Starch Content and Cassava Mosaic Disease Genetic Diversity with Relation to Yield in South Indian Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) Germplasm

Duraisamy, Raghu,Rathinasamy, Sakthi Ambothi,Natesan, Senthil,Muthurajan, Raveendran,Ramineni, Jana Jeevan,Karuppusamy, Nageswari,Lakshmanan, Pugalenthi,Chokkappan, Mohan,Gandhi, Karthikeyan 한국작물학회 2011 Journal of crop science and biotechnology Vol.14 No.3

Cassava, family Euphorbiaceae, is the fifth most important staple food crop. The study of variability and diversity present in diverse cassava accessions maintained at the field genebank of TCRS, TNAU is essential to design the breeding program of cassava in TNAU. Hence, a study was carried out to assess the genetic diversity based on morphological traits and Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR) markers, identifying the SSR markers linked to a cassava mosaic disease-resistant QTL region. Genetic diversity among cassava germplasm accessions was estimated using 28 morphological traits and three SSR markers. The polymorphic information content (PIC) result gives high information for all the SSR markers. Morphological traits revealed 10 clusters and the SSR markers revealed 13 clusters at a similarity coefficient of 2.514 and 0.75, respectively. The SSR marker diversity revealed that the most promising clusters (II and XII) possessing accessions with yield attributing traits and cluster IX were grouped together due to low yield and CMD susceptibility. Morphological descriptors revealed variance for yield contributing traits. The first three principle components accounted for 10.8, 9.1, and 8.4%, respectively. Correlation studies showed significant correlation among yield and yield-attributing traits, which in turn influences yield. The morphological traits diversity reveals that cluster VI was the most promising cluster in which genotypes ME209 and ME460 possess higher yield and starch content with cassava mosaic disease (CMD) resistance. Most of the accessions grouped under cluster X belong to selection from International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) collections and the cultivars under clusters I and II were true cassava seed (TCS) selections of India. The CMD-linked SSR marker which is reported in the previous studies have generated eight alleles and each were regressed with CMD resistance and resulted in non-significant linkage to CMD resistance

Starch Content and Cassava Mosaic Disease Genetic Diversity with Relation to Yield in South Indian Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) Germplasm

Raghu Duraisamy,Senthil Natesan,Sakthi Ambothi Rathinasamy,Raveendran Muthurajan,Jana Jeevan Ramineni,Nageswari Karuppusamy,Pugalenthi Lakshmanan,Mohan Chokkappan,Karthikeyan Gandhi 한국작물학회 2011 Journal of crop science and biotechnology Vol.14 No.3

Cassava, family Euphorbiaceae, is the fifth most important staple food crop. The study of variability and diversity present in diverse cassava accessions maintained at the field genebank of TCRS, TNAU is essential to design the breeding program of cassava in TNAU. Hence, a study was carried out to assess the genetic diversity based on morphological traits and Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR) markers, identifying the SSR markers linked to a cassava mosaic disease-resistant QTL region. Genetic diversity among cassava germplasm accessions was estimated using 28 morphological traits and three SSR markers. The polymorphic information content (PIC) result gives high information for all the SSR markers. Morphological traits revealed 10 clusters and the SSR markers revealed 13 clusters at a similarity coefficient of 2.514 and 0.75, respectively. The SSR marker diversity revealed that the most promising clusters (II and XII) possessing accessions with yield attributing traits and cluster IX were grouped together due to low yield and CMD susceptibility. Morphological descriptors revealed variance for yield contributing traits. The first three principle components accounted for 10.8, 9.1, and 8.4%, respectively. Correlation studies showed significant correlation among yield and yield-attributing traits, which in turn influences yield. The morphological traits diversity reveals that cluster VI was the most promising cluster in which genotypes ME209 and ME460 possess higher yield and starch content with cassava mosaic disease (CMD) resistance. Most of the accessions grouped under cluster X belong to selection from International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) collections and the cultivars under clusters I and II were true cassava seed (TCS) selections of India. The CMD-linked SSR marker which is reported in the previous studies have generated eight alleles and each were regressed with CMD resistance and resulted in non-significant linkage to CMD resistance.

