Institute of Cellular and Molecular Botany (IZMB)

Department of Ecophysiology

Park JJ, Jin P, Yoon J, Yang JI, Jeong HJ, Ranathunge K, Schreiber L, Franke R, Lee IJ, An G (2010) Mutation in Wilted Dwarf and Lethal 1 (WDL1) causes abnormal cuticle formation and rapid water loss in rice. Plant Molecular Biology DOI 10.1007/s11103-010-9656-x Abstract

Ranathunge K, Shao S, Qutob D, Gijzen A, Peterson CA, Bernards MA (2010) Properties of the soybean seed coat cuticle change during development. Planta 231: 1171-1188 Abstract

Kotula L, Ranathunge K, Steudle E (2009) Apoplastic barriers effectively block oxygen permeability across outer cell layers of rice roots under deoxygenated conditions: roles of apoplastic pores and of respiration. New Phytologist 184: 909-917 Abstract

Krishnamurthy P, Ranathunge K, Franke R, Prakash HS, Schreiber L, Mathew MK (2009) The role of root apoplastic transport barriers in salt tolerance of rice (Oryza sativa L.). Planta 230: 119-134 Abstract

Kotula L, Ranathunge K, Schreiber L, Steudle E (2009) Functional and chemical comparison of apoplastic barriers to radial oxygen loss in roots of rice (Oryza sativa L.) grown in aerated or deoxygenated solution. Journal of Experimental Botany 60: 2155-2167 Abstract

Ranathunge K, Thomas RH, Fang X, Peterson CA, Gijzen M, Bernards MA (2008) Soybean root suberin and partial resistance to root rot caused by Phytophthora sojae. Phytopathology 98: 1179-1189 Abstract

Yu D, Ranathunge K, Huang H, Pei Z, Franke R, Schreiber L, He C (2008) Wax Crystal-Sparse Leaf1 encodes a beta-ketoacyl CoA synthase involved in biosynthesis of cuticular waxes on rice leaf. Planta 228: 675-685 Abstract

Thomas R, Fang X, Ranathunge K, Anderson TR, Peterson CA, Bernards MA (2007) Soybean root suberin: anatomical distribution, chemical composition and relation to partial resistance to Phytophthora sojae. Plant Physiology 144: 299-311 Abstract

Steudle E, Ranathunge K (2007) Apoplastic water transport in roots. In Sattelmacher B, Horst WJ (eds) The Apoplast of higher plants: Compartment of Storage, Transport and Reactions. The significance of the apoplast for the mineral nutrition of higher plants. Springer, Heidelberg, 119-130 Abstract

Ranathunge K, Steudle E, Lafitte R (2005) A new precipitation technique provides evidence for the permeability of Casparian bands to ions in young roots of corn (Zea mays L.) and rice (Oryza sativa L.). Plant, Cell and Environment 28: 1450-1462 Abstract

Schreiber L, Franke R, Hartmann KD, Ranathunge K, Steudle E (2005) The chemical composition of suberin in apoplastic barriers differently relates to radial hydraulic conductivity of roots of rice (Oryza sativa L. cv. IR64) and corn (Zea mays L. cv. Helix). Journal of Experimental Botany 56: 1427-1436 Abstract

Ranathunge K, Steudle E, Lafitte R (2005) Blockage of apoplastic bypass-flow of water in rice roots by insoluble slat precipitates analogous to a Pfeffer cell. Plant, Cell and Environment 28: 121-133 Abstract

Ranathunge K, Kotula L, Steudle E, Lafitte R (2004) Water permeability and reflection coefficient of the outer part of young rice roots are differently affected by closure of water channels (aquaporins) or blockage of apoplastic pores. Journal of Experimental Botany 55: 433-447 Abstract

Ranathunge K, E. Steudle and R. Lafitte. (2003) Control of water uptake by rice (Oryza sativa L.): role of the outer part of the root. Planta, 217: 193-205 Abstract

Ranathunge K, Bamunuarachchige TC, Bandara JMRS (2000) Agrobacterium mediated transfer of cry 2 gene to Ixora odorata. 56th Annual session of Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science (SLAAS) 56:714-721

Bamunuarachchige TC, Chandrananda BMKA, Ranathunge K, Damayanthi KPN, Bandara JMRS (2000) An efficient Agrobacterium Binary Vector System to Transfer Bt 6e cry gene. Journal of Tropical Agricultural Research 12:251-256