Draft:Desh Pal S. Verma

• Comment: Likely meets WP:NPROF but there are no citations to independent or secondary sources to support the claims in the biographical portion of this WP:BLP. I've added one to for the FTWAS claim. Other statements will need to be verified. Bobby Cohn (talk) 19:46, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

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Desh Pal S. Verma in 2021.

Desh Pal S. Verma FRSC FTWAS is a plant cell and molecular biologist. Verma is presently at the Department of Molecular Genetics, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA where he has been for over 34 years and contributed to the overall development of biotechnology, cell biology and genetics area at this one of the largest academic institution in the World. He is a member of several interdisciplinary graduate programs including Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology, Applied Plant Sciences and Biochemistry programs.

His early career started at the McGill University, Canada where he received National Research Council’s Stacie Award given by the Governor General of Canada for being the best young scientist is his field. He was later elected as the Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the member of the Canadian Academy of Sciences (1986). In 2003, he was inducted as a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (Italy). He received in 1996 a Docteur Honoris Causa from the Universite de Picardie, France.

Prof. Verma has been a pioneer in the field of biotechnology starting from the isolation of first plant mRNA, cloning first plant gene, discovery of many new genes named as Nodulins including the one encoding Uricase which was later used by a biotechnology company to make a recombinant enzyme for the treatment of hyperuricemia. He has trained over 165 graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and visiting scientists in his labs both in Canada and USA. His work led to the creation of several companies in Canada, India and USA and he is currently engaged with a biotechnology company in USA in developing Lectins as molecular tools to identify cancer biomarkers and building glycoGPT an AI based platform for glycobiology.

Prof. Verma has published over 220 research papers, edited 11 books and has been an international speaker for the last 50 years traveling around the globe. He has consulted with many international companies such as Monsanto, DuPont, Beyer, Matrix Labs and advised the Planning Commission of India in the area of agriculture biotechnology and showed how to add value to it’s bioresource.

Select publications

Verma has made a significant contributions to the area of plant molecular biology. Some of his authored papers include:

• Verma, DPS; Nash, Dudley T.; Schulman, Herbert M. (October 1974). "Isolation and in vitro translation of soybean leghaemoglobin mRNA". Nature. 251 (5470): 74–77. Bibcode:1974Natur.251...74V. doi:10.1038/251074a0. PMID 4414006.
• Verma, DPS; Bal, Arya K. (December 1976). "Intracellular Site of Synthesis and Localization of Leghemoglobin in Root Nodules". PNAS. 73 (11): 3843–3847. Bibcode:1976PNAS...73.3843V. doi:10.1073/pnas.73.11.3843. PMC 431233. PMID 16592360.
• Verma, DPS; Legocki, Roman P. (June 1980). "Identification of "nodule-specific" host proteins (nodulins) involved in the development of Rhizobium-Legume symbiosis". Cell. 20 (1).
• Verma, DPS; Bergmann, H; Preddie, E (February 1983). "Nodulin-35: A subunit of specific uricase (uricase II) induced and localized in the uninfected cells of soybean nodules". EMBO Journal. 2 (12): 2333–2339. doi:10.1002/j.1460-2075.1983.tb01743.x. PMC 555454. PMID 16453488.
• Verma, DPS (January 1987). "Nodulin26, a peribacteroid membrane nodulin is expressed independently of the development of the peribacteroid compartment". Nucleic Acids. 15 (2): 813–824. doi:10.1093/nar/15.2.813. PMC 340469. PMID 3822816.
• Verma, DPS; Thummler, Fritz (November 1987). "Nodulin-100 of soybean is the subunit of sucrose synthase regulated by the availability of free heme in nodules". Biological Chemistry. 262 (30): 14730–14736. doi:10.1016/S0021-9258(18)47856-8. PMID 2889731.
• Hu, Chien-An Andy; Delauney, Ashton; Verma, DPS (October 1992). "A Bifunctional Enzyme (Delta^1Pyrroline5Carboxylate Synthetase) Catalyzes the First Two Steps in Proline Biosynthesis in Plants". PNAS. 89 (19): 9354–9358. Bibcode:1992PNAS...89.9354H. doi:10.1073/pnas.89.19.9354. PMC 50125. PMID 1384052.
• Verma, DPS (October 1994). "A phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase is induced during soybean nodule organogenesis and is associated with membrane proliferation". PNAS. 91 (21): 9617–9621. Bibcode:1994PNAS...91.9617H. doi:10.1073/pnas.91.20.9617. PMID 7937816.
• Verma, DPS; Xiang-ju, Justin Gu (March 1996). "Phragmoplastin, a dynamin-like protein associated with cell plate formation in plants". EMBO. 15 (4): 695–704. doi:10.1002/j.1460-2075.1996.tb00405.x.
• Verma, DPS; Hong, Zonglie; Delauney, Ashton (May 2001). "A Cell Plate-Specific Callose Synthase and Its Interaction with Phragmoplastin". Plant Cell. 13 (4): 755–768. JSTOR 3871338.
• Verma, DPS; Mahfouz, Magdy M.; Kim, Sunghan; Delauney, Ashton (March 2006). "Arabidopsis TARGET of RAPAMYCIN interacts with RAPTOR, which regulates the activity of S6 kinase in response to osmotic stress signals". Plant Cell. 18 (2): 477–490. doi:10.1105/tpc.105.035931. PMC 1356553. PMID 16377759.
• Verma, DPS; Kim, Yun-Kyoung; Kim, Woo-Young; Lee, Myung-Sok; Kim, Sunghan; Shin, Yun-Jeong; Cheon, Choong-ill (December 2013). "Ribosomal Protein S6, a Target of Rapamycin, Is Involved in the Regulation of rRNA Genes by Possible Epigenetic Changes in Arabidopsis". Biological Chemistry. 289 (7).