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Dr. Rahul P.R. (Scientist)

Crop Improvement and Biotechnology

Centre for Medicinal Plants Research

Arya Vaidya Sala, Kottakkal

e-mail: rahulpsvj@gmail.com

Resi :

Mobile :09567701047


Academic profile

M.Sc. (Biotechnology), Ph.D (Plant Pathology)


Research Experience / Expertise

More than 10 years of research experience in the area of Plant Science especially in spices, tea, sugarcane and medicinal plants: 

Started research career with biotechnological studies on tea blister blight disease, followed by work on identification and characterization of differentially expressed genes/proteins involved in sugarcane- red rot pathogen interaction. As part of my work I have gained expertise on PCR, DNA profiling, primer designing, reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR), reverse northern blotting, gene cloning, transformation, Autoradiography techniques, Differential Display-RT-PCR (DD-RT-PCR), RACE-PCR for the Isolation of full length plant genes, western blotting, ELISA techniques, biochemical analysis of enzymes, plant proteomics/ two dimensional gel electrophoresis. Have experience in Intellectual Property Rights, Management and Technology Transfer/ Commercialization of Agricultural Technology etc.

The present area of work includes DNA profiling of medicinal plants for identification of genetic variability and identification of adulterating plants used in Ayurvedic medicine manufacture. DNA barcoding in Ayurvedic medicinal plants is an important research area being explored due to its reliability in identification of botanicals.


Awards/Honours/ Recognition

National Level

Received the Second prize for best Research Paper (Poster) from the Indian Phytopathological Society, during Symposium on Changing Plant Disease Scenario in relation to climate change, Indian Institute of Spices Research, Kozhikode, Oct 22-23, 2010.


Selected Publications

P.R. Rahul, V. Ganesh Kumar, M. Sathyabhama, R. Viswanathan, A. Ramesh Sundar and P. Malathi. Characterization and 3D structure prediction of chitinase induced in sugarcane during pathogenesis of Colletotrichum falcatum. Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology (Accepted DOI:10.1007/s13562-013-0226-6). 2013.

Rahul P.R., Ganesh Kumar, V., Viswanathan, R., Ramesh Sundar A., Malathi P. "Characterization of 14-3-3 like protein gene from C. falcatum challenged sugarcane using RACE-PCR". In: Proceedings of the International Symposium on "New paradigms in sugarcane research", by the Society for Sugarcane Research and Development, Oct 15-18, 2012, p245-247.

Rahul, P.R., Prathima, P.T., Viswanathan, R., Malathi, P., Banumathy, R., Kumar, K.K and Balasubramanian, P. 2006. Abstract on “Identification of genes in response to C. falcatum went infection in sugarcane by genomic scanning of defense genes” Proceedings of “GDEST India – U.S. Workshop Agricultural Biotechnology for the Global Public Good”, October 4-6, 2006, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, India.

K. M. Maria John, Deepu Vijayan, P.R. Rahul, S. D. Joshi, R. Raj Kumar, and A. K.A. Mandal. Electrofocusing of methanolic extracts for identification of individual flavonol biomolecules in Camellia species. Journal of agricultural and food chemistry. 2006. 54 (8): 2828 -2831.

T.E. Sheeja, V.A. Parthasarathy, V.K. Sajesh, P.R. Rahul. Book on "Intellectual Property Rights: Current Scenario in Spices", Indian Institute of Spices Research, Calicut, 2012.

Ramesh Sundar, A., Nagarathinam, S., Ganesh Kumar, V., Rahul P.R., Raveendran, M., Malathi P., Ganesh Kumar Agrawal, Randeep Rakwal and Viswanathan, R. Sugarcane proteomics: Establishment of a protein extraction method for 2-DE in stalk tissues and initiation of sugarcane proteome reference map. Electrophoresis 2010 31: 1959-1974.

Viswanathan, R., Ramesh Sundar, A., Malathi P., Rahul, P.R., Ganesh Kumar, V., Banumathy, R., Prathima, P.T., Raveendran, M., Kumar, K.K. and Balasubramanian, P. “Interaction between sugarcane and Colletotrichum falcatum causing red rot : Understanding disease resistance at transcription level”. Sugar Tech. 2009 11(1): 44-50.

K.M. Maria John, R. Sasikumar, Deepu Vijayan, P.R. Rahul, M. Saravanan and R. Raj Kumar. Influence of externally added substrates on total catechin content in tea leaves (Camellia spp.) Asian Journal of Plant Sciences. 2006. 5 (1): 116-119.

Sarvottam D. Joshi, Balamurugan, A., Jibu Thomas and Rahul, P.R.. Extraction of genomic DNA from the blister blight fungus. Newsletter of UPASI Tea Research Foundation 2005, 15(1): 3.

Joshi S. D, Haridas V, Thomas J, Rahul P R, Raj Kumar R (Plant Physiology Div, UPASI Tea Research Foundation, Tea Research Institute, Nirar dam (BPO), Valparal, Coimbatore-642 127) : Isolation of spores of Exobasidium vexans of tea and extraction of genomic DNA. J. Plantation crops 2004, 32 (Suppl), 351-353.

Ganesh Kumar, V., Viswanathan, R., Ramesh Sundar A., Malathi P., Rahul P.R. "Proteomic analysis of Sugarcane-Colletotrichum falcatum interaction". In: Proceedings of the International Symposium on "New paradigms in sugarcane research", by the Society for Sugarcane Research and Development, Oct 15-18, 2012, p346-349.

  • "The Centre for Medicinal Plants Research functions as a pioneer institute in the area of research, education, conservation and popularisation of Ayurvedic medicinal plants."

  • "The Centre for Medicinal Plants Research functions as a pioneer institute in the area of research, education, conservation and popularisation of Ayurvedic medicinal plants."

  • "The Centre for Medicinal Plants Research functions as a pioneer institute in the area of research, education, conservation and popularisation of Ayurvedic medicinal plants."