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Soundrapandiyan R, Naidu H, Karuppiah M, Maheswari M, Poonia RC. AI-based wavelet and stacked deep learning architecture for detecting coronavirus (COVID-19) from chest X-ray images. Comput Electr Eng 2023; 108:108711. [PMID: 37065503 PMCID: PMC10086108 DOI: 10.1016/j.compeleceng.2023.108711] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2021] [Revised: 03/29/2023] [Accepted: 03/31/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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A novel coronavirus (COVID-19), belonging to a family of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARs-CoV-2), was identified in Wuhan city, Hubei, China, in November 2019. The disease had already infected more than 681.529665 million people as of March 13, 2023. Hence, early detection and diagnosis of COVID-19 are essential. For this purpose, radiologists use medical images such as X-ray and computed tomography (CT) images for the diagnosis of COVID-19. It is very difficult for researchers to help radiologists to do automatic diagnoses by using traditional image processing methods. Therefore, a novel artificial intelligence (AI)-based deep learning model to detect COVID-19 from chest X-ray images is proposed. The proposed work uses a wavelet and stacked deep learning architecture (ResNet50, VGG19, Xception, and DarkNet19) named WavStaCovNet-19 to detect COVID-19 from chest X-ray images automatically. The proposed work has been tested on two publicly available datasets and achieved an accuracy of 94.24% and 96.10% on 4 classes and 3 classes, respectively. From the experimental results, we believe that the proposed work can surely be useful in the healthcare domain to detect COVID-19 with less time and cost, and with higher accuracy.
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- Rajkumar Soundrapandiyan
- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore 632014, India
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering & Information Science, Presidency University, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560064, India
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai 600119, India
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- Department of Computer Science, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, Karnataka 560029, India
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Shanker AK, Amirineni S, Bhanu D, Yadav SK, Jyothilakshmi N, Vanaja M, Singh J, Sarkar B, Maheswari M, Singh VK. High-resolution dissection of photosystem II electron transport reveals differential response to water deficit and heat stress in isolation and combination in pearl millet [ Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.]. Front Plant Sci 2022; 13:892676. [PMID: 36035679 PMCID: PMC9412916 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.892676] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2022] [Accepted: 07/19/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Heat and Water Deficit Stress (WDS) tend to impede and restrict the efficiency of photosynthesis, chlorophyll fluorescence, and maximum photochemical quantum yield in plants based on their characteristic ability to interfere with the electron transport system in photosystem II. Dissection of the electron transport pathway in Photosystem II (PSII) under water deficit and Heat Stress (HS) can be insightful in gaining knowledge on the various attributes of the photosynthetic performance of a plant. We attempt a high-resolution dissection of electron transport in PSII with studies on chlorophyll a fast fluorescence kinetics and non-photochemical quenching (NPQ) as a response to and recovery from these stresses in pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.] in isolation and combination. In this study, we bring out the mechanisms by which both heat and water stress, in isolation and in combination, affect the photosynthetic electron transport in Photosystem II. Our results indicate that oxygen evolution complex (OEC) damage is the primary effect of heat stress and is not seen with the same intensity in the water-stressed plants. Low exciton absorption flux in heat stress and combined stress was seen due to OEC damage, and this caused an electron transport traffic jam in the donor side of PS II. Both the specific energy flux model and the phenomenological flux model developed from the derived values in our study show that water deficit stress in combination with heat stress has a much stronger effect than the stresses in isolation on the overall electron transport pathway of the PS II in pearl millet plants.
