National Institute of Technology Rourkela

राष्ट्रीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान राउरकेला

ଜାତୀୟ ପ୍ରଯୁକ୍ତି ପ୍ରତିଷ୍ଠାନ ରାଉରକେଲା

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Faculty Profile

EXPERTISE INFORMATION

Research Group
  • Cell and Developmental Biology
Areas of Interest
  • Plant Immunity, Nonhost resistance
  • Plant-pathogen interaction
  • Programmed cell death during plant-pathogen interaction
  • Metabolomics in nonhost against fungal diseases in rice
  • Nanotechnology and its application against fungal diseases in rice

Binod Bihari Sahu Associate Professor & Vice President FM (Student Activity Center)

Life Science

sahub@nitrkl.ac.in

0661 - 246 2782

35

PUBLICATIONS

6

SPONSORED PROJECTS

8

DOCTORAL STUDENTS

4

CONTINUING EDUCATION

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Binod Bihari Sahu

Associate Professor

Life Science

Room Number: MN-246

Department of Life Science, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Sundargarh, Odisha, India - 769008

2010

Ph.D.
Biochemical and molecular characterization of H+ATPase in plants differing in salt-tolerance
Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar

2003

M.Sc
Botany with Biochemistry as specilalization
PG Department of Botany, Utkal University

2001

B.Sc (Hons)
Chemistry, Botany (Hons.), Zool
Government College Angul

Teaching Experience
  • Molecular Genetics,  NIT Rourkela,   24 Feb 2014 - Present
Post Doctoral Research Experience
  • Plant molecular biology, Plant Immunity, Plant-pathogen interaction, Molecular Genetics,  Iowa State University, Ames, IOWA, USA,   16 Nov 2009 - 21 Feb 2014
Laboratory Development
  • Plant Immunity and Molecular Genetics,  NIT Rourkela,   Dr. Sahu's focus is specifically on two rice fungal diseases which constitute the most significant threats to rice production. Development of new pathovars of the fungus as a primary means to avoid resistance from the host is a threat to farmers. However, Nonhost resistance provides broad spectrum and durable disease resistance. Dr. Sahu’s research group focuses mainly on identifying the nonhost resistance genes from Arabidopsis which is found to be a nonhost against both rice pathogens and molecular mechanism of resistance during nonhost interaction. Study on the Involvement of a catalogue of fungal pathogenic molecules (effectors) with their cognate interactome in the host or nonhost during plant-pathogen interaction would delineate the outcome. Recent work has identified EMS mutants of Arabidopsis that are infected by the pathogens in the epidermal layer cells as well as mesophyll cells. Mapping and identification of the gene(s) are underway that would further lead in helping characterize the mechanism of disease resistance during nohost resistance. We use the advanced molecular genetics approaches to study the plant-pathogen interaction.

Role of microorganisms on the productivity of the Bhitarakanika Mangrove Forest and potentiality of rhizosphere inhabiting bacteria in mangrove reforestation. CSIR
  • Co-Investigator
  • 36
  • Running   Sponsored
Enhancing broad spectrum disease resistance against rice blast by engineering orthologous nonhost resistance genes of Arabidopsis in rice. Science & Engineering Research Board(SERB)
  • Principal Investigator
  • 36
  • Completed   Sponsored
Stonin-2 regulated Beclin-1 dependent autophagy and autophagic lysosome reformation Science & Engineering Research Board(SERB)
  • Co-Investigator
  • 36
  • Completed   Sponsored
Non - host resistance programmed cell death in Arabidopsis for Egineering board spectrum and durable disease resistance in rice SERB
  • Principal Investigator
  • 36
  • Completed   Sponsored
Engineering arabidopsis-specific nonhost resistance mechanism in rice for durable and board spectrum sheath blight resistance against Rhizoctonia Solari GOVT.OF ODISHA
  • Principal Investigator
  • 36
  • Completed   Sponsored
Autophagy induced by cellular Stress Switches to apoptosis DBT
  • Co-Investigator
  • 36
  • Completed   Sponsored

Total Publications: 35

R. Sumi, B. B. Sahu, Min. Xu, D. Sandhu, and M. K. Bhattacharyya,"Arabidopsis nonhost resistance gene PSS1confers immunity against an oomycete and a fungal pathogen but not a bacterial pathogen that cause diseases in soybean", BMC Plant Biology, vol.12, BioMed Central, June 2012, 10.1186/1471-2229-12-87       Article

B. Wang, R. Sumit, B. B. Sahu, M. N. Ngaki, S. Srivastava, . Yang, S. Swaminathan, and M. Bhattacharyya,"Arabidopsis novel Glycine-rich plasma membrane PSS1 protein enhances disease resistance in Transgenic Soybean plants", Plant Physiology, vol.176, no.1, pp.865-878, American Society of Plant Biologists, January 2018, 10.1104/pp.16.01982       Article

D. Parween, E. Sultan, K. Dalei, and B. B. Sahu,"Arabidopsis nonhost resistance gene PENETRATION 2 is involved in disruption of cushion formation by Rhizoctonia solani during early infection process", Australasian Plant Pathology, Springer, January 2021, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13313-020-00768-8       Article

Basic Gene Cloning And Transgenic Techniques Life Science (Workshop)
The 3rd International Conference on Frontiers in Biological Sciences (InCoFIBS-2023) Life Science (Conference)
International Conference on “Omics of Plant-Pathogen Interaction with their implication” Life Science (Conference)
Techniques to Understand Autophagic Processes in Mammalian Systems (TUAPMS) Life Science (Workshop)

  • LS100 : Biology {Theory}
  • LS1001 : Biology {Theory}
  • LS2403 : Plant Science {Theory}
  • LS318 : Plant Biotechnology {Theory}
  • LS3405 : Genetics {Theory}
  • LS503 : Molecular Genetics {Theory}
  • LS5203 : Recombinant-Dna Science {Theory}
  • LS5410 : Molecular Genetics {Theory}
  • LS6012 : rDNA Biology {Theory}
  • LS612 : rDNA Biology {Theory}
  • LS274 : Plant Science Laboratory {Practical}
  • LS275 : Computational Biology Laboratory - I {Practical}
  • LS3093 : Life Science Laboratory- III {Practical}
  • LS373 : Genetics Laboratory {Practical}
  • LS572 : Molecular Genetics Laboratory {Practical}

Ph.D. Students [8]
Identification and Characterization of a Nonhost Resistance Gene in Arabidopsis Against Rice Blast Pathogen Magnaporthe Oryzae
Eram Sultan
Enrolled: Jul 2014
Graduated :  2019
Supervisor
Identification and Characterization of a Nonhost Resistance Gene in Arabidopsis Against Rhizoctonia Solani for Durable and Broad-Spectrum Rice Sheath Blight Resistance
Daraksha Parween
Enrolled: Jul 2016
Graduated :  2022
Supervisor
Plant Immunity
Kalpana Dalei
Enrolled: Jan 2016
Continuing
Supervisor
Plant Immunity
Debasish Pati
Enrolled: Jul 2018
Continuing
Supervisor
plant-pathogen interaction
Vivekananda Mohanta
Enrolled: Jul 2019
Continuing
Supervisor
PLANT-PATHOGEN INTERACTION
Reecha Mohapatra
Enrolled: Sep 2020
Continuing
Supervisor
Plant-microbe interaction under abiotic stress
Arya Kumar Dibyananda Naik
Enrolled: Aug 2021
Continuing
Supervisor
PLANT IMMUNITY
Rishi Kesh
Enrolled: Aug 2021
Continuing
Supervisor

Awards And Honours
  • SERB-Early Career Research Award,   2015
Memberships / Fellowships
  • Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Iowa State University USA,   2009
  • CSIR-UGC JRF,   2006
  • CSIR-UGC JRF,   2004