Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology
Hyderabad 500007, India
Tel: +91-40-2719-2570; Fax +91-40-2716-0591
E-mail: imran@ccmb.res.in
http://www.ccmb.res.in/staff/imran/About%20PI.html
Area of expertise: Meiosis; gametogenesis; apomixis; chromosome organization; epigenetics.
Co-editor until: Oct. 31, 2011

• Ravi M, Marimuthu MP, Siddiqi I (2008) Gamete formation without meiosis in Arabidopsis. Nature 451, 1121-1124 .
• Panoli AP, Ravi M, Sebastian J, Nishal B, Reddy TV, Marimuthu MP, Subbiah V, Vijaybhaskar V, Siddiqi I (2006) AtMND1 is required for homologous pairing during meiosis in Arabidopsis. BMC Mol Biol 7, 24.
• Kaur J, Sebastian J, Siddiqi I (2006) The Arabidopsis-mei2-like genes play a role in meiosis and vegetative growth in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 18, 545-559.
• Siddiqi I (2005) A sword in the rosetta stone. J. Biosci. 30, 289-291.
• Siddiqi I, Ganesh G, Kaur J, Subbiah V, VijayaKumari P (2004) Information and tools from Arabidopsis for biotechnology of crop plants. In Sorghum Tissue Culture and Transformation eds. N. Seetharama and I.D. Godwin, Oxford and IBH Publishing Co., New Delhi. pp. 19-23.
• Reddy TV, Kaur J, Agashe B, Sundaresan V, Siddiqi I (2003) The DUET gene is necessary for chromosome organization and progression during male meiosis in Arabidopsis and encodes a PHD finger protein. Development 130, 5975-5987.
• Al-Hammadi ASA, Sreelakshmi Y, Negi S, Siddiqi I, Sharma R (2003) The polycotyledon mutant of tomato shows enhanced polar auxin transport. Plant Physiol. 133, 113-125.
• Kaur J, Siddiqi I (2003) Female Gametogenesis. In Encyclopedia of Plant and Crop Sciences. ed. R.M. Goodman. Marcel Dekker, New York.
• Agashe B, Prasad CK, Siddiqi I (2002) Identification and analysis of DYAD: a gene required for meiotic chromosome organization and female meiotic progression in Arabidopsis. Development 129, 3935-3943.
• Siddiqi I, Ganesh G, Grossniklaus U, Subbiah V (2000) The DYAD gene is required for progression through female meiosis in Arabidopsis. Development , 127, 197-207.
• Vijayraghavan U, Siddiqi I, Meyerowitz EM (1995) Isolation of a 800 kb contig encompassing a 3.5 cM region of chromosome 1 in Arabidopsis using YAC clones. Genome 38, 817-823.