Kosala Ranathunge

Best Publications

• The role of root apoplastic transport barriers in salt tolerance of rice (Oryza sativa L.).

  Pannaga Krishnamurthy;Kosala Ranathunge;Rochus Franke;H. S. Prakash

  320
  Citations

• ABCG Transporters Are Required for Suberin and Pollen Wall Extracellular Barriers in Arabidopsis

  Vandana Yadav;Isabel Molina;Kosala Ranathunge;Indira Queralta Castillo

  313
  Citations

• Defective Pollen Wall Is Required for Anther and Microspore Development in Rice and Encodes a Fatty Acyl Carrier Protein Reductase

  Jing Shi;Hexin Tan;Xiao Hong Yu;Yuanyun Liu;Yuanyun Liu

  297
  Citations

• The Rice R2R3-MYB Transcription Factor OsMYB55 Is Involved in the Tolerance to High Temperature and Modulates Amino Acid Metabolism

  Ashraf El-Kereamy;Ashraf El-Kereamy;Yong Mei Bi;Kosala Ranathunge;Perrin H. Beatty

  268
  Citations

• Root apoplastic barriers block Na+ transport to shoots in rice (Oryza sativa L.)

  Pannaga Krishnamurthy;Kosala Ranathunge;Shraddha Nayak;Lukas Schreiber

  255
  Citations

• The intersection of nitrogen nutrition and water use in plants: new paths toward improved crop productivity.

  Darren C Plett;Kosala Ranathunge;Vanessa J Melino;Noriyuki Kuya

  241
  Citations

• Suberin research in the genomics era--new interest for an old polymer.

  Kosala Ranathunge;Lukas Schreiber;Rochus B. Franke

  239
  Citations

• AMT1;1 transgenic rice plants with enhanced NH4 + permeability show superior growth and higher yield under optimal and suboptimal NH4 + conditions

  Kosala Ranathunge;Ashraf El-Kereamy;Satinder Gidda;Yong Mei Bi

  238
  Citations

• How belowground interactions contribute to the coexistence of mycorrhizal and non-mycorrhizal species in severely phosphorus-impoverished hyperdiverse ecosystems

  Hans Lambers;Felipe Albornoz;Lukasz Kotula;Etienne Laliberté;Etienne Laliberté

  229
  Citations

• The carboxylate-releasing phosphorus-mobilizing strategy can be proxied by foliar manganese concentration in a large set of chickpea germplasm under low phosphorus supply.

  Jiayin Pang;Ruchi Bansal;Hongxia Zhao;Emilien Bohuon

  208
  Citations

• Soybean Root Suberin: Anatomical Distribution, Chemical Composition, and Relationship to Partial Resistance to Phytophthora sojae

  Raymond Thomas;Xingxiao Fang;Kosala Ranathunge;Terry R. Anderson

  201
  Citations

• Functional and chemical comparison of apoplastic barriers to radial oxygen loss in roots of rice (Oryza sativa L.) grown in aerated or deoxygenated solution

  Lukasz Kotula;Kosala Ranathunge;Lukas Schreiber;Ernst Steudle

  200
  Citations

• The chemical composition of suberin in apoplastic barriers affects radial hydraulic conductivity differently in the roots of rice (Oryza sativa L. cv. IR64) and corn (Zea mays L. cv. Helix)

  Lukas Schreiber;Rochus Franke;Klaus-Dieter Hartmann;Kosala M. Ranathunge

  194
  Citations

• Water and solute permeabilities of Arabidopsis roots in relation to the amount and composition of aliphatic suberin

  Kosala Ranathunge;Lukas Schreiber

  175
  Citations

• Control of water uptake by rice ( Oryza sativa L.): role of the outer part of the root

  Kosala M. Ranathunge;Ernst Steudle;Renee Lafitte

  156
  Citations

• 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

  Kosala M. Ranathunge;Lukasz Kotula;Ernst Steudle;Renee Lafitte

  155
  Citations

• Osmotic stress enhances suberization of apoplastic barriers in barley seminal roots: analysis of chemical, transcriptomic and physiological responses.

  Tino Kreszies;Nandhini Shellakkutti;Alina Osthoff;Peng Yu

  147
  Citations

• Stagnant deoxygenated growth enhances root suberization and lignifications, but differentially affects water and NaCl permeabilities in rice (Oryza sativa L.) roots.

  Kosala Ranathunge;Jinxing Lin;Ernst Steudle;Lukas Schreiber

  139
  Citations

• Wax Crystal-Sparse Leaf1 encodes a β–ketoacyl CoA synthase involved in biosynthesis of cuticular waxes on rice leaf

  Dongmei Yu;Kosala Ranathunge;Huasun Huang;Zhongyou Pei

  122
  Citations

• RCN1/OsABCG5, an ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter, is required for hypodermal suberization of roots in rice (Oryza sativa)

  Katsuhiro Shiono;Miho Ando;Shunsaku Nishiuchi;Hirokazu Takahashi

  112
  Citations

• Suberized transport barriers in Arabidopsis, barley and rice roots: From the model plant to crop species.

  Tino Kreszies;Lukas Schreiber;Kosala Ranathunge

  107
  Citations