• Evaluation of Network-based Function Prediction Algoritluns on Oryza sativajaponica Protein-Protein Interaction Data 

  Piyatissa, M.A.S.U.; Tirimanne, T.L.S.; Fernando, S.P.C. (University of Colombo, 2024)

  Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) in an organism can be represented as a computational network and can be used to predict unknown protein functions using appropriate algorithms. This method is shown to outperform other ...
• Hanthana Mountain Range: A Sanctuary for Sri Lankan Lichens 

  Dangalla, H.; Nanayakkara, C.M.; Jayalal, R.G.U; Dai, D.Q.; Wijayawardane, N. (University of Colombo, 2024)

  Lichens, a unique symbiosis of algae or cyanobacteria with multiple fungi, exhibit diverse forms, including crustose, fruticose, foliose, and intermediate squamulose forms. Sri Lanka, a renowned biodiversity hotspot, offers ...
• Endophytic Fungi of the Mangrove Plant Avicennia marina in the Batticaloa Lagoon of Sri Lanka: Diversity and Their Bioactivities 

  Thushanthan, K.; Mathiventhan, T.; Caldera, H.I.U.; Wijayawardene, N.N.; Ariyawansa, K.G.S.U. (University of Colombo, 2024)

  Mangroves provide essential ecosystem services such as fisheries, coastal protection, carbon sequestration, decomposition, and bioremediation. These distinct ecosystems support diverse fungal communities and help them ...
• Plant Growth Promoting Capabilities of Endophytic Fungal Isolates from Terminalia arjuna 

  Gunarathne, J.S.; Ediriweera, S.S. (University of Colombo, 2024)

  Endophytic fungi that have synergistic interactions with their host plants are well-known for boosting plant growth and minimizing the negative effects of environmental stresses. This study was carried out with the objective ...
• Development of a Sri Lankan rice variety Bg 94-1 harbouring cry2A gene of Bacillus thuringiensis resistant to rice leaffolder [Cnaphalocrocis medinalis (Guenée)] 

  Gunasekara, J. M. A.; Jayasekera, G. A. U.; Perera, K. L. N. S.; Wickramasuriya, A. M. (Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka, 2017)

  The rice leaffolder (RLF) [Cnaphalocrocis medinalis (Guenée)] is a major lepidopteran insect pest of rice in Sri Lanka and the larvae cause significant yield losses annually. Insecticidal crystal protein gene, cry2A ...

• Evaluation of Network-based Function Prediction Algoritluns on Oryza sativajaponica Protein-Protein Interaction Data 

  Piyatissa, M.A.S.U.; Tirimanne, T.L.S.; Fernando, S.P.C. (University of Colombo, 2024)

  Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) in an organism can be represented as a computational network and can be used to predict unknown protein functions using appropriate algorithms. This method is shown to outperform other ...
• Hanthana Mountain Range: A Sanctuary for Sri Lankan Lichens 

  Dangalla, H.; Nanayakkara, C.M.; Jayalal, R.G.U; Dai, D.Q.; Wijayawardane, N. (University of Colombo, 2024)

  Lichens, a unique symbiosis of algae or cyanobacteria with multiple fungi, exhibit diverse forms, including crustose, fruticose, foliose, and intermediate squamulose forms. Sri Lanka, a renowned biodiversity hotspot, offers ...
• Endophytic Fungi of the Mangrove Plant Avicennia marina in the Batticaloa Lagoon of Sri Lanka: Diversity and Their Bioactivities 

  Thushanthan, K.; Mathiventhan, T.; Caldera, H.I.U.; Wijayawardene, N.N.; Ariyawansa, K.G.S.U. (University of Colombo, 2024)

  Mangroves provide essential ecosystem services such as fisheries, coastal protection, carbon sequestration, decomposition, and bioremediation. These distinct ecosystems support diverse fungal communities and help them ...
• Plant Growth Promoting Capabilities of Endophytic Fungal Isolates from Terminalia arjuna 

  Gunarathne, J.S.; Ediriweera, S.S. (University of Colombo, 2024)

  Endophytic fungi that have synergistic interactions with their host plants are well-known for boosting plant growth and minimizing the negative effects of environmental stresses. This study was carried out with the objective ...
• Development of a Sri Lankan rice variety Bg 94-1 harbouring cry2A gene of Bacillus thuringiensis resistant to rice leaffolder [Cnaphalocrocis medinalis (Guenée)] 

  Gunasekara, J. M. A.; Jayasekera, G. A. U.; Perera, K. L. N. S.; Wickramasuriya, A. M. (Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka, 2017)

  The rice leaffolder (RLF) [Cnaphalocrocis medinalis (Guenée)] is a major lepidopteran insect pest of rice in Sri Lanka and the larvae cause significant yield losses annually. Insecticidal crystal protein gene, cry2A ...
• Global scale transcriptome analysis of Arabidopsis embryogenesis in vitro 

  Wickramasuriya, A. M.; Dunwell, J. M. (BMC Genomics, 2015)

  Abstract Background: Somatic embryogenesis (SE) in plants is a process by which embryos are generated directly from somatic cells, rather than from the fused products of male and female gametes. Despite the detailed ...
• In silico Analysis of osr40c1 Promoter Sequence Isolated from Indica Variety Pokkali 

  De Silva, W. S. I.; Perera, M. M. N.; Perera, K. L. N. S.; Wickramasuriya, A. M.; Jayasekara, G. A. U. (Elsevier, 2017)

  The promoter region of a drought and abscisic acid (ABA) inducible gene, osr40c1, was isolated from a salt-tolerant indica rice variety Pokkali, which is 670 bp upstream of the putative translation start codon. In silico ...
• Weighted Gene Correlation Network Analysis (WGCNA) of Arabidopsis Somatic Embryogenesis (SE) and Identification of Key Gene Modules to Uncover SE-Associated Hub Genes 

  De Silva, Kithmee K.; Dunwell, Jim M.; Wickramasuriya, Anushka M. (Hindawi - International Journal of Genomics, 2022)

  Somatic embryogenesis (SE), which occurs naturally in many plant species, serves as a model to elucidate cellular and molecular mechanisms of embryo patterning in plants. Decoding the regulatory landscape of SE is essential ...
• Cacao biotechnology: current status and future prospects 

  Wickramasuriya, Anushka M.; Dunwell, Jim M. (Society for Experimental Biology and The Association of Applied Biologists and John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2018)

  Theobroma cacao—The Food of the Gods, provides the raw material for the multibillion dollar chocolate industry and is also the main source of income for about 6 million smallholders around the world. Additionally, cocoa ...
• PCR- based Detection and Characterization of Candidate Disease Resistant Gene Analogous (RGAs) in Commercially Grown Capsicum Varieties in Sri Lanka 

  Kumari, K. A. S. I.; Senanayake, D. M. J. B.; Nanayakkara, C. M.; Dhammika, W. A. R.; Dasanayake, P. J. K.; Balasuriya, A. (University of Colombo, 2021)

  Identification of R gene homologous from chilli (Capsicum annuum L.) will provide important information for improving disease resistance in breeding programs. A Nucleotide-Binding Site (NBS) domain in R gene family ...
• analysis of raw cattle milk microbiota in Sri Lanka employing Illumina MiSeq platform 

  Rajawardana, D. U.; Fernando, P. C.; Biggs, P. J.; Nanayakkara, C. M.; Hewajulige, I. G. N.; Wickramasinghe, S. (University of Colombo, 2021)

  Bacterial contamination of raw milk is a major concern worldwide in public health and economic viewpoint. Raw milk is highly susceptible to changes in temperature and humidity of the environment. The impact of tropical ...
• Genome-wide in silico analysis and characterization of simple sequence repeat loci in Coconut (Cocos nucifera L.) 

