Brief Profile
Ginny has been involved in experimental research in plant molecular biology and molecular plant pathology since her days in Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi as a post graduate student. There she helped develop tomatoes with dual resistance to two different viruses using a single chimeric construct. Her initial tryst with resistance engineering in plants, prompted her to seek admission in plant pathology at the graduate school in Kansas State University, USA. She graduated with honors (magna cum laude) and received her Ph.D. in 2010 under the guidance of distinguished Professor Frank F. White. During her doctoral studies, she identified a host susceptibility gene in bacterial blight of rice and also showed that knocking out this gene in rice made plants, resistant to bacterial blight. At Central University of Kerala, she is looking at the host pathogen interaction in pomegranate bacterial blight, ginger wilt and bacterial blight of rice at the molecular level. She has 25 original referred articles with cumulative citations of 2150 and is the recipient of approximately 3 crore rupees in research support from various Govt. funding agencies. Two students have completed doctoral studies under her guidance.
Education
| Degree | College Name | Year Of Passing |
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| Post Graduation | Indian agricultural Research Institute | 2004 |
| Ph.D. | Kansas State University, USA | 2010 |
Teaching & Research Guidance
| Level Of Teaching | Subjects |
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| Post Graduate | Plant Pathogen Interactions |
| Post Graduate | Genetics |
| Post Graduate | Plant Breeding Methods |
| Post Graduate | Cell and Molecular Biology |
| Post Graduate | Omics in Plant Science |
Recent and Major Publications
- Dineshkumar K., Ginny Antony (2022). "In silico prediction of putative antimicrobial targets in Xanthomonas
citri pv. punicae using genome subtraction approach". Archives of Microbiology, 204;490
- E.J. Suraby, Sruthi Bharathan and Ginny Antony (2022). "Genome‑wide identification of type III effectors and other virulence factors in Ralstonia pseudosolanacearum causing bacterial wilt in ginger (Zingiber officinale)". Molecular Genetics and Genomics, 62; 423-448
- Dineshkumar, K., and Ginny Antony. (2022). "Computational identification of putative copper-binding proteins in pomegranate bacterial blight pathogen Xanthomonas citri pv. punicae". Archives of Microbiology, 204:362
- Sivaraman, S., Krishnamoorthy, D., Arvind, K., Grace, T., Sharma, J. and Antony, G (2022). "TAL effectors and the predicted host targets of pomegranate bacterial blight pathogen Xanthomonas citri pv. punicae". Current Genetics, 1-13
- M.K., Rajesh & Antony, Ginny & Arvind, Kumar & Jeffrey, Godwin & K P, Gangaraj & Maruthakasi, Sujithra & Josephrajkumar, And & Grace, Tony. (2021). "Draft genome sequence, annotation and SSR mining data of Oryctes rhinoceros Linn. (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), the coconut rhinoceros beetle". Data in Brief, 38. 107424.
- Gangaraj K.P., Muralikrishna K.S., Ginny Antony, Sahu, B.B., Hegde, V. and Rajesh, M.K (2021). "A rapid invitro leaf inovulation assay to investigate Phytophthora palmivora- coconut interactions.". Journal of Phytopathology, 169:316-328
- Sabana, A.A., Rajesh, M.K and Ginny Antony (2020). "Dynamic changes in the expression pattern of miRNAs and associated target genes during coconut somatic embryogenesis". Planta, 251:79
- Sabana, A.A., Ginny Antony, Rahul, C.U. and Rajesh, M.K. (2018). "In silico identification of microRNAs and their targets associated with coconut embryogenic calli.". Agri Gene, 7:59-65
- Arvind, K., Sabana, A.A., Rajesh, M.K., Gangaraj, K.P., Agnisrota Mazumder, Ginny Antony and Tony Grace. (2017). "Computational identification of miRNAs and their targets from mango (Mangifera indica L.) ESTs.". International Journal of Innovative Horticulture, 6(2): 129-137
