Recent Publications

  • Mahzabin Amin, Sabrina M. Elias, Alamgeer Hossain, Aliya Ferdousi, Md. Sazzadur Rahman, Narendra Tuteja and Zeba I. Seraj (2011). "Overexpression of a DEAD box helicase, PDH45, confers both seedling and reproductive stage salinity tolerance to rice ( Oryza sativa L.)" Molecular Breeding 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. 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. Sera (2011). Physiology and gene expression of the rice landrace Horkuch under salt stress. Functional Plant Biology, 38: 282–292

  • Rejbana Alam, M. Sazzadur Rahman, Zeba I. Seraj, Michael J. Thomson, Abdelbagi M. Ismail, Ellen Tumimbang-Raiz and Glenn B. Gregorio (2010). 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. Wiley Blackwell publications.

  • 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

  • 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 PgNHX1 from Pennisetum glaucum 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

  • AR,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. 

 
Manuscripts accepted/submitted
 
Relative sequence divergence of plant miRNA precursors involved in stress responses Sajib Chakrabortya, Saima Shahida , Rajib Chakravortyb , Zeba I. Seraja*. Submitted to The Journal of Molecular Evolution in May, 2011.