Publications

  • Twyford AD, Caola AM, Choudhary P, Raina R, Friedman J (2018) Loss of color pigmentation is maintained at high frequency in a monkey flower population. The American Naturalist 191: 135-145.
  • Dutta, A., Choudhary, P., Caruana, J. C. and Raina, R. (2017) JMJ27, an Arabidopsis H3K9 histone demethylase, modulates defense against Pseudomonas syringae and flowering time. Plant J. 91: 1015-1028.
  • Xiao Y, Choudhary, P., Mehrotra, K., Mohan, C. and Raina, R. (2017) Identification of biological functions by combinatorial histone patterns profiling. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, BICoB–2017: 217-222.
  • Ritchie, M. and Raina, R. (2016) Effects of herbivores on nitrogen fixation in soil and by a dominant grass and legume in the Serengeti. Pedobiologia 59: 233-241.
  • Lundgren B. R., Connolly M. P., Choudhary P., Brookins-Little T. S., Chatterjee S., Raina R. and Nomura, C. T. (2015) Defining the metabolic functions and roles in virulence of the rpoN1 and rpoN2 genes in Ralstonia solanacearum GMI1000. PLOS ONE. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0144852.
  • Dutta A., Chan S.H.P., Pauli N.T., R. Raina (2015). HYPERSENSITIVE RESPONSE-LIKE LESIONS 1 codes for AtPPT1 and regulates accumulation of ROS and defense against bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas syringae in Arabidopsis thalaina. Antioxid Redox Signal. DOI:10.1089/ars.2014.5963.
  • Appel H.M., Maqbool S.B., Raina S., Jagadeeswaran G., Acharya B.R., Hanley J.C. Jr., Miller K.P., Hearnes L., Jones A.D., Raina R., J.C. Schultz (2014). Transcriptional and metabolic signatures of Arabidopsis responses to chewing damage by an insect herbivore and bacterial infection and the consequences of their interaction.Front. Plant Sci., doi: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00441.
  • Alobaid, F, K. Mehrotra, C. Mohan and R. Raina (2014) Structured Motif Extraction Using Affinity Based Cluster Analysis. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, BICoB–2013: 59-68.
  • Alobaid, F., Mehrotra, K., Mohan, C., and R. Raina (2012) SMAlign: Alignment of DNA sequences with gap constraints. 4th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, BICoB–2012: 43-50.
  • Springer, D.J., Ren, P., Raina, R., Dong, Y., Behr, M.J., McEwen, B. F., Bowser, S., Samsonoff, W., Chaturvedi, S., and V. Chaturvedi (2010) Extracellular fibrils of pathogenic yeast Cryptococcus gattii are important for ecological niche, murine virulence and human neutrophil interactions. PloS One 5:e10978.
  • Frank, D.A., Pontes, A.W., Maine, E.M., Caruana, J., Raina, R., Raina, S., and J.D. Fridley (2010). Grassland root communities: species distributions and how they are linked to aboveground abundance. Ecology 91: 3201-3209.
  • Sheng, H., Mehrotra, K., Mohan, C., and R. Raina (2008) A motif extraction algorithm based on hashing and modulo-4 arithmetic. Int. J. Computational Biology and Drug Design. 1: 185-199.
  • Jagadeeswaran G., S. Raina, B. R. Acharya, S. B. Maqbool, S. L. Mosher, H. M. Appel, J. C. Schultz, D. F. Klessig and R. Raina (2007) Arabidopsis GH3-LIKE DEFENSE GENE 1 is required for accumulation of salicylic acid, activation of defense responses and resistance to Pseudomonas syringae. Plant J. 51: 234-46.
  • Acharya, B. R., S. Raina, S. B. Maqbool, G. Jagadeeswaran, S. L. Mosher, H. M. Appel, J. C. Schultz, D. F. Klessig and R. Raina (2007) Overexpression of CRK13, an Arabidopsis cysteine-rich receptor-like kinase, results in enhanced resistance to Pseudomonas syringae. Plant J. 50: 488-49.
  • Chandra-Shekara A. C., M. Gupte, D. Navarre, S. Raina, R. Raina, D. Klessig and P. Kachroo (2006) Light dependent hypersensitive response and resistance signaling to turnip crinkle virus in Arabidopsis. Plant J. 45: 320–33.