- Li, H., Bai, J., Mahmood, T. Antony, G., Lu, N., Pumphreys, M. Bowden, R. ,Gill, B. and White, F.F, Bai,J (2017). "The non host pathogen Puccinia triticina elicits an active transcriptional response in rice". European Journal of Plant Pathology, 147: 553-569
- Huang,S., Antony,G., Li, T., Liu, B., Obasa,K., Yang, B. and White, F.F. (2016). "The broadly effective recessive resistance gene xa5 of rice is a virulence effector- dependent quantitative trait for bacterial blight.". The Plant Journal, 86:186-194
- Liu, X.M., Khajuria, C., Trick, H. N., Li Huang, Gill, B.S., Reeck, G.R., Antony, G., White, F.F., Chen, M.S. (2013). "Wheat Mds-1 encodes a heat-shock protein and governs susceptibility towards the Hessian fly gall midge". Nature Communications, 4:2070
- James C. Nelson, Shichen Wang, Yuye Wu, Xianran Li, Ginny Antony, Frank F. White and Jianming Yu (2011). "Single-nucleotide polymorphism discovery by high throughput sequencing in sorghum". BMC Genomics, 12:352-355
- Ginny Antony, Junhui Zhou, Sheng Huang, Ting Li, Bo Liu, Frank White, Bing Yang (2010). "Rice xa13 Recessive Resistance to Bacterial Blight Is Defeated by Induction of the Disease Susceptibility Gene Os-11N3". The Plant Cell, 22:3864–3876
- Li-Qing Chen, Bi-Huei Hou, Sylvie Lalonde, Hitomi Takanaga, Mara L. Hartung, Xiao-Qing Qu, Woei-Jiun Guo, Jung-Gun Kim, William Underwood, Bhavna Chaudhuri, Diane Chermak, Ginny Antony, Frank F. White, Shauna C. Somerville, Mary Beth Mudgett & Wolf B. Frommer (2010). "Sugar transporters for intercellular exchange and nutrition of pathogens". Nature, 468: 527–532
- Grace, T., Ragesh, G., Antony, G. and Kaushal, K.K. (2009). "Phylogenetic analysis of ITS region of rDNA reveals strong genetic divergence among geographically isolated populations of Heterodera zeae.". International Journal of Nematology, Not applicable
- Grace, T., Grace, S. and Antony, G. (2009). "Fragment Size Calculator 1.0, A standalone
windows based software program for calculating DNA fragment sizes from Agarose and PAGE gels.". International Journal of Nematology, Not applicable
- Sparks, A.H., P.D. Esker, G. Antony, L. Campbell, E.E. Frank, L. Huebel, M.N. Rouse, B. Van Allen, and K.A. Garrett. (2008). "Ecology and Epidemiology in R: Spatial Analysis". The Plant Health Instructor, 0129-03
- Esker, P.D., A.H. Sparks, G. Antony, M. Bates, W. Dall' Acqua, E.E. Frank, L. Huebel, V. Segovia, and K.A. Garrett, (2007). "Ecology and epidemiology in R: Modeling dispersal gradients". The Plant Health Instructor, 1226-03
- Praveen, S., Mishra, A.K. & Antony, G. (2005). "Viral Suppression in Transgenic Plants Expressing Chimeric Transgene from Tomato Leaf Curl Virus and Cucumber Mosaic Virus". Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture, 84, 49–55
- Antony, Ginny; Mishrab, Anil K.; Praveen, Shelly; (2005). "A Single Chimeric Transgene Derived from Two Distinct Viruses
for Multiple Virus Resistance". Journal of plant biochemistry and biotechnology, 14, 101–105
Research Projects Undertaken
| Project Title | Project Type | Commencement Year | Completion Year | Funding Agency |
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| Identification and functional characterization of virulence factors of ginger wilt pathogen,
Ralstonia solanacearum | Major | 2017 | 2019 | SERB |
| Functional Analysis of putative S genes in pomegranate bacterial blight interaction | Major | 2021 | 2025 | DBT |
| Investigating the role of P. palmivora candidate effectors in bud rot disease of coconut. | Major | 2020 | 2023 | SERB |
| Enhancing BLB immunity in rice through multiplex gene editing | Major | 2018 | 2022 | DBT |
| Targeting TAL effector mediated susceptibility for durable and broad-spectrum resistance to bacterial blight of Rice | Major | 2014 | 2017 | DST-SERB |
| Comparative transcriptome analysis of Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. punicae strains in hrp inducing medium | minor | 2014 | 2016 | UGC |
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