Delaware State University

Plant Molecular Breeding Lab

Publications



  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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, 2015.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. Melmaiee, K. (2007). Functional genomics of cold tolerance in bermudagrass Cynodon dactylon L (Doctoral dissertation, Oklahoma State University).