OWSD PhD Fellowship
OWSD Early Career
2018
Jayatilake Dimanthi
March 2007
Dimanthi Jayatilake > Other Awards
awarded by the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka for academic excellence
August 2009
Dimanthi Jayatilake > Other Awards
Awarded by the Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University, USA for academic excellence and dedication to the profession in plant breeding
September 2009
Dimanthi Jayatilake > Other Awards
Awarded by the Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University, USA for academic excellence and dedication to the profession
January 2010
Dimanthi Jayatilake > Other Awards
outstanding graduate student MS research award of Gamma Sigma Delta Agriculture honor society, Kansas State University Chapter, USA
January 2010
Dimanthi Jayatilake > Other Awards
awarded by the Rotary club of Manhattan, Kansas, USA
March 2011
Dimanthi Jayatilake > Other Awards
awarded by University of Adelaide, Australia
August 2012
Dimanthi Jayatilake > Other Awards
School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, University of Adelaide (Australasian Plant Pathology Society, South Australia)
June 2017
Dimanthi Jayatilake > Other Awards
Principle investigator - "Screening of Bacterial Leaf Blight Resistance Alleles of Xa4, xa5, xa4, xa7 and Xa21 in selected Sri Lankan Varieties using High Throughput Molecular Marker Assays"
January 2017
Dimanthi Jayatilake > Other Awards
Co-investigator - Analysis of the phenotypic and genotypic expression of Bacterial Leaf Blight (BLB) resistance genes in Rice”
Full Member
Dr. Dimanthi Jayatilake
Membership since:
2018
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Awards
Degrees:
2014
Doctorate
Agricultural Sciences
2010
Master
Agricultural Sciences
2007
Undergraduate
Agricultural Sciences
Publications resulting from Research
Senavirathne, W. M. A., Jayatilake, D. V, Herath, V., & Wickramasinghe, H. A. M. (2017). Evaluation of genetic diversity of cis-acting elements of Abscisic acid responsive element binding protein (ABRE-BP) in selected Sri Lankan rice varieties. Tropical Agricultural Research, 28(2).
Nagalla, A. D., Jayatilake, D. V, Herath, V., & Wickramasinghe, M. (2017). The molecular evolution of Ghd7 orthologs is not in line with the speciation events in genus Oryza. Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka, 45(3), 229–237. https://doi.org/10.4038/ jnsfsr.v45i3.8187
Nagalla AD, Jayatilake DV, Herath V and Suriyagoda L: Evaluating the growth performance of two Azotobactor spp. in liquid glucose broth and tryptic peptone broth as an inoculation media for the production of bio-fertilizers. Journal of Tropical Agricultural Research 2016, 28 (1):100-106
Jayaweera JKPTP, Herath HMVG, Jayatilake DV, Udumulla GS and Wickramasinghe HAM 2016. Physiological, biochemical and proteomic responses of rice (Oryza sativa L.) varieties Godaheenati and Pokkali for drought stress at the seedling stage. Tropical Agricultural Research 2016, 27 (2): 159– 170
Jayatilake DV, Tucker EJ, Brüggemann J, Lewis J, Garcia M, Dreisigacker S, Hayden M, Chalmers K and Mather DE: Genetic mapping of the Cre8 locus for resistance against cereal cyst nematode (Heterodera avenae Woll.) resistance in wheat. Molecular Breeding 2015, 35(2):1-12 (IF: 2.246)
Jayatilake DV, Tucker EJ, Bariana H, Kuchel H, Edwards J, McKay AC, Chalmers K, Mather DE: Genetic mapping and marker development for resistance of wheat against the root lesion nematode Pratylenchus neglectus. BMC Plant Biology 2013, 13:230. (IF: 3.81)
Jayatilake DV, Bai GH, Dong YH: A novel quantitative trait locus for Fusarium head blight resistance in chromosome 7A of wheat. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 2011, 122(6):1189-1198. (IF: 3.79)
Nagalla, A. D., Jayatilake, D. V, Herath, V., & Wickramasinghe, M. (2017). The molecular evolution of Ghd7 orthologs is not in line with the speciation events in genus Oryza. Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka, 45(3), 229–237. https://doi.org/10.4038/ jnsfsr.v45i3.8187
Nagalla AD, Jayatilake DV, Herath V and Suriyagoda L: Evaluating the growth performance of two Azotobactor spp. in liquid glucose broth and tryptic peptone broth as an inoculation media for the production of bio-fertilizers. Journal of Tropical Agricultural Research 2016, 28 (1):100-106
Jayaweera JKPTP, Herath HMVG, Jayatilake DV, Udumulla GS and Wickramasinghe HAM 2016. Physiological, biochemical and proteomic responses of rice (Oryza sativa L.) varieties Godaheenati and Pokkali for drought stress at the seedling stage. Tropical Agricultural Research 2016, 27 (2): 159– 170
Jayatilake DV, Tucker EJ, Brüggemann J, Lewis J, Garcia M, Dreisigacker S, Hayden M, Chalmers K and Mather DE: Genetic mapping of the Cre8 locus for resistance against cereal cyst nematode (Heterodera avenae Woll.) resistance in wheat. Molecular Breeding 2015, 35(2):1-12 (IF: 2.246)
Jayatilake DV, Tucker EJ, Bariana H, Kuchel H, Edwards J, McKay AC, Chalmers K, Mather DE: Genetic mapping and marker development for resistance of wheat against the root lesion nematode Pratylenchus neglectus. BMC Plant Biology 2013, 13:230. (IF: 3.81)
Jayatilake DV, Bai GH, Dong YH: A novel quantitative trait locus for Fusarium head blight resistance in chromosome 7A of wheat. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 2011, 122(6):1189-1198. (IF: 3.79)
U.S. Wheat Genomics Workshop
2025
United States of America
Identification of a novel QTL for Fusarium head blight resistance on wheat chromosome 7A.
The 12th International Wheat Genetics Symposium
2025
Japan