S Rustgi's profile

I'm male and 28

What I do

I am involved in studying two different aspects of wheat biology: (i) structural genomics: studying structural [in terms of gene (both protein coding and non-coding RNA genes) content, repeat elements, etc.] and compositional (GC content using methylation filtration and Cot fractionation) differences in two different fractions (repeat and low-copy) of wheat genome, and (ii) applied genomics: including improvement of nutritional properties of wheat by rectifying some of its inherent problems like elimination of some of the gliadin proteins that cause celiac disease in humans and increasing its yield by targeting genes influencing grain number (CKX2) and grain weight.

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Interests

Scientific reading and writing

Projects

Wheat structural and functional genomics

Publications

  • Gupta PK, Rustgi S, Mir RR. Array-based high-throughput DNA markers for crop improvement Heredity (accepted) (2008)

  • Sidhu GK, Rustgi S, Shafqat MN, von Wettstein D, Gill KS. Fine structure mapping of a gene-rich region of wheat carrying Ph1, a suppressor of crossing over between homoeologous chromosomes Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, USA 105 , 5815-5820 (2008)

  • Gupta PK, Balyan HS, Bandopadhyay R, Kumar J, Mohan A, Kumar N, Kulwal PL, Rustgi S, Singh R, Goyal A, Kumar A, Kumar A, Girdharwal N, Rouf Mir R. Development and use of molecular markers for wheat genomics and breeding Annual Wheat Newsletter 52 , 43-47 (2006)

  • Gupta PK, Rustgi S, Kumar N. Genetic and molecular basis of grain size and grain number and its relevance to grain productivity in higher plants Genome 49 , 565-571 (2006)

  • Roy JK, Bandopadhyay R, Rustgi S, Balyan HS, Gupta PK. Association analysis of agronomically important traits using SSR, SAMPL and AFLP markers in bread wheat Current Science 90 , 683-689 (2006)

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