Ajeet Chaudhary

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.

Joanne Chory (1955–2024): Plant geneticist extraordinaire | PNAS Joanne Chory (1955–2024) was a pioneering biologist whose research transformed our understanding of plant growth and development. Her groundbreakin...

Jennifer Nemhauser’s and my tribute to our amazing friend and mentor, the extraordinary Joanne Chory.

Read about our personal and professional reminiscences. Thanks to all who provided background for this.

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Our new work lead by Anuphon. Cryo Structure of CARD1 reveals copper in the ecodomain, required for sensing H202. The phenotype of card1 is same as rbohd, suggesting ROS produced by RBOHD is sensed by CARD1.

Woohoo! We made the cover! Huge thanks to our very own Yizhong Yuan for the amazing artwork!
FERONIA signaling maintains cell wall integrity during brassinosteroid-induced cell expansion in Arabidopsis: Molecular Plant cell.com/molecular-plan…

Thank you Jose for all the support and advice. 🙏🏻

Moisture-responsive root-branching pathways identified in diverse maize breeding germplasm Plants grow complex root systems to extract unevenly distributed resources from soils. Spatial differences in soil moisture are perceived by root tips, leading to the patterning of new root branches t...

(1/2) Three #plantscience papers in @science.org this week:
Scharwies et al find that ethylene, auxin and an arabinogalactan protein work together to control lateral root branching in response to water availability in maize
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Great work by Chaudhary et al. (2025) on how #FERONIA (FER), a cell wall integrity sensor, is essential for limiting #PlantCellWall damage and preventing cell rupture during #brassinosteroid (BR)-induced cell elongation in #Arabidopsis.
BR signaling promotes FER accumulation at the plasma membrane.

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FERONIA signaling maintains cell wall integrity during brassinosteroid-induced cell expansion in Arabidopsis Plant cell expansion is regulated by hormones and driven by turgor pressure, which stretches the cell wall and can potentially cause wall damage or ru…

Happy to see that our manuscript finally found home.
"FERONIA signaling maintains cell wall integrity during brassinosteroid"... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The blue-light receptor CRY1 serves as a switch to balance photosynthesis and plant defense Previously, photoreceptors were regarded as a switch for growth control. Hao et al. found that CRY1 acts as dual-control switch to regulate the growth-defense trade-off. LURP1 re-localizes to the plasma membrane upon N-terminal palmitoylation in a calcium- and blue-light-dependent manner after flg22 elicitation to activate immune receptors and promote immunity.

The blue-light photoreceptor CRY1 mediates pathogen-responsive stomatal movement and plant immunity via the light-responsive protein LURP1 and cell surface immune receptor FLS2!

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Protocol for isolating RNA from the surfaces and apoplastic spaces of plant leaves.

Very happy to start the new year with publication of our new work on leaf surface RNA. Plant leaves secrete diverse RNAs that are surprisingly stable on their surfaces. Next question to answer: What do they do? www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....

We (PlantPostdocs) are excited to announce our fall academic webinar. Panelists Clint Chapple, Tomokazu Kawashima, Marisa Otegui, and Chelsea Specht will discuss faculty search committee perspectives on job applications!
Registration: tinyurl.com/2yfpwe74