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BRIC-National Institute of Plant Genome Research

An Autonomous Institute of Biotechnology Research and Innovation Council
Deptartment of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology
Government of India

Sowing seeds for a better tomorrow

Dr. Ashverya Laxmi

Staff Scientist VI

Profile

Research Interests

Plants being sessile have developed a sophisticated machinery to perceive and respond to continuously changing environmental conditions. The exogenous signal is perceived either via membrane bound receptors, cytosolic receptors or receptors associated with different intracellular organelles. After the perception of the signal, a cascade of events starts which transduce it to the plant gene machinery to modulate gene expression and in turn plant development. These signaling cascades may involve different events such as changed ca2+ ion homeostasis, phosphorylation/dephsphorylation reactions, protein-protein interactions and so on. Earlier, this whole cascade was believed to be linear i.e. one signal evoking only one signaling pathway but with the plethora of reports pouring in, it is becoming increasingly clear that all these signaling pathways interact with each other and rather than being linear they are intermingled and are part of a web. Broadly speaking, one stimulus rather than evoking one signaling event can interact with several other signaling pathways so as to optimally modulate plant growth and development. These signaling interactions can happen at any level i.e. sharing of signaling components by multiple pathways, or convergence of signaling pathways at the level of transcription factors or further downstream at the promoter of the affected gene itself. There are several reports existing in plants, where light, hormone, sugar and stress signaling pathways have been shown to be interacting. Our group at NIPGR has been involved in characterizing these molecular interactions using Arabidopsis thaliana as a modal plant. The information generated would be employed for improving agronomically important traits in crop plants.

Awards & Honors

J C Bose National Fellowship, SERB-DST, India (2021)

Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc), India (2021)

Fellow, Indian National Science Academy (INSA), India (2021)

Fellow, The National Academy of Sciences (NASI), India (2016)

National Women Bioscientist Award 2015 (Young category, Department of Biotechnology)

Career

2023 - till date Staff Scientist VI, National Institute for Plant Genome Research

2018-2023 - Staff Scientist V, National Institute for Plant Genome Research

2014-2018 - Staff Scientist IV, National Institute for Plant Genome Research

2010-2014 - Staff Scientist III, National Institute for Plant Genome Research

2006-2010 - Staff Scientist II, National Institute for Plant Genome Research

2005-2006 - Post Doctoral Fellow, Samuel Robert Noble Foundation, Oklahoma, USA

2004-2005 Research Scientist, Centre of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi

2003-2004 - Post Doctoral Fellow, Ohio State University, Ohio, USA

2002-2003 - SRF, Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi

1997-2002 - Ph.D. in Plant Molecular Biology from the Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi

Current Members

Dr. Anjali Pande

Dr M K Bhan Fellow

Deciphering the role of Nitric oxide in mediating thermomemory in plants

Dr. Harsha Samtani

Research Associate

Cytokinin signaling in thermomemory

Dr. Aishwarye Sharma

DBT-Research Associate

Functional Genomics in Rice

Dr. Sheeba Naaz

Project Associate II

Role of NO in Plants Thermomemory

Ms. Harshita Bharti Saksena

Ph.D. Student

Sugar-phytohormone interaction

Mr. Prakhar

Ph.D. Student

Sugar signaling

Mr. Sanjay Singh Rawat

Ph.D. Student

Sugar and Phytohormone signaling in root development

Mr. Halidev Krishna Botta

Ph.D. Student

Cytokinin signaling in abiotic stress tolerance

Ms. Shital Sandhya

Ph.D. Student

Energy Signaling in abiotic Stress Tolerance

Mr. Brihaspati N. Shukla

Technical Assistant

Former Group Members

Dr. Bhuwaneshwar S. Mishra

Assistant Professor (Ad-hoc)
Ram Gulam Rai P. G. College
Bankta Shiv Sallahpur Deoria,

Dr. Sunita Kushwah

Postdoctoral Fellow,

Umea Plant Science Centre, Umea, Sweden

Dr. Aditi Gupta

Senior Scientist

CSIR-NBRI, Lucknow

Dr. Manjul Singh

DBT-Ramalingswami Fellow

Molecular biology & biotechnology division

CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI)

