Lab Member Since: 2003

Current Research Focus:

Develop and establish integrated functional genomics leading to systems biology approach to dissect the stress tolerance mechanisms in plants. Expertise relates to functional genomics tools such as transcriptome, proteome, and small molecule analysis and protein-protein interactions.

Educational Background:

Ph.D.    Plant Biology (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)

M.S.     Plant Biology 

B.S.     Major Biology, Minor Chemistry 

Selected Book Chapters and Publications:

Book Chapters:

Valliyodan, B., Nguyen, H.T. (2008) Genomics of Abiotic Stress in Soybean. In: Soybean Genomics, G. Stacey (Ed). Springer Verlag, New York.

Vuong, T.D., Wu, X., Pathan, Md.S. Valliyodan, B., Nguyen, H.T. (2007) Genomics approaches to soybean improvement. In: Genomics Assisted Crop Improvement, R.K. Varshney and R. Tuberosa (Eds). Springer Verlag, USA.

Sharmistha, B., Babu, V., Bansal, K.C. (2001) Bio-engineering for reducing post-harvest losses in vegetable crops. In: Emerging scenario in vegetable research and development, G. Kalloo and K. Singh (Eds). Research book Publishing House, New Delhi, India.

Selected Research Publications:

Schmutz J, Cannon SB, Schlueter J, ………Valliyodan B, et. al. (2010) Genome sequence of the paleopolyploid soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr. Nature, 463:178-183.

Wang Z, Libault M, Joshi T, Valliyodan B, Nguyen H, Xu D, Stacey G, Cheng J. (2010) SoyDB: a knowledge database of soybean transcription factors. BMC Plant Biol. 10(1):14.

Yamaguchi M*, Valliyodan B*, Zhang J, LeNoble ME, Yu O, Rogers EE, Nguyen HT, Sharp RE (2010) Regulation of growth response to water stress in the soybean primary root. I. Proteomic analysis reveals region-specific regulation of phenylpropanoid metabolism and control of free iron in the elongation zone. Plant, Cell and Environment 33, 223-243

Tran, L-S.P., Quach, T., Guttikonda, S.K., Aldrich, D.L., Kumar, R., Neelakandan, A., Valliyodan, B., Nguyen, H.T (2009) Molecular characterization of stress-inducible GmNAC genes in soybean. Communicated to Theor Gen Genet, 281:647-664.

Neelakandan A.K, Song Z., Wang J, Richards MH, Wu X, Valliyodan B, Nguyen HT, Nes WD (2009) Cloning, functional expression and phylogenetic analysis of plant sterol 24C-methyltransferases involved in sitosterol biosynthesis . Phytochemistry, 70:1982-1998.

Spollen, W.G., Tao, W., Valliyodan, B., Chen, K., Hejlek, L., Bondra, M.L., Zhu, J., Bohnert, H.J., Schachtman, D.P., Davis, G.E., Springer, G.K., Sharp, R.E.,  Nguyen, H.T. (2008) Spatial distribution of transcript changes in regions of the maize primary root at low water potential. BMC Plant Biology 8:32.

Kumar, R., Qui, J., Joshi, Valliyodan, B., T., Xu, D., Nguyen, H.T. (2007) Single feature polymorphism discovery in rice.  PLoS ONE. 14;2:e284.

Valliyodan, B., and Nguyen, HT. (2006) Understanding regulatory networks and engineering for enhanced drought tolerance in plants. Current Opinions in Plant Biology 9:189-195.

Ramalingam, J., Pathan, M.S., Feril, O., Miftahudin, Ross, K., Ma, X.F., Mahamoud, A., Layton, J., Rodrigues, M., Chickmawati, T., Valliyodan, B., Skinner, R., Mathews, D., Gustafson, P., Nguyen, HT. (2006) Structural and functional analysis of wheat based expressed sequence tags (ESTs) related to abiotic stresses. Genome 49:1-7.

Winicov, I., Valliyodan, B., Xue, L., Hoober, J.K. (2004) The MsPRP2 promoter enables strong heterologous gene expression in a root-specific manner and is enhanced by over expression of Alfin 1. Planta 219 (6):925-35.

Barthakur, S., Babu, V., and Bansal, K.C. (2001) Overexpression of osmotin induces proline accumulation and confers osmotic stress tolerance in transgenic tobacco. J. Plant Biochem. and Biotech. 10 (1):31-37.

*Both authors contributed equally.