A5006319327- Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
- Plant responses to water stress
- Plant Molecular Biology Research
- Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
- Aluminum toxicity and tolerance in plants and animals
- Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement
- Educational Leadership and Innovation
- Biomedical and Engineering Education
- Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
- Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
- Innovative Teaching Methods
- ICT in Developing Communities
- ICT Impact and Policies
- Silicon Effects in Agriculture
- Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects
Open University of Sri Lanka
2012-2021
University of Colombo
2009
Salinity tolerance in rice, like other glycophytes, is a function of cellular ion homeostasis. The large divergence homeostasis between the salt-tolerant FL478 and salt-sensitive IR29 rice varieties can be exploited to understand mechanisms salinity tolerance. Physiological studies indicate that shows lower Na+ influx, reduced translocation shoot, maintains Na+:K+ ratio. To basis these differences, comparative investigation transcript regulation roots two cultivars was undertaken. This...
Recent advances in next generation sequencing have created opportunities to directly identify genetic loci and candidate genes for abiotic stress responses plants. With the objective of identifying within previously identified QTL-hotspots, whole genomes two divergent cultivars salt responses, namely At 354 Bg 352, were re-sequenced using Illumina Hiseq 2500 100PE platform mapped Nipponbare R498 genomes. The results revealed approximately 2.4 million SNPs 0.2 InDels with reference while 1.3...
COVID19 outbreak brought about many challenges including the shifting of university assessments to conduct in online mode. This research study tries explore impact newly designed formative on students’ learning, a Plant Physiology course. The designing were carried out focusing constructive alignment, for which an Open Book Test (OBT) was conducted three parts: OBT1 –problem based learning assignment, providing feedback using rubric; OBT2 –multiple choice, multi response, matching and...