Research Geneticist (Plants)
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Devinder Sandhu Agricultural Water Efficiency and 450 W Big Springs Road |
ARS - Publications and Projects
U.S. Salinity Laboratory Publications:
- Acharya, B.R., D. Sandhu, C. Dueñas, J.F.S. Ferreira and K.K. Grover. 2022. Deciphering molecular mechanisms involved in salinity toler-ance in guar (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba (L.) Taub.) using tran-scriptome analyses. Plants. 11(3):291. doi:10.3390/plants11030291.
- Jin, K., N. Tian, J.F.S. Ferreira, D. Sandhu, L. Xiao, M. Gu, Y. Luo, X. Zhang, G. Liu, Z. Liu, J. Huang and S. Liu. 2022. Comparative transcriptome analysis of Agrobacterium tumefaciens reveals the molecular basis for the recalcitrant genetic transformation of Camellia sinensis L. Biomolecules. 12(5):688. doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/biom12050688.
- Tareq, F.S., R.R. Kotha, J.F.S. Ferreira, D. Sandhu and D.L. Luthria. 2021. Influence of Moderate-to-High Salinity on the Phytochemical Profile of Two Salinity-Tolerant Spinach Cultivars. ACS Food Sci. Technol. 1:205-214. doi:10.1021/acsfoodscitech.0c00034.
- UÇGUN, K., J.F.S. Ferreira, X. Liu, J.B.S. Filho, C.F.D. Lacerda and D. Sandhu. 2020. Germination and growth of Spinach under potassium deficiency and irrigation with high-salinity water. Plants. 9(12):doi:10.3390/plants9121739.
- Sandhu, D., A. Kuandal, B.R. Acharya, T. Forest, M.V. Pudussery, X. Liu, J.F.S. Ferreira and D.L. Suarez. 2020. Linking diverse salinity responses of 14 almond rootstocks with physiological, biochemical, and genetic determinants. Scientific Reports. 10:21087. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-78036-4.
- Zhao, C., D. William and D. Sandhu. 2021. Isolation and characterization of salt overly sensitive family genes in spinach. Physiologia. 171(4):520-532. doi:10.1111/ppl.13125.
- Kaundal, R., N. Duhan, B.R. Acharya, M.V. Pudussery, J.F.S. Ferreira, D.L. Suarez and D. Sandhu. 2021. Transcriptional profiling of two contrasting genotypes uncovers molecular mechanisms underlying salt tolerance in alfalfa. Scientific Reports 11:5210. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-84461-w.
- Ferreira, J.F.S., J.B.D.S. Filho, X. Liu and D. Sandhu. 2020. Spinach plants favor the absorption of K+ over Na+ regardless of salinity, and may benefit from Na+ when K+ is deficient in the soil. Plants. 9(4):507. doi:10.3390/plants9040507.
- Sandhu, D. and B.R. Acharya. 2019. Mechanistic insight into the salt tolerance of almonds. Progressive Crop Consultant. 4(5):44-49.
- Sandhu, D., M. V. Pudussery, R. Kumar, A. Pallete, P. Markly, W.C. Bridges and R.S. Sekon. 2020. Characterization of natural genetic variation identifies multiple genes involved in salt tolerance in maize. Functional and Integrative Genomics. doi:10.1007/s10142-019-00707-x.
- Suarez, D.L., N. Celis, R.G. Anderson and D. Sandhu. 2019. Grape rootstock response to salinity, water and combined salinity and water stress. Agronomy. 9:321. doi:10.3390/agronomy9060321.
- Thu, S.W., K.M. Rai, D. Sandhu, A. Rajangam, V.K. Balasubramanian, R.G. Palmer and V. Mendu. 2019. Mutation in a PHD-Finger Protein MS4 causes male sterility in soybean. Biomed Central (BMC) Plant Biology. 19:378. doi:10.1186/s12870-019-1979-4.
