Delaware State University

Plant Molecular Breeding Lab

Publications



  1. Kulkarni, K. P., Appiah, R. K., Reddy, U. K., & Melmaiee, K. (2024). Cleaved Amplified Polymorphic Sequence Markers in Horticultural Crops: Current Status and Future Perspectives. Agronomy, 14(11), 2598. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy14112598
  2. Banadka, A., Narasimha, S. W., Dandin, V. S., Naik, P. M., Vennapusa, A. R., Melmaiee, K., ... & Nagella, P. (2024). Biotechnological approaches for the production of camptothecin. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 108(1), 382. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-024-13187-2
  3. Wang, Z., Zhang, W., Zhou, Y., Zhang, Q., Kulkarni, K. P., Melmaiee, K., ... & Sun, H. (2024). Genetic and epigenetic signatures for improved breeding of cultivated blueberry. Horticulture Research, 11(7), uhae138. https://doi.org/10.1093/hr/uhae138
  4. Clare, S. J., Driskill, M., Millar, T. R., Chagné, D., Montanari, S., Thomson, S., ... & Bassil, N. V. (2024). Development of a targeted genotyping platform for reproducible results within tetraploid and hexaploid blueberry. Frontiers in Horticulture, 2, 1339310. https://doi.org/10.3389/fhort.2023.1339310
  5. Sheela, H. S., Vennapusa, A. R., Melmaiee, K., Prasad, T. G., & Reddy, C. P. (2023). Pyramiding of transcription factor, PgHSF4, and stress-responsive genes of p68, Pg47, and PsAKR1 impart multiple abiotic stress tolerance in rice (Oryza sativa L.). Frontiers in Plant Science, 14, 1233248. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2023.1233248
  6. Manzanero, B. R., Kulkarni, K. P., Vorsa, N., Reddy, U. K., Natarajan, P., Elavarthi, S., ... & Melmaiee, K. (2023). Genomic and evolutionary relationships among wild and cultivated blueberry species. BMC plant biology, 23(1), 126. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-023-04124-y
  7. Mulozi, L., Vennapusa, A. R., Elavarthi, S., Jacobs, O. E., Kulkarni, K. P., Natarajan, P., ... & Melmaiee, K. (2023). Transcriptome profiling, physiological, and biochemical analyses provide new insights towards drought stress response in sugar maple (Acer saccharum Marshall) saplings. Frontiers in Plant Science, 14, 1150204. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2023.1150204
  8. Vennapusa, A. R., Agarwal, S., Hm, H. R., Aarthy, T., Babitha, K. C., Thulasiram, H. V., ... & Vemanna, R. S. (2022). Stacking herbicide detoxification and resistant genes improves glyphosate tolerance and reduces phytotoxicity in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) and rice (Oryza sativa L.). Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 189, 126- 138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plaphy.2022.08.025
  9. Bissiwu, P., Kulkarni, K., Melmaiee, K., & Elavarthi, S. (2022). Physiological and molecular responses of red maple (Acer rubrum l.) cultivars to drought stress. Plant breeding and biotechnology, 10(1), 62-74. https://doi.org/10.9787/PBB.2022.10.1.62
  10. Callwood, J., Melmaiee, K., Kulkarni, K. P., Vennapusa, A. R., Aicha, D., Moore, M.,Natarajan, P., Reddy, U. K. & Elavarthi, S. (2021). Differential Morpho- Physiological and Transcriptomic Responses to Heat Stress in Two Blueberry Species. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 22(5), 2481. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms22052481
  11. Kulkarni, K. P., Vorsa, N., Natarajan, P., Elavarthi, S., Iorizzo, M., Reddy, U. K., & Melmaiee, K. (2021). Admixture Analysis Using Genotyping-by-Sequencing Reveals Genetic Relatedness and Parental Lineage Distribution in Highbush Blueberry Genotypes and Cross Derivatives. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 22(1), 163. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms22010163
  12. Biswas, A., Melmaiee, K., Elavarthi, S., Jones, J., & Reddy, U. (2019). Characterization of strawberry (Fragaria spp.) accessions by genotyping with SSR markers and phenotyping by leaf antioxidant and trichome analysis. Scientia Horticulturae, 256, 108561. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scienta.2019.108561
  13. Hayford, R. K. A., Ligaba-Osena, A., Subramani, M., Brown, A., Melmaiee, K., Hossain, K., & Kalavacharla, V. K. (2017). Characterization and expression analysis of common bean histone deacetylase 6 during development and cold stress response. International journal of genomics. 2017(1), 2502691. https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/2502691
  14. Melmaiee, K., & Kalavacharla, V. (2016). ESTs and their Role in Functional Genomics. In Principles and Practices of Plant Genomics, Volume 3 (pp. 104-119). CRC Press.
  15. Melmaiee, K., Kalavacharla, V. K., Brown, A., Todd, A., Thurston, Y., & Elavarthi, S. (2015). Quantification and gene expression analysis of histone deacetylases in common bean during rust fungal inoculation. International journal of genomics. https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/153243
  16. Melmaiee, K., Anderson, M., Elavarthi, S., Guenzi, A., & Canaan, P. (2015). Transcriptional analysis of resistance to low temperatures in bermudagrass crown tissues. PloS one, 10(9), e0136433. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0136433
  17. Melmaiee, K., Todd, A., McClean, P., Lee, R., Schlueter, J., Jackson, S., & Kalavacharla, V. (2013). Identification of molecular markers associated with the deleted region in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) ur-3 mutants. Australian Journal of Crop Science, 7(3), 354-360.
  18. Kalavacharla, V., Liu, Z., Meyers, B. C., Thimmapuram, J., & Melmaiee, K. (2011). Identification and analysis of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) transcriptomes by massively parallel pyrosequencing. BMC plant biology, 11(1), 135. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2229-11-135
  19. Abebe, T., Melmaiee, K., Berg, V., & Wise, R. P. (2010). Drought response in the spikes of barley: gene expression in the lemma, palea, awn, and seed. Functional & integrative genomics, 10(2), 191-205. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10142-009-0149-4