methyl 4-(amidomethyl) benzoate is a competitive inhibitor of human biotinidase. J Nutr Biochem. accepted.
- Gopalasubramaniam SK, Kovacs F, Twigg P, Arredondo-Peter R, Sarath G (2007) Cloning and characterization of a caesalpinoid (Chamaecrista fasciculata) hemoglobin: the structural transition from non-symbiotic
hemoglobins to leghemoglobins. Proteins: Structure, Function and
Bioinformatics. accepted.
- Sarath G, Mitchell RB, Sattler SE, Funnell D, Pedersen JF, Graybosch RA, Vogel KP (2008) Opportunities and roadblocks in utilizing forages and small grains for liquid fuels. J Indust Microbiol Biotechnol. Epub ahead of print.
- Xiang P, Baird LM, Jung R, Zeece MG, Markwell J, Sarath G (2008) P39, a novel soybean protein allergen belongs to a plant-specific protein family, and is present in protein storage vacuoles. J Food Agric Chem. accepted.
- Kobza KA, Sarath G, Zempleni J (2008) Prokaryotic BirA ligase biotinylates K4, K9, K18 and K23 in eukaryotic histone H3. BMB Reports. (accepted)
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