Dr. Zeeshan Zahoor

Research Professional (Staff)
Department of Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology, The University of
Chicago, USAтАЛ

Dr. Muhammed Jamsheer K

Postdoctoral Fellow
Dept. of Immunobiology, University of Lausanne
Epalinges, SwitzerlandтАЛ

Dr. Sunita Jindal

Postdoctoral Researcher,
Institute of Plant Molecular Biology iology Centre CAS
Czech Republic

Dr. Mohan A. Sharma

Post-doctoral fellow,
University of Freiburg, GermanyтАЛ

Dr. Dhriti Singh

Postdoc Fellow
Johannes Hanson’s Group Ume├е Plant Science Centre┬а Department of Plant Physiology
907 36 Ume├е, Sweden

Dr. Manvi Sharma

Post Doctoral Researcher
Department of Forest Genetics and
Plant Physiology,
SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES, Umea, Sweden

Dr. Archna Tiwari

Sugar and phytohormone interaction in shade response

Publications

Jindal S, Kerchev P, Berka M, Cerny M, Botta HK,┬аLaxmi A*, Brzobohaty B (2022) Type-A response regulators negatively mediate heat stress response by altering redox homeostasis in Arabidopsis.┬аFront. Plant Sci. 13:968139. (*Correspondence)

Sharma M, Sharma M, Jamsheer KM,┬аLaxmi A┬а(2022) A glucose-TOR signaling axis integrates environmental history of heat stress through maintenance of transcription-associated epigenetic memory in Arabidopsis.┬аJ. Exp. Bot., 73(20):7083-7102

Agrawal R, Sharma M, Dwivedi N, Maji S, Thakur P, Junaid A, Fajkus J,┬аLaxmi A*, Thakur JK (2022) MEDIATOR SUBUNIT17 integrates jasmonate and auxin signaling pathways to regulate thermomorphogenesis.┬аPlant Physiol. 189(4):2259-2280

Jamsheer KM, Jindal S, Sharma M, Awasthi P, Sreejath S, Sharma M, Mannully CT,┬аLaxmi A┬а(2022) A negative feedback loop of TOR signaling balances growth and stress-response trade-offs in plants.┬аCell Reports 39(1), 110631

Sharma M, Sharma Mohan, Jamsheer KM, Laxmi A (2022) Jasmonic acid coordinates with light, glucose and auxin signalling in regulating branching angle of Arabidopsis lateral roots.┬аPlant Cell Environ. 45:1554-1572

Sharma M, Jamsheer KM, Shukla BN, Sharma M, Awasthi P, Mahtha SK, Yadav G,┬аLaxmi A┬а(2021) Arabidopsis Target of Rapamycin Coordinates with Transcriptional and Epigenetic Machinery to Regulate Thermotolerance. Front.┬аPlant Sci. 12:741965.

Sharma M, Banday Z, Shukla BN, Laxmi A (2019) Glucose regulated Arabidopsis HLP1 acts as a key molecule in governing thermomemory.┬аPlant Physiol. 180: 1-20.

Jamsheer KM, Shukla BN, Jindal S, Gopan N, Mannully CT,┬аLaxmi A┬а(2018) The FCS-like zinc finger scaffold of the kinase SnRK1 is formed by the coordinated actions of the FLZ domain and intrinsically disordered regions.┬аJ Biol Chem. 293(34):13134-13150.

Jamsheer KM, Sharma M, Singh D, Mannully CT, Jindal S, Shukla BN,┬аLaxmi A┬а(2018) FCS-Like Zinc Finger 6 and 10 repress SnRK1 signalling in Arabidopsis.┬аPlant J. 94: 232-245.

Singh M, Gupta A, Singh D, Khurana JP,┬аLaxmi A┬а(2017) Arabidopsis RSS1 mediates cross- talk between glucose and light signaling during hypocotyl elongation growth.┬аScientific Reports 7: 16101.

Gupta A, Singh M,┬аLaxmi A┬а(2015) Multiple interactions between glucose and brassinosteroid signal transduction pathway in Arabidopsis are uncovered by whole-genome transcriptional profiling.┬аPlant Physiol. 168(3): 1091-1105.

