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Scholar Profile: Jayaraj Jayaraman

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Dr. Jayaraj Jayaraman

 Life Sciences Faculty of Science and Technology Professor - Plant Biotechnology and Plant Microbiology Active 662-2002 ext.82238; 83092 Check out my Website!
My Research Interests:

Microbiology, biocontrol, plant pathogens, plant transformation, disease resistance

Biography/Responsibilities/Duties:

Hailing from a coastal village near the historical town of Chidambaram, in South India, Professor Jayaraj Jayaraman graduated in Agriculture, earning a doctoral degree in Plant Pathology from Annamalai University, India. He served as a Senior lecturer at Annamalai University till 1999. He was a DST-BOYSCAST visiting scientist at Kansas State University (KSU), USA, where he completed his postdoctoral training up to 2000. He served at KSU as Associate Scientist up to 2003 and later as Senior Scientist at Simon Fraser University, Canada between 2003 and 2009. He joined the UWI-St. Augustine and was serving as a Senior Lecturer in Microbiology and Biotechnology. In 2014, he was installed as a full Professor of Biotechnology and Plant-Microbiology at the Dept. of Life Sciences, UWI-St. Augustine.

His research area spans the fields of sustainable agriculture, plant pathology, plant microbiology, and biotechnology. He chairs the Biotechnology program at the UWI-St. Augustine. He has completed more than 25 funded research projects and published more than 130 refereed publications. His group recently received a patent for the development of a novel antibiotic adjuvant.

He has received several awards including the UNDP-CARUTA Research Award; The UWI- Vice-Chancellor's Excellence Award for Outstanding Research Accomplishments; ACTT Award - Govt. of T&T for Outstanding Achievements in Applied and Academic Research and the Environmental Management Authority-T&T- Greenleaf Award. He is a DST-BOYSCAST Fellow, an elected Fellow of the Indian Phytopathological Society, and an elected UNESCO-TWAS Fellow of Agriculture Science. He served as the advisor to the UNU-BIOLAC program of the UN. He serves as a plant protection advisor to programs for several Caribbean states. region. His research projects cover diverse topics focusing IDM/IPM methods, biological control, molecular-based disease diagnostics, plant-microbe interactions, elicitor-biomolecules, induced disease resistance, seaweed products for agriculture and health, genetic engineering of plants for biotic stress tolerance and identification of novel biomolecules for potential drug-value.

Research Interests

  1. Microbiology
  2. biocontrol
  3. plant pathogens
  4. plant transformation
  5. disease resistance

Research Activity

  1. [Book]

    Pathogenesis-related proteins and their roles in resistance to fungal pathogens more..

    2004

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    Jayaraj, Jayaraman and Anand, Ajith and Muthukrishnan, Subbaratnam and Punja, Z

    COMPLETED

  3. [Journal Article]

    Seaweed extract reduces foliar fungal diseases on carrot more..

    2008

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    Jayaraj, J and Wan, A and Rahman, M and Punja, ZK

    COMPLETED

  4. [Journal Article]

    Rhizobium-Trichoderma interaction in vitro and in vivo more..

    2002

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    Jayaraj, J and others

    COMPLETED

  9. [Journal Article]

    12 Chitosan for Plant Disease Management–Prospects and Problems more..

    2015

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    Ramjegathesh, Rajendran and Jayaraman, Jayaraj

    COMPLETED

  11. [Journal Article]

    Evaluation of distillery effluents in the management of red rot of sugarcane. more..

    2001

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    Senthil, N and Jayaraj, J and Shanmugam, V and others

    COMPLETED

  13. [Journal Article]

    5 Plant Isothiocyanates as an Alternative for Sustainable Disease Control of Horticultural Crops more..

    2015

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    Troncoso-Rojas, Rosalba and Tiznado-Hernández, Martín Ernesto

    COMPLETED

  15. [Journal Article]

    Screening of higher plants for fungitoxicity against Rhizoctonia solaniin vitro. more..

    1997

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    Kurucheve, V and Ezhilan, J Gerard and Jayaraj, J and others

    COMPLETED

  16. [Journal Article]

    Poster: Biotech risk assessment more..

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    Jayaraj, Jayaraman and Liang, George H B and Muthukrishnan, Subbaratnam and Punja, Zamir K

    COMPLETED

  17. [Journal Article]

    Tolerance of Trichoderma harzianum to certain herbicides in vitro. more..

    2000

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    Jayaraj, J and Radhakrishnan, NV and others

    COMPLETED

  20. [Journal Article]

    Efficient genetic transformation of Sorghum using a visual screening marker more..

    2005

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    Gao, Zhensheng and Jayaraj, J and Muthukrishnan, S and Claflin, Larry and Liang, GH

    COMPLETED

  21. [Journal Article]

    Bio-efficacy of a chitosan based elicitor on Alternaria solani and Xanthomonas vesicatoria infections in tomato under tropical conditions more..

