Zeba Seraj, Sabrina M. Elias, Taslima Haque, Nurnabi A. Jewel and Tabassum R. Sunfi, Combination of DNA markers and eQTL information for introgression of multiple salt tolerance traits in rice. Advancement of crop improvement techniques, Elsevier publishers. [Book Chapter]
Zeba I. Seraj, Umer Sharif Shohan, Sabrina M Elias, Umme Habiba, Sudip Biswas, and Narendra Tuteja, The scope of transformation and genome editing for quantitative trait improvements in rice Advancement of crop improvement techniques, Elsevier publishers. [Book Chapter]
Sabrina M. Elias, M. Sazzadur Rahman, Sumaiya F. Khan, Sudip Biswas, Taslima Haque, Samsad Razzaque and Zeba I. Seraj (2020) Combination of traits at two developmental stages under salt stress as a measure of tolerance in a reciprocally crossed rice (Oryza sativa L.) population. Crop and Pasture Science 71, 334-348)
Taslima Haque, Sabrina M Elias, Samsad Razzaque, Sudip Biswas, Sumaiya Farah Khan, GM Nurnabi Azad Jewel, Md Sazzadur Rahman, Thomas E Juenger, Zeba I Seraj, (2020) Natural variation in growth and physiology under salt stress in rice: QTL mapping in a Horkuch× IR29 mapping population at seedling and reproductive stages. bioRxiv , Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Sharif Shohan, M. U., Sinha, S., Nabila, F. H., Dastidar, S. G., & Seraj, Z. I. (2019). HKT1; 5 transporter gene expression and association of amino acid substitutions with salt tolerance across rice genotypes. Frontiers in plant science, 10, 1420.
Aftab Uz Zaman Noor, Nurnabi Azad Jewel, Taslima Haque, Sabrina M. Elias, Sudip Biswas, Md. Sazzadur Rahman, Zeba Islam Seraj (2019) Validation of QTLs in Bangladeshi rice landrace Horkuch responsible for salt tolerance in seedling stage and maturation. Acta Physiologiae Plantarum October, 41:173 3
Rahman, M. S., Tareq, T. M., Sarker, P. K., Rashid, E. H., Yasmeen, R., Ali, M. A., ... & Shimono, H. (2019). Genetic variation of phenotypic plasticity in Bangladesh rice germplasm. Field Crops Research, 243, 107618.
Samsad Razzaque, Sabrina M. Elias, Taslima Haque, Sudip Biswas, G. M. Nurnabi Azad Jewel, Sazzadur Rahman, Xiaoyu Weng, Abdelbagi M. Ismail, Harkamal Walia, Thomas E. Juenger & Zeba I. seraj (2019). Gene Expression analysis associated with salt stress in a reciprocally crossed rice population. Scientific Reports 9(1): 8249.
Tareq, T. M., Rahman, M. S., Jewel, N. A., Islam, T., Shimono, H., & Seraj, Z. I. Relative Response of Indigenous Rice Genotypes to Low Versus Normal Planting Density for Determination of Differential Phenotypic Plasticity in Traits Related to Grain Yield. Plant Tissue Culture and Biotechnology, 28(1), 109-124.
Nilufa Ferdous, Sabrina M. Elias, Zakir Hossain Howlader, Sunil Kumar Biswas, Md. Sazzadur Rahman, Kum Kum Habiba, Zeba I. Seraj, Profiling Bangladeshi rice diversity based on grain size and amylose content using molecular markers, Current Plant Biology,2018, ISSN 2214-6628, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpb.2018.09.002.
Rima, F.S., Biswas, S., Sarker, P.K., Islam, M.R. and Seraj, Z.I., Bacteria endemic to saline coastal belt and their ability to mitigate the effects of salt stress on rice growth and yields. Annals of Microbiology, pp.1-11.