Gupta A, Singh M,┬аLaxmi A┬а(2015) Interaction between glucose and brassinosteroid during the regulation of lateral root development in Arabidopsis.┬аPlant Physiol. 168(1): 307-320.

Singh M, Gupta A,┬аLaxmi A┬а(2014) Glucose control of root growth direction in Arabidopsis thaliana.┬аJ. Exp. Bot. 65(12): 2981-2993.

Kushwah S,┬аLaxmi A┬а(2014) The interaction between glucose and cytokinin signal transduction pathway in Arabidopsis thaliana.┬аPlant Cell Environ. 37(1): 235-53.

Gupta A, Singh M, Jones AM,┬аLaxmi A┬а(2012) Hypocotyl directional growth in Arabidopsis: A complex trait. Plant Physiol. 159(4): 1463-1476.

Kushwah S, Jones AM,┬аLaxmi A┬а(2011) Cytokinin interplay with ethylene, auxin and glucose signaling controls Arabidopsis seedling root directional growth.┬аPlant Physiol. 156(4): 1851-1866.

Murray JD, Muni RR, Torres-Jerez I, Tang Y, Allen S, Andriankaia M, Li G,┬аLaxmi A, Cheng X, Wen J, Vaughan D, Schultze M, Sun J, Chamentier M, Oldroyd D, Tadege M, Ratet P, Mysore KS, Chen R, Udvardi MK (2011) Vapyrin, a gene essential for intracellular progression of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis, is also essential for infection by rhizobia in the nodule symbiosis of Medicago truncatula.┬аPlant J. 65(2): 244-52.

Tripathi V, Parasuraman B,┬аLaxmi A, Chattopadhyay D (2009) CIPK6, a CBL-interacting protein kinase is required for development and salt tolerance in plant.┬аPlant J. 58: 778-90.

Laxmi A, Paul LK, Chaudhuri AR, Peters JL and Khurana JP (2006) Arabidopsis cytokinin resistant mutant, cnr1, displays altered auxin response and sugar sensitivity.┬аPlant Mol. Biol. 62: 409-425.

Laxmi A, Paul LK, Peters JL and Khurana JP (2004) Arabidopsis constitutive photomorphogenic mutant bls1, displays altered brassinosteroid response and sugar sensitivity.┬аPlant Mol. Biol. 56: 185-201.

Price J,┬аLaxmi A, St. Martin SK, and Jang JC (2004) Global transcription profiling reveals multiple sugar signalling mechanisms in Arabidopsis.┬аPlant Cell 16(8): 2128-2150.

Other Research Publications

Rawat SS, Sandhya S,┬аLaxmi A┬а(2024) Complex genetic interaction between glucose sensor HXK1 and E3 SUMO ligase SIZ1 in regulating plant morphogenesis.┬аPlant Signal. Behav. 19(1):e2341506. (Review)

Jamsheer KM, Awaasthi P,┬аLaxmi A┬а(2022) The Social Network of TORC1 in plants.┬аJ. Exp. Bot., 73(20), 7026-7040.┬а(Review)

Mishra BS, Sharma M,┬аLaxmi A┬а(2022) Role of sugar and auxin crosstalk in plant growth and development.┬аPhysiologia Plantarum. 174: e13546. (Review)

Sharma M, Singh D, Saksena HB, Sharma M, Tiwari A, Awasthi P, Botta HK, Shukla BN, Laxmi A (2021) Understanding the Intricate Web of Phytohormone Signalling in Modulating Root System Architecture.┬аInt. J. Mol. Sci. 22(11): 5508.┬а(Review)

Saksena HB, Sharma M, Singh D,┬аLaxmi A┬а(2020) The versatile role of glucose signalling in regulating growth, development and stress responses in plants.┬аJ. Plant Biochem. Biotechnol. 29(4): 687-699. (Review)

Jamsheer KM, Jindal S,┬аLaxmi A┬а(2019) Evolution of TOR-SnRK dynamics in green plants and its integration with phytohormone signaling networks.┬аJ. Exp. Bot. 70(8):2239-2259. (Review)

Jamsheer KM, Singh D, Sharma M, Sharma M, Jindal S, Mannully CT, Shukla BN,┬аLaxmi A┬а(2019) The FCS-LIKE ZINC FINGER 6 and 10 are involved in regulating osmotic stress responses in Arabidopsis.┬аPlant Signal. Behav. 14(6):1592535.