Assessment of Resistomycin, as an Anticancer Compound Isolated and Characterized from Streptomyces aurantiacus AAA5

Rajendran Vijayabharathi,Per Bruheim,Trygve Andreassen,Duraisamy Senthil Raja,Palanisamy Bruntha Devi,Sathyaseelan Sathyabama,Venkatesan Brindha Priyadarisini 한국미생물학회 2011 The journal of microbiology Vol.49 No.6

A new actinomycete strain, isolated from humus soils in the Western Ghats, was found to be an efficient pigment producer. The strain, designated AAA5, was identified as a putative Streptomyces aurantiacus strain based on cultural properties, morphology, carbon source utilization, and analysis of the 16S rRNA gene. The strain produced a reddish-brown pigmented compound during the secondary metabolites phase. A yellow compound was derived from the extracted pigment and was identified as the quinone-related antibiotic resistomycin based on ultraviolet–visible spectrophotometry, fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, liquid chromatography and mass spectroscopy, and nuclear magnetic resonance analyses. The AAA5 strain was found to produce large quantities of resistomycin (52.5 mg/L). It showed potent cytotoxic activity against cell lines viz. HepG2 (hepatic carcinoma) and HeLa (cervical carcinoma) in vitro, with growth inhibition (GI_50) of 0.006 and 0.005 μg/ml, respectively. The strain also exhibited broad antimicrobial activities against both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. Therefore, AAA5 may have great potential as an industrial resistomycin-producing strain.

Regulation of Glomerular Endothelial Cell Proteoglycans by Glucose

Balakuntalam S. Kasinath,Jennifer L. Faulkner,Senthil Duraisamy,하태선 대한의학회 2004 Journal of Korean medical science Vol.19 No.2

Spectral characterization of a pteridine derivative from cyanide-utilizing bacterium Bacillus subtilis - JN989651

S. Durairaju Nisshanthini,Antony K. Teresa Infanta S.,Duraisamy Senthil Raja,Karuppannan Natarajan,M. Palaniswamy,Jayaraman Angayarkanni 한국미생물학회 2015 The journal of microbiology Vol.53 No.4

Soil and water samples were collected from various regionsof SIPCOT and nearby Vanappadi Lake, Ranipet, Tamilnadu,India. Based on their colony morphology and their stabilityduring subculturing, 72 bacteria were isolated, of which 14isolates were actinomycetes. Preliminary selection was carriedout to exploit the ability of the microorganisms to utilizesodium cyanate as nitrogen source. Those organismsthat were able to utilize cyanate were subjected to secondaryscreening viz., utilization of sodium cyanide as the nitrogensource. The oxygenolytic cleavage of cyanide is dependenton cyanide monooxygenase which obligately requires pterincofactor for its activity. Based on this, the organisms capableof utilizing sodium cyanide were tested for the presence ofpterin. Thin layer chromatography (TLC) of the cell extractsusing n-butanol: 5 N glacial acetic acid (4:1) revealed that10 out of 12 organisms that were able to utilize cyanide hadthe pterin-related blue fluorescent compound in the cellextract. The cell extracts of these 10 organisms were subjectedto high performance thin layer chromatography (HPTLC)for further confirmation using a pterin standard. Based onthe incubation period, cell biomass yield, peak height andarea, strain VPW3 was selected and was identified as Bacillussubtilis. The Rf value of the cell extract was 0.73 which wasconsistent with the 0.74 Rf value of the pterin standardwhen scanned at 254 nm. The compound was extracted andpurified by preparative High Performance Liquid Chromatography(HPLC). Characterization of the compound wasperformed by ultraviolet spectrum, fluorescence spectrum,Electrospray Ionization-Mass Spectrometry (ESI-MS), andNuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy (NMR). The compoundis proposed to be 6-propionyl pterin (2-amino-6-propionyl-3H-pteridin-4-one).