Seraj Z.I., Elias S.M., Biswas S., Tuteja N. (2018) Helicases and Their Importance in Abiotic Stresses. In: Kumar V., Wani S., Suprasanna P., Tran LS. (eds) Salinity Responses and Tolerance in Plants, Volume 2. Springer, Cham
Sudip Biswas, U. S. Mahzabin Amin, Sarah Sarker, M. Sazzadur Rahman, Ruhul Amin, Rezaul Karim, Narendra Tuteja, Zeba I. Seraj (2018), Introgression, Generational Expression and Salinity Tolerance Conferred by the Pea DNA Helicase 45 Transgene into Two Commercial Rice Genotypes, BR28 and BR47. Mol Biotechnol, 60: 111. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12033-017-0055-2
Tasnim Ahmed, Sudip Biswas, Sabrina M. Elias, M. Sazzadur Rahman, Narendra Tuteja, Zeba I. Seraj (2017) In Planta transformation for conferring salt tolerance to a tissue culture unresponsive indica rice (Oryza sativa L.) cultivar In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology – Plant , pp 1-12, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11627-017-9870-1
Ar-Rafi Md. Faisal, Sudip Biswas, Tasnim Zerin, Tania Rahman, Zeba Islam Seraj (2017) Downregulation of the DST Transcription Factor Using Artificial microRNA to Increase Yield, Salt and Drought Tolerance in Rice. American Journal of Plant Sciences, 8, 2219-2237
Tasmia Islam, Sudip Biswas, Most Umme Habiba, R.H. Sarker, M. Sazzadur Rahman, M. Ansar Ali, K.M.S. Aziz, Zeba I. Seraj (2017) Characterization of Progenies from Intergeneric Hybridization Between Oryza sativa L. and Porteresia coarctata (Roxb.) Tateoka. Plant Tissue Culture and Biotechnology 27 (1): 63-76
Amin USM, Biswas S, Elias SM, Razzaque S, Haque T, Malo R and Seraj ZI (2016) Enhanced salt tolerance conferred by the complete 2.3 kb cDNA of the Rice vacuolar Na+/H+ antiporter gene compared to 1.9 kb coding region with 5' UTR in transgenic lines of rice. Front. Plant Sci. 7:14. doi: 10.3389/fpls,2016.00014
Sarah Sarker, Sudip Biswas, MA Shahed, Samsad Razzaque, Zeba I Seraj (2016) Cloning, characterization and analysis of the Arabidopsis RD29A promoter for its inducible expression in rice under salinity and drought stress Biores comm 2, 139-145
Acta Physiologiae Plantarum. 2015; 37 DOI: 10.1007/s11738-015-1817-8
Samsad Razzaque, Debashis Chakraborty, Rumana Sultana Tammi, Sabrina M. Elias, Zeba I. Seraj, Aparna Islam (2014) Cloning of Three Antiporter Genes from Arabidopsis and Rice for Over-Expressing Them in Farmer Popular Tomato varieties of Bangladesh American Journal of Plant Sciences, 5, 3957-3963. doi: 10.4236/ajps.2014.526414.
Sudip Biswas, Samsad Razzaque, Sabrina M. Elias, U.S. Mahzabin Amin, Taslima Haque, S.M. Touhidul Islam, Laisa A Lisa, Farhana Naznin, Noorain M. Rasul, Zeba I Seraj.(2015) Effect of the vacuolar Na+/H+ antiporter transgene in a rice landrace and a commercial rice cultivar after its insertion by crossing, Acta Physiologiea Plantarum, 37:1750
Nusrat Yesmin , Sabrina M. Elias , Md. Sazzadur Rahman, Taslima Haque, A.K.M. Mahbub Hossain and Zeba I. Seraj (2014) Unique Genotypic Differences Discovered Among Indigenous Bangladeshi Rice Landraces International Journal of Genomics.Volume 2014 (2014) Article ID 210328, 11 pages http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/210328
Mohammad Arif Ashraf, Sudip Biswas, Samsad Razzaque, Taslima Haque and Zeba I Seraj (2014) Cloning and Characterization of Alcohol Dehydrogenase (Adh) Promoter Region for Expression Under Submergence and Salinity Stress Plant Tissue Cult. & Biotech. 24(1): 109-118111-120, 2014 (June)
Khan MK, Zaman S, Chakraborty S, Chakravorty R, Alam MM, Bhuiyan TR, Rahman MJ, Fernández C, Qadri F, Seraj ZI (2014) In silico predicted mycobacterial epitope elicits in vitro T-cell responses. Molecular Immunology:61(1):16-22. DOI:10.1016/j.molimm.2014.04.009
Mahzabin Amin, Sabrina M. Elias, Alamgeer Hossain, Aliya Ferdousi, Md. Sazzadur Rahman, Narendra Tuteja and Zeba I. Seraj (2012).Overexpression of a DEAD box helicase, PDH45, confers both seedling and reproductive stage salinity tolerance to rice ( Oryza sativa L.) Molecular Breeding 30 (1):345-354 DOI 10.1007/s11032-011-9625-3
Sabrina M. Elias, A. K. M. Mahbub Hasan and Zeba I. Seraj (2011). Microsatellite marker diversity and sequence polymorphism in the red gene locus of indigenous rice populations of Bangladesh.Plant Syst Evol. 296 (3-4):157-165 DOI 10.1007/s00606-011-0482-7
Laisa A. Lisa, Sabrina M. Elias, M. Sazzadur Rahman, Saima Shahid, Tetsushi Iwasaki, Mahbub Hasan, Keiko Kosuge, Yasuo Fukami and Zeba I. Seraj (2011).Physiology and gene expression of the rice landrace Horkuch under salt stress.Functional Plant Biology, 38: 282-292. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/FP10198
Rejbana Alam, M. Sazzadur Rahman, Zeba I. Seraj, Michael J. Thomson, Abdelbagi M. Ismail, Ellen Tumimbang-Raiz and Glenn B. Gregorio (2011). Investigation of seedling-stage salinity tolerance QTLs using backcross lines derived from Oryza sativa L. Pokkali. Plant Breeding, 130: 430–437. DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0523.2010.01837.x
Saima Shahid, Sabrina M. Elias, Sudip Biswas, Zeba I. Seraj (2010). READS- a resource for plant non-coding regulatory sequence analysis. Plant Tissue Cult. & Biotech. 20: 211-223 D.O.I. 10.3329/ptcb.v20i2.6916
Michael J. Thomson, Marjorie de Ocampo, James Egdane, M. Akhlasur Rahman, Andres Godwin Sajise, Dante L. Adorada, Ellen Tumimbang-Raiz, Eduardo Blumwald, Zeba I. Seraj, Rakesh K. Singh, Glenn B. Gregorio and Abdelbagi M. Ismail (2010).Characterizing the Saltol Quantitative Trait Locus for Salinity Tolerance in Rice.Rice 3:148-160
M. Sazzadur Rahman, Keshob C. Das, Dipok K. Das, Kuntal Biswas, M. Badrul H. Chowdhury, Nilufer H. Karim, M. Abdus Salam and Zeba I. Seraj (2010). Breeding and anther-derived lines of rice for saline coastal areas of Bangladesh. Bang J Bot 39: 71-78.