Mishra BS, Jamsheer KM, Singh D, Sharma M,┬аLaxmi A┬а(2017) Genome-wide identification and expression, protein-protein interaction and evolutionary analysis of the seed plant-specific big grain and big grain like gene family. Front. Plant Sci. 8:1812.

Singh M, Gupta A and┬аLaxmi A┬а(2017) Striking the right chord: signaling enigma during root gravitropism.┬аFront. Plant Sci. 8:1304.┬а(Review)

Kushwah S,┬аLaxmi A┬а(2017) The interaction between glucose and cytokinin signaling in controlling Arabidopsis seedling root growth and development.┬аPlant Signal. Behav.: e1312241.

Sharma M,┬аLaxmi A┬а(2016) Jasmonates: emerging players in controlling temperature stress tolerance.┬аFront. Plant Sci. 6: 1129. (Review)

Singh D,┬аLaxmi A┬а(2015) Transcriptional regulation of drought response: A Tortuous network of transcriptional factors.┬аFront. Plant Sci. 6: 895. (Review)

Jamsheer KM,┬аLaxmi A┬а(2015) Expression of Arabidopsis FCS-Like Zinc Finger genes is differentially regulated by sugars, cellular energy level, and abiotic stress.┬аFront. Plant Sci. 6: 746.

Jamsheer KM, Mannully CT, Gopan N,┬аLaxmi A┬а(2015) Comprehensive evolutionary and expression analysis of FCS-Like Zinc Finger gene family yields insights into their origin, expansion and divergence.┬аPLoS ONE 10(8): e0134328.

Singh M, Gupta A,┬аLaxmi A┬а(2015) Ethylene acts as a negative regulator of glucose induced lateral root emergence in Arabidopsis.┬аPlant Signal. Behav. 10(9): e1058460.

Singh M, Gupta A,┬аLaxmi A┬а(2014) Glucose and phytohormone interplay in controlling root directional growth in Arabidopsis.┬аPlant Signal. Behav. 9: e29219.

Jamsheer KM,┬аLaxmi A┬а(2014) Domain of unknown function 581 is plant specific FCS-Like Zinc Finger involved in protein-protein interaction.┬аPLoS ONE 9(6): e99074.

Kushwah S, Jones AM,┬аLaxmi A┬а(2011) Cytokinin-induced root growth involves actin filament reorganization.┬аPlant Signal. Behav. 6: 11, 1848-1850.

Gupta A, Singh M, Mishra BS, Kushwah S,┬аLaxmi A┬а(2009) Role of glucose in spatial distribution of auxin regulated genes.┬аPlant Signal. Behav. 4(9): 862-863.

Tripathi V, Syed N,┬аLaxmi A, Chattopadhyay D (2009) Role of CIPK6 in root growth and auxin transport.┬аPlant Signal. Behav. 4(7): 663-665.

Mishra BS, Singh M, Aggrawal P,┬аLaxmi A┬а(2009) Glucose and auxin signaling interaction in controlling Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings root growth and development.┬аPLoS ONE 4(2): e4502.

Laxmi A, Pan J, Morsy M and Chen R (2008) Light plays an essential role in intracellular distribution of auxin efflux carrier PIN2 in Arabidopsis thaliana.┬аPLoS ONE 3(1): e1510.

