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Ramesh Venkata Sonti

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Residence
  
India

Nationality
  
Indian


Name
  
Ramesh Sonti

Fields
  
Biology


Born
  
24 May 1960 (age 63) Andhra Pradesh, India (
1960-05-24
)

Institutions
  
Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology

Institution
  
Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology

Alma mater
  
University of Hyderabad, University of Utah, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ramesh Venkata Sonti is an Indian Plant Geneticist. He did his M.Phil in Life sciences from University of Hyderabad. He holds Doctor of philosophy in bacterial genetics from the University of Utah, supplemented with Post Doctoral training in Plant genetics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is positioned as a Senior Scientist at Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology in Hyderabad, India. He was awarded in June 2004 the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, the highest science award in India, in the Biological sciences category.

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Prizes and honours

  • National Bioscience Award for Career Development of the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India.
  • Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology for 2004.

    • Research highlights

  • virulence mechanisms of the important bacterial leaf blight pathogen of the rice plant.
  • Introduction of bacterial leaf blight resistance characteristics into the background of commercially important but disease susceptible rice varieties.

    • References

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