S.M. Touhidul Islam, R.S. Tammi, Sneh L Singla-Pareek,Z.I. Seraj (2010). Enhanced Salinity Tolerance and improved yield properties in Bangladeshi rice Binnatoa through Agrobacterium Mediated Transformation of PgNHX1 from Pennisetum glaucum. Acta Physiol Plant 32: 657-663.
SM Touhidul Islam, Rumana S. Tammi, Richard Malo, Mahzabin Amin, M. Sazzadur Rahman, Sabrina M. Elias and Zeba I. Seraj (2009). Constitutive expression of OsNHX1 under the promoter Actin1D can improve the tolerance and yield characteristics of Bangladeshi rice Binnatoa in salt stress. Australian J. of Crop Sci 3: 329-335.
SM Touhidul Islam, Rumana S. Tammi, Sneh_Lata Singla-Pareek and Zeba I. Seraj (2009) Agrobacterium-mediated Transformation and Constitutive Expression of PgNHX1from Pennisetumglaucum L. in Oryza sativa L. cv. Binnatoa. Plant Tissue Cult. & Biotech. 19: 25-33.
SM Touhidul Islam and Zeba I Seraj (2009). Vacuolar Na+/H+ antiporter expression and salt tolerance conferred by actin1D and CaMV35S are similar in transgenic Binnatoa rice.Plant Tissue Cult. & Biotech. 19: 257-262.
Book Chapters
MA Salam, MR Islam, MS Rahman, MA Rahman, MAR Bhuiyan, ZI Seraj, TL Aditya, MK Uddin, MK Mandal, AM Ismail, DL Adorada, RD Mendoza, EB Tumimbang-Raiz and GB Gregorio (2010). In Tropical Deltas and coastal zones: Food production, communities and environment at the land-water interface. Eds: CT Hoanh et al. CAB International. Pp 183-198.
Hossain Mahabub and Seraj Zeba I (2008). Biotechnology for crop improvement: global status and potential gains for Bangladesh. In: ‘Emerging issues in Bangladesh economy’, ed, Osmani SR, CPD, University Press Ltd, Dhaka, pp 83-100.
Zeba I. Seraj, Laisa A. Lisa, M. Rafiqul Islam, Rokeya Begum and Deepok K. Das (2006).Genetic diversity of saline coastal rice (Oryza sativa L.) landraces of Bangladesh. In: Abiotic stress tolerance of plants. Towards the improvement of global environment and food. Eds.: Rai, Aswani K and Takabe, Teruhiro, SpringerVerlag, pp. 229-244
Elahi CMF, Seraj ZI, Rasul NM, Das KC, Biswas K, Salam MA, Gomosta. A R,Tumimbang E, Adorada D, Gregorio G, Bennett J. (2004). Breeding rice for salinity tolerance using the Pokkali allele: finding a linked DNA marker. In:In Vitro Culture, Transformation and Molecular markers for Crop Improvement. Ed. Islam AS. Science Publishers, Inc., USA, pp 157-170.
Seraj Z I, Khan H, Sarker RH, Khan S N and Islam AS (2004). Harnessing Biotechnology. In: Bangladesh in the New Millenium, A Dhaka University Study. Ed. Abul Kalam, University Press Limited, Dhaka, Bangladesh, pp 393-421.
Seraj ZI, Hossain MB, Rasul NM, Akhter , Khan H, Hossain S, Salam MA and Gregorio G (2002). Agrobacterium mediated transformation of Bangladesh indica rice for conferring salt tolerance. In: R. Ahmad and KA Malik (eds.). Prospects for saline agriculture. Pages 167-176. Kluwer Academic Netherlands.
Islam AS, Haque MM, Hoque MI and Seraj ZI (1992). Tissue Culture and micropropagation of jute (Corchorus spp.).InBiotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry Vol. 19 High tech and Micropropation III. Ed. YPS Bagaj. Springer Veriag,Berlin, Heidelberg PP 505-526.-(3)
Knowler JT, McGregor CW and Islam Z (1986), Ribonuleooprotein particles containing heterogenous nuclear RNA. In Nuclear Structures: Their isolation and characterization (MacGillivray A J and Birnie G D eds.) PP 118-129. Butterworths Scientific, London.
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