Background
Sonti, Ramesh Venkata was born on May 24, 1960 in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. Son of Venkata Ramanaiah and Sarvalakshmi.
Sonti, Ramesh Venkata was born on May 24, 1960 in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. Son of Venkata Ramanaiah and Sarvalakshmi.
Bachelor of Science, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam. Military Staff Committee, University Hyderabad, India, 1983. Doctor of Philosophy in Bacterial Genetics, University Utah, Salt Lake City, 1990.
He did his The Master of Philosophy in Life sciences from University of Hyderabad. He holds Doctor of philosophy in bacterial genetics from the University of Utah, supplemented with Post Doctoral training in Plant genetics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is positioned as a Senior Scientist at Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology in Hyderabad, India.
He was awarded in June 2004 the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, the highest science award in India, in the Biological sciences category.
National Bioscience Award for Career Development of the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India. virulence mechanisms of the important bacterial leaf blight pathogen of the rice plant. Introduction of bacterial leaf blight resistance characteristics into the background of commercially important but disease susceptible rice varieties.
Fellow: National Academy Agricultural Sciences, India, Indian Academy of Sciences.
Son of; married; 2 children.