Sreeramanan Subramaniam, Professor

Research background

Plant tissue culture of various ornamental plants and horticultural crops, establishment of cryopreservation technology, production of secondary metabolites using a cell culture system, genetic engineering of selected plants for fungal disease resistance, induction of hairy roots in selected medicinal plants, application of LED technology in plant tissue culture, use of somaclonal variation for crop improvement, plant molecular genetics, controlled vertical farming systems for soilless vegetables, and strawberry cultivation using LED lighting systems.

Research focus

Plant Tissue Culture, In Door Farming, LEDs

Selected publications

1. Yaoyuan Z., Lau N.-S., Subramaniam S. (2025). Illuminating the harvest: the regulatory effects of LEDs on pigment accumulation in various food crops. Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants, 31 (5): 693 – 708.
2. Rajendran A., Ramlal A., Harika A., Subramaniam S., Raju D., Lal S.K. (2025). Waterlogging stress mechanism and membrane transporters in soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.). Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 220: 109579.
3. Bege J., Pang W.Q., Chew B.L., Sivalingam E., Manickam S., Mad’ Atari M.F., Subramaniam S. (2025). Eustress responses of Musa acuminata cv. red banana using LED spectra. Photosynthesis Research, 163 (1).
4. Kho Y.H., Pang W.Q., Lai C.S., Parab A.R., Chew B.L., Pandian B.R., Subramaniam S. (2025). Synergism and organogenesis using cytokinins, auxins and LEDs on apical meristems of Ficus carica L. cv. Red Libyan. Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology, 69, art. no. 103756.