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TaWRKY10 transcription factor is a novel Jasmonic Acid signalling regulator involved in immunity against Septoria tritici blotch disease in wheat (2021)
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Campanaro, A., Srivastava, A., Zhang, C., Lee, J., Millyard, L., Gatehouse, A., Byrne, E., & Sadanandom, A. (2021). TaWRKY10 transcription factor is a novel Jasmonic Acid signalling regulator involved in immunity against Septoria tritici blotch disease in wheat. Plant Pathology, 70(6), 1397-1408. https://doi.org/10.1111/ppa.13388

Septoria tritici blotch (STB), caused by the fungus Zymoseptoria tritici, is currently the main threat to worldwide wheat production in temperate climates. Understanding the genetic mechanisms that underpin the Z. tritici–wheat interaction will be cr... Read More about TaWRKY10 transcription factor is a novel Jasmonic Acid signalling regulator involved in immunity against Septoria tritici blotch disease in wheat.

Towards understanding the multifaceted role of SUMOylation in plant growth and development (2020)
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Srivastava, M., Sadanandom, A., & Srivastava, A. K. (2020). Towards understanding the multifaceted role of SUMOylation in plant growth and development. Physiologia Plantarum, 171(1), 77-85. https://doi.org/10.1111/ppl.13204

Post‐translational modifications (PTMs) play a critical role in regulating plant growth and development through the modulation of protein functionality and its interaction with its partners. Analysis of the functional implication of PTMs on plant cel... Read More about Towards understanding the multifaceted role of SUMOylation in plant growth and development.

SUMO Conjugation to BZR1 Enables Brassinosteroid Signaling to Integrate Environmental Cues to Shape Plant Growth (2020)
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Srivastava, M., Srivastava, A. K., Orosa-Puente, B., Campanaro, A., Zhang, C., & Sadanandom, A. (2020). SUMO Conjugation to BZR1 Enables Brassinosteroid Signaling to Integrate Environmental Cues to Shape Plant Growth. Current Biology, 30(8), 1423.e3-1423.e3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.01.089

Brassinosteroids (BRs) play crucial roles in plant development, but little is known of mechanisms that integrate environmental cues into BR signaling. Conjugation to the small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO) is emerging as an important mechanism to tr... Read More about SUMO Conjugation to BZR1 Enables Brassinosteroid Signaling to Integrate Environmental Cues to Shape Plant Growth.

Identification of Transgene-Free CRISPR-Edited Plants of Rice, Tomato, and Arabidopsis by Monitoring DsRED Fluorescence in Dry Seeds (2019)
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Aliaga-Franco, N., Zhang, C., Presa, S., Srivastava, A. K., Granell, A., Alabadí, D., Sadanandom, A., Blázquez, M. A., & Minguet, E. G. (2019). Identification of Transgene-Free CRISPR-Edited Plants of Rice, Tomato, and Arabidopsis by Monitoring DsRED Fluorescence in Dry Seeds. Frontiers in Plant Science, 10, Article 1150. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.01150

Efficient elimination of the editing machinery remains a challenge in plant biotechnology after genome editing to minimize the probability of off-target mutations, but it is also important to deliver end users with edited plants free of foreign DNA.... Read More about Identification of Transgene-Free CRISPR-Edited Plants of Rice, Tomato, and Arabidopsis by Monitoring DsRED Fluorescence in Dry Seeds.

SUMO conjugation to the pattern recognition receptor FLS2 triggers intracellular signalling in plant innate immunity (2018)
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Orosa, B., Yates, G., Verma, V., Srivastava, A. K., Srivastava, M., Campanaro, A., De Vega, D., Fernandes, A., Zhang, C., Lee, J., Bennett, M. J., & Sadanandom, A. (2018). SUMO conjugation to the pattern recognition receptor FLS2 triggers intracellular signalling in plant innate immunity. Nature Communications, 9(1), Article 5185. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07696-8

Detection of conserved microbial patterns by host cell surface pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) activates innate immunity. The FLAGELLIN-SENSITIVE 2 (FLS2) receptor perceives bacterial flagellin and recruits another PRR, BAK1 and the cytoplasmic-... Read More about SUMO conjugation to the pattern recognition receptor FLS2 triggers intracellular signalling in plant innate immunity.

