Debabrata Basu

 Associate Professor
Division of Plant Biology

Ph.D.: University of Calcutta (1993) 

 Honors/Awards

 

  • Selected as Rockefeller Career Fellow

 

 Major area of research

  • Understanding of plant – pathogen interaction through functional genomics and proteomics.

  • Bio prospecting of plant defense related genes.

  • Role of hormone induced genes on plant defense responses against pathogens.

  • Small RNA based regulation of plant defense related gene expression.

  • Monitoring of efficacy of insecticidal genes against lepidopteron insects.

  • Study of anther / pollen development through tissue specific expression profiling of genes and its upstream elements.

 

Lab Members:

 
         
 

Dr. Srirupa Das,

Post-doc

  

Miss Madhuvanti Chatterjee

SRF

  

Mr. Mrinmoy Mazumder

SRF

  

Mrs. Upala Roy (Saha)

SRF

  
       
 

Mr. Anindya
Bhattacharyya
SRF

  

Mrs. Senjuti Sen 
JRF

  

Mr. Joydeep Chakraborty 
JRF

  

B. Publications

Selected peer-reviewed publications

  1. Interaction of T-DNA border sequences and Ti-plasmid vir functions of Agrobacterium results in differential single stranded linear T-DNA molecule production and plant transformation S. Das, D. Basu, P. Mukherjee & S.K. Sen. Ind. J. Exptl. Biol. 29: 91-101 (1991).

  2. Isolation and cloning of Bacillus thuringiensis var. Kurstaki HD-73 toxin gene and construction of a chimeric gene for expression in plants. D. Basu, S. Das, D. Banerjee & S. K. Sen. Ind.J.Exptl.Biol. 29: 1002-1009 (1991).

  3. Monitoring functional property of the transgene through rapid amplification of cDNA ends in indica rice transformants. D. Basu, S. Das, P. Nayak and S. K. Sen. Current Science, Vol. 68. No. 11, 1140-1144 (1995).

  4. Transfer of yellow stem borer resistance to indica rice cultivar. P. Nayak, D. Basu, S. Das, D. Ghosh, A. Nandi, A. Basu and S. K. Sen. In Rice Genetics III (IRRI), 735-736 (1996).

  5. Expression of cryl A(c) gene of Bacillus thuringiensis in transgenic chickpea plants inhibits development of pod borer Heliothis armigera larvar. S. Kar, D. Basu, S. Das, Ramakrishnan N.A. P. Mukherjee, P. Nayak and S. K. Sen. Transgenic Research 6, 177-185 (1997).

  6. Transgenic elite indica rice plants expressing crylA(c) della endotoxin of Bacillus thuringiensis are resistant against yellow stem borer (Scripophaga incerfulas). P. Nayak, D. Basu, S. Das, A. Basu, D. Ghosh, Ramakrishnan, N.A. M. Ghosh and S.K. Sen. Proc. Natl, Acad. Sci. 94: 2111-2116 (1997).

  7. High-level expression of soyabean trypsin inhibitor gene in transgenic tobacco plants fail to confer resistance against damage caused by Helicoverpa armigera. Ashis Kumar nandi, D. Basu, Sampa Das and Soumitra K. Sen. J. Biosci. 24, No. 445-452 (1999).

  8. Rice PHYC gene: structure, expression, map position and evolution. D. Basu, K. Dehesh, H. J. Scheider-Poetsch, S. E. Harrington, S. R. McCouch, and P. H. Quail. Plant Mol. Biol. 44(1): 27-42 (2000).

  9. Targeted Activation Tagging of the Arabidopsis NBS-LRR gene, ADR1, Conveys Resistance to Virulent Pathogens. John J. Grant, Andrea Chini, Debrabata Basu and Gary J. Loake. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interaction.16 (8): 669-680 (2003).

  10. The mannitol cycle in Pleurotus ostreatus (Florida) Tapas Kumar Chakraborty, Debabrata Basu, Nirmalendu Das, Subhabrata Sengupta and Mina Mukherjee.  FEMS Microbiology Letters, Vol. 236: 307-311 (2004).

  11. Assessment of genomic diversity of wild and cultivated tomato through Resistance Gene Analogue Polymorphism and I2 homologues. S. Dey, K. Ghose, G. Gangopadhyay and D. Basu. Euphytica, 154: 219-230 Online: DOI 10.1007/s10681-006-9290-5 (2007).