- Ferreira, J.F.S., D. Sandhu, X. Liu and J.J. Halvorson. 2018. Spinach (Spinacea oleracea, L.) response to salinity: nutritional value, physiological parameters, antioxidant capacity, and gene expression. Agriculture. 8(10):163. doi:10.3390/agriculture8100163.
- Kaundal, A., D. Sandhu, M. Duenas and J.F.S. Ferreira. 2019. Expression of the high-affinity K+ transporter 1 (PpHKT1) gene from almond rootstock 'Nemaguard' improved salt tolerance of transgenic Arabidopsis. PLoS One. 14(3):e0214473. doi:10.1371/journal. pone.0214473.
- Sandhu, D., M.V. Pudussery, J.F.S. Ferreira, X. Liu, A. Pallete, K.K. Grover and K. Hummer. 2019. Variable salinity responses and comparative expression of salinity response genes in woodland strawberry genotypes. Scientia Horticulturae. 254:61-69. doi:10.1016/j.scienta.2019.04.071.
- Sandhu, D. and A. Kaundal. 2018. Dynamics of salt tolerance: molecular perspectives. In: Biotechnologies of Crop Improvement. Cham, Switzerland:Springer International Publishing AG. 3:25-40. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-94746-4.
- Ferreira, J.F.S., V. Benedito, D. Sandhu, J.A. Marchese and S. Liu. 2018. Seasonal sesquiterpene accumulation of three elite Artemisia annua germplasms and precursor-based selection to generate high-artemisinin crosses. Frontiers in Plant Science. 9:1096. doi:10.3389/fpls.2018.01096.
- Sandhu, D., M.V. Pudussery, R. Kaundal, D.L. Suarez, A. Kaundal and R.S. Sekhon. 2018. Molecular characterization and expression analysis of the Na+/H+ exchanger gene family in Medicago truncatula. Functional and Integrative Genomics. 18(2):141-153. doi:10.1007/s10142-017-0581-9.
- Sandhu, D., Z. Coleman, T. Atkinson, K.M. Rai and V. Mendu. 2018. Genetics and physiology of the nuclearly inherited yellow foliar mutants in soybean. Frontiers in Plant Science. 9:471. doi:10.3389/fpls.2018.00471.
- Grant, N., A. Mohan, D. Sandhu and K.S. Gill. 2018. Inheritance and genetic mapping of the reduced height (Rht18) gene in wheat. Plants. 7(3):58. doi:103.3390/plants7030058.
- Sandhu, D. and M.K. Bhattacharyya. 2017. Transposon-based functional characterization of soybean genes. In: The Soybean Genome. Compendium of Plant Genomes. Cham, Switzerland:Springer International Publishing AG. 183-192. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-64198-0_12.
- Coleman, Z., J. Boelter, K. Espinosa, S. Goggi, R. G. Palmer and D. Sandhu. 2017. Isolation and characterization of aconitate hydratase 4 (Aco4) from soybean. Canadian Journal of Plant Science. 97(4):684-691. doi:10.1139/CJPS-2016-0363.
- Sandhu, D., M.V. Cornacchione, J.F.S. Ferreira and D.L. Suarez. 2017. Variable salinity responses of 12 alfalfa genotypes and comparative expression analyses of salt response genes. Scientific Reports. 7:42958. doi:10.1038/srep42958.
- Sandhu, D., T. Atkinson, A. Noll, C. Johnson, K. Espinosa, J. Boelter, S. Abel, B.K. Dhatt, E. Singsaas, S. Sepsenwol, S. Goggi and R. Palmer. 2016. Soybean proteins GmTic110 and GmPsbP are crucial for chloroplast development and function. Plant Science. 252:76-87. doi:10.1016/j.plantsci.2016.07.006.
- Sandhu, D., J. Ghosh, C. Johnson, J. Baumbach, E. Baumert, T. Cina, D.M. Grant, R.G. Palmer and M.K. Bhattacharyya. 2017. The endogenous transposable element Tgm9 is suitable for functional analyses of soybean genes and generating novel mutants for genetic improvement of soybean. PloS One. 45(8):1-14. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0180732.
