Scientist Profile

Dr. A.Selvi

Dr. A.Selvi

Principal Scientist , Biotechnology Section
Division of Crop Improvement Sugarcane Breeding Institute, (ICAR), Coimbatore 641007- India. Phone: Office: 0422-2472621 Extn:307
  • Sugarcane genomics,  molecular markers and genomic selection in sugarcane
  • Transcriptomics, gene regulation, gene identification , cloning and genetic modification for drought
  • Life member Society for Sugar Research and Promotion
  • Life member of Society of biochemistry and biotechnology
  • Life member of Indian society of Plant breeding and genetics
  • Member Society for Biotechnology Research  
  • Title: Genome Editing for high sucrose content in sugarcane

Agency: ICAR-EFC

  • Title: Genome Editing for flowering genes in sugarcane

Agency: ICAR-EFC

  • Qualified the “National Eligibility Test for Lectureship” conducted by Agricultural Scientists recruitment Board during 1994
  • Awarded Fellowship for the PG programme on Biotechnology by Department of Biotechnology, Government of India during 1989
  •  Awarded the fellowship at Agropolis Platform of genomics, by the French government to pursued research at CIRAD, France during 2002-2003.
  • Awarded the DBT overseas associateship from the Department of Biotechnology for the year 2006-2007 and worked at CIRAD, France during the period
  •  Awarded the certificate of Accreditation from the Department of Biotechnology for Quality testing of Sugarcane plants.
  •  Award for securing highest OGPA in the M Sc (Biotechnology), TNAU, 1990
  •  Award for securing highest OGPA in the Ph.D (Biotechnology), TNAU, 1999
  • Award of fellowship from DBT to pursue M.Sc program in Biotechnology
  •   DBT nominee of Biosafety committee of PSG College of Technology
  •  RAC member at IFGTB
  •  Management committee member ICAR-NRCB, ICAR-CRIJAF, PSGR College for Women
  • Member of editorial board of Advances in Applied Research, and reviewer for Journal for Theoretical and Experimental Biology, International Journal of Genomics and Proteomics, 3 Biotech, Sugar Tech, Plant Cell Reports, Scientific Reports, PLOS One, Journal of Genetics, GENE, BMC Genomics
  •   Subject matter expert in the assessment committee for CAS of Scientist Biotechnology
  •  DG nominee for Departmental Promotion Committee of ARS scientist-Biotechnology
  • Worked at CIRAD, France as visiting scientist during 2002 to 2003, on ‘Genome analysis in sugarcane using molecular markers’.
  • Worked at CIRAD, France by availing the DBT overseas associateship during 2007 to 2008 on ‘Fine mapping of rust resistance gene in sugarcane’.
  • Manimekalai R, Arockiya jainmary, K Mohanraj, jini narayanan, Ram vannish, K.P Mrudula, J. Saranya, M. Gokul, Rajeev kumar, Ranjit Singh Gujjar, Selvi Athiappan, S. Vasantha, G. Hemaprabha,”Evaluation of Genetic Variability, Phenotypic Stability and Interrelationships among the Quantitative Traits of Sugarcane under Drought Stress” Communicated to Journal of Applied Biotechnology Reports .19
  • Aswini Nunavath; Amaresh2 ; M. Nandhini; S. Keerthana; Kumar Rajeev; Ranjit Singh Gujjar; R. Gomathi; A. Selvi; P. Govindaraj; Manimekalai Ramaswamy. Genome wide expression profiling of Cytochrome P450 genes in response to the oxidative stress in sugarcane and wild species. Sugar Tech 27 (3), 378-392
  • Lakshmi Kasirajan, Keerthana Kamaraj, Sheelamary Sebastiar, Selvi Athiappan, Vivitha Maiyilsamy, Manimekalai Ramaswamy Cloning and characterization of Patatin like Protein (PLP), a phospholipase gene involved in salinity stress induced lipid signaling. Journal of Sugarcane Research https://doi.org/10.37580/JSR.2022.2.12.162-171
  • Kasirajan, L., Keerthana Kamaraj, Sheelamary Sebastiar, Selvi Athiappan, Vivitha Maiyilsamy, & Manimekalai Ramaswamy. (2024). Cloning and characterization of Patatin like Protein (PLP), a phospholipase gene involved in salinity stress induced lipid signaling. Journal of Sugarcane Research, 12(2), 162-171. https://doi.org/10.37580/JSR.2022.2.12.162-171
