Santosh Satbhai
@santoshsatbhai.bsky.social
Faculty of Biological Sciences at IISER Mohali. Studying Plant -Environmental interactions.
Lab website: https://www.sbslab.co.in/
Lab website: https://www.sbslab.co.in/
Pinned
Danger‐associated peptide modulates iron deficiency signaling and root growth in Arabidopsis
Iron (Fe) is an essential micronutrient for plants and humans, with plants being a primary dietary Fe source. Fe availability significantly affects plant health, development, and yield. Its deficien...
doi.org
Happy to share that our new study is now published online in @newphyt.bsky.social
We showed dat the PEP2–PEPR2 signaling module plays a key role in Fe-deficiency responses and root growth in Arabidopsis.
doi.org/10.1111/nph....
We showed dat the PