Dr. Anjali Verma

As a PhD student at NABI, India, Dr. Anjali Verma focuses on understanding ODAP production in grasspea (Lathyrus sativus), emphasizing the reduction of ODAP levels and exploring its role in stress tolerance. Her study has revealed varying stress tolerance among different ODAP varieties of grass pea.

She aims to integrate these findings into a broader project on stress resistance, thereby enhancing our understanding of grass pea's response to environmental stresses and elucidating the specific role of ODAP in plant adaptation.

Anjali's slot under the Open Doors Fellowship Program was funded by the Fernand Lambein Fund. The slot was specifically focusing on research on Lathyrus sativus.

Anjali's work during her Short Research Stay

During her Short Research Stay, Dr. Verma was hosted at the Oxidative Stress Signaling group at the VIB Center for Plant Systems Biology under the supervision of Prof.Dr. Frank Van Breusegem. Her research aims to enhance the understanding of stress responses in grass pea, contributing insights into stress resistance and the role of ODAP in stress mechanisms.

Selected Publications

Verma, A., Kaur, L., Kaur, N., Bhardwaj, A., PANDEY, A. K., & Kandoth, P. K. (2023). An efficient hairy root system for genome editing of a β-ODAP pathway gene in Lathyrus sativus. bioRxiv, 2023-04. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.04.03.535460
Rajarammohan, S., Kaur, L., Verma, A., Singh, D., Mantri, S., Roy, J. K., ... & Kandoth, P. K. (2023). Genome sequencing and assembly of Lathyrus sativus-a nutrient-rich hardy legume crop. Scientific Data, 10(1), 32. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01903-4
Verma, A., Nidhi, N., Kaur, G., Mantri, S., Sharma, T. R., Pandey, A. K., & Kandoth, P. K. (2022). Contrasting β-ODAP content correlates with stress gene expression in Lathyrus cultivars. Physiologia plantarum, 174(1), e1361. https://doi.org/10.1111/ppl.13616