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Chithra Karunakaran
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Research
Latest papers
Unveiling Foliar-Applied Calcium Translocation in Tomato: Evidence from Leaf-to-Fruit Movement Using Strontium Tracer.
Journal of experimental botany · 2026
In planta storage of boron and calcium affects clubroot severity in Brassica napus.
Plant physiology and biochemistry : PPB · 2026
The study of the variation of mineral distribution and relative concentration on varieties of oat using synchrotron-based X-ray fluorescence imaging.
Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.) · 2025
Latest funding
- $9,005,983
The Canadian Light Source
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
47 publications.
Unveiling Foliar-Applied Calcium Translocation in Tomato: Evidence from Leaf-to-Fruit Movement Using Strontium Tracer.
Santos E, Montanha GS, da Silva HJFA, da Silva NGDC, Franco FS, Brandão JR, Huatatoca KAC, Rezende VP, Virgilio A, Karunakaran C, Tanino K, Lavres J, Pereira de Carvalho HW
In planta storage of boron and calcium affects clubroot severity in Brassica napus.
Tu J, Gossen BD, Tu K, Stobbs J, Reid JW, Karunakaran C, McDonald MR, Peng G
The study of the variation of mineral distribution and relative concentration on varieties of oat using synchrotron-based X-ray fluorescence imaging.
Deng G, Vu M, Korbas M, Bondici VF, Karunakaran C, Stobbs J, Tu K, Wu FX, Yu P
A Comprehensive Review on Minimally Destructive Quality and Safety Assessment of Agri-Food Products: Chemometrics-Coupled Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy.
Keithellakpam LB, Danielski R, Singh CB, Jayas DS, Karunakaran C
Investigating the limits of hard X-ray coherence length measurement employing Young's double slit experiment.
Castle R, Appathurai N, Simonson N, Sigari Y, Boland MJ, He F, Karunakaran C, Wang J, Moreno BD, Kuppili VSC
Applications of synchrotron light in seed research: an array of x-ray and infrared imaging methodologies.
Ashe P, Tu K, Stobbs JA, Dynes JJ, Vu M, Shaterian H, Kagale S, Tanino KK, Wanasundara JPD, Vail S, Karunakaran C, Quilichini TD
Lignin accumulation in cell wall plays a role in clubroot resistance.
Tu J, Qin L, Karunakaran C, Wei Y, Peng G
Visualization and Quantitative Evaluation of Functional Structures of Soybean Root Nodules via Synchrotron X-ray Imaging.
Nakhforoosh A, Hallin E, Karunakaran C, Korbas M, Stobbs J, Kochian L
Nutri-cereal tissue-specific transcriptome atlas during development: Functional integration of gene expression to identify mineral uptake pathways in little millet (Panicum sumatrense).
Pahari S, Vaid N, Soolanayakanahally R, Kagale S, Pasha A, Esteban E, Provart N, Stobbs JA, Vu M, Meira D, Karunakaran C, Boda P, Prasannakumar MK, Nagaraja A, Jain AK
Utilizing Synchrotron-Based X-ray Micro-Computed Tomography to Visualize the Microscopic Structure of Starch Hydrogels In Situ.
Ren Y, Stobbs JA, Lee DJ, Li D, Karunakaran C, Ai Y
The Canadian Light Source
Principal investigators: Karunakaran, Chithra C
Keywords: agriculture and agri-food; energy conversion/storage materials; environmental sciences and mining; food and climate adaptation; macromolecular crystallography; materials analysis; new health therapies; quantum materials; soil sciences; synchrotron characterization methods
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Adam Percival Hitchcock and Chithra Karunakaran: 2 shared papers
- Jitendra Paliwal and Chithra Karunakaran: 2 shared papers
- Nicholas Provart and Chithra Karunakaran: 1 shared paper
- Ning Zhu and Chithra Karunakaran: 1 shared paper
- Agricultural and Bioresource Engineering
- Chemistry & Chemical Biology
- Biosystems Engineering
- Department of Cell and Systems Biology
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
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