Charleson Poovaiah

Graduate Student

Education:

MS Horticulture  Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
MSc. Horticulture,  Allahabad Agriculture Institute, Allahabad, UP, India.

Research Interests:
            My PhD project involves overcoming recalcitrance of switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L ) lignocellulosic biomass for biofuel production by understanding plant cell-wall chemical and physical structures and modifying plants through genetic manipulations. Currently I am working on increasing the transformation efficiency in Switchgrass tissue culture.
            My Hobbies include growing carnivorous plants, bonsai, Bettas (Betta splendens ) and computer programming.
            I was born in Nagercoil (southern tip of India) and moved to Tirunelveli, TamilNadu in India.

Other Research Experience:
Faculty Research Assistant at Oregon state University, Corvallis OR – Genetic modification of Poplar by Agrobacterium mediated transformation.

Publications:   

Poovaiah CR, SC Weller, MA Jenks. (2006). Adventitious in vitro shoot regeneration of native spearmint (Mentha spicata L.) using internodes. Hortscience 41(2) 417-419.

Poovaiah CR, SC Weller, MA Jenks. (2006). Adventitious in vitro shoot regeneration of Scotch Spearmint (Mentha X gracilis). In Vitro Cell. Dev. Biol. Plant 42:354–358.