"I enjoy playing with genomic datasets to identify hidden pattern"
Peer-reviewed articles
* Equal contribution
Published articles (*equal contribution)
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1. Tran K-N*, Pantha P*, Wang G*, Kumar N*, Wijesinghege C, Hong H, Johnson JC, Kel R, Matherne MG, Clement A, et al (2023) Balancing growth amidst salinity stress – lifestyle perspectives from the extremophyte model Schrenkiella parvula. The Plant Journal.
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.16396
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2. Pantha P, Oh D-H, Longstreth D, Dassanayake M (2022) Living with high potassium: how plants balance nutrient acquisition during K-induced salt stress. Plant Physiology.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiac564
Cover page for Plant Physiology Volume 191, Issue 2, February 2023
First author profile published in the Plantae
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3. P. Issa, M. Garvey, S. Grimmell, P. Pantha, M. Dassanayake, B. Elderd (2021). Hitching a ride: examining the ability of a specialist baculovirus to translocate through its insect host’s food plant. Pathogens.
DOI: 10.3390/pathogens10111500
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4. Pantha P, Chalivendra S, Oh DH, Elderd BD, Dassanayake M (2021) A tale of two transcriptomic responses in agricultural pests via host defenses and viral replication. Int J Mol Sci 22: 1–27.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms22073568
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5. Pantha P, Dassanayake M (2020). Living with Salt. The Innovation 1, 100050.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xinn.2020.100050
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6. Wang G, Pantha P, Tran K, Oh D, Dassanayake M (2019) Plant Growth and Agrobacterium-mediated Floral-dip Transformation of the Extremophyte Schrenkiella parvula. JOVE 1–8
DOI: doi:10.3791/58544
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7. Pantha P, Wang G, Tran K, Oh DH, Dassanayake M (2019) Growing plants on Mars: the development of sustainable crops for future human habitats, 50th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference 2019
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8. Kazachkova Y, Eshel G, Pantha P, Cheeseman JM, Dassanayake M, Barak S (2018) Halophytism: What Have We Learnt From Arabidopsis Relative Model Systems? Plant Physiol 178: pp.00863.2018
DOI: doi/10.1104/pp.18.00863
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9. Fan L, Wang G, Hu W, Pantha P, Tran K-N, Zhang H, An L, Dassanayake M, Qiu Q-S (2018) Transcriptomic view of survival during early seedling growth of the extremophyte Haloxylon ammodendron. Plant Physiol Biochem 132: 475–489
DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.plaphy.2018.09.024
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10. Pantha P, Sathish KP, Sixte N, Muthusamy M (2016) Improved embryogenic callus induction and plant regeneration in big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii Vitman), a potential bioenergy feedstock. A J Biotechnol 15: 2166–2171
DOI: 10.5897/AJB2016.15542
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Manuscripts under review/revision
1. Wijesinghege, C, Wang, G, Pantha, P, Tran, K.-N, and Dassanayake, M (2022). Spatiotemporal gene expression atlas of the extremophyte Schrenkiella parvula.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/772400
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2. Kirioukhova O, Pawar P, Govind G, Pantha P, Lemcke R, Larsen DS, Rhahul AM, Shah JN, Wijesinghege C, Zhou Y, Gruissem W, Turck F, Dassanayake M, Johnston AJ (2019) A higher-order transcription factor network governs egg cell differentiation and stress homeostasis in Arabidopsis.