  • Mewis, I., H. M. Appel, A. Hom, R. Raina and J. C. Schultz (2005). Major signaling pathways modulate Arabidopsis glucosinolate accumulation and response to both Phloem-feeding and chewing insects. Plant Physiol 138:1149-62.
  • Huang, J., Y. J. Cardoza, E. A. Schmelz, R. Raina, J. Engelberth, and J. H. Tumlinson (2003). Differential volatile emissions and salicylic acid levels from tobacco in response to different strains of Pseudomonas syringae pathogen. Planta. 217: 767-775.
  • Mahalingam, R., A. M. Gomez-Buitrago, N. Eckardt, N. Shah, A. Guevara-Garcia, P. Day, R. Raina* and N. Fedoroff* (2003). Characterization of stress/defense transcriptome of Arabidopsis. Genome Biology 4:R20 (*corresponding authors).
  • Devadas, S. K., A. Enyedi and R. Raina (2002). The Arabidopsis hrl1 mutation reveals novel overlapping roles of salicylic acid, jasmonic acid, and ethylene signaling in cell death and defense against pathogens. Plant J. 30: 467-480.
  • Devadas, S. K. and R. Raina (2002). Preexisting systemic acquired resistance suppresses hypersensitive response-associated cell death in Arabidopsis hrl1mutant. Plant Physiol. 128:1234-1244.
  • Pilloff, R. K., S. K. Devadas, A. Enyedi, and R. Raina (2002). The Arabidopsis gain-of-function mutant dll1 spontaneously develops lesions mimicking cell death associated with disease. Plant J. 30:61-70.
  • Mullins E. D., X. Chen, P. Romaine, R. Raina, D. M. Geiser and S. Kang (2001) Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of Fusarium oxysporum: An efficient tool for insertional mutagenesis and gene transfer. Phytopathology. 91:173-180.
  • Scortecci K.C., Raina R, Fedoroff NV, Van Sluys MA (1999) Negative effect of the 5′-untranslated leader sequence on Ac transposon promoter expression. Plant Mol. Biol. 40: 935-944.
  • Raina R., M. Schlappi, B. Karunanandaa, A. Elhofy, N. Fedoroff (1998) Concerted formation of macromolecular Suppressor-mutator transposition complexes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA. 95: 8526-8531.
  • Bageshwar U. K., R. Raina and H. K. Das (1998) Characterization of a spontaneous mutant of Azotobacter vinelandii in which vanadium dependent nitrogen fixation is not inhibited by molybdenum. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 162:161-167.
  • Raina R, Schlappi M, Fedoroff N (1998) Epigenetic mechanisms in the regulation of the maize Suppressor mutator transposon. Novartis Found. Symp. 214:133-140.
  • Bageshwar U. K., R. Raina, N. R. Chaudhary and H. K. Das (1998) Characterization of the upstream activator sequences of Azotobacter vinelandii vnfH promoter. Can. J Microbiol. 44:405-415.
  • Schlappi M., R. Raina and N. Fedoroff (1996) A highly sensitive plant hybrid protein assay system based on the Spm promoter and TnpA protein for detection and analysis of transcription activation domains. Plant Mol. Biol. 30: 1223-1232.
  • Raina S., R. Raina, T. V. Venkatesh and H.K. Das (1995) Isolation and characterization of a locus from Azospirillum brasilense Sp7 that complements the tumorigenic defect of Agrobacterium tumefaciens chvB. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact. 12: 322-326.
  • Fedoroff N., M. Schlappi and R. Raina (1995) Epigenetic regulation of the maize Spm transposon. Bioassay. 17: 291-297.
  • Schlappi M., R. Raina and N. Fedoroff (1994) Epigenetic regulation of the Maize Spm transposable element: Novel activation of a methylated promoter by TnpA. Cell. 77: 427-437.
  • Raina R., D. Cook and N. Fedoroff (1993) Maize Spm transposable element has an enhancer insensitive promoter. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA 90: 6355-6359.
  • Raina R., U.K. Bageshwar and H.K.Das (1993) The Azotobacter vinelandii nifL-like gene: Nucleotide sequence and regulation of expression. Mol. Gen. Genet. 237: 400-406.
