Dr. Kosala M. Ranathunge

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsPlant Physiology
Keywordsmolecular stress physiology, plant biotechnology, suberin biosynthesis, water transport in roots, nitrogen use efficiency
Honours and awards

2017: Australian Research Council Future Fellowship

Current contact address

CountryAustralia
CityCrawley
InstitutionUniversity of Western Australia
InstituteSchool of Biological Sciences

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Lukas SchreiberInstitut für Zelluläre und Molekulare Botanik, Abteilung Ökophysiologie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn
Start of initial sponsorship01/02/2007

Program(s)

2006Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2011K. Ranathunge, L. Schreiber and R. Franke: Suberin research in the genomics era-New interest for an old polymer. Plant Sciences. In: Plant Sciences, 2011, 399-413
2011K. Ranathunge and L. Schreiber: Water and solute permeabilities of Arabidopsis roots in relation to the amount and composition of aliphatic suberin. In: Journal of Experimental Botany, 2011, 1961-1974
2010J.J. Park, P. Jin, J. Yoon, J.I. Yang, H.J. Jeong, K. Ranathunge, L. Schreiber, R. Franke, I.J. Lee and G. An: Mutation in Wilted Dwarf and Lethal 1(WDL 1) causes abnormal cuticle formation and rapid water loss in rice. In: Plant Molecular Biology, 2010, 91-103
2010K. Ranathunge, S. Shao, D. Qutob, M. Gijzen, C.A. Peterson and M.A. Bernards: Properties of the soybean seed coat cuticle change during development. In: Planta, 2010, 1171-1181
2009L. Kotula, K. Ranathunge and E. Steudle: Apoplastic barriers effectively block oxygen permeability across outer cell layers of rice roots under deoxygenated conditions: roles of apoplastic pores and of respiration. In: New Phytologist, 2009, 909-917
2009Lukasz Kotula, Kosala M. Ranathunge. Lukas Schreiber and Ernst Steudle: Functional and chemical comparison of apoplastic barriers to radial oxygen loss in roots of rice (Oryza sativa L.) grown in aerated or deoxygenated solution. In: Journal of Experimental Botany, 2009, 2155-2167
2009P. Krishnamurthy, K. Ranathunge, R. Franke, H.S. Prakash, L. Schreiber and M.K. Mathew: The role of root apoplastic transport barriers in salt tolerance of rice (Oryza sativa L.). In: Planta, 2009, 119-134
2008Kosala M. Ranathunge, RHT Raymond, X Fang, CA Peterson, M Gijzen and MA Bernards: Soybean root suberin and partial resistance to Phytophthora sojae root rot.. In: Phytopathology, 2008, 1179-1189
2008Dongmei Yu, Kosala M. Ranathunge. Rochus Franke, Lukas Schreiber and C. He: Wax Crystal-Sparse Leaf 1 encodes a b-ketoacyl CoA synthase involved in biosynthesis of cuticular waxes on rice leaf.. In: Planta, 2008, 675-685
2007T. Raymond, X Fang, Kosala M Ranathunge, TR Anderson, CA Peterson and MA Bernards: Soybean (Glycine max L.) root suberin: anatomical distribution, chemical composition and relationship to partial resistance to Phytophthora sojae. In: Plant Physiology, 2007, 299-311