Maria Vera Jesus Da Costa

Projects completed

• SERB National Post-Doctoral Research (PDF/2018/003582): "Source-sink dynamics of phytohormones and metabolites in aerobic rice under a combination of drought and heat stress at reproductive stage", April 2019- March 2021, University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS), GKVK, Bangalore, India
• DBT Senior Research Fellow (One year term): “Maintenance, Characterization and Use and of EMS Mutants of Upland Variety Nagina 22 for Functional Genomics in Rice – Phase II”, April 2018-March 2019.
• Ph.D thesis (UGC-SAP, DST and UGC MANF): “Morphological, Physiological, Biochemical and Molecular Response of Rice Seedlings to metallo-Nanoparticles” Nov 2011-June 2016. Department of Botany, Goa University, India
• DST-Project: “The behaviour of engineered nanoparticles on the interaction with plant roots, their absorption, uptake, translocation, photosynthesis and molecular responses under controlled conditions in a hydroponic system” Department of Botany, Goa University, Goa
• M.Sc. Project: “Screening of Archaeal Ammonium monooxygenase (amoA) from Marine Sediment DNA” (Nov 2009- Jan 2010), National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), Goa, India

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Biotechnology, Bangalore Univeristy, India 2005-2008
• Master's degree in Biotechnology, Mangalore Univeristy, India. 2008-2010
• Research Asistant (DST, GOI), Department of Botany, Goa University, India (2010-2013)
• UGC-MANF Research fellow, Department of Botany, Goa University, India (2013-2016)
• Assitant Professor, Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Chowgule College, Goa, India 2016
• Doctor of Philosophy in Botany (Plant Physiology), Goa University, India. 2011-2017
• Senior Research Fellow (DBT, GOI), University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bangalore, India. 2018-2019
• Postdoc, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bangalore, India. 2019-2021

• Maria Vera Jesus Da Costa, Ramegowda, V.; Ramakrishnan, P; M.S. Sheshshayee; Nataraja, K.N (2022).Comparative metabolite profiling of rice contrasts reveal combined drought and heat stress signatures in flag
  leaf and spikelets. Plant Science, 320, 111262. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plantsci.2022.111262 (IF: 5.363)
• Maria Vera Jesus Da Costa, Ramegowda, V.; Sreeman, S.; Nataraja, K.N (2021). Targeted phytohormone profiling identifies potential regulators of spikelet sterility in rice under combined drought and heat stress. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 22, 11690. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms222111690 (IF: 6.208)
• Maria Vera Jesus Da Costa, Ramegowda, Y., Ramegowda, V., Karaba, N. N., Sreeman, S. M., & Udayakumar, M. (2021). Combined drought and heat stress in rice: responses, phenotyping and strategies to improve tolerance. Rice Science, 28(3), 233-242. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsci.2021.04.003
•  Maria Vera Jesus Da Costa, Kevat N and Sharma PK (2020). Copper Oxide Nanoparticle and Copper (II) Ion Exposure in Oryza sativa Reveals Two Different Mechanisms of Toxicity. Water Air and Soil Pollution 231, 258.
  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-020-04592-0 (IF: 2.982)
• Ramegowda HV, Maria Vera Jesus Da Costa, Harihar S, Karaba NN, and Sheshshayee MS (2020). Abiotic and biotic stress interactions in plants: A cross-tolerance perspective. In Priming-Mediated Stress and Cross-Stress
  Tolerance in Crop Plants, pp. 267-302. Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-817892-8.00017-9
• Reddy SH, Maria Vera Jesus Da Costa, Kambalimath SK, Mavinahalli PR, Muthurajan R, Chinnusamy V, Sevanthi AM, Neelamraju S, Krishnan SG, Singh AK, Singh NK, Sharma RP, Pathappa N, Sheshshayee MS (2020). Relative contribution of stomatal parameters in influencing WUE among rice mutants differing in leaf mass area. Plant Physiology Reports 25(3): 483-495. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40502-020-00537-1
• Reddy SH, Singhal RK, Maria Vera Jesus Da Costa, Kambalimath SK, Rajanna MP, Muthurajan R, Sevanthi AM, Mohapatra T, Neelamraju S, Chinnusamy V, Krishnan SG, Singh AK, Singh NK, Sharma RP, Pathappa N, Sheshshayee MS (2020). Leaf mass area determines water use efficiency through its influence on carbon gain in rice mutants. Physiologia Plantarum 169(2):194-213. https://doi.org/10.1111/ppl.13062
•  Maria Vera Da Costa and Sharma PK (2016) Effect of copper oxide nanoparticles on the structure, photosynthesis and anti-oxidant response in Oryza sativa. Photosynthetica 54 (1): 110-119. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11099-015-0167-5

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