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Ramesh Venkata Sonti
Ramesh Venkata Sonti
is an Indian
Plant Geneticist
. He did his M.Phil 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
. He is positioned as a Senior Scientist at
Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology
in
Hyderabad, India
.
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.
Prizes and honours
National Bioscience Award for
Career Development
of the
Department of Biotechnology
,
Government of India
.
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for
Science and Technology
for 2004.
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
.