  • Raina R., U.K. Bageshwar and H.K.Das (1993) The ORF encoding a putative ferredoxin-like protein downstream of the vnfH gene in Azotobacter vinelandii is involved in the vanadium-dependent alternative pathway of nitrogen fixation. Mol. Gen. Genet. 236: 459-462.
  • Raina R., U.K. Bageshwar and H.K.Das (1992) Construction of a vnfH::lacZ fusion and study of expression from the vnfH promoter of the vanadium-dependent nitrogen fixation pathway. FEMS Microbiol. Letters 98:169-174.
  • Raina R., M.A. Reddy, D. Ghosal and H.K. Das (1988) Characterization of the gene for the Fe-protein of the vanadium dependent alternative nitrogenase of Azotobacter vinelandii and construction of a Tn5 mutant. Mol. Gen. Genet. 214: 121-127.

Articles in non-refereed journals

  • Raina R., and N. Fedoroff (1996) Spm element: Significance of multiple TnpA binding sites. Maize Gen. Coop. Newslet. 70: 8-9.
  • Raina R., and N. Fedoroff (1995) The role of TnpA and TnpD in transposition of Spm. Maize Gen. Coop. Newslet. 69: 13-15.
  • Raina R., and N. Fedoroff (1993) The Spm transposable element has an unusual enhancer-insensitive promoter. Maize Gen. Coop. Newslet. 67: 10-11.

Posters / Abstracts

  • Ogunsola, F., Singh, D. and Raina, R. (2018) Arabidopsis thaliana histone demethylase, JMJ11, regulates defense against Pseudomonas syringae. 2018 SURF Research Symposium, SUNY-ESF, Syracuse, August 9, 2018.
  • Harmison, M., Singh, M., Raina, R., Raina, S. (2018) Role of Arabidopsis transcription factor NAC 50 in defense against pathogens. 2018 SURF Research Symposium, SUNY-ESF, Syracuse, August 9, 2018.
  • Choudhary, P. and Raina, R. (2017) Pathogen-mediated early flowering in Arabidopsis is regulated by two homologous JmjC-domain-containing histone demethylases, PMF1 and PMF2, through CO and FT. Plant Biology 2017, Honolulu, HI June 24-28, 2017.
  • Chatterjee S., Choudhary, P., Raina, S. and Raina, R. (2017) ddr1, an Arabidopsis histone demethylase, negatively regulates cell death, drought, and defense against Pseudomonas Syringae. Plant Biology 2017, Honolulu, HI June 24-28, 2017.
  • Choudhary, P. and Raina, R. (2016) Role of two histone demethylases, GROWTH OVER DEFENSE1 (GOD1) and GOD2 in prioritization of growth vs. stress responses in Arabidopsis. Plant Biology 2016, Austin, TX, July 9-13, 2016.
  • Chatterjee S., Choudhary, P., Raina, S. and Raina, R. (2016) DDR1, an Arabidopsis histone demethylase negatively regulates cell death, drought, and defense against Pseudomonas syringae. Plant Biology 2016, Austin, TX, July 9-13, 2016.
  • Dhar, N., Erdem, I., Choudhary, P. and Raina, R. (2015) SAG13 regulates pathogen defense and senescence in Arabidopsis. 13th Annual Symposium in Plant Biology at UMass Amherst, MA, October 3, 2015.
  • Choudhary, P. and Raina, R. (2015) Role of two histone demethylases, GROWTH OVER DEFENSE1 (GOD1) and GOD2 in prioritization of growth vs. stress responses in Arabidopsis. 13th Annual Symposium in Plant Biology at UMass Amherst, MA, October 3, 2015.
  • Dhar, N., Erdem, I., Caruana, J. and Raina, R. (2015) Elucidating the role and regulation of a putative Arabidopsis nsLTP gene DLP1. 13th Annual Symposium in Plant Biology at UMass Amherst, MA, October 3, 2015.
  • Chatterjee S., Choudhary, P., Raina, S. and Raina, R. (2015) DDR1, an Arabidopsis histone demethylase negatively regulates cell death, drought, and defense against Pseudomonas syringae. 13th Annual Symposium in Plant Biology at UMass Amherst, MA, October 3, 2015.