    2016

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    Ramkissoon, A and Francis, J and Bowrin, V and Ramjegathesh, R and Ramsubhag, A and Jayaraman, J

    COMPLETED

  24. [Journal Article]

    Phytoelicitor activity of three Caribbean seaweed species on suppression of pathogenic infections in tomato plants more..

    2017

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    Ramkissoon, Antonio and Ramsubhag, Adesh and Jayaraman, Jayaraj

    COMPLETED

  25. [Journal Article]

    Potassium for the management of blast disease of finger millet. more..

    1995

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    Murugesan, R and Kurucheve, V and Jayaraj, J and others

    COMPLETED

  26. [Journal Article]

    Oxalic acid-induced resistance to Rhizoctonia solani in rice is associated with induction of phenolics, peroxidase and pathogenesis-related proteins more..

    2010

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    Jayaraj, Jayaraman and Bhuvaneswari, Ranganathan and Rabindran, Ramalingam and Muthukrishnan, Subbaratnam and Velazhahan, Rethinasamy

    COMPLETED

  27. [Journal Article]

    Identification of Tomato yellow leaf curl virus Infecting Cowpea in Trinidad more..

    2017

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    Chinnaraja, Chinnadurai and Ramsubhag, Adesh and Jayaraj, J

    COMPLETED

  28. [Journal Article]

    disease of cotton caused by Rhizoctonia solani more..

    2003

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    Jayaraj, J and Radhakrishnan, NV

    COMPLETED

  29. [Journal Article]

    10 Use of Seaweed Extracts for Disease Management of Vegetable Crops more..

    2015

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    Jayaraman, Jayaraj and Ali, Nerissa

    COMPLETED

  31. [Journal Article]

    Development of new formulations of Bacillus subtilis for management of tomato damping-off caused by Pythium aphanidermatum more..

    2005

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    Jayaraj, J and Radhakrishnan, NV and Kannan, R and Sakthivel, K and Suganya, D and Venkatesan, S and Velazhahan, R

    COMPLETED

  32. [Journal Article]

    Commercial extract from the brown seaweed Ascophyllum nodosum reduces fungal diseases in greenhouse cucumber more..

    2011

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    Jayaraman, Jayaraj and Norrie, Jeff and Punja, Zamir K

    COMPLETED

  33. [Journal Article]

    Enhanced resistance to foliar fungal pathogens in carrot by application of elicitors more..

    2009

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    Jayaraj, J and Rahman, M and Wan, A and Punja, ZK

    COMPLETED

  34. [Journal Article]

    7 Botanical Pesticides: The Novel Chemotherapeutics for Managing Plant Viruses more..

    2015

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    Jeyalakshmi, C and Dinakaran, D and Rettinassababady, C

    COMPLETED

  35. [Journal Article]

    Chapter 8: Sorghum transformation for resistance to fungal pathogens and drought more..

    2004

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    Muthukrishnan, S and Weeks, JT and Tuinstra, MR and Jeoung, JM and Jayaraj, J and Liang, GH

    COMPLETED

  36. [Journal Article]

    In vitro antimicrobial activity of common species of seaweeds native to Trinidadian coasts more..

    2015

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    Ramkissoon, Antonio and Ramsubhag, Adesh and Maxwell, Anderson and Jayaraman, Jayaraj

    COMPLETED

  37. [Journal Article]

    Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of grain sorghum more..

    2002

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    Jeoung, JM and Krishnaveni, S and Jayaraj, J and Haying, Y and Trick, HN and Muthukrishna, S and Liang, GH

    COMPLETED

  40. [Journal Article]

    Transgenic vegetables more..

    2011

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    Wally, Owen and Jayaraj, J and Punja, Zamir K

    COMPLETED

  42. [Journal Article]

    13 Biocontrol Agent Formulations for Sustainable Disease Control of Plants more..

    2015

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    Jayaraman, Jayaraj and Alleyne, Angela T

    COMPLETED

  45. [Journal Article]

    Metabolic engineering of novel ketocarotenoid production in carrot plants more..

    2008

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    Jayaraj, Jayaraman and Devlin, Robert and Punja, Zamir

    COMPLETED

  46. [Journal Article]

    2013 Caribbean/Pacific Division Joint Meeting Abstracts more..

    2013

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    Ali, N and Ramsubhag, A and Farrell, A and JAYARAMAN, J

    COMPLETED

  47. [Journal Article]

    Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae infection triggers accumulation of phenolics, defense-related enzymes and thaumatin-like proteins in rice leaves more..

    2006

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    Velazhahan, R and Jayaraj, J and Khabbaz, Salaheddin and Kumar, R Sandoss and Muthukrishnan, S

    COMPLETED

  48. [Journal Article]

    Carrot (Daucus carota L.) more..

    2007

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    Wally, Owen and Jayaraman, Jayaraj and Punja, Zamir K

    COMPLETED

  49. [Journal Article]

    Colonization of cucumber plants by the biocontrol fungus Clonostachys rosea f. catenulata more..

