Manoj Majee Explained

Manoj Majee
Birth Place:	West Bengal, India
Nationality:	Indian
Known For:	Studies on plant stress and seed biology

Manoj Majee is an Indian plant molecular biologist, biochemist, inventor and a senior scientist at the National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), New Delhi. He is known for his studies on the molecular and biochemical basis of seed vigor, longevity and seedling establishment.^[1]

Majee graduated in Botany with honors from Burdwan University in 1995 and obtained an MSc from Visva-Bharati University in 1998.^[2] His doctoral research was at Bose Institute on plant biochemistry and molecular biology which earned him a PhD from Jadavpur University in 2005 after which he did his post—doctoral work at the University of Kentucky. On his return to India, he joined the National Institute of Plant Genome Research as a staff scientist^[3] where he holds the position of a Scientist Grade V.

Majee holds two patents,^[4] and has published a number of articles,^[5] ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 49 of them.^{[6] [7]} The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences, in 2017/18.^[8] He is also a recipient of the Young Scientist Medal of the Indian National Science Academy^[9] and the Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award of the National Academy of Sciences, India, both in 2011.^[10]

Selected bibliography

• Downie . A. Bruce . Huq . Enamul . Vierstra . Richard . Hunt . Arthur G. . Chappell . Joseph . Zhu . Ling . Lloyd . Taylor D. . Dirk . Lynnette M. A. . Goodin . Michael . 2018-04-24 . KELCH F-BOX protein positively influences Arabidopsis seed germination by targeting PHYTOCHROME-INTERACTING FACTOR1 . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . en . 115 . 17 . E4120–E4129 . 10.1073/pnas.1711919115 . 1091-6490 . 5924874 . 29632208. 2018PNAS..115E4120M . free .
• Majee . Manoj . Ghosh . Shraboni . Rao . Venkateswara . Verma . Pooja . Kaur . Harmeet . Kamble . Nitin Uttam . Petla . Bhanu Prakash . Saxena . Saurabh Chandra . Salvi . Prafull . 2016-10-11 . Differentially expressed galactinol synthase(s) in chickpea are implicated in seed vigor and longevity by limiting the age induced ROS accumulation . Scientific Reports . en . 6 . 35088 . 10.1038/srep35088 . 2045-2322 . 5057127 . 27725707. 2016NatSR...635088S .
• Prakash . Bhanu . Kamble . Nitin . Majee . Manoj . 2015-09-21 . Protein L-Isoaspartyl (D-aspartyl) Methyltransferases (PIMTs) are differentially regulated during seed development in Rice and provide seed vigor and longevity . 10.13140/rg.2.2.29218.89287. Unpublished .
• Majee . Manoj . Saxena . Saurabh C. . Rao . Venkateswara . Petla . Bhanu Prakash . Kaur . Harmeet . Verma . Pooja . 2013-03-01 . PROTEIN l-ISOASPARTYL METHYLTRANSFERASE2 Is Differentially Expressed in Chickpea and Enhances Seed Vigor and Longevity by Reducing Abnormal Isoaspartyl Accumulation Predominantly in Seed Nuclear Proteins . Plant Physiology . en . 161 . 3 . 1141–1157 . 10.1104/pp.112.206243 . 1532-2548 . 3585586 . 23284083.
• Arora . Sandeep . Majee . Manoj . Dobriyal . Anoop K. . Jain . Sourabh . Saxena . Saurabh C. . Bhatt . Deepesh . 2013-02-01 . Cloning, expression and functional validation of drought inducible ascorbate peroxidase (Ec-apx1) from Eleusine coracana . Molecular Biology Reports . en . 40 . 2 . 1155–1165 . 10.1007/s11033-012-2157-z . 23065288 . 17281561 . 1573-4978.

Patents

• Web site: Seed Vigor Associated Polynucleotide Sequences From Chickpea And Uses . 2012-01-04 . Inventor: Manoj Majee and Pooja Verma, NIPGR, New Delhi, India
• Web site: A salt tolerant l-myo-inositol 1 phosphate synthase and the process of obtaining the same . 2018-12-30 . Google Patents . 2018-12-30.

See also

• Plant stress measurement
• Polynucleotide

External links

• Web site: Majee on ORCID . 2018-12-30 . orcid.org . 2018-12-30.

Notes and References

1. Web site: National Institute of Plant Genome Research . 2018-12-30 . www.nipgr.res.in . 2018-12-30.
2. Web site: Dr. Manoj Majee (Post-Doctoral Researcher) . 2018-12-30 . www.uky.edu . 2018-12-30.
3. Web site: Manoj Majee —BIO-PROTOCOL . 2018-12-30 . bio-protocol.org . 2018-12-30.
4. Web site: A salt tolerant l-myo-inositol 1 phosphate synthase and the process of obtaining the same . 2018-12-30 . Google Patents . 2018-12-30.
5. Web site: Manoj Majee - Google Scholar Citations . 2018-12-30 . scholar.google.com . 2018-12-30.
6. Web site: Manoj Majee - National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi . 2018-12-30 . ResearchGate . en . 2018-12-30.
7. Web site: Manoj Majee - National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi - NIPGR - Laboratory of Plant Molecular Biology . 2018-12-30 . ResearchGate . en . 2018-12-30.
8. Web site: Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development . 2016 . Department of Biotechnology . 2017-11-20 . 4 March 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180304191331/http://dbtindia.nic.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/list_of_bioscience_awardees.pdf . dead .
9. Web site: INSA :: AWARDS RECIPIENTS . 2018-12-30 . www.insaindia.res.in . 2018-12-30.
10. Web site: The National Academy of Sciences, India - Activities . 2018-12-30 . www.nasi.org.in . 2018-12-30 . 9 January 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190109212436/http://www.nasi.org.in/yspja.htm . dead .