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Gopalan Selvaraj

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Adjunct ProfessorDepartment of Plant SciencesUniversity of Saskatchewan

Gopalan Selvaraj

Adjunct Professor

Department of Plant Sciences

University of Saskatchewan

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

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Adjunct, part-time and visiting faculty usually co-supervise alongside a core faculty member.
1 publication in the last five years, latest in 2025.
Senior (last) author on 1 recent paper, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 1 research grant (1 NSERC), most recently in 2006.

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Research

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Latest papers

Phenotypic plasticity of bread wheat contributes to yield reliability under heat and drought stress.
PloS one · 2025 · senior author
On the Role of DGAT1 in Seed Glycerolipid Metabolic Network and Critical Stages of Plant Development in Arabidopsis.
Lipids · 2020
Roles of Cytosolic Glutamine Synthetases in Arabidopsis Development and Stress Responses.
Plant & cell physiology · 2019

All 35 publications

Latest funding

Characterization of genes and proteins that are enigmatically unique to plants
NSERC · 2006 · Principal investigator
$125,000

All 1 grants and awards

35 publications.

Phenotypic plasticity of bread wheat contributes to yield reliability under heat and drought stress.

Singh Sangha J, Wang W, Knox R, Ruan Y, Cuthbert RD, Isidro-Sánchez J, Li L, He Y, DePauw R, Singh A, Cutler A, Wang H, Selvaraj G

PloS one20258 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0312122 PMID: 40063653

On the Role of DGAT1 in Seed Glycerolipid Metabolic Network and Critical Stages of Plant Development in Arabidopsis.

Wang L, Li Q, Xia Q, Shen W, Selvaraj G, Zou J

Lipids2020

DOI: 10.1002/lipd.12229 PMID: 32106336

Roles of Cytosolic Glutamine Synthetases in Arabidopsis Development and Stress Responses.

Ji Y, Li Q, Liu G, Selvaraj G, Zheng Z, Zou J, Wei Y

Plant & cell physiology201962 citations

DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcy235 PMID: 30649517

Publisher Correction: QTL mapping and molecular characterization of the classical D locus controlling seed and flower color in Linum usitatissimum (flax).

Sudarshan GP, Kulkarni M, Akhov L, Ashe P, Shaterian H, Cloutier S, Rowland G, Wei Y, Selvaraj G

Scientific reports20189 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-22651-9 PMID: 29531258

QTL mapping and molecular characterization of the classical D locus controlling seed and flower color in Linum usitatissimum (flax).

Sudarshan GP, Kulkarni M, Akhov L, Ashe P, Shaterian H, Cloutier S, Rowland G, Wei Y, Selvaraj G

Scientific reports201742 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-11565-7 PMID: 29146906

Contrasting Root and Photosynthesis Traits in a Large-Acreage Canadian Durum Variety and Its Distant Parent of Algerian Origin for Assembling Drought/Heat Tolerance Attributes.

Ashe P, Shaterian H, Akhov L, Kulkarni M, Selvaraj G

Frontiers in chemistry2017Senior author

DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2017.00121 PMID: 29312927

Genome-wide analysis of drought induced gene expression changes in flax (Linum usitatissimum).

Dash PK, Cao Y, Jailani AK, Gupta P, Venglat P, Xiang D, Rai R, Sharma R, Thirunavukkarasu N, Abdin MZ, Yadava DK, Singh NK, Singh J, Selvaraj G, Deyholos M, Kumar PA, Datla R

GM crops & food2014

DOI: 10.4161/gmcr.29742 PMID: 25072186

Overexpression of a novel biotrophy-specific Colletotrichum truncatum effector, CtNUDIX, in hemibiotrophic fungal phytopathogens causes incompatibility with their host plants.

Bhadauria V, Banniza S, Vandenberg A, Selvaraj G, Wei Y

Eukaryotic cell201385 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1128/ec.00192-12 PMID: 22962277

Target of Rapamycin Signaling Regulates Metabolism, Growth, and Life Span in Arabidopsis

Maozhi Ren, Prakash Venglat, Shuqing Qiu, Li Feng, Yongguo Cao, Edwin Wang, Daoquan Xiang, Jinghe Wang, Danny Alexander, Chalivendra C. Subbaiah, David C. Logan, Autar K. Mattoo, Gopalan Selvaraj, Raju Datla

The Plant Cell2012256 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1105/tpc.112.107144 PMID: 23275579

Peroxisomal alanine: glyoxylate aminotransferase AGT1 is indispensable for appressorium function of the rice blast pathogen, Magnaporthe oryzae.

Bhadauria V, Banniza S, Vandenberg A, Selvaraj G, Wei Y

PloS one201236 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036266 PMID: 22558413

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Gopalan Selvaraj

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Phenotypic plasticity of bread wheat contributes to yield reliability under heat and drought stress.

On the Role of DGAT1 in Seed Glycerolipid Metabolic Network and Critical Stages of Plant Development in Arabidopsis.

Roles of Cytosolic Glutamine Synthetases in Arabidopsis Development and Stress Responses.

Publisher Correction: QTL mapping and molecular characterization of the classical D locus controlling seed and flower color in Linum usitatissimum (flax).

QTL mapping and molecular characterization of the classical D locus controlling seed and flower color in Linum usitatissimum (flax).

Contrasting Root and Photosynthesis Traits in a Large-Acreage Canadian Durum Variety and Its Distant Parent of Algerian Origin for Assembling Drought/Heat Tolerance Attributes.

Genome-wide analysis of drought induced gene expression changes in flax (Linum usitatissimum).

Overexpression of a novel biotrophy-specific Colletotrichum truncatum effector, CtNUDIX, in hemibiotrophic fungal phytopathogens causes incompatibility with their host plants.

Target of Rapamycin Signaling Regulates Metabolism, Growth, and Life Span in Arabidopsis

Peroxisomal alanine: glyoxylate aminotransferase AGT1 is indispensable for appressorium function of the rice blast pathogen, Magnaporthe oryzae.

Characterization of genes and proteins that are enigmatically unique to plants

Frequent collaborators

Yangdou Wei

Raju Datla

Jitao Zou

Sabine Banniza

Edwin Wang

Hong Wang

Pierre Fobert

Anthony Kusalik

Stephen Strelkov

Wei Xiao

Thomas Berleth

Michael Deyholos