- Baumbach, J., R.N. Pudake, C. Johnson, K. Kleinhans, A. Ollhoff, R.G. Palmer, M.K. Bhattacharyya and D. Sandhu. 2016. Transposon tagging of a male-sterility, female-sterility gene, St8, revealed that the meiotic MER3 DNA helicase activity is essential for fertility in soybean. PLoS ONE. 11(3):doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0150482.
Prior Works:
- Speth, B., Rogers, J. P., Boonyoo, N., VanMeter, A. J., Baumbach, J., Ott, A., Moore, J., Cina, T., Palmer, R., & Sandhu, D. (2015). Molecular mapping of five soybean genes involved in male-sterility, female-sterility. Genome, 58(4), 143-149. https://doi.org/10.1139/gen-2015-0044
- Navarro, C., Moore, J., Ott, A., Baumert, E., Mohan, A., Gill, K. S., & Sandhu, D. (2015). Evolutionary, comparative and functional analyses of the brassinosteroid receptor gene, BRI1, in wheat and tts relation to other plant genomes. PLOS ONE, 10(5), e0127544. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0127544
- Espinosa, K., Boelter, J., Lolle, S., Hopkins, M., Goggi, S., Palmer, R. G., & Sandhu, D. (2015). Evaluation of spontaneous generation of allelic variation in soybean in response to sexual hybridization and stress. Can. J. Plant Sci., 95(2), 405-415. https://doi.org/10.4141/cjps-2014-324
- Yang, Y., Speth, B. D., Boonyoo, N., Baumert, E., Atkinson, T. R., Palmer, R. G., & Sandhu, D. (2014). Molecular mapping of three male-sterile, female-fertile mutants and generation of a comprehensive map of all known male sterility genes in soybean. Genome, 57(3), 155-160. https://doi.org/10.1139/gen-2014-0018
- Speth, B., Rogers, J. P., Boonyoo, N., Palmer, R. G., & Sandhu, D. (2014). Candidate gene identification for a fertility locus in soybean. J. Res., 51(1), 8-13.
- Reed, S., Atkinson, T., Gorecki, C., Espinosa, K., Przybylski, S., Goggi, A., Palmer, R., & Sandhu, D. (2014). Candidate gene identification for a lethal chlorophyll-deficient mutant in soybean. Agronomy, 4(4), 462-469. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy4040462
- Navarro, C., Yang, Y., Mohan, A., Grant, N., Gill, K. S., & Sandhu, D. (2014). Microsatellites based genetic linkage map of the Rht3 locus in bread wheat Mol. Plant Breed., 5(8), 43-46. https://doi.org/ 10.5376/mpb.2014.05.0008
- Raval, J., Baumbach, J., Ollhoff, A. R., Pudake, R. N., Palmer, R. G., Bhattacharyya, M. K., & Sandhu, D. (2013). A candidate male-fertility female-fertility gene tagged by the soybean endogenous transposon, Tgm9. Funct. Integr. Genomics, 13(1), 67-73. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10142-012-0304-1
- Ott, A., Yang, Y., Bhattacharyya, M., Horner, H., Palmer, R., & Sandhu, D. (2013). Molecular mapping of D1, D2 and ms5 revealed linkage between the cotyledon color locus D2 and the male-sterile locus ms5 in soybean. Plants, 2(3), 441-454. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants2030441
- Sumit, R., Sahu, B. B., Xu, M., Sandhu, D., & Bhattacharyya, M. K. (2012). Arabidopsis nonhost resistance gene PSS1 confers immunity against an oomycete and a fungal pathogen but not a bacterial pathogen that cause diseases in soybean [journal article]. BMC Plant Biol., 12(1), 87. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2229-12-87
- Baumbach, J., Rogers, J. P., Slattery, R. A., Narayanan, N. N., Xu, M., Palmer, R. G., Bhattacharyya, M. K., & Sandhu, D. (2012). Segregation distortion in a region containing a male-sterility, female-sterility locus in soybean. Plant Sci., 195, 151-156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plantsci.2012.07.003