  12. P. Saha, D. Chakraborti, A.Sarkar, I. Dutta , D. Basu and S. Das. Characterization of vascular-speciWc RSs1 and rolC promoters for their utilization engineering plants to develop resistance against hemipteran insect pests Planta 226: 429-442 (2007).

  13. Siraj Datta, Debabrata Basu and Kalyan Kumar Mukherjee. PTC-1: A homologue of TFL1/CEN involved in the control of shoot architecture in Beta palonga. Current Science 94, no. 1: 89-96 (2008).

  14. Subhash Kanti Roy, Gaurab Gangopadhyay, Kaushik Ghose, Sanjukta Dey, Debabrata Basu and Kalyan Kumar Mukherjee. A cDNA-AFLP approach to look for differentially expressed gene fragments in dioecious pointed gourd (Trichosanthes dioica Roxb.) for understanding sex expression. Current Science 94, no. 3: 381-385 (2008).

  15. K. Ghose, S. Dey, H. Barton, G. J. Loake and D. Basu. Differential profiling of selected defence-related genes induced on challenge with Alternaria brassicicola in resistant white mustard and their comparative expression pattern in susceptible India mustard. Molecular Plant Pathology 9(6): 763 – 775 (2008).

  16. Sumanti Gupta, Dipankar Chakraborti, Rumdeep K. Rangi, Debabrata Basu, and Sampa Das. A Molecular Insight into the Early Events of Chickpea (Cicer arietinum) and Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceri(Race 1) Interaction Through cDNA-AFLP Analysis. Phytopathology. 99:1245-1257(2009).

  17. Srirupa Das, Supriya Sen, Anirban Chakraborty, Papia Chakraborti, Mrinal K Maiti, Asitava Basu1, Debabrata Basu, Soumitra K Sen. An unedited 1.1 kb mitochondrial orfB gene transcript in the Wild Abortive Cytoplasmic Male Sterility (WA-CMS) system of mOryza sativa L. subsp. Indica. BMC Plant Biology 10:39 (2010).

  18. Sanjukta Dey & Kaushik Ghose & Debabrata Basu  Fusarium elicitor-dependent calcium influx and associated ROS generation in tomato is independent of cell death. Eur J Plant Pathol DOI 10.1007/s10658-009-9534-z (2010).

  19. Sumanti Gupta, Dipankar Chakraborti, Anindita Sengupta, Debabrata Basu, Sampa Das. Primary Metabolism of Chickpea Is the Initial Target of Wound Inducing Early Sensed Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceri Race I. PLoS ONE 5(2): e9030. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0009030 (2010).

 

Book chapter:

  1. P. Nayak, D. Basu, S. Das, D. Ghosh, A. Nandi, A. Basu and S. K. Sen. Transfer of yellow stem borer resistance to indica rice cultivar. In Rice Genetics III Proceedings of the third International Rice genetics Symposium in International Rice Rsearch Institute, (Ed  G.S.Khush): 735-736 (1997).

  2. J. Bhattacharya, A. Banga, R. Mukherjee, J. Vedula, M. A. Hossain, S. Sen, C. C. Mandal, A. H. Chowdhuri, A. Dandapat, P. K. Biswas, A. Basu, M. K. Maiti, D. Ghosh, D. Basu, S. Das and S. K. Sen, Continuing the golden harvest: Development of insect resistant  transgenic rice. In Biotechnology for a better future (Eds L.D’Souza et al) SAC Publications, Mangalore: 239-254 (2004). 

 

Past students completed Ph.D.:

  • Dr. Sanjukta Dey (Ph.D.-2001-2006;R.A.- 2006-2011)

           Post Doctoral Research Associate, Institute of Biochemical Plant Pathology, Germany.

  • Dr. Kaushik Ghosh (Ph.D.-2003-2008;R.A.- 2008-2010)

          Post Doctoral Research Associate, NRC, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada.

 

 

Contact information

 

Telephone                  :           33-25693312 (O), 9830428987 (M)              

Fax                              :           91-33-2355 3886

E-mail                         :           debu@bosemain.boseinst.ac.in