Srikanta Dani K G

Srikanta is an empirical plant biologist and likes being amidst trees asking himself (not trees) how and why they are the way they are. Most recently, he was a research associate and a Marie-Curie post-doctoral fellow at the Florence unit of the Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection (IPSP), Department of Biology, Agriculture, and Food Sciences, National Research Council of Italy (CNR).

He has a PhD in Biological Sciences from Macquarie University, Sydney, a Master’s degree in Earth System Science from University of Bristol, and a Master’s degree in Botany from Bangalore University.

By conducting experiments on trees and model herbaceous plants, he investigates plant leaf physiology, volatile metabolism, senescence (ageing), and death, often in molecular and organismal evolutionary contexts.

Some of his ideas on volatile organic compounds as plant developmental regulators were summarised in a recent Tansley Insight article in the journal New Phytologist.

He is also a poet, a Carnatic musician specialising in percussion, and a student of Kannada literature and South Indian medieval history.

Publications

Journal Articles

Dani, K.G.S., & Loreto, F. (2022). Plant volatiles as regulators of hormone homeostasis. New Phytologist, 234, 804 – 812. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18035
Dani, K.G.S., Pollastri, S., Pinosio., S., Reichelt, M., Sharkey, T.D., Schnitzler, J‑P., & Loreto, F. (2022). Isoprene enhances leaf cytokinin metabolism and induces early senescence. New Phytologist, 234, 961 – 974. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17833
Dani, K.G.S., Mathew, J., Nila, T.M., Antony, R., Suresh, S., & Kodandaramaiah, U. (2021). Competition between photosynthesis and reproduction is constrained by leaf mass per unit area (LMA) in ferns. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 132, 346 – 358.https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blaa189
Dani, K.G.S., Fineschi, S., Michelozzi, M., Trivellini, A., Pollastri, S., & Loreto, F. (2020). Diversification of petal monoterpene profiles during development and senescence of wild roses: Insights into associations among floral fragrance, floral phenotype and floral longevity. Oecologia, 197, 957 – 969. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-020 – 04710‑z
Dani, K.G.S., Torzillo, G., Michelozzi, M., Baraldi, R., & Loreto, F. (2020). Isoprene emission in darkness by a facultative heterotrophic green alga. Frontiers in Plant Science, 11, 598786. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.598786
Dani, K.G.S., & Kodandaramaiah, U. (2019). Ageing in trees: A role for body size optimization in demographic senescence. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 36, 41 – 51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ppees.2018.10.002
Dogra, H, & Dani, K.G.S. (2019). Defining features of age-specific fertility and seed quality in senescing indeterminate annuals. American Journal of Botany, 106(4), 604 – 610. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1265
Dani, K.G.S., & Loreto, F. (2017). Trade-off between DMS and isoprene emission in marine phytoplankton. Trends in Plant Science, 22(5), 361 – 372. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2017.01.006
Dani, K.G.S., Silva, A.M., Michelozzi, M., Peluso, G., Torzillo, G., & Loreto, F. (2017). Relationship between isoprene emission and photosynthesis in diatoms: Implications for global marine emission estimates. Marine Chemistry, 189, 17 – 24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marchem.2016.12.005
Dani, K.G.S., & Kodandaramaiah, U. (2017). Reproductive strategies in plants and animals: Lessons from offspring size and number trade-off: Optimization models, Genetic controls, and Responses to environment. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 5, 38. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2017.00038
Dani, K.G.S., Marino, G., Taiti, C., Mancuso, S., Atwell, B.J., Loreto, F., & Centritto, M. (2017). De novo post-illumination monoterpene burst in Quercus ilex (holm oak). Planta, 245(2), 459 – 465. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00425-016‑2636‑x
Dani, K.G.S., Fineschi, S., Michelozzi, M., & Loreto, F. (2016). Do cytokinins, volatile isoprenoids and carotenoids synergically delay leaf senescence? Plant, Cell & Environment, 39(5),1103 – 1111. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.12705
Dani, K.G.S., Fineschi, S., & Loreto, F. (2015). Biogenic volatile isoprenoid emission and levels of natural selection. Journal of the Indian Institute of Science, 95(1), 1 – 14. http://journal.library.iisc.ernet.in/index.php/iisc/article/view/4540/4841
Dani, K.G.S., Jamie, I.M., Prentice, I.C., & Atwell, B.J. (2014). Increased ratio of electron transport to net assimilation rate supports elevated isoprenoid emission rate in eucalypts under drought. Plant Physiology, 166(2), 1059 – 1072. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.114.246207
Dani, K.G.S., Jamie, I.M., Prentice, I.C., & Atwell, B.J. (2014). Evolution of isoprene emission capacity in plants. Trends in Plant Science, 19(7), 439 – 446. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2014.01.009
Harrison, S.P., Morfopoulos, C., Dani, K.G.S., Prentice, I.C., Arneth, A., Atwell, B.J., Barkley. P., Leishman, M., Loreto, F., Medlyn, B., Niinemets, Ü., Peñuelas, J., Possell, M., & Wright, I.J. (2013). Volatile isoprenoid emission from plastids to planet. New Phytologist, 197, 49 – 57, https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.12021
Dani, K.G.S., Mader, H.M., Wolff, E.W., & Wadham, J.L. (2012). Modelling the liquid-water vein system within polar ice sheets as a potential microbial habitat. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 333 – 334, 238 – 249. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2012.04.009
Dani, K.G.S., Hatti, K.S., Ravikumar, P., & Kush, A. (2011). Structural and functional analyses of a saturated Acyl ACP Thioesterase, type B from immature seed tissue of Jatropha curcas. Plant Biology, 13(3), 453 – 461. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1438 – 8677.2010.00410.x

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