- Slattery, R. A., Pritzl, S., Reinwand, K., Trautschold, B., Palmer, R. G., & Sandhu, D. (2011). Mapping eight male-sterile, female-sterile soybean mutants. Crop Sci., 51(1), 231-236. https://doi.org/10.2135/cropsci2010.06.0351
- Ott, A., Trautschold, B., & Sandhu, D. (2011). Using microsatellites to understand the physical distribution of recombination on soybean chromosomes. PLOS ONE, 6(7), e22306. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022306
- Frasch, R. M., Weigand, C., Perez, P. T., Palmer, R. G., & Sandhu, D. (2011). Molecular mapping of 2 environmentally sensitive male-sterile mutants in soybean. J. Hered., 102(1), 11-16. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esq100
- Schmutz, J., Cannon, S. B., Schlueter, J., Ma, J., Mitros, T., Nelson, W., Hyten, D. L., Song, Q., Thelen, J. J., Cheng, J., Xu, D., Hellsten, U., May, G. D., Yu, Y., Sakurai, T., Umezawa, T., Bhattacharyya, M. K., Sandhu, D., Valliyodan, B., Lindquist, E., Peto, M., Grant, D., Shu, S., Goodstein, D., Barry, K., Futrell-Griggs, M., Abernathy, B., Du, J., Tian, Z., Zhu, L., Gill, N., Joshi, T., Libault, M., Sethuraman, A., Zhang, X.-C., Shinozaki, K., Nguyen, H. T., Wing, R. A., Cregan, P., Specht, J., Grimwood, J., Rokhsar, D., Stacey, G., Shoemaker, R. C., & Jackson, S. A. (2010). Genome sequence of the palaeopolyploid soybean [10.1038/nature08670]. Nature, 463(7278), 178-183. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature08670
- Mutti, J. S., Sandhu, D., Sidhu, D., & Gill, K. S. (2010). Dynamic nature of a wheat centromere with a functional gene [journal article]. Mol. Breed., 26(2), 177-187. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11032-009-9389-1
- Sandhu, D., Tasma, I. M., Frasch, R., & Bhattacharyya, M. K. (2009). Systemic acquired resistance in soybean is regulated by two proteins, orthologous to Arabidopsis NPR1 [journal article]. BMC Plant Biol., 9(1), 105. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2229-9-105
- Cervantes-Martinez, I., Sandhu, D., Xu, M., Ortiz-Perez, E., Kato, K. K., Horner, H. T., & Palmer, R. G. (2009). The male sterility locus ms3 is present in a fertility controlling gene cluster in soybean. J. Hered., 100(5), 565-570. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esp054
- Palmer, R. G., Sandhu, D., Curran, K., & Bhattacharyya, M. K. (2008). Molecular mapping of 36 soybean male-sterile, female-sterile mutants [journal article]. Theor. Appl. Genet., 117(5), 711-719. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-008-0812-5
- Sandhu, D., Alt, J. L., Scherder, C. W., Fehr, W. R., & Bhattacharyya, M. K. (2007). Enhanced oleic acid content in the soybean mutant M23 is associated with the deletion in the Fad2-1a gene encoding a fatty acid desaturase [journal article]. J. Amer. Oil Chem. Soc., 84(3), 229-235. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11746-007-1037-5
- Sandhu, D., Schallock, K., Rivera-Velez, N., Lundeen, P., Cianzio, S., & Bhattacharyya, M. (2005). Soybean Phytophthora resistance gene Rps8 maps closely to the Rps3 region. J. Hered., 96(5), 536-541. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esi081
- Alt, J. L., Fehr, W. R., Welke, G. A., & Sandhu, D. (2005). Phenotypic and molecular analysis of oleate content in the mutant soybean line M23. Crop Sci., 45(5), 1997-2000. https://doi.org/10.2135/cropsci2004.0664
