Mississippi State University Agriculture/MAFES/MSU-ES Plant and Soil Sciences Postdoctoral fellowAppointed: 2002 | |
QualificationsPh.D., Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University, ICRISAT, Plant Physiology, 2000. M.Sc., Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University, Plant Physiology, 1995. B.Sc., Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University, Agriculture, 1991. Expertise and Research InterestsContributed significantly to the assessment of responses of corn, cotton, soybean, and cowpea crops to many environmental changes projected by global circulation models. Utilized this information to relate crop response to weather patterns. In the larger perspective of global climate change, the research work has shown that if the hypothesized changes occur without compensating improvements in crop stress tolerance, or ways to avoid weather extremes, the productivity of fruit- and seed-bearing plants will be drastically reduced.
Processes quantified include: growth, development, photosynthesis, water relations, phenology, leaf area expansion, stem and internode extension, square and boll growth, and fiber properties, yield losses and causes for yield and quality reductions, pollen parameters.
Assessing the effect of glycine betaine, an osmoprotectant, in alleviating the drought effects under field conditions in cotton and soybean crops. Other ExpertiseStatistical packages: SAS, GENSTAT
- Through several well organized field and growth chamber experiments, proved the fact that the application of glycine betaine could enhance the germination, seedling vigor, growth, development and finally the yields of the major SAT crop: groundnut under drought, high temperature and salinity conditions.
- Developed technological options (management and genetic) for the major biotic and abiotic constraints for adoption of legumes in rice and wheat cropping systems in SAT
- Established nutrient budgets for various legume-based cropping systems in seven Asian countries (India, Srilanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Thailand and Nepal)
- Biochemical changes (starch, protein, sugars, and enzymes like a-amylase, invertase and sucrose synthase) in developing kernels of super sweet, sweet and normal corns KeywordsCOS Keywords:Climate Change, Global Change, Natural Resources Management, Plant Physiology Or Morphology, Plant Sciences, Soil Sciences.Additional Terms:Abiotic Stress Physiology, Global Climate Change.Languages(Reading, Writing, Speaking)English: (Fluent, Fluent, Fluent) Hindi: (Fluent, Fluent, Fluent) Telugu: (Fluent, Fluent, Fluent) MembershipsAmerican Society of Agronomy Gamma Sigma Delta Honors and Awards2005, Member,
Gamma-Sigma-Delta,
Mississippi State University
1996-1999,
Research Scholarship,
ICRISAT
1996, Best Thesis Presentation Award,
ANGRAU,
Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University
Previous Positions1999-2002, Research Fellow,
ICRISAT,
Natural Resources Management Program
Funding Received- Mississippi Soybean Promotion Board:
An Approach to Positively Shift the Production of Rainfed Soybean by Foliar Applications of Glycine Betaine.,
Co-principal Investi,
2004
to 2006.
Publications- Sailaja Koti, Reddy KR, Kakani VG, Zhao D, Reddy VR, Interactive Effects of Carbon Dioxide, Temperature and Ultraviolet-B Radiation on Flower and Pollen Morphology, Quantity and Quality of Pollen in Soybean (Glycine Max L.) Genotypes, Journal of Experimental Botany, 56, 725-736, 2005
- Kakani VG, Reddy KR, Sailaja Koti, Wallace TP, VaraPrasad PV, Reddy VR, Zhao D, Differences for in Vitro Pollen Germination and Pollen Tube Growth of Cotton Cultivars in Response to Temperature, Annals of Botany, 96, 59-67, 2005
- Zhao D, Reddy KR, Kakani VG, Read JJ, Sailaja Koti, Selection of Optimum Reflectance Ratios for Estimating Leaf N and Chlorophyll Concentrations of Field-grown Cotton., Agronomy Journal, 97, 89-98, 2005
- Sailaja Koti, Reddy KR, Kakani VG, Zhao D, Wei Gao, Effects of Carbon Dioxide, Temperature and Ultraviolet-B Radiation and Their Interactions on Soybean (Glycine Max L.) Growth and Development., Environmental and Experimental Botany, Submitted, 2005
- Sailaja Koti, Reddy KR, Lawrence GW, Reddy VR, Kakani VG, Zhao D, Wei Gao, Effect of Enhanced UV-B Radiation on Reniform Nematode (Rotylenchus Reniformis Linford and Oliveria) Populations in Cotton (Gossypium Hirsutum L.), Biotronics, Submitted, 2005
- Sailaja Koti, Reddy K R, Kakani VG, Zhao D, Reddy VR, Flower and Pollen Morphology and in Vitro Pollen Germination of Soybean (Glycine Max L.) Genotypes Grown Under Enhanced UV-B Radiation., Annals of Botany, 94, 1-10, 2004
- Reddy KR, Kakani VG, Zhao D, Sailaja Koti, Wei Gao, Interactive Effects of Ultraviolet-B Radiation and Temperature on Cotton Physiology, Growth, Development and Hyper Spectral Reflectance., Photochemistry and Photobiology, 79, 416-427, 2004
- Reddy KR, Sailaja Koti, Davidonis GH, Reddy VR, Interactive Effects of Carbon Dioxide Enrichment and Nitrogen Nutrition on Cotton, Growth, Development, Yield and Fiber Quality., Agronomy Journal, 96, 1148-1157, 2004
- Kakani VG, Reddy KR, Zhao D, Sailaja Koti, Effect of UV-B Radiation on Field Crops – a Review. Agricultural, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 120, 191-218, 2003
- Reddy KR, Sailaja Koti, Zhao D, Kakani VG, Wei Gao, Interactive Effects of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Ultraviolet-B, SPIE, 5153, 262-272, 2003
- Reddy KR, Zhao D, Kakani VG, Read JJ, Sailaja Koti, . Estimating Cotton Growth and Developmental Parameters Through Remote Sensing. in Ecosystems Dynamics, Agricultural Remote Sensing and Modeling, and Site-Specific Agriculture, SPIE, 5153, 277-288, 2003
- Sailaja Koti, Narasimha Rao CL, Madhulety TY, Interrelationship of Metabolites During Grain Development in Normal, Sweet and Improved Sweet Corns., Annals of Plant Physiology, 10, 66-70, 1996
- Sailaja Koti, Narasimha Rao CL, Madhulety TY, Correlation Studies of Biochemical Parameters in Developing Kernels of Normal Sweet and Improved Sweet Corns., Journal of Research, 24, 37-38, 1996
- Sailaja Koti, Narasimha Rao CL, Madhulety TY, Variation of Sucrose Synthase, Invertase and Alpha Amylase in Developing Kernels of Normal, Sweet and Improved Sweet Corns., Indian Journal of Agricultural Biochemistry, 9, 33-38, 1996
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