  • Manimekalai, R., Saranya, J., Saravanakumar, K., Rajagopal, S., Jini, N., Selvi, A., Rabisa, V.P., Nandhini, M., Vannish, R., Thirugnanasambandam, P.P. and Gomathi, R., 2024. Small RNA profiling and co-networking analysis identifies stress-responsive miRNAs involved in sugarcane and its wild species. Plant Physiology Reports, pp.1-19.
  • Manimekalai, A Selvi, Jini Narayanan, Ram Vannish, R. Shalini, S Gayathri & V.P Rabisha 2023 Comparative physiological and transcriptome analysis in cultivated and wild sugarcane species in response to hydrogen peroxide-induced oxidative stress, BMC Genomics, volume 24, Article number: 155 (2023)
  • Prathima Perumal Thirugnanasambandam, Avinash Singode, Lakshmi Pathy Thalambedu, Selvi Athiappan, Mohanraj Krishnasamy, Sobhakumari Valiya Purakkal, Hemaprabha Govind, Agnelo Furtado and Robert Henry, 2023. Long read transcriptome sequencing of a sugarcane hybrid and its progenitors, Saccharum officinarum and S. spontaneum, Frontiers in Plant Science, DOI 10.3389/fpls.2023.1199748
  • Suganya, A., P. Govindaraj, A. Selvi, Hemaprabha and Bakshi Ram. 2021. AS 04-1687 (20177;IC0636675:INGR20110)-A drought and waterlogging tolerant interspecific hybrid of sugarcane. Indian journal of plant genetic resources. Vol.35.
  • Suganya, A., P. Govindaraj, A. Selvi, Hemaprabha and Bakshi Ram. 2021.  A climate resilient interspecific hybrid – AS 04-1687 (IC0636675:INGR20110) tolerance to  drought, waterlogging and salinity. J. Sugarcane Research, 11:110-112
  • Manimekalai, Selvi A. , Jini Narayanan, Ram Vannish, R. Shalini, Gayathri, S. and Rabisha, V.P. (2021). Comparative transcriptome analysis in sugarcane and wild  species in response to hydrogen peroxide induced oxidative stress. BMC Genomics, in Revision
  • Lakshmi Kasirajan, Rabisha Valiyaparambth, Keerthana Kamaraj, Sheelamary Sebastiar, Nam V. Hoang, Selvi Athiappan, Vasantha Srinivasavedantham. 2021 Deep sequencing of suppression subtractive library identifies differentially expressed transcripts of Saccharum spontaneum exposed to salinity stress. Physilogia Plantarum 174: (1) doi: 10.1111/ppl.13645
  • Athiappan Selvi, Kaliannan Devi, Ramaswamy Manimekalai, Perumal Thirugnanasambandam Prathima, V. P. Rabisha, Kasirajan Lakshm 2021 High-throughput miRNA deep sequencing in response to drought stress in sugarcane. 3 Biotech (2021) 11:312
  • Manimekalai, Selvi A. , Jini Narayanan, Ram Vannish, R. Shalini, Gayathri, S. and Rabisha, V.P. (2021). Comparative transcriptome analysis in sugarcane and wild species in response to hydrogen peroxide induced oxidative stress. Scientific Reports in Revision
  • Suganya, A., R. Arulmathi P.Govindaraj and Selvi.2020. Agronomic Performance of Rare Hybrids with Female Restitution in Interspecific Crosses of Commercial Cultivar of Sugarcane and Saccharum spontaneum, L. J. Sugarcane Research
  • Suganya Angannan, Govindaraj Perumal, Arulmathi Ramalingam, Selvi Athiappan, 2020. Agronomic Performance of Rare Hybrids with Female Restitution in Interspecific Crosses of Commercial Cultivar of Sugarcane and Saccharum spontaneum, L.” Prepared the manuscript and submitted to Sugar Tech
  • Selvi, D. Neelamathi, L. Niveditha, Punnya Raj, S. Anu and N.V.Nair. 2020. Development of a core set of microsatellite markers for genetic fidelity testing of sugarcane micropropagated plants. Prepared manuscript for publication in Journal of Sugarcane Research (Accepted for publication)
  • Manimekalai, R. Shalini, S. Gayathri, Jini Narayanan, A. Selvi, Ram Vannish, and Rabisha. 2020. De novo analysis of transcriptome reveals genes associated with oxidative stress in Sugarcane, Saccharum spontaneum and Erianthus sp.” Submitted for publication to Scientific Reports.
  • Lakshmi Kasirajan Rabisha Valiyaparambth Janani Velu Haritha Hari Vasantha Srinivasavedantham and Selvi Athiappan 2020. Gene expression studies of Saccharum spontaneum, a wild relative of sugarcane in response to salinity stress. Submitted for publication to Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry
  • Manimekalai*, Gayathri, S., Hemaprabha, G., and Selvi, A. Kandalam, M. (2020). Role of NGS and SNP Genotyping methods in Sugarcane improvement programs. Critical reviews in Biotechnology.   DOI: 10.1080 /07388551.  2020. 1765730 (IF: 7.05, NAAS: 13.05)
  • Selvi · K. Devi · R. Manimekalai · P. T. Prathima. 2020 Comparative analysis of drought‑responsive transcriptomes of sugarcane genotypes with differential tolerance to drought. 3 Biotech. DOI: 10.1007/s13205-020-02226-0
  • Selvi · K. Devi · R. Manimekalai · P. T. Prathima1 2020 Comparative analysis of drought‑responsive transcriptomes of sugarcane genotypes with differential tolerance to drought. 3 Biotech (2020) 10:236
  • Gayathri, M. Arockiyajainmary, R. Shalini, M. Ram Vannish, A. Selvi and R. Manimekalai .2019. Identification of single nucleotide polymorphisms (snps) in the transcriptome of sugarcane variety co 86032 exposed to oxidative stress. Journal of Sugarcane Research. 9 (1): 71 – 85.
  • Gayathri, M. Arockiyajainmary, R. Shalini, M. Ram Vannish, A. Selvi and R. Manimekalai .2019.Identification of single nucleotide polymorphisms (snps) in the transcriptome of sugarcane variety co 86032 exposed to oxidative stress. Journal of Sugarcane Research. 9 (1) : 71 – 85
  • Manimekalai, R., Jini, N., Gokul, M., Selvi, A., Gomathi, R., Arun Kumar. 2018. Biochemical and physiological response to oxidative stress in cultivated sugarcane and wild genera. Accepted in Indian Journal of Plant Physiology.
  • Manimekalai, jini Narayanan, R. Ranjini, M. Gokul, A. Selvi, Pradheep Kumar and R. Gomathi. 2018. Hydrogen Peroxide-Induced Oxidative Stress in Sugarcane and Expression Pattern of Stress-Responsive Genes Through Quantitative RT-PCR. Sugar Tech (2018).
  • Manimekalai, jini Narayanan, R. Ranjini, M. Gokul, A. Selvi, Pradheep Kumar  and R. Gomathi. 2018. Hydrogen Peroxide-Induced Oxidative Stress in Sugarcane and Response Expression Pattern of Stress-Responsive Genes Through Quantitative RT-PCR. Sugar Tech (2018).
  • V. Nair . K. Mohanraj . K. Sunadaravelpandian A. Suganya . A. Selvi . C. Appunu. 2017. Characterization of an intergeneric hybrid of Erianthus procerus X Saccharum officinarum and its backcross progenies. Euphytica 213: 267.
  • R Manimekalai, J Narayanan, M Gokul, A Selvi, Arun Meenaa, R. Gomathi, Bakshi Ram 2016 Genome wide analysis of NAC gene family ‘sequences’ in sugarcane and its comparative phylogenetic relationship with rice, sorghum, maize and Arabidopsis for prediction of stress associated NAC genes. Agri Gene, 3:1-11
  • Punnya Raj, A. Selvi, P. T. Prathima and N. V. Nair. 2015. Analysis of genetic diversity of Saccharum complex using chloroplast microsatellite markers. Sugar Tech. DOI 10.1007/s12355-015-0382-1
  • Nivetha, N.V. Nair, P.T. Prathima and A. Selvi. 2013. Identification of microsatellite markers for high fibre content in sugarcane. Journal of Sugarcane Research 3 (1): 14-19

Books

  • R.Manimekalai,  K. Mohan Raj, G. Hemaprabha,  R. Viswanathan and A. Selvi. 2024. Tools for Genomic selection (GS) and Genome wide Association studies (GWAS) for sugarcane Breeding. In climate smart Agriculture for food and Energy security in India. Ed. G. Hemaprabha and C. Appunu. ISSN: 978 – 93-85267-42-0
  • Selvi, R. Manimekalai, K. Devakumar, K. Lakshmi and P.T. Prathima R Gomathi 2021 Genomic and proteomic approaches for improving abiotic stress tolerance in sugarcane. In Physiological Interventions for Developing Climate Resilent Commercial crops. Ed. R. Gomathi, A.H.Prakash and Bakshi Ram pp 187-270
  • Selvi 2021 Biotechnological interventions to sustainable sugarcane agriculture In Recent scientific advances in sugarcane cultivation for doubling farmers income. Ed. Bakhi Ram, G. Hemaprabha, Ratna Nahine, Mohanraj, Murali, Rayees Ahmed Shah. Pp 70-77