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Ramesh Venkata Sonti

Ramesh Venkata Sonti
Born	(1960-05-24) 24 May 1960 (age 64) Andhra Pradesh, India
Nationality	Indian
Alma mater	University of Hyderabad University of Utah Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known for	Improved Samba Mahsuri
Scientific career
Fields	Biology
Institutions	Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR) Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Tirupati (IISER, Tirupati)

Ramesh Venkata Sonti is an Indian plant Geneticist.^[1] He did his MPhil 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.^{[citation needed]} He was positioned as a Senior Scientist at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular BiologyinHyderabad, India.^[2] 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.^[3]

• National Bioscience Award for Career Development of the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India.^{[citation needed]}
• Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology for 2004.^{[citation needed]}

• 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.