  • Li D. and Raina, R. (2015) DSS44, an Arabidopsis histone demethylase regulates pathogen defense and salt stresses. 13th Annual Symposium in Plant Biology at UMass Amherst, MA, October 3, 2015.
  • Erdem I., Caruana, J., Dhar, N. and Raina, R. (2015) A putative WD40 repeat domain containing protein is a novel regulator of defense, senescence, and flowering time in Arabidopsis. 13th Annual Symposium in Plant Biology at UMass Amherst, MA, October 3, 2015.
  • Choudhary, P., A. Dutta, J. Caruana and R. Raina (2013) JMJ27, an Arabidopsis histone demethyalse, regualtes resistance against pathogens and flowering time. Plant Biology 2013, Providence, RI.
  • Dhar, N., I. Erdem, P. Choudhary and R. Raina (2013) SAG13 regualtes pathogen defense and senescence in Arabidopsis. 11th Annual Symposium in Plant Biology, UMAss, Amherst.
  • Dhar, N., I. Erdem, P. Choudhary and R. Raina (2013) SAG13 regualtes pathogen defense and senescence in Arabidopsis. Plant Biology 2013, Providence, RI.
  • Xiao, Y. K. Mehrotra, C. Mohan, and R. Raina (2013). Utilizing Cis-elements to Refine Gene Regulatory Networks. International Symposium on Network Analysis and Mining for Health Informatics, Biomedicine and Bioinformatics, Shanghai, China.
  • Dutta, A., J. C. Caruana, and R. Raina (2011) JMJ27, an Arabidopsis JmjC domain-containing H3K9 histone demethylase is required for defense against Pseudomonas syringae. 22nd International Conference on Arabidopsis Research, Madison, WI.
  • Dutta, A., Caruana, J. and R. Raina (2009) Arabidopsis ADP1 gene is required for resistance against bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas syringae. UMass Amherst Plant Biology Symposium, “Plant Epigenetics”.
  • Nikhilesh Dhar, N., Caruana, J., Fokken, T. and R. Raina (2009) Arabidopsis SAG13 gene negatively regulates defense against bacterial pathogens. UMass Amherst Plant Biology Symposium, “Plant Epigenetics”.
  • Appel, H., Schultz, J., Raina, R., and D. A. Jones (2009) “Genomic and metabolic signatures of plant response to an insect herbivore and bacterial pathogen”. Entomological Society of America National Meeting.
  • Dutta, A., Sullivan, J. and Ramesh Raina (2008) Arabidopsis ADP1 gene is required for resistance against bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas syringae. 19th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research, Montreal, Canada.
  • Sullivan, J., Dhar, N., Dutta, A. and Ramesh Raina (2008) The Arabidopsis TDP1 gene is required for resistance against Pseudomonas syringae. 19th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research, Montreal, Canada.
  • Gupta, P., Dutta, A. and Ramesh Raina (2008) Arabidopsis DAP1, an aspartyl Protease is required for disease development during pathogen attack. 19th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research, Montreal, Canada.
  • Dhar, N., Sullivan, J. and Ramesh Raina (2008) Arabidopsis SAG13 gene negatively regulates defense against bacterial pathogens. 19th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research, Montreal, Canada.
  • Sullivan, J. and R. Raina (2007) MDP1, a small plasma membrane-associated protein of Arabidopsis is a critical regulatory component of defense against pathogens. 71st NEASPB Meeting, Syracuse, NY.
  • Gupta, P. and R. Raina (2007) Characterization of Arabidopsis genes involved in regulating defense against pathogens. 71st NEASPB Meeting, Syracuse, NY.
  • Dhar, N. and R. Raina (2007) Identification and characterization of two genes involved in defense signaling in Arabidopsis. 71st NEASPB Meeting, Syracuse, NY.
  • Appel, H.M., Fescemyer, H.W., Hanley, J.C., Jones, D., Raina, R., Ehlting, J. Bohlmann, J., J. Schultz (2007) Arabidopsis as entomologist: transcriptional and biochemical responses to attack by insects. Plant and Animal Genome XV Conference, San Diego, CA.