- Sandhu, D., Gao, H., Cianzio, S., & Bhattacharyya, M. K. (2004). Deletion of a disease resistance nucleotide-binding-site leucine-rich-repeat-like sequence is associated with the loss of the Phytophthora resistance gene Rps4 in soybean. Genetics, 168(4), 2157-2167. https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.104.032037
- Randhawa, H., Dilbirligi, M., Sidhu, D., Erayman, M., Sandhu, D., Bondareva, S., Chao, S., Lazo, G., Anderson, O., & Gustafson, J. (2004). Deletion mapping of homoeologous group 6-specific wheat expressed sequence tags. Genetics, 168(2), 677-686. https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.104.034843
- Qi, L. L., Echalier, B., Chao, S., Lazo, G. R., Butler, G. E., Anderson, O. D., Akhunov, E. D., Dvorák, J., Linkiewicz, A. M., Ratnasiri, A., Dubcovsky, J., Bermudez-Kandianis, C. E., Greene, R. A., Kantety, R., La Rota, C. M., Munkvold, J. D., Sorrells, S. F., Sorrells, M. E., Dilbirligi, M., Sidhu, D., Erayman, M., Randhawa, H. S., Sandhu, D., Bondareva, S. N., Gill, K. S., Mahmoud, A. A., Ma, X. F., Miftahudin, Gustafson, J. P., Conley, E. J., Nduati, V., Gonzalez-Hernandez, J. L., Anderson, J. A., Peng, J. H., Lapitan, N. L., Hossain, K. G., Kalavacharla, V., Kianian, S. F., Pathan, M. S., Zhang, D. S., Nguyen, H. T., Choi, D. W., Fenton, R. D., Close, T. J., McGuire, P. E., Qualset, C. O., & Gill, B. S. (2004). A chromosome bin map of 16,000 expressed sequence tag loci and distribution of genes among the three genomes of polyploid wheat. Genetics, 168(2), 701-712. https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.104.034868
- Peng, J. H., Zadeh, H., Lazo, G. R., Gustafson, J. P., Chao, S., Anderson, O. D., Qi, L. L., Echalier, B., Gill, B. S., Dilbirligi, M., Sandhu, D., Gill, K. S., Greene, R. A., Sorrells, M. E., Akhunov, E. D., Dvorák, J., Linkiewicz, A. M., Dubcovsky, J., Hossain, K. G., Kalavacharla, V., Kianian, S. F., Mahmoud, A. A., Miftahudin, Conley, E. J., Anderson, J. A., Pathan, M. S., Nguyen, H. T., McGuire, P. E., Qualset, C. O., & Lapitan, N. L. V. (2004). Chromosome bin map of expressed sequence tags in homoeologous group 1 of hexaploid wheat and homoeology with rice and Arabidopsis. Genetics, 168(2), 609-623. https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.104.034793
- Munkvold, J. D., Greene, R. A., Bermudez-Kandianis, C. E., La Rota, C. M., Edwards, H., Sorrells, S. F., Dake, T., Benscher, D., Kantety, R., Linkiewicz, A. M., Dubcovsky, J., Akhunov, E. D., Dvorák, J., Miftahudin, Gustafson, J. P., Pathan, M. S., Nguyen, H. T., Matthews, D. E., Chao, S., Lazo, G. R., Hummel, D. D., Anderson, O. D., Anderson, J. A., Gonzalez-Hernandez, J. L., Peng, J. H., Lapitan, N., Qi, L. L., Echalier, B., Gill, B. S., Hossain, K. G., Kalavacharla, V., Kianian, S. F., Sandhu, D., Erayman, M., Gill, K. S., McGuire, P. E., Qualset, C. O., & Sorrells, M. E. (2004). Group 3 chromosome bin maps of wheat and their relationship to rice chromosome 1. Genetics, 168(2), 639-650. https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.104.034819
- Linkiewicz, A. M., Qi, L. L., Gill, B. S., Ratnasiri, A., Echalier, B., Chao, S., Lazo, G. R., Hummel, D. D., Anderson, O. D., Akhunov, E. D., Dvorák, J., Pathan, M. S., Nguyen, H. T., Peng, J. H., Lapitan, N. L., Miftahudin, Gustafson, J. P., La Rota, C. M., Sorrells, M. E., Hossain, K. G., Kalavacharla, V., Kianian, S. F., Sandhu, D., Bondareva, S. N., Gill, K. S., Conley, E. J., Anderson, J. A., Fenton, R. D., Close, T. J., McGuire, P. E., Qualset, C. O., & Dubcovsky, J. (2004). A 2500-locus bin map of wheat homoeologous group 5 provides insights on gene distribution and colinearity with rice. Genetics, 168(2), 665-676. https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.104.034835