Book Chapters/Monographs

Sharma M, Saksena HB, Botta HK, Laxmi A (2023) Understanding the role of phytohormones in governing heat, cold, and freezing stress response In: Plant Hormones in Crop Improvement. Eds: M. Iqbal in Elsevier Inc., Pages 205-234 ISBN978-0-323-91886-2

Sharma M,┬аLaxmi A┬а(2023) Deciphering the physiological and molecular functions of phytohormones In: Plant Hormones in Crop Improvement. Eds: M. Iqbal in Elsevier Inc., Pages 15-40┬аISBN978-0-323-91886-2

Gupta A, Singh M, Singh D,┬аLaxmi A┬а(2022) Cross-talk between brassinosteroids and other phytohormones: biological functions and molecular mechanism. In: Brassinosteroids in plant developmental biology and stress tolerance. eds: Golam Jalal Ahammed, in Elsevier Publisher, Pages 131-159.┬аISBN978-0-12-813227-2

Awasthi P,┬аLaxmi A┬а(2021) Root Architectural Plasticity in Changing Nutrient Availability. In: Rhizobiology: Molecular Physiology of Plant Roots. Eds: Saumya Mukherjee in Springer, Cham. pp 25-37,┬аISBN978-3-030-84984-9

Saksena HB,┬аLaxmi A┬а(2021) Rooting the Right Way: Role of Glucose Signaling in Regulating Root Development in Plants In: Rhizobiology: Molecular Physiology of Plant Roots. Eds: Saumya Mukherjee in Springer, Cham. pp 115-127, ISBN978-3-030-84984-9

Sharma M,┬аLaxmi A┬а(2021) Jasmonates: A Thorough Insight into the Mechanism of Biosynthesis, Signaling and Action in Root Growth and Development. In: Rhizobiology: Molecular Physiology of Plant Roots. Eds: Saumya Mukherjee in Springer, Cham. pp 283-306,┬аISBN978-3-030-84984-9

Sharma M, Jamsheer KM, Saksena HB, Jindal S, Sharma M, Singh D, Tiwari A, Awasthi P,┬аLaxmi A┬а(2020) Balancing Growth and Defense: Role of Target of Rapamycin and SNF1-Related Protein Kinase 1 in Stress Signaling in Plants in Protein Kinases and Stress Signaling in Plants: Functional Genomic Perspective, eds: Girdhar K. Pandey, Wiley Publisher. pp 105-132,┬аISBN: 9781119541578

Saksena HB, Singh D, Sharma M, Jindal S, Sharma M, Tiwari A, Rawat SS, Laxmi A (2020) Protein Phosphatases at the Interface of Sugar and Hormone Signaling Pathways to Balance Growth and Stress Responses in Plants. In: Protein Phosphatases and Stress Management in Plants, eds: in Springer, Cham. pp 103-123.┬аISBN 978-3-030-48733-1

Jamsheer KM, Jindal S, Sharma M, Sharma M, Singh D, Tiwari A, Saksena HB, Mishra B, Kushwah S, Banday ZZ and┬аLaxmi A┬а(2019) Plant sensory perception and responses: A tale of sugars and hormones. In: Sensory Biology of Plants, eds: SK Sopory, Springer Publisher. pp323-360,┬аISBN: 978-981-13-8921-4

Singh M, Gupta A,┬аLaxmi A┬а(2015) Glucose and brassinosteroid signaling network in controlling plant growth and development under different environmental conditions. In Mechanism of Plant Hormone Signaling under Stress, eds Giridhar Pandey, publisher Wiley, pp 443-469,┬аISBN:9781118889022

Laxmi A,┬аGupta A, Mishra BS, Singh M, Jamsheer KM, Kushwah S (2013) Signal integration, auxin homeostasis, and plant development. In R. Chen and F. Baluska, eds, Polar Auxin Transport, Signaling and Communication in Plants, 17, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp 45-79.┬аISBN978-3-642-35298-0

Khurana JP, Tyagi AK, Khurana P, Kochhar A, Jain PK, Raychaudhuri A, Chawla R, Bharti AK,┬аLaxmi A┬аand Dasgupta U (1999) Molecular genetic analysis of constitutively photomorphogenic mutants of Arabidopsis in: S.K. Sopory, S.C. Maheshwari and R. Oelmuller, (s), Signal transduction in plants – Current Advances, pp.┬а25-37. Kluwer Academic Publishers, New York

Khurana JP, Dasgupta U,┬аLaxmi A, Kumar D and Paul LK (2004) Light Control of Plant Development by Phytochromes: A Perspective.┬аProceedings Indian National Science Academy, B70: 379-411.

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