  Weerakkodi, W. O. K.; Bandupriya, H. D. D. (University of Colombo, 2021)

  Coconut (Cocos nucifera L.) is an important oil crop that can play a major role in the food security of the people in most of the Asian countries including Sri Lanka. The genomic knowledge on coconut is extremely important ...
• Investigating the Potential of a Native Glomus sp. as a Biofertilizer 

  Chandrasena, W. A. G. A. B.; Nanayakkara, C. M.; Sumanasena, H. A. (University of Colombo, 2021)

  Many plant species benefit by forming symbiotic associations with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AM). They are known to enhance plant growth, photosynthetic activity & phosphorus content, act antagonistically towards soil ...
• A Study on Lichen Diversity in Two Different Agro-ecological Zones of Sri Lanka 

  Weerasinghe, W. M. V. C.; Jayalal, R. G. U.; Nanayakkara, C. M. (University of Colombo, 2021)

  Sri Lanka is renowned for its unique biodiversity and high endemicity. Among a variety of natural resources the country holds, lichens are hardly studied. However, lichens have been in use as therapeutics by several ...
• Protein-protein Interaction (PPI) Network Module Analysis for Detecting Sub-modules and Hub Proteins Associated in Root Development of Oryza sativa. 

  Sandareka, W. G. A. S.; Fernando, S. P. C.; Tirimanne, T. L. S. (University of Colombo, 2021)

  Oryza sativa (rice) is one of the main global staple foods, and improved varieties are required to enhance its yield to supply for the increasing population. It is essential to study the root system for plant improvement ...
• A preliminary virological surveillance of field-caught adult Aedes aegypti (L.) and Aedes albopictus (Skuse) mosquitoes in selected sites in the District of Colombo and Gampaha of Sri Lanka 

  Nirmani, M. D.; Perera, K. L. N. S.; Galhena, G. H. (University of Colombo, 2020)

  Aedes aegypti (L.) is widely recognized as the principal dengue vector. Aedes albopictus (Skuse) has also reported to mediate dengue outbreak situations in some countries. In Sri Lanka, Ae. albopictus predominates over ...
• Some records of Ascomycete macrofungal species from selected areas of dry zone of Sri Lanka 

  Ediriweera, S.S.; Nanayakkara, C.M.; Weerasena, O.V.D.S.J. (University of Colombo, 2020)

  Fungi that produce fruit bodies large enough to be observed by the naked eye are identified as macrofungi and these are distributed among the two sub Divisions of Ascomycota and Basidiomycota. While majority of Ascomycetes ...
• Effectiveness of Aspergillus japonicus in improving soil phosphate availability in cinnamon plantations 

  Chandrasena, W.A.G.A.B.; Nanayakkara, C.M.; Samaraweera, D.N. (University of Colombo, 2020)

  Use of phosphate solubilizing microorganisms is an inexpensive strategy that can confer solubility of insoluble phosphates (P). Aspergillus japonicus, an effective native phosphate solubilizer identified by whole genome ...
• Multifaceted importance of native dairy microorganisms 

  Rajawardana, D.U.; Nanayakkara, C.M.; Hewajulige, I.G.N.; Fernando, P.C. (University of Colombo, 2020)

  Lactic Acid Bacteria (LAB) and yeasts are extensively employed in food production, preservation and numerous other industrial processes. In the absence of industrial microbial culture production in Sri Lanka, industries ...
• Nutritional Aspects of Three Termitomyces and Four Other Wild Edible Mushroom Species from Sri Lanka 

  Gunasekara, Niranjan; Nanayakkara, Chandrika; Karunarathana, Samantha; Wijesundera, Ravi (Chiang Mai University, Faculty of Science, 2021)

  Species of Termitomyces are considered as a group of prime edible mushrooms owing to their unique meaty flavour and texture. Nutritional composition data of some species in this genus are scanty due to their rare and ...

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