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Deepak S, Shivaswamy M, Sharmila T, Maheswari M. Effect of pre-treatment and oil popping conditions on quinoa popping quality. AAlim 2022. [DOI: 10.1556/066.2021.00180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Quinoa is a pseudocereal having outstanding nutritional profile and health-promoting biofunctional compounds. It is able to pop into an affordable, crispy, and flavourful ready-to-eat snack by conventional oil-popping method. Oil-popping is the process of frying grains in hot oil for a short time to induce vapour-driven expansion of grains. The effects of process variables on oil-popping quality of quinoa were evaluated. The conditions of processing were optimised using Response Surface Methodology. The grains (10 g) were hydrated by adding 0.1–0.3 mL of water containing a varying salt concentration of 0–1%, w/w and popped in coconut oil maintained at a popping temperature of 200–240 °C for a popping time of 10–30 s. The developed popped quinoa was analysed for popping quality indices. It was found that the increase in popping temperature, popping time, and salt concentration, and decrease in moisture level significantly decreased bulk density but increased popping yield (% popped grains), expansion ratio (degree of volume expansion), and flake size (average kernel size) of popped quinoa. Overall acceptability of popped quinoa in terms of sensory attributes was positively correlated with popping temperature and popping time. The optimised variables generated a popping yield of 75.56%, expansion ratio of 3.07, flake size of 11.58 mm3, bulk density of 0.29 g mL−1, and overall acceptability score of 8.40. A threefold expansion and a fair popping yield obtained from oil-popped quinoa offer a significant potential to generate profit for manufacturers.
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- S. Deepak
- Department of Food Technology, Kongu Engineering College, Erode, Tamilnadu, 638060, India
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- Department of Food Technology, Kongu Engineering College, Erode, Tamilnadu, 638060, India
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- Department of Food Technology, Kongu Engineering College, Erode, Tamilnadu, 638060, India
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- Department of Food Technology, Kongu Engineering College, Erode, Tamilnadu, 638060, India
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Vijay AS, Gopireddy MMR, Fyzullah S, Gollapalli P, Maheswari M, Rani U, Rajesh S. Association Between AMH Levels and Fertility/Reproductive Outcomes Among Women Undergoing IVF: A Retrospective Study. J Reprod Infertil 2022; 23:54-60. [PMID: 36045886 PMCID: PMC9361722 DOI: 10.18502/jri.v23i1.8453] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2020] [Accepted: 04/23/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Background: Anti-mullerian hormone (AMH) is a marker for predicting ovarian response to gonadotropin stimulation. It plays an important role in ovarian primordial follicle recruitment and dominant follicle selection. Therefore, the present study evaluated the AMH levels and their association with fertility/reproductive outcomes among women undergoing IVF. Methods: A retrospective study was conducted on 665 women in GarbhaGudi Institute of Reproductive Health and Research in India from October 2018 to 2019. Subjects were divided into ≥1.1 and ≤1.1 AMH level groups. Data on age, luteinizing hormone; LH (mIU/L), follicle-stimulating hormone values; FSH (mIU/ml), LH value, oocytes retrieved, and oocytes fertilization were collected. AMH category was considered as the primary explanatory variable. Independent sample t-test and chi-square tests were performed. The p<0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: Couple’s age, FSH values (mIU/ml), number of large follicles, matured oocytes, fertilized oocytes, and cleaved embryos were statistically significant (p<0.001) among subjects with ≥1.1 AMH values. Percentage of women with successful embryo transfer was slightly higher among AMH category 1.1 (p=0.09). Fertilization rate (86.67±20.08 vs. 83.64±21.39, p=0.18) and clinical pregnancy rate (43.38% vs. 36.36%, p=0.19) were slightly higher among women with AMH level of ≥1.1 as compared to AMH of <1.1. Live birth rate was slightly higher among women with AMH level of 1.1 (25.85% vs. 22.22%, p=0.45). Also, the number of fertilized oocytes was associated with clinical pregnancy rate (aOR=1.20, 95%CI 1.09–1.33). Conclusion: Women with ≥1.10 serum AMH levels had more number of retrieved oocytes, good oocyte quality, increased embryo transfer, and fertilization rates.
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- Asha Srinivasan Vijay
- Scientific Director and Dean, GarbhaGudi Institute of Reproductive Health and Research (GGIRHR), Hanumanthnagar, Bangalore, India
- Corresponding Author: Asha Srinivasan Vijay, Scientific Director and Dean, GarbhaGudi institute of Reproductive Health and Research (GGIRHR), Hanumanthnagar, Bangalore, India, E-mail:
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- Department of Embryology, GarbhaGudi Institute of Reproductive Health and Research (GGIRHR), Hanumanthnagar, Bangalore, India
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- Department of Reproductive Medicine, GarbhaGudi Institute of Reproductive Health and Research (GGIRHR), Hanumanthnagar, Bangalore, India
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- Department of Embryology, GarbhaGudi Institute of Reproductive Health and Research (GGIRHR), Hanumanthnagar, Bangalore, India
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- Department of Embryology, GarbhaGudi Institute of Reproductive Health and Research (GGIRHR), Hanumanthnagar, Bangalore, India
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Bhattacharya P, Zakaria R, Stonelake S, Butler B, Sarma D, Maheswari M, Zaman S. Haemorrhagic shock from solid tumours of the adrenal gland: a case of bleeding primary adrenal lymphoma. Ann R Coll Surg Engl 2021; 103:e101-e105. [PMID: 33645269 DOI: 10.1308/rcsann.2020.7040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Suprarenal or adrenal gland haemorrhage is an uncommon but potentially lethal condition if unrecognised. Adrenal masses rarely present with haemorrhage, but they remain an important differential aetiology for adrenal bleeding. We present a novel case of primary adrenal lymphoma with adrenal haemorrhage in a middle-aged woman who presented with right-sided abdominal pain and class 1 haemorrhagic shock. She was found to have spontaneous unilateral adrenal gland haemorrhage in the absence of any underlying previous pathology. Presenting features, diagnosis and subsequent oncological management are reported.
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- P Bhattacharya
- Department of General Surgery, Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospital, West Bromwich, UK
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- Department of General Surgery, Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospital, West Bromwich, UK
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- Department of General Surgery, Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospital, West Bromwich, UK
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- Department of General Surgery, Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospital, West Bromwich, UK
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- Department of Colorectal Surgery, University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire, Coventry, UK
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- Department of General Surgery, Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospital, West Bromwich, UK
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- Department of General Surgery, Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospital, West Bromwich, UK
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Sangeetha Piriya R, Jayabalakrishnan RM, Maheswari M, Boomiraj K, Oumabady S. Coconut shell derived ZnCl 2 activated carbon for malachite green dye removal. Water Sci Technol 2021; 83:1167-1182. [PMID: 33724945 DOI: 10.2166/wst.2021.050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The coconut-based agricultural wastes have gained wide attention as an alternative adsorbent for the removal of diverse pollutants from the industrial effluents. This paper presents the zinc chloride activation of adsorbent carbon and the utilization as an adsorbent for the removal of malachite green dye from aqueous solution. The characterisation of activated carbon was performed to get an insight into the adsorption mechanism. The ZnCl2 activated carbon acquired a higher specific surface area (544.66 m2 g-1) and stability (-32.6 mV). The impact of process parameters including contact time (20-220 min) and initial dye concentration (20-80 mg L-1) were evaluated on the effectiveness of activated carbon for dye removal. The results concluded that zinc chloride activated carbon showed a significant dye adsorption (39.683 mg g-1) at an initial concentration of 20 mg L-1 after 3 hours. Based on the correlation coefficient (R2), the Freundlich isotherm model (0.978-0.998) was best fitted for the experimental data followed by the intraparticle diffusion model (0.88-0.929) as the most appropriate model for malachite green dye removal. Additionally, the energy and thermogravimetric analysis portrayed the suitability of the carbon material to be used as an energy alternative to coal.
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- R Sangeetha Piriya
- Department of Environmental Sciences, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore 641 003, India E-mail:
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore 641 003, India E-mail:
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore 641 003, India E-mail:
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore 641 003, India E-mail:
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Gogoi MM, Suresh Babu S, Arun BS, Krishna Moorthy K, Ajay A, Ajay P, Suryavanshi A, Borgohain A, Guha A, Shaikh A, Pathak B, Gharai B, Ramasamy B, Balakrishnaiah G, Menon HB, Kuniyal JC, Krishnan J, Rama Gopal K, Maheswari M, Naja M, Kaur P, Bhuyan PK, Gupta P, Singh P, Srivastava P, Singh RS, Kumar R, Rastogi S, Kundu SS, Kompalli SK, Panda S, Rao TC, Das T, Kant Y. Response of Ambient BC Concentration Across the Indian Region to the Nation-Wide Lockdown: Results from the ARFINET Measurements of ISRO-GBP. CURR SCI INDIA 2021. [DOI: 10.18520/cs/v120/i2/341-351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Rama Rao CA, Raju BMK, Subba Rao AVM, Rao KV, Rao VUM, Ramachandran K, Venkateswarlu B, Sikka AK, Srinivasa Rao M, Maheswari M, Srinivasa Rao C. A District Level Assessment of Vulnerability of Indian Agriculture to Climate Change. CURR SCI INDIA 2016. [DOI: 10.18520/cs/v110/i10/1939-1946] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Vanaja M, Maheswari M, Sathish P, Vagheera P, Jyothi Lakshmi N, Vijay Kumar G, Yadav SK, Razzaq A, Singh J, Sarkar B. Genotypic variability in physiological, biomass and yield response to drought stress in pigeonpea. Physiol Mol Biol Plants 2015; 21:541-549. [PMID: 26600680 PMCID: PMC4646872 DOI: 10.1007/s12298-015-0324-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2015] [Revised: 09/21/2015] [Accepted: 10/05/2015] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Three pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan L. Millsp.) genotypes- GT-1, AKP-1 and PRG-158 with varying crop duration, growth habit and flowering pattern were evaluated for variability in their response for drought stress. Drought stress was imposed at initiation of flowering and the observations on biomass and seed yield parameters were recorded at harvest. The magnitude of response of individual component to drought stress was found to be genotype specific. Drought stress significantly decreased photosynthetic rate (PN), transpiration rate (Tr) and relative water content (RWC) in all the genotypes, however the magnitude of reduction differed with genotype. With drought stress, the reduction of PN was highest in GT-1 while reduction in Tr was highest in PRG-158. The genotype AKP-1, accumulated significantly higher concentrations of osmotic solutes especially proline under water deficit stress, this facilitated it to maintain higher relative water content (RWC) and lower malondialdehyde (MDA) content as compared to other genotypes. Drought stress also impacted biomass production and their partitioning to vegetative and reproductive components at harvest. There was significant variability between the genotypes for seed yield under drought stress while it was non-significant under well-watered condition. Drought stress enhanced flower drop and decreased flower to pod conversion resulting in reduced pod number and seed number in PRG-158 and GT-1. The genotype AKP-1 recorded superior performance for seed yield under stress environment due to its ability in maintaining pod and seed number as well as improved test weight (100 seed weight). Under drought stress, significant positive association of seed yield with proline, seed number, pod number and test weight clearly indicating their role in drought tolerance.
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- M. Vanaja
- Division of Crop Sciences, Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (ICAR), Santoshnagar, Hyderabad, Telangana 500059 India
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- Division of Crop Sciences, Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (ICAR), Santoshnagar, Hyderabad, Telangana 500059 India
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- Division of Crop Sciences, Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (ICAR), Santoshnagar, Hyderabad, Telangana 500059 India
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- Division of Crop Sciences, Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (ICAR), Santoshnagar, Hyderabad, Telangana 500059 India
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- Division of Crop Sciences, Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (ICAR), Santoshnagar, Hyderabad, Telangana 500059 India
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- Division of Crop Sciences, Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (ICAR), Santoshnagar, Hyderabad, Telangana 500059 India
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- Division of Crop Sciences, Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (ICAR), Santoshnagar, Hyderabad, Telangana 500059 India
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- Division of Crop Sciences, Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (ICAR), Santoshnagar, Hyderabad, Telangana 500059 India
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- Division of Crop Sciences, Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (ICAR), Santoshnagar, Hyderabad, Telangana 500059 India
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- Division of Crop Sciences, Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (ICAR), Santoshnagar, Hyderabad, Telangana 500059 India
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Surender Reddy P, Jogeswar G, Rasineni GK, Maheswari M, Reddy AR, Varshney RK, Kavi Kishor PB. Proline over-accumulation alleviates salt stress and protects photosynthetic and antioxidant enzyme activities in transgenic sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench]. Plant Physiol Biochem 2015; 94:104-13. [PMID: 26065619 DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2015.05.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2015] [Revised: 05/17/2015] [Accepted: 05/28/2015] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Shoot-tip derived callus cultures of Sorghum bicolor were transformed by Agrobacterium tumefaciens as well as by bombardment methods with the mutated pyrroline-5-carboxylate synthetase (P5CSF129A) gene encoding the key enzyme for proline biosynthesis from glutamate. The transgenics were selfed for three generations and T4 plants were examined for 100 mM NaCl stress tolerance in pot conditions. The effect of salt stress on chlorophyll and carotenoid contents, photosynthetic rate, stomatal conductance, internal carbon dioxide concentration, transpiration rates, intrinsic transpiration and water use efficiencies, proline content, MDA levels, and antioxidant enzyme activities were evaluated in 40-day-old transgenic lines and the results were compared with untransformed control plants. The results show that chlorophyll content declines by 65% in untransformed controls compared to 30-38% loss (significant at P < 0.05) in transgenics but not carotenoid levels. Photosynthetic rate (PSII activity) was reduced in untransformed controls almost completely, while it declined by 62-88% in different transgenic lines. Salinity induced ca 100% stomatal closure in untransformed plants, while stomatal conductance was decreased only by 64-81% in transgenics after 4 days. The intercellular CO2 decreased by ca 30% in individual transgenic lines. Malondialdehyde (MDA) content was lower in transgenics compared to untransformed controls. The activities of superoxide dismutase (SOD; EC 1.15.1.1), catalase (CAT; EC 1.11.1.6) and glutathione reductase (GR; EC1.8.1.7) were quantified in leaves exposed to 100 mM NaCl stress and found higher in transgenics. The results suggest that transgenic lines were able to cope better with salt stress than untransformed controls by protecting photosynthetic and antioxidant enzyme activities.
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- P Surender Reddy
- Department of Genetics, Osmania University, Hyderabad 500 007, India
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- Department of Genetics, Osmania University, Hyderabad 500 007, India
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- Department of Plant Sciences, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad 500 047, India
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- Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture, Santoshnagar, Hyderabad 500 059, India
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- Department of Plant Sciences, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad 500 047, India
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- International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru 502 324, India
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- Department of Genetics, Osmania University, Hyderabad 500 007, India.
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Shanker AK, Maheswari M, Yadav SK, Desai S, Bhanu D, Attal NB, Venkateswarlu B. Drought stress responses in crops. Funct Integr Genomics 2014; 14:11-22. [PMID: 24408129 DOI: 10.1007/s10142-013-0356-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2013] [Revised: 12/04/2013] [Accepted: 12/18/2013] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Among the effects of impending climate change, drought will have a profound impact on crop productivity in the future. Response to drought stress has been studied widely, and the model plant Arabidopsis has guided the studies on crop plants with genome sequence information viz., rice, wheat, maize and sorghum. Since the value of functions of genes, dynamics of pathways and interaction of networks for drought tolerance in plants can only be judged by evidence from field performance, this mini-review provides a research update focussing on the current developments on the response to drought in crop plants. Studies in Arabidopsis provide the basis for interpreting the available information in a systems biology perspective. In particular, the elucidation of the mechanism of drought stress response in crops is considered from evidence-based outputs emerging from recent omic studies in crops.
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- Arun K Shanker
- Division of Crop Sciences, Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (CRIDA), Santoshnagar, Saidabad P.O, Hyderabad, 500-059, India,
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Manimanjari D, Srinivasa Rao M, Swathi P, Rama Rao CA, Vanaja M, Maheswari M. Temperature- and CO2-dependent life table parameters of Spodoptera litura (Noctuidae: Lepidoptera) on sunflower and prediction of pest scenarios. J Insect Sci 2014; 14:ieu159. [PMID: 25528748 PMCID: PMC5657882 DOI: 10.1093/jisesa/ieu159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2014] [Accepted: 09/14/2014] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Predicted increase in temperature and atmospheric CO2 concentration will influence the growth of crop plants and phytophagous insects. The present study, conducted at the Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture, Hyderabad, India, aimed at (1) construction of life tables at six constant temperatures viz., 20, 25, 27, 30, 33, and 35 ± 0.5 °C for Spodoptera litura (Fabricius) (Noctuidae: Lepidoptera) reared on sunflower (Helianthus annus L.) grown under ambient and elevated CO2 (eCO2) (550 ppm) concentration in open top chambers and (2) prediction of the pest status in near future (NF) and distant future (DF) climate change scenarios at major sunflower growing locations of India. Significantly lower leaf nitrogen, higher carbon and higher relative proportion of carbon to nitrogen (C:N) were observed in sunflower foliage grown under eCO2 over ambient. Feeding trials conducted on sunflower foliage obtained from two CO2 conditions showed that the developmental time of S. litura (Egg to adult) declined with increase in temperature and was more evident at eCO2. Finite (λ) and intrinsic rates of increase (r(m)), net reproductive rate (Ro), mean generation time, (T) and doubling time (DT) of S. litura increased significantly with temperature up to 27-30 °C and declined with further increase in temperature. Reduction of 'T' was observed from maximum value of 58 d at 20 °C to minimum of 24.9 d at 35 °C. The DT of population was higher (5.88 d) at 20 °C and lower (3.05 d) at 30 °C temperature of eCO2. The data on these life table parameters were plotted against temperature and two nonlinear models were developed separately for each of the CO2 conditions for predicting the pest scenarios. The NF and DF scenarios temperature data of four sunflower growing locations in India is based on PRECIS A1B emission scenario. It was predicted that increased 'rm', 'λ', and 'Ro' and reduced 'T' would occur during NF and DF scenario over present period at all locations. The present results indicate that temperature and CO2 are vital in influencing the population growth of S. litura and pest incidence may possibly be higher in the future.
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- D Manimanjari
- Division of Crop Sciences, Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (CRIDA), Hyderabad 500059, India
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- Division of Crop Sciences, Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (CRIDA), Hyderabad 500059, India
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- Division of Crop Sciences, Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (CRIDA), Hyderabad 500059, India
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- Section of Design and Analysis, CRIDA, Hyderabad 500059, India
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- Division of Crop Sciences, Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (CRIDA), Hyderabad 500059, India
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- Division of Crop Sciences, Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (CRIDA), Hyderabad 500059, India
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Shanker AK, Maddaala A, Kumar MA, Yadav SK, Maheswari M, Venkateswarlu B. In silico targeted genome mining and comparative modelling reveals a putative protein similar to an Arabidopsis drought tolerance DNA binding transcription factor in Chromosome 6 of Sorghum bicolor genome. Interdiscip Sci 2012; 4:133-41. [PMID: 22843236 DOI: 10.1007/s12539-012-0121-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2011] [Revised: 01/11/2012] [Accepted: 01/25/2012] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
Abstract
Arabidopsis Thaliana HARDY (AtHRD) is a gene with an APETELA 2 / Ethylene Responsive Factor (AP2/ERF) domain linked to improved performance under drought in rice. We hypothesized that the sorghum genome could possess a similar gene product and were motivated to conduct a computational genome scale mining for the protein and analyse its structural and functional properties. AtHRD sequence was used as a query to BLAST against the sorghum genome dataset followed by multiple alignment analysis. A homology model of the target was built using a template detected based on the pair-wise comparison of hidden Markov models for alignments. DNA docking with a matrix of homologous interface contacts was done. Functional and structural analysis of the query and target was conducted using various online servers. A High-scoring segment pair from Chromosome 6 of the sorghum genome in the region between 54948120 and 54948668 had 68 amino acid similarities out of the 184 residues and was 1.4% above twilight zone threshold. The homology model showed 86.8% residues in most favoured regions. The target protein which had an AP2/ERF domain when docked with GCC box DNA motif had conserved residues involved in binding; it had a long unstructured region beyond the AP2 domain with several motifs for the recognition of serine/threonine protein kinase group. The protein model showed that it could bind to a GCC box which is present in several drought responsive genes. The presence of possible signalling domains and intrinsic disorder in the target protein suggest that this could play a role in drought tolerance which is an inherent character of sorghum. These results offer a jumpstart for validation experiments which could pave the way for cis/trans genic improvement of a range of crops.
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Affiliation(s)
- Arun K Shanker
- Division of Crop Sciences, Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (CRIDA), Santosh Nagar, Saidabad P.O., Hyderabad, 500059, India.
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Vijayalakshmi T, Varalaxmi Y, Jainender S, Yadav SK, Vanaja M, Jyothilakshmi N, Maheswari M. Physiological and Biochemical Basis of Water-Deficit Stress Tolerance in Pearl Millet Hybrid and Parents. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012. [DOI: 10.4236/ajps.2012.312211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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