SUMO Suppresses the Activity of the Jasmonic Acid Receptor CORONATINE INSENSITIVE1 (2018)
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Srivastava, A. K., Orosa, B., Singh, P., Cummins, I., Walsh, C., Zhang, C., Grant, M., Roberts, M. R., Anand, G. S., Fitches, E., & Sadanandom, A. (2018). SUMO Suppresses the Activity of the Jasmonic Acid Receptor CORONATINE INSENSITIVE1. The Plant Cell, 30(9), 2099-2115. https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.18.00036

Plants respond rapidly to sudden environmental cues, often responding prior to changes in the hormone levels that coordinate these responses. How this is achieved is not fully understood. The integrative role of the phytohormone jasmonic acid (JA) re... Read More about SUMO Suppresses the Activity of the Jasmonic Acid Receptor CORONATINE INSENSITIVE1.

Exploiting protein modification systems to boost crop productivity: SUMO proteases in focus (2018)
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Garrido, E., Srivastava, A. K., & Sadanandom, A. (2018). Exploiting protein modification systems to boost crop productivity: SUMO proteases in focus. Journal of Experimental Botany, 69(19), 4625-4632. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/ery222

In recent years, post-translational modification (PTM) of proteins has emerged as a key process that integrates plant growth and response to a changing environment. During the processes of domestication and breeding, plants were selected for various... Read More about Exploiting protein modification systems to boost crop productivity: SUMO proteases in focus.

SUMO Is a Critical Regulator of Salt Stress Responses in Rice (2016)
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Srivastava, A. K., Zhang, C., Yates, G., Bailey, M., Brown, A., & Sadanandom, A. (2016). SUMO Is a Critical Regulator of Salt Stress Responses in Rice. Plant Physiology, 170, 2378-2391. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.15.01530

SUMO (Small Ubiquitin-like Modifier) conjugation onto target proteins has emerged as a very influential class of protein modification systems. SUMO1/2 double mutant plants are nonviable, underlining the importance of SUMO conjugation to plant surviva... Read More about SUMO Is a Critical Regulator of Salt Stress Responses in Rice.

Stability of small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO) proteases OVERLY TOLERANT TO SALT1 and -2 modulates salicylic acid signalling and SUMO1/2 conjugation in Arabidopsis thaliana (2015)
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Bailey, M., Srivastava, A., Conti, L., Nelis, S., Zhang, C., Florance, H., …Sadanandom, A. (2016). Stability of small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO) proteases OVERLY TOLERANT TO SALT1 and -2 modulates salicylic acid signalling and SUMO1/2 conjugation in Arabidopsis thaliana. Journal of Experimental Botany, 67(1), 353-363. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erv468

Small ubiquitin-like modifier proteases 1 and 2 (SUMO1/2) have been linked to the regulation of salicylic acid (SA)-mediated defence signalling in Arabidopsis thaliana. In order to define the role of the SUMO proteases OVERLY TOLERANT TO SALT1 and -2... Read More about Stability of small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO) proteases OVERLY TOLERANT TO SALT1 and -2 modulates salicylic acid signalling and SUMO1/2 conjugation in Arabidopsis thaliana.

Destabilization of interaction between cytokinin signaling intermediates AHP1 and ARR4 modulates Arabidopsis development (2015)
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Verma, V., Sivaraman, J., Srivastava, A., Sadanandom, A., & Kumar, P. (2015). Destabilization of interaction between cytokinin signaling intermediates AHP1 and ARR4 modulates Arabidopsis development. New Phytologist, 206(2), 726-737. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.13297

Eukaryotic two-component signaling involves the His–Asp–His–Asp multistep phosphorelay (MSP). In Arabidopsis thaliana, cytokinin-mediated MSP signaling intermediates include histidine kinases (HKs), histidine phosphotransfer proteins (Hpts) and respo... Read More about Destabilization of interaction between cytokinin signaling intermediates AHP1 and ARR4 modulates Arabidopsis development.