Optimization of single plate-serial dilution spotting (SP-SDS) with sample anchoring as an assured method for bacterial and yeast cfu enumeration and single colony isolation … P Thomas, AC Sekhar, R Upreti, MM Mujawar, SS Pasha Biotechnology Reports 8, 45-55, 2015 | 260 | 2015 |
Endophytic Bacteria Associated with Growing Shoot Tips of Banana (Musa sp.) cv. Grand Naine and the Affinity of Endophytes to the Host P Thomas, TA Soly Microbial ecology 58, 952-964, 2009 | 165 | 2009 |
Identification of culturable and originally non-culturable endophytic bacteria isolated from shoot tip cultures of banana cv. Grand Naine P Thomas, GK Swarna, PK Roy, P Patil Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture 93, 55-63, 2008 | 108 | 2008 |
Root-associated bacterial endophytes from Ralstonia solanacearum resistant and susceptible tomato cultivars and their pathogen antagonistic effects R Upreti, P Thomas Frontiers in microbiology 6, 255, 2015 | 107 | 2015 |
Shoot tip culture in mango: influence of medium, genotype, explant factors, season and decontamination treatments on phenolic exudation, explant survival and axenic culture … P Thomas, MB Ravindra Journal of Horticultural science 72 (5), 713-722, 1997 | 100 | 1997 |
Ubiquitous presence of normally non-culturable endophytic bacteria in field shoot-tips of banana and their gradual activation to quiescent cultivable form in tissue cultures P Thomas, GK Swarna, P Patil, RD Rawal Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture 93, 39-54, 2008 | 96 | 2008 |
Isolation of Bacillus pumilus from in vitro grapes as a long‐term alcohol‐surviving and rhizogenesis inducing covert endophyte P Thomas Journal of Applied Microbiology 97 (1), 114-123, 2004 | 86 | 2004 |
Microscopic elucidation of abundant endophytic bacteria colonizing the cell wall–plasma membrane peri-space in the shoot-tip tissue of banana P Thomas, KM Reddy AoB Plants 5, plt011, 2013 | 82 | 2013 |
Papaya shoot tip associated endophytic bacteria isolated from in vitro cultures and host–endophyte interaction in vitro and in vivo P Thomas, S Kumari, GK Swarna, TKS Gowda Canadian Journal of Microbiology 53 (3), 380-390, 2007 | 75 | 2007 |
A three-step screening procedure for detection of covert and endophytic bacteria in plant tissue cultures P Thomas Current Science, 67-72, 2004 | 70 | 2004 |
In vitro decline in plant cultures: detection of a legion of covert bacteria as the cause for degeneration of long-term micropropagated triploid watermelon cultures P Thomas Plant cell, tissue and organ culture 77 (2), 173-179, 2004 | 69 | 2004 |
Live cell imaging reveals extensive intracellular cytoplasmic colonization of banana by normally non-cultivable endophytic bacteria P Thomas, AC Sekhar AoB Plants 6, plu002, 2014 | 66 | 2014 |
Isolation and identification of shoot-tip associated endophytic bacteria from banana cv. Grand Naine and testing for antagonistic activity against Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense AC Sekhar, P Thomas American Journal of Plant Sciences 6 (7), 943-954, 2015 | 65 | 2015 |
Explant, medium and vessel aeration affect the incidence of hyperhydricity and recovery of normal plantlets in triploid watermelon P Thomas, JB Mythili, BM Stumman, KS Shivashankar The Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology 75 (1), 19-25, 2000 | 53 | 2000 |
Inhibition of cyclic gonadotropin secretion by endogenous human prolactin JE Tyson, M Khojandi, J Huth, B Smith, P Thomas American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 121 (3), 375-379, 1975 | 52 | 1975 |
Long-Term Survival of Bacillus Spores in Alcohol and Identification of 90% Ethanol as Relatively More Spori/Bactericidal P Thomas Current microbiology 64 (2), 130-139, 2012 | 51 | 2012 |
Cloning and characterization of an actin depolymerizing factor gene from grape (Vitis vinifera L.) expressed during rooting in stem cuttings P Thomas, J Schiefelbein Plant Science 162 (2), 283-288, 2002 | 51 | 2002 |
Ubiquitous presence of fastidious endophytic bacteria in field shoots and index-negative apparently clean shoot-tip cultures of papaya P Thomas, S Kumari, GK Swarna, DP Prakash, MR Dinesh Plant cell reports 26, 1491-1499, 2007 | 50 | 2007 |
Microcutting leaf area, weight and position on the stock shoot influence root vigour, shoot growth and incidence of shoot tip necrosis in grape plantlets in vitro P Thomas Plant cell, tissue and organ culture 61, 189-198, 2000 | 48 | 2000 |
Influence of cytokinin levels on in vitro propagation of shy suckering chrysanthemum “Arka Swarna” and activation of endophytic bacteria B Panicker, P Thomas, T Janakiram, R Venugopalan, SB Narayanappa In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology-Plant 43, 614-622, 2007 | 47 | 2007 |