    2008

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    Chatterton, Syama and Jayaraman, Jayaraj and Punja, Zamir K

    COMPLETED

  51. [Journal Article]

    A Survey on Occurrence and Diversity of Insect Pests of Cauliflower in Dindigul and Theni Districts of Tamil Nadu, India more..

    2017

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    Debbarma, Arun and Jayaraj, J and Chandramani, P and Senthil, N and Ananthan, M and Prabakaran, K

    COMPLETED

  56. [Journal Article]

    Botryodiplodia root rot-a new disease of mulberry more..

    1995

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    Radhakrishnan, NV and Ramabadran, R and Jayaraj, J

    COMPLETED

  58. [Journal Article]

    Transfer of a plant chitinase gene into a nitrogen-fixing Azospirillum and study of its expression more..

    2004

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    Jayaraj, Jayaraman and Muthukrishnan, Subbaratnam and Liang, George H

    COMPLETED

  59. [Journal Article]

    The effect of Ascophyllum nodosum extract on the growth, yield and fruit quality of tomato grown under tropical conditions more..

    2016

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    Ali, Nerissa and Farrell, Aidan and Ramsubhag, Adesh and Jayaraman, Jayaraj

    COMPLETED

  60. [Journal Article]

    Antifungal proteins and other mechanisms in the control of sorghum stalk rot and grain mold more..

    2001

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    Waniska, Ralph D and Venkatesha, RT and Chandrashekar, A and Krishnaveni, S and Bejosano, FP and Jeoung, J and Jayaraj, J and Muthukrishnan, Subbaratnam and Liang, George H

    COMPLETED

  61. [Journal Article]

    Ascophyllum extract application causes reduction of disease levels in field tomatoes grown in a tropical environment more..

    2016

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    Ali, Nerissa and Ramkissoon, Antonio and Ramsubhag, Adesh and Jayaraj, Jayaraman

    COMPLETED

  63. [Journal Article]

    Poster: Biotech risk assessment more..

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    Wally, Owen SD and Jayaraj, Jayaraman and Brewer, James F

    COMPLETED

  65. [Journal Article]

    Partial purification and N-terminal amino acid sequencing of a $\beta$-1, 3-glucanase from sorghum leaves more..

    2003

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    Velazhahan, R and Jayaraj, J and Liang, GH and Muthukrishnan, S

    COMPLETED

  66. [Journal Article]

    FUNGITOXICITY OF SOME OILCAKES AGAINST Rhizoctonia solani more..

    1997

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    KURUCHEVE, V and EZHILAN, J GERARD and JAYARAJ, J

    COMPLETED

  68. [Journal Article]

    Carrot more..

    2007

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    Punja, ZK and Jayaraj, J and Wally, O

    COMPLETED

  71. [Journal Article]

    Screening of higher plants and animal faeces for the fungitoxicity against Rhizoctonia solani more..

    1996

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    Sundarraj, T and Kurucheve, V and Jayaraj, J

    COMPLETED

  73. [Journal Article]

    Introduction and constitutive expression of a tobacco hornworm (Manduca sexta) chitinase gene in soybean more..

    2004

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    Ornatowski, W and Jayaraj, J and Todd, TC and Schapaugh, WT and Muthukrishnan, S and Trick, HN

    COMPLETED

  77. [Conference Proceedings]

    Complete genome sequencing of Zucchini yellow mosaic virus causing mosaic in cucurbits in Trinidad more..

    2016

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    Chinnadurai, C and Ramsubhag, A and Jayaraman, J

    COMPLETED

  78. [Conference Proceedings]

    Transgenic approaches to enhance disease resistance in carrot plants to fungal pathogens more..

    2012

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    Punja, ZK and Wally, O and Jayaraj, J

    COMPLETED

  79. [Conference Proceedings]

    Effect of application of Ascophyllum extract on the growth, disease incidence and yield of field tomatoes in Trinidad more..

    2013

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    Ali, N and Ramsubhag, A and Farrell, A and Jayaraman, J

    COMPLETED

  81. [Conference Proceedings]

    Induced resistance in carrots to fungal pathogens through application of elicitor compounds more..

    2009

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    Jayaraj, J and Wan, A and Rahman, M and Punja, ZK

    COMPLETED

  83. [Conference Proceedings]

    Induced resistance to foliar fungal pathogens in carrot by elicitor treatments more..

    2008

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    Jayaraj, J and Rahman, M and Wan, A and Punja, ZK

    COMPLETED

  88. [Misc]

    First Report of Zucchini yellow mosaic virus and Squash mosaic virus Infecting Cucurbits in Trinidad more..

    2016

     Jayaraj Jayaraman

    Chinnaraja, C and Ramkissoon, A and Rajendran, R and Tony, ST and Ramsubhag, A and Jayaraj, J

    COMPLETED

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    University Representative, Board of Graduate Studies and Research, The University of the West Indies. more..

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