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Dr. Sukumar Saha

Dr. Sukumar Saha

Adjunct Faculty
Specialty: Genetics
Research Organism(s): Cotton
Department: USDA - Main Campus

Mailing Address
Box 5367
Mississippi State, MS 39762-5367

Physical Address
810 Hwy. 12 East
Mississippi State, MS 39762

Email Address: Sukumar.Saha@ars.usda.gov
Telephone: (662) 320-7414
Fax: = (662) 320-7528

Assignment

Specific objectives of my research are to:

1) Develop molecular techniques for cotton genome analysis

2) Discover molecular markers that can be useful as tools for marker assisted selection programs

3) Identify, characterize, map and detect chromosomal location of potentially useful genes associated with photoperiod, agronomic and fiber traits and resistance to nematodes and insect pests of cotton using molecular tools

4) Use of cytogenetic stocks in enhancing the germplasm of Upland cotton

5) Release to public and industry researchers and seed breeders germplasm with improved fiber, agronomic and pest resistant characteristics

Web Site Title
Crop Science Research Laboratory

URL
http://www.ars.usda.gov/main/site_main.htm?modecode=64-06-15-00

 

Curriculum vitae

Education

Experience

Society Membership

Publications

  1. Saha, S. and D. M. Stelly.  1994.  Chromosomal location of phosphoglucomutase-7 locus in Gossypium hirsutum.  J. Heredity. 85(1):35-39.
  2. Gana, J. A., G. C. Sharma, A. Zipf, S. Saha and D. M. Wesenberg.  1995.  Genotype effects on plant regeneration in callus and suspension cultures of Avena.  Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture.  40:217-224.
  3. Saha, S., X. Feng, V. T. Sapra and G. C. Sharma.  1995.  Morphological and molecular tool for fiber characterization.  In Proc. Fiber Biochem. Conf., Galveston, TX.  1994.  pp. 67-70.
  4. Saha, S., A. Kakani, V. T. Sapra, A. Zipf and G. C. Sharma.  1996.  Confocal laser scanning light  microscopy with optical sectioning:  Application in plant science research.  In Technology Transfer of Plant Biotechnology: Current Topics in Plant Molecular Biology, edited by P. M. Grasshoff.  Vol. 4.  CRC. Press Inc.  pp. 177-189.
  5. Van’t Hof, J. and S. Saha.  1997.  Cotton fiber cells can undergo cell division.  Am. J. Bot.  84(9):  1231-1235.
  6. Saha, S., A. Zipf, H. Daniel and H. Sakhanokho.  1997.  Novel approaches in cotton transformation.  In Proc. Beltwide Cotton Conf., New Orleans, LA.  1:  458-459.
  7. Saha, S., F.E.  Callahan, D.A.  Dollars and J.B.  Creech.  1997.  Effect of Lyopholization of cotton tissue on the quality of extractable DNA, RNA and Protein.   Journal of Cotton Science. 1:  11-14. (http://www.jcotsci.org)
  8.  X. Feng, S. Saha and K. M. Soliman.  1997.  DNA fingerprinting in cotton using AFLP.
    1. Focus. 19(1)
  9. Saha, S. and A. Zipf.  1997.  Genetic diversity and phylogenetic relationship in cotton based on
    1. isozyme markers.  Journal of Crop Production.   1:  79-93.
  10. Saha S., Jenkins J. N., McCarty J. C., and Stelly D. M.  1998.  Chromosomal location of RFLP markers linked to QTL in cotton.  In: Proc. World Cotton Res. Conf., Athens, Greece. Vol. 1: 204-205.
  11. Van’t Hof J., and Saha S.  1998.  Growth and mitotic potential of multi-celled fibers of cotton.  Am. J. Bot. 85(1):25-29.
  12. Basra A. S., and Saha S.  1999.  Control Mechanism of Fiber Growth.  In: Cotton Fibers, edited by A.S. Basra.  Food Products Press, New York.  pp. 47-63. (Book Chapter)
  13. Saha S., Tan H., Karaca M., and Jenkins J. N.  1999.  Gel based DNA marker technologies in cotton.  The ICAC Recorder. XVII (1): 8-11.
  14. Kakani A., Saha S., Sapra V. T., Zipf A., and Stelly D. M.  1999.  Genetic mechanism and chromosomal location of pollen-specific gene(s) in Gossypium.  Crop Sci.  39(3):668-673.
  15. Agrawal D., Saha S., Jenkins J. N., Zipf A., and May L.  1999.  Use of cross-species simple sequence repeat (SSR) primers for developing polymorphic DNA markers.  Journal of  New Seeds. 1(2):25-37.
  16. Liu S., Saha S., Stelly D. Burr B., and Cantrell R. G.  2000.  The use of cotton aneuploid for the chromosomal assignment of microsatellite loci.  Journal of  Heredity. 91:326-332.
  17. Saha S., Karaca M., Jenkins  J. N., and Lang  D.  2000.   Improved methods for screening cotton cDNAs using fluorochrome-labeled AFLP- and SSR-specific primers.In: Emerging Technologies in Cotton Breeding, (Jenkins, J. N. and Saha, S., eds.) Science Publishers, Inc. Enfield, NH.  pp. 239-255.  (Book Chapter)
  18. Saha S., Jenkins J. N., and McCarty J. C.  2000.  A novel strategy for general sustainability and resistance management in pest and pathogen-resistant crops.  Journal of New Seeds. 3:53-61.
  19. Sakhanokho H., Zipf A., Rajasekaran K., Saha S., and Sharma G. C.  2001.  Induction of highly embryogenic calli and plant regeneration in Upland (Gossypium hirsutum) and Pima (Gossypium barbadense L.) cottons.  Crop Sci. 41:1235-1240.
  20. Reddy O. U., Pepper A. E., Abdurakmonov I., Saha S.*, Jenkins J., Brook T., and El-Zik K. M.  2001.  New dinucleotide and trinucleotide microsatellite resources for cotton genome research.  Journal of Cotton Science.  5(2):103-113. (*equally credited as first author) (http://www.jcotsci.org)
  21. Karaca M., Saha S., Jenkins J., Zipf A., Kohel R., and Stelly D. M.  2002.   Simple sequence markers (SSR) linked to the Ligon Lintless (Li1) mutant in cotton.  Journal of Heredity.  93(3):221-224.
  22. Karaca M., Saha S., Zipf  A. E., Jenkins J. N., and Lang D.  2002. Genetic Diversity Among Forage Bermudagrass (Cynodon spp.): Evidence From Chloroplast and Nuclear DNA Fingerprinting.  Crop Sci. 42:2118-2127.
  23. Gutiérrez O. A., Basu S., Saha S., Jenkins J. N., Shoemaker D. B., Cheatham C., and McCarty Jr. J.C. 2002. Genetic distance of cotton cultivars and germplasm lines based on SSR markers and its association with agronomic and fiber traits of their F2 hybrids.  Crop Sci. 42:1841-1847.
  24. Zhang X.-D., Callahan F. E., Jenkins J. N., Ma D. P., Karaca M., Saha S., and Creech R. G.  2002.  A novel root-specific gene, MIC-3, with increased expression in nematode resistant cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) after root-knot nematode infection.  Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Gene Structure and Expression 1576: 214-218.
  25. Zhong M., McCarty J. C., Jenkins J. N., and Saha S. 2002.  Assessment of Day-Neutral Backcross Populations of Cotton Using AFLP Markers.  Journal of Cotton Science. 6:97-103. (http://www.jcotsci.org)
  26. Saha S., Karaca M., Jenkins  J. N., Zipf A. E., Reddy O. U., and Kantety R. V.  2003.  Simple sequence repeats as useful resources to study transcribed genes of cotton.  Euphytica. 130: 355-364.
  27. Zhang X.-D., Jenkins J. N., Callahan F. E., Creech R. G., Si Y., McCarty J. C., Saha S., and Ma, D.-P.  2003.  Molecular cloning, differential expression, and functional characterization of a family of class 1 ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme (E2) genes in cotton (Gossypium).  Biochim. Biophys. Acta-Gene Structure and Expression.  1625:269-279
  28. Tan P., Callahan F. E., Zhang X. D., Karaca M., Saha S., Jenkins J. N., Creech R. G., and Ma D. P. 2003.  Identification of resistance gene analogs in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) based on conserved domains of plant disease resistance genes.  Euphytica. 134:1-7
  29. Bezawada C., Saha S., Jenkins J. N., Creech R. G., and McCarty J.  2003.  SSR Marker(s) Associated with Root Knot Nematode resistance gene(s) in cotton.  Journal of Cotton Science.  7: 179-184. (http://www.jcotsci.org)
  30. Stelly D.M., Saha S.,  Raska D., Jenkins J.N., McCarty J.C., and Gutierrez O.  2003.  Notice of release of 17 germplasm lines of Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum), each with a different pair of G. barbadense chromosomes or arms substituted for the respective G. hirsutum chromosomes or Arms.  Texas Agricultural Experiement Station.
  31. Saha S., Wu J., Jenkins J.N., McCarty J.C., Stelly D.M., Percy R.G., Raska D.A., and Gutierrez A. O.  2004.  Effect of chromosome substitutions from Gossypium barbadense L. 3-79 into G. hirsutum L. TM-1 on agronomic and fiber traits.  Journal of Cotton Science. 8:162-169. (http://www.jcotsci.org)
  32. Sakhanokho H., Zipf A., Rajesekharan K., Saha S., Sharma G. C., and Chee P. W.  2004.  Somatic embryo initiation and germination in diploid cotton.  In Vitro Cell Dev. Biol- Plant 40:177-181.
  33. Qureshi S. N., Saha S., Kantety R. V., and Jenkins J. N.  2004.  EST-SSR:  A New Class of Genetic Markers in Cotton.   Journal of Cotton Science. 8:112-123 (http://www.jcotsci.org)
  34. Saha, S., Raska, D. A., Jenkins, J. N., McCarty, J. C., Gutierrez, O., Percy, R. G., Cantrell, R. G., Wu, J., Zhu, J. and Stelly, D. M.  2004.  Effect of Chromosome on important quantitative traits of agronomic and fiber traits using chromosome specific recombinant lines of G. hirsutum.  In Proc. The 3rd World Cotton Res. Conf.  9-13 March, 2003, Cape Town, South Africa. 169-174. 
  35. Abdurakhmonov, I., Buriev, Z., S. Saha, Abdullaev, A., Almatov, A., Pepper, A. E., Reddy, O. U., Jenkins, J. N. and Abdukarimov, A.  2004.   Molecular tagging of fiber yield genes using RI lines of G. hirsutum developed in Uzbekistan.  In Proc. The 3rd World Cotton Res. Conf.  9-13 March, 2003, Cape Town, South Africa. 319-326.
  36. Karaca M., Saha S., Callahan F. E., Jenkins J. N., Read J., and Percy R. G.  2004.   Molecular and Cytological Characterization of a Cytoplasmic-Specific Mutant in Pima Cotton (Gossypium barbadense L.). Euphytica. 139:187-197.
  37. Jenkins J.N., McCarty J.C., Wu J., Saha S. and Stelly D.M.  2004.  Chromosome substitution lines from Gossypium barbadense L. as sources for G. hirsutum L. improvement.  In Proc. of the 4th International Crop Scienece Congress, Queensland, Australia, September 26- October 1st, 2004.
  38. Abdurakhmonov I., Buriev Z.T., Kohel R.J., Yu J., Pepper A. and Saha S.  2004.  Evaluation of fiber quality and other agronomic traits of G. hirsutum accessions from Uzbek cotton germplasm.  In Proc. of the Annual Meeting of International Cotton Genome Initiative, Hyderabad, India, October 10-13, 2004. P. 89
  39. Buriev Z.T., Abdurakhmonov I.Y., Saha S., Jenkins J., Pepper A., Reddy U., Musaev J, Almatov A., Abdukarimov A . Molecular mapping and characterization of EST SSR markers contributing to fiber initiation and development.  In Proc.  International Cotton Genome Initiative. Hyderabad, India, October 10-13, 2004. - P. 41.
  40. Yu J., Roy C.G., Jones D., Saha S., Thomkins J., Main D., Palmer M., Pepper A., Stelly D.M., Ulloa M. and Scheffler J.A.   2004.  Establishment of the standardized cotton microsatellite database (CMD) panel.  In Proc. Beltwide Cotton Conf., San Antonio.  1: 483.
  41. Ulloa M., Saha S., Jenkins J.N., Meredith W.R. Jr., McCarty J.C. Jr., and Stelly D.M.  2005.  Chromosomal assignment of RFLP linkage groups harboring important QTLs on an intraspecific cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) joinmap.  Journal of Heredity. 96(2):132-144
  42. Hsu Chuan-Yu., Jenkins J.N., Saha S. and Ma Din-Pow.  2005.  Transcriptional regulation of the lipid transfer protein gene LTP3 in cotton fibers by a novel MYB protein.  Plant Science. 168:167-181.
  43. Saha S. and Van’t Hof J.  2005.  Cotton fiber cells are arrested at G1 Stage.  Journal of New Seeds.  7(1): 1-7.
  44. Wu Z., Soliman K. M., Zipf A., Saha S., Sharma G. C., and Jenkins J. N. 2005.  Isolation and characterization of genes differentially expressed in Gossypium barbadense.   Journal of Cotton Sciience.  9:166-174 (http://www.jcotsci.org)
  45. Abdurakhmonov I.Y., Abdullaev A.A., Saha S., Buriez Z.T., Kuryazov Z., Arslanov D., Mavlonov G., Rizaeva S.M., Reddy U.K. and Jenkins J.N.  2005.  Simple Sequence Repeat  marker associated with a natural leaf defoliation trait in tetraploid cotton.  Journal of Heredity.  96(6):644-653
  46. Stelly D.M.,  Saha S., Raska D.A., Jenkins J.N, McCarty J.C and Gutierrez A. O. 2005.  Registration of 17 Upland (Gossypium hirsutum) germplasm lines disomic for different G. barbadense chromosome or arm substitutions.  Crop Sci. 45:2663-2665
  47. Saha, S., Jenkins J.N., Wu J., McCarty J.C., Gutierrez O.A., Percy R.G., Cantrell R.G., and Stelly D.M.  2006.  Effect of chromosome specific introgression in Upland cotton on fiber and agronomic traits.  Genetics.  172:1927-1938.
  48. Wu J., Jenkins J.N., McCarty J.C., Saha S. and Stelly D.M.  2006.  An additive dominance model to determine chromosomal effects in chromosome substitution lines and other germplasms.  Theor Appl. Genet.  112:391-399.
  49. Jenkins, J.N., Wu J., McCarty J.C., Saha, S., Gutierrez O.A, Hayes R., and Stelly D.M.   2006.  Genetic effects of thirteen Gossypium barbadense L. chromosome substitution lines with Upland cotton cultivars:  I. Yield and Yield Component. Crop Sci. 46:1169-1178.
  50. Jack C. McCarty J.C., Wu  J., Saha S.,  Jenkins J.N., and Hayes R.  2006.  Effects of Chromosome 5sh from Gossypium barbadense L. on flower production in G. hirsutum L. Euphytica.  152:99-107
  51. A. Blenda, J. Scheffler, B. Scheffler3, J. Lacape4, J.Z. Yu,  S. Jung, M. Staton, M. Palmer, C. Jesudurai, S. Muthukumar, P.  Yellambalase, S. Ficklin,  R. Eschelman,  M. Ulloa, S. Saha, D. Feng, R. Cantrell and D. Main.   2006.  CMD:  A cotton microsatellite data base resource for Gossypium genomics.  BMC Genomics.  7:132
  52. Khan M.A., Qureshi  S.N., Saha S., Jenkins J.N., Brubaker C.L. and Reddy O.U.K.  2006.  Usefulness of SSR derived from tetraploid Gossypium spp. for analyses of diploid Gossypium spp.  Journal of Crop Improvement.  16(1/2):  1-20.  
