Suhaskarkute

Scientist
Areas of Interest: 

My research work is aimed at understanding the response of vegetable crops, particularly tomato against abiotic stresses. We are using various molecular biology and biotechnology techniques like expression profiling, transgenics and genome editing to identify stress responsive genes and their further functional validation. In addition, I am working on bioactive compounds of plants to understand their potential medicinal properties by using bioinformatics tools. 

Major Research Accomplishments: 

1.Karkute, S. G., Krishna, R., Ansari, W. A., Singh, B., Singh, P. M., Singh, M., & Singh, A. K. (2019). Heterologous expression of the AtDREB1A gene in tomato confers tolerance to chilling stress. BIOLOGIA PLANTARUM, 63(1), 268-277.

2. Karkute, S. G., Gujjar, R. S., Rai, A., Akhtar, M., Singh, M., & Singh, B. (2018). Genome wide expression analysis of WRKY genes in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) under drought stress. Plant Gene13, 8-17.

3. Gupta, O. P., Karkute, S. G., Banerjee, S., Meena, N. L., & Dahuja, A. (2017). Contemporary understanding of miRNA-based regulation of secondary metabolites biosynthesis in plants. Frontiers in plant science, 8, 374.

4. Karkute, S. G., Singh, A. K., Gupta, O. P., Singh, P. M., & Singh, B. (2017). CRISPR/Cas9 mediated genome engineering for improvement of horticultural crops. Frontiers in plant science, 8, 1635.

5. Gujjar, R. S., Karkute, S. G., Rai, A., Singh, M., & Singh, B. (2018). Proline-rich proteins may regulate free cellular proline levels during drought stress in tomato. Current Science114(4).

6. Krishna, R., Karkute, S. G., Ansari, W. A., Jaiswal, D. K., Verma, J. P., & Singh, M. (2019). Transgenic tomatoes for abiotic stress tolerance: status and way ahead. 3 Biotech9(4), 143.

7. Karkute, S. G., Koley, T. K., Yengkhom, B. K., Tripathi, A., Srivastava, S., Maurya, A., & Singh, B. (2018). Anti-diabetic phenolic compounds of black carrot (Daucus carota Subspecies sativus var. atrorubens Alef.) inhibit enzymes of glucose metabolism: an in silico and in vitro validation. Medicinal Chemistry14(6), 641-649.

8. Gujjar, R. S., Pathak, A. D., Karkute, S. G., & Supaibulwatana, K. (2019). Multifunctional proline rich proteins and their role in regulating cellular proline content in plants under stress. Biologia plantarum63, 448-454.

9. Karkute, S. G., Easwaran, M., Gujjar, R. S., Piramanayagam, S., & Singh, M. (2015). Protein modeling and molecular dynamics simulation of SlWRKY4 protein cloned from drought tolerant tomato (Solanum habrochaites) line EC520061. Journal of molecular modeling21(10), 255.

10. Gupta, O. P., Pandey, V., Meena, N. L., Karkute, S. G., Banerjee, S., & Dahuja, A. (2018). Small Noncoding RNA-Based Regulation of Plant Immunity. In Molecular Aspects of Plant-Pathogen Interaction (pp. 203-217). Springer, Singapore.

 

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Fellowship: 

Junior Research Fellowship (ICAR) 

CSIR-NET in Life Sciences

Publications: 

1. Karkute, S. G., Krishna, R., Ansari, W. A., Singh, B., Singh, P. M., Singh, M., & Singh, A. K. (2019). Heterologous expression of the AtDREB1A gene in tomato confers tolerance to chilling stress. BIOL PLANT63(1), 268-277.

2. Karkute, S. G., Koley, T. K., Yengkhom, B. K., Tripathi, A., Srivastava, S., Maurya, A., & Singh, B. (2018). Anti-diabetic phenolic compounds of black carrot (Daucus carota Subspecies sativus var. atrorubens Alef.) inhibit enzymes of glucose metabolism: an in silico and in vitro validation. Medicinal Chemistry14(6), 641-649.

3. Karkute, S. G., Gujjar, R. S., Rai, A., Akhtar, M., Singh, M., & Singh, B. (2018). Genome wide expression analysis of WRKY genes in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) under drought stress. Plant Gene13, 8-17.

4. Karkute, S. G., Singh, A. K., Gupta, O. P., Singh, P. M., & Singh, B. (2017). CRISPR/Cas9 mediated genome engineering for improvement of horticultural crops. Front plant science8, 1635.

5. Karkute, S. G., Easwaran, M., Gujjar, R. S., Piramanayagam, S., & Singh, M. (2015). Protein modeling and molecular dynamics simulation of SlWRKY4 protein cloned from drought tolerant tomato (Solanum habrochaites) line EC520061. J mol model, 21(10), 255.