- Erayman, M., Sandhu, D., Sidhu, D., Dilbirligi, M., Baenziger, P. S., & Gill, K. S. (2004). Demarcating the gene-rich regions of the wheat genome. Nucleic Acids Res., 32(12), 3546-3565. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkh639
- Dilbirligi, M., Erayman, M., Sandhu, D., Sidhu, D., & Gill, K. S. (2004). Identification of wheat chromosomal regions containing expressed resistance genes. Genetics, 166(1), 461-481. https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.461
- Santra, D. K., Sandhu, D., Tai, T., & Bhattacharyya, M. K. (2003). Construction and characterization of a soybean yeast artificial chromosome library and identification of clones for the Rps6 region. Funct. Integr. Genomic., 3(4), 153-159. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10142-003-0092-8
- Sandhu, D., Sidhu, D., & Gill, K. S. (2002). Identification of expressed sequence markers for a major gene-rich region of wheat chromosome group 1 using RNA fingerprinting-differential display. Crop Sci., 42(4), 1285-1290. https://doi.org/10.2135/cropsci2002.1285
- Sandhu, D., & Gill, K. S. (2002). Structural and functional organization of the'1S0. 8 gene-rich region'in the Triticeae. Plant Mol. Biol., 48(5-6), 791-804. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1014876409166
- Sandhu, D., & Gill, K. S. (2002). Gene-containing regions of wheat and the other grass genomes. Plant Physiol., 128(3), 803-811. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.010745
- Rostoks, N., Park, Y.-J., Ramakrishna, W., Ma, J., Druka, A., Shiloff, B. A., SanMiguel, P. J., Jiang, Z., Brueggeman, R., & Sandhu, D. (2002). Genomic sequencing reveals gene content, genomic organization, and recombination relationships in barley. Funct. Integr. Genomic., 2(1), 51-59. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10142-002-0055-5
- Sandhu, D., Champoux, J. A., Bondareva, S. N., & Gill, K. S. (2001). Identification and physical localization of useful genes and markers to a major gene-rich region on wheat group 1S chromosomes. Genetics, 157(4), 1735-1747. https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/157.4.1735
- Li, L., Arumuganathan, K., Rines, H., Phillips, R., Riera-Lizarazu, O., Sandhu, D., Zhou, Y., & Gill, K. (2001). Flow cytometric sorting of maize chromosome 9 from an oat-maize chromosome addition line. Theor. Appl. Genet., 102(5), 658-663. https://doi.org/10.1007/s001220051694
- Gill, K. S., & Sandhu, D. (2001). Candidate-gene cloning and targeted marker enrichment of wheat chromosomal regions using RNA fingerprinting-differential display. Genome, 44(4), 633-639. https://doi.org/10.1139/g01-047
- Sidhu, P., Sandhu, D., Sekhon, R., & Sarlach, R. (2000). Combining ability studies involving male sterile lines in pigeonpea. J. Res., 37, 1-8.
- Sukhchain, Sandhu, D., & Saini, G. (1997). Inter-relationships among cane yield and commercial cane sugar and their component traits in autumn plant crop of sugarcane. Euphytica, 95(1), 109-113. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1002962131707
- Sidhu, P., Verma, M., Sarlach, R., Sekhon, R., & Sandhu, D. (1996). Identification of superior parents and hybrids for improving pigeonpea. Crop Improv. , 23, 66-70.
- Sandhu, D., & Chahal, G. (1995). Prediction of F1 yield from parental performance in upland cotton. Crop Improv., 22, 55-60.