  53. Saha, S., Raskha D.A., and Stelly D.M.  2006.  Upland (Gossypium hirsutum) x Hawaiian cotton(G.tomentosum) F1 hybrid hypoaneuploid chromosome substitution series. Journal Cotton Science. 10:263-272.
  54. Ynturi  P., J. N. Jenkins, J. C. McCarty Jr., O. Gutierrez, and S. Saha.  2006.  Association of Root-knot Nematode Resistance Genes in Cotton with SSR Markers.  Crop Sci. 46: 2670-2674.
  55. Jenkins J.N., Wu J. McCarty J.C., Saha S., Gutierrez O.A, Hayes R., and Stelly D.M.   2007. Genetic Effects of Thirteen Gossypium barbadense L.Chromosome Substitution Lines in Topcrosses with Upland Cotton Cultivars: II Fiber Quality Traits.  Crop Sci. 47:  561-570.
  56. Abdurakhmonov, I.Y.*, Buriev Z.T., Saha S.*, Pepper A.E., Musaev J.A., Almatov A., Shermatov A.E., Kushanov F.N., Mavlonov G.T., Reddy O.U., Yu J.Z., Jenkins J.N., Kohel R.J., Abdukarimov A.  2007.  Microsatellite markers associated with lint percentage trait in cotton, Gossypium hirsutum.   Euphytica. 156:141-156.
  57. Abdurakhmonov, I.Y.*, Kushanov K., Djaniqulov1 F., Buriev Z., Pepper A.E., FayzievaN., Mavlonov G., Saha S.,  Jenkins J.N., and Abdukarimov A.  2007.  The Role of induced mutation in conversion of photoperiod dependence in cotton.  Journal of Heredity. 98:  258–266.
  58. An C., Saha S., · Jenkins J.N., ·Scheffler B., ·Wilkins T.A. and ·Stelly D.M..  2007.  Transcriptome profiling, sequence characterization, and SNP marker based chromosomal assignment of the EXPANSIN genes in cotton.  Mol. Genet. Genomics.  278:539-553. 
  59. Chen Z.J., B.E. Scheffler, E. Dennis, B.A. Triplett, T. Zhang, W. Guo, X. Chen, D.M. Stelly, P.D. Rabinowicz, C.D. Town, T. Arioli, C. Brubaker, R.G. Cantrell, J.M. Lacape, M. Ulloa, P. Chee, A.R. Gingle, C.H. Haigler, R. Percy, S. Saha, T. Wilkins, R.J. Wright, A. Van Deynze, Y. Zhu, S. Yu, I. Abdurakhmonov, I. Katageri, P.A. Kumar, Mehboob-Ur-Rahman, Y. Zafar, J.Z. Yu, R.J. Kohel, J.F. Wendel, A.H. Paterson.  2007. Toward sequencing cotton (Gossypium) genomes. Plant Physiol. 145:  1303-1310.
  60. Hsu Chuan-Yu, Chuanfu A., S. Saha, Din-Pow Ma, J. N. Jenkins, B. Scheffler, and D. M. Stelly.  2007.  Molecular and SNP characterization of two genome specific transcription factor genes GhMyb8 and GhMyb10 in cotton species.  Euphytica.  (Online: DOI 10.1007/s10681-007-9485-4)
  61. Guo Y., S. Saha , J. Z. Yu, J. N. Jenkins, R.J. Kohel, B. Scheffler and D.M. Stelly.  2007.  BAC-derived SSR Chromosome Locations in Cotton. Euphytica.  DOI 10.1007/s10681-007-9585-1 (Online)
  62. An C.,· S. Saha,  · J. N. Jenkins, · Din-Pow Ma, · B. E. Scheffler, · R. J. Kohel, · J. Z. Yu and · D. M. Stelly.  2008.  Cotton (Gossypium spp.) R2R3-MYB Transcription Factors SNP Identification, Phylo-genomic Characterization, Chromosome Localization and Linkage Mapping.  Theor Appl. Genet.  D01 10.1007/s00122-008-0732-4 (On line)
  63. Saha S., J. N. Jenkins, J. Wu, J. C. McCarty, and D. M. Stelly.  2008.  Genetic Analysis of Agronomic and Fiber Traits Using Four Interspecific Chromosome Substitution Lines in Cotton.  Plant Breeding.  (Accepted).
  64. J.  Wu, J. N. Jenkins, J.C. McCarty, S. Saha, and R. Percy. 2008.  Genetic Association of Lint Yield with Its Components in Cotton Chromosome Substitution Lines. Euphytica.  (Accepted).

Book:  Genetic Improvement of Cotton: Emerging Technologies.  2001. Edited by J.N. Jenkins and S. Saha, Science Publishers Inc., Enfield, New Hampshire, USA, pp. 1-344.