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Dr. SAYUJ KP

Assistant Professor

Department of Biotechnology

Cochin University of Science and Technology
Kochi - 682022, Kerala, India

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sayuj@cusat.ac.in



BRIEF BIO
Sayuj Koyyappurath obtained his PhD in Plant Biology with a specialization in Plant pathology from the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development, La Reunion. After his PhD in 2016, he joined as a Research Associate at Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Kerala where he was focused on plant-pathogen interaction studies, mostly in the realm of elucidating the Zingiber-Pythium pathosystem. In 2018, he joined Dr. Sarojam Rajanis Lab at Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory (TLL) affiliated with the National University of Singapore as a Post-Doctoral fellow. At TLL he was largely involved in developing spectral signatures for abiotic and biotic stress responses for leafy vegetables using Raman Spectroscopy. Besides, he investigated and unraveled the key metabolic pathways that were altered during the compatible interaction of leafy vegetables with Xanthomonas campestris. In 2021 he was appointed as Assistant Professor at the Department of Biotechnology.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Genome assembly and Transcriptome sequencing, Hormone signaling in plants, Plant-Pathogen interaction

RESEARCH PROFILES
Google Scholar : https://www.linkedin.com/in/sayuj-kp-08391649

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS (RECENT) [TOTAL PUBLICATIONS : 6]
  • Genome and transcriptome sequence resources and effector repertoire of Pythium myriotylum Drechsler , Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 2022

  • Rapid Detection and Quantification of Plant Innate Immunity Response Using Raman Spectroscopy, Frontiers in Plant Science, Vol. 12, 2021

  • Transcriptome-based mining and expression profiling of Pythium responsive transcription factors in Zingiber sp., Functional & Integrative Genomics volume, 2019

  • Transcriptional analysis and histochemistry reveal a dominant role for cell wall signaling in mediating Pythium myriotylum resistance in Zingiber zerumbet, Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology, Vol. 106, 2019

  • Differential Responses of Vanilla Accessions to Root Rot and Colonization by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. radicis-vanillae, Frontiers in Plant Science, Vol. 6, 2015

  • Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. radicis?vanillae is the causal agent of root and stem rot of vanilla, Plant Pathology, British Society for Plant Pathology Vol. 65, 2014

  • RESEARCH PROJECTS
  • "Seed priming mediated improved soft rot tolerance in Zingiber officinale Rosc." (SMNRI, CUSAT- 2022 -2024 , Total outlay Rs.470000)