Ajeet Chaudhary

🪴Postdoc position - UT Austin, TX, USA
- Developmental Mechanisms of Adaptation to Underwater Environment/Genome Editing🪴
Do you love amphibious/aquatic plants? Then consider applying to the position! See the attached ads.
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Wise words from Miltos "Be intellectually humble — if you are studying an interesting question, remember that the question is bigger than one’s intellect. Put your ego aside so you can learn from others, read a lot and respect your co-workers and colleagues at all levels."🙏

Goes along with saying” Never argue in front of data”

In conversation with Dr. Cyril Zipfel Click on the article title to read more.

In conversation with Dr. Cyril Zipfel - Valdez - 2026 - The Plant Journal - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Save the date: the 5th International Brassinosteroid conference will be held in Guangzhou, China, from November 13–15, 2026, hosted by Guangzhou University.

Ethylene modulates cell wall mechanics for root responses to compaction - Nature Soil compaction traps ethylene around roots, which causes transcriptional upregulation of Auxin Response Factor1, resulting in decreased root cortical cell wall thickness and thereby promoting root ra...

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New episode of #No_Time_To_Read podcast of this year!

I had a wonderful discussion with Heather about her Cell Reports paper.

Podcast: tinyurl.com/a9vcteru
Article: tinyurl.com/4dhxuye2

We’re #hiring a #postdoc @ucriverside.bsky.social 🌿
Work on cis-regulatory evolution, gene family diversification, and cell-type-specific climate responses using single-cell and comparative genomics - kenchanmanelab.com/research/

Deadline: Feb 5, 2026
Apply: aprecruit.ucr.edu/apply/JPF02058

Feeling grateful to be part of the Carnegie Institution for Science as it celebrates 125 years of curiosity- driven discovery. Honored to contribute, even in a small way, to this legacy @carnegiescince

Aging drives a program of DNA methylation decay in plant organs Plants display a wide range of life spans and aging rates. Although dynamic changes to DNA methylation are a hallmark of aging in mammals, it is unclear whether similar molecular signatures reflect ra...

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An uORF-encoded mobile peptide sparks systemic stomatal immunity In Arabidopsis, the uORF-encoded long-distance mobile peptide USIC in pathogen-infected local leaves activates systemic stomatal immunity, leading to stomatal closure in uninfected distal leaves.

An uORF-encoded mobile peptide sparks systemic stomatal immunity: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

image of a maize inflorescence meristem that is labeled by the plasma membrane marker PIP2-CFP and BAM1D-YFP.

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Excited to share my latest work in @newphyt.bsky.social. Here, we used TurboID proximity labeling with CLAVATA receptors FEA3 and BAM1D in maize meristems to better understand the signaling pathways important for meristem regulation. #PlantScience

A negative feedback loop between TERMINAL FLOWER1 and LEAFY protects inflorescence indeterminacy Inflorescences of flowering plants adopt diverse genetically programmed and environmentally tuned architectures. By contrast, continued maintenance of the stem-cell pool within the apical meristem is ...

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Are you a postdoc in plant biology? 🌾🧪

We invite you to join a community of 500+ postdoctoral researchers around the world. plantpostdocs.com/join-us/

Save the date: Plant Development PhD school (i.e. Retzbach 2.0) in Neustadt, Germany.

Sept 23rd-25th, 2026
~€350 all inclusive

Excellent speakers and a relaxed atmosphere for early-career researchers (PhDs & postdocs). Registration opens soon.

For more info, see
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I have written a couple of threads 🧵 on "classic" #PlantScience papers. I always tag them with #PlantScienceClassics , but will also compile them here in this thread: 👇

New alleles of Arabidopsis BIK1 reinforce its predominant role in pattern-triggered immunity and caution interpretations of other reported functions

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At the end of 2024 I did a chronological round up of all the #plantscience in @science.org that year.
So how did 2025 pan out? This year, I’m grouping papers thematically instead of chronologically so read on to find out what exciting plant science came out over the last 12 months. (1/22)

CRISPR-Cas–mediated heritable chromosome fusions in Arabidopsis The genome of Arabidopsis thaliana consists of 10 chromosomes. By inducing CRISPR-Cas–mediated breaks at subcentromeric and subtelomeric sequences, we fused entire chromosome arms, obtaining two eight...

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It was so much fun talking to you and sharing the backstory !!! Thank you for doing this @aribidopsis.bsky.social

Cell wall patterning regulates plant stem cell dynamics The plant cell wall regulates development through spatiotemporal modulation of its chemical and mechanical properties. Pectin methylesterification is recognized as a rheological switch controlling wal...

Thrilled to have our paper out in @science.org. Cell division guides plant cell wall formation. Does the reverse hold? We show that bimodal pectin methylesterification, via PME5 mRNA nuclear sequestration, influences plant cell division and cell plate orientation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Blue Light Promotes Root Iron Acquisition via a Shoot CRY-HY5 Signaling Module in Arabidopsis. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.02.686065v1

Localized glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization Plant roots release exudates to encourage microbiome assembly, which influences the function and stress resilience of plants. How specific exudates drive spatial colonization patterns remains largely ...

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Very excited to share that our paper "A RALF-brassinosteorid signaling circuit regulates Arabidopsis hypocotyl cell shape" is now published in @currentbiology.bsky.social !

Enjoy reading it!!

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📣Magnifying a new initiative from MASC (Multi-national Arabidopsis Steering Committee) to support colleagues in need
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Please read the document and return comments to Thorsten Hamann (thorsten.hamann@ntnu.no) by Oct. 15th. Please share.
#arabidopsis #community #plantscience

That’s awesome, congratulations Neha !!

Friday couldn’t get better !!! I am excited to share news that our research proposal got funded!!!

Plant cells at the organ surface use mechanical cues to activate a specific growth control programme During morphogenesis of multicellular organs, cells acquire distinct identities that meet specific functional requirements. Epidermal identity is widely considered essential for plant morphogenesis du...

Thrilled to share our latest work: how plants control growth through activation of a surface-specific growth programme. Thanks @zoenv.bsky.social, @nathan-german.bsky.social and the other coauthors for all the hard work! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We learned a lot about plant cell wall mechanics by stretching the Arabidopsis epidermis. Now published in
‪@natcomms.nature.com‬ Fibrous network nature of plant cell walls enables tunable mechanics for development
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Our latest on brassinosteroid signaling: Ligand binding spectrum, specificity & selectivity of all BR receptors in Arabidopsis. By @albertocaregnato.bsky.social , @hmchen93.bsky.social and our great chemistry collaborators Mirek Kvasnica, Jana Oklestkova and Mirek Strnad.