Postdoctoral Associate (2012-2014, 2017)

PhD (2014)

Current Position

Research Scientist, Center for Renewable Carbon, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

Posters/Presentations
  • *Voothuluru P, Anderson J, Peck SC, Sharp RE. Crop Science Society of America symposium on “Utilization of Omics Approaches to Improve Stress Tolerance”, Phoenix, Arizona, Nov. 2016. “Something old, something new: Combining growth kinematics with plasma membrane proteomics to understand maize primary root growth regulation under water stress.”
  • Voothuluru P, Anderson J, Sharp RE, Peck SC. 58th Annual Maize Genetics Conference, Jacksonville, FL, March 2016. “Plasma membrane proteomics in the maize primary root growth zone: novel insights into root growth adaptation to water stress”
  • Voothuluru P, Anderson J, Sharp RE, Peck S. “Plasma membrane proteomics in the maize primary root elongation zone: novel insights into root growth adaptation to water stress”. Midwest ASPB meeting, Danforth Center, St Louis, March 2015.
  • Voothuluru P, Anderson J, Sharp RE, Peck S. “Plasma membrane proteomics in the maize primary root elongation zone: novel insights into root growth adaptation to water stress”. IPG Symposium, Univ. Missouri, May 2015.
  • Voothuluru P (Postdoc). InterDrought-IV, session on “Breeding for Water-Limited Environments: Trait-Based and Transgenic Approaches”, Perth, Australia, Sept. 2013
  • Voothuluru P (Graduate Student), World Universities Network workshop on “Improving Tolerance of Common Bean to Abiotic Stresses”, CIAT, Colombia, Nov. 2010 (on behalf of R Sharp)
  • Voothuluru P (Graduate Student), 37th Annual Conference, Plant Growth Regulation Society of America, symposium on “Root Growth”, Portland, Oregon, Aug. 2010 (on behalf of R Sharp)
  • Voothuluru P (Graduate Student). Interdisciplinary Plant Group symposium on “Root Biology”, Univ. Missouri, May 2009

*invited presentation

Publications
  • Voothuluru P, Mäkelä P, Zhu J, Yamaguchi M, Cho I-J, Oliver MJ, Simmonds J, Sharp RE (2020) Apoplastic hydrogen peroxide in the growth zone of the maize primary root. Increased levels differentially modulate root elongation under well-watered and water-stressed conditions. Frontiers in Plant Science 11: 392. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2020.00392 (18 pages) (Special issue ‘Root Adaptations to Multiple Stress Factors’)
  • Voothuluru P, Anderson J, Sharp RE, Peck SC (2016) Plasma membrane proteomics in the maize primary root growth zone: novel insights into root growth adaptation to water stress. Plant, Cell & Environment 39: 2043-2054
  • Voothuluru P, Thompson HJ, Flint-Garcia SA, Sharp RE (2013) Genetic variability of oxalate oxidase activity and elongation in water-stressed primary roots of diverse maize and rice lines. Plant Signaling & Behavior 8: e23454 http://dx.doi.org/10.4161/psb.23454 (Invited)
  • Voothuluru P, Sharp RE (2013) Apoplastic hydrogen peroxide in the growth zone of the maize primary root under water stress. I. Increased levels are specific to the apical region of growth maintenance. Journal of Experimental Botany 64: 1223-1233 (Invited, focus section ‘Future Roots of Productivity’)
    • In preparation (2020)
      • Voothuluru P, Yamaguchi M, Byro-Jilek M, Garnett J, Wu Y, Bunzel M, Sharp RE. Limitations to maize primary root growth under well-watered and water-stressed conditions: Ferulate crosslinks as restraints to cell wall extension.