Ramanjulu Sunkar

editor of "Plant Stress Tolerance, 2nd edition"

January 9, 2018

Dr. Ramanjulu Sunkar is Professor at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oklahoma State University. Stillwater, USA. He received his Ph.D. in Botany from Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Anantapur, India. He was a recipient of DAAD fellowship, Alexander Von Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship, Feinberg Postdoctoral fellowship and Sir Charles Clore Postdoctoral fellowship. He pursued his post-doctoral research under the supervision of Dr. Hillel Fromm (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel), Dr. Dorothea Bartels (University of Bonn, Germany), and Dr. Jian-Kang Zhu (University of California, Riverside, USA). He published 87 peer-reviewed publications and edited three books. He served or serving as an associate/handling editor for various journals such as the Journal of Experimental Botany, BMC Plant Biology, BMC Genomics, Frontiers in Plant Genomics and Genetics and PLoS One. He is included in the list of Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017.

The first edition of Plant Stress Tolerance: Methods and Protocols under the series of Methods in Molecular Biology was published in 2010. We were very gratified with its popularity. In the first edition, all pertinent protocols could not be accommodated and also the fact that the Plant Biology has witnessed a fast pace of molecular research in the recent years is the motivation to bring this second edition.

An updated review on oxidative stress responses newly emerging areas such as epigenetics, long non-coding RNAs and microbiome in adaptation to abiotic stresses were included. The included protocols are genetic screens, quantifying in vivo molecular interactions, identifying DNA methylation and histone modifications, identifying stress-responsive genes that are differentially translated, proteomics, phosphoproteomics, posttranslational redox modifications, metabolomics, lipidomics.

Additionally, the protocols on determining sulfate, sulfite, thiosulfate, sulfolipids, and enzymes associated with sulfite toxicity as well as glutathione were included. The remaining methodology chapters cover a wide range of topics such as distinguishing superoxide dismutases, determining polyamines, quantifying ABA levels, silencing stress-responsive microRNAs, and, identifying microbes that promote drought tolerance. This volume is expected to meet the methodology demands of both new and established researchers who are interested in probing stress tolerance in plants.

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Last Updated: 24 January 2018