Ramesh Venkata Sonti

Ramesh Venkata Sonti
Born (1960-05-24) 24 May 1960 (age 64)
Andhra Pradesh, India
Nationality Indian
Alma materUniversity of Hyderabad
University of Utah
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known forImproved Samba Mahsuri
Scientific career
FieldsBiology
InstitutionsCentre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB)

National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR)

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Tirupati (IISER, Tirupati)

Ramesh Venkata Sonti is an Indian plant Geneticist.[1] He did his MPhil in life sciences from University of Hyderabad. He holds Doctor of philosophy in bacterial genetics from the University of Utah, supplemented with Post Doctoral training in Plant genetics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[citation needed] He was positioned as a Senior Scientist at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology in Hyderabad, India.[2] He was awarded in June 2004 the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, the highest science award in India, in the Biological sciences category.[3]

Prizes and honours

Research highlights

  • Virulence mechanisms of the important bacterial leaf blight pathogen of the rice plant.
  • Introduction of bacterial leaf blight resistance characteristics into the background of commercially important but disease susceptible rice varieties.

References

  1. ^ "Fellows Elected-2009" (PDF). insaindia.org. Retrieved 21 August 2012.
  2. ^ Business Standard (2 March 2004). "DBT award for CCMB scientist". Business-standard.com. Retrieved 21 August 2012. {{cite news}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  3. ^ "Ramesh Sonti:City scientist gets Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar award". Reachouthyderabad.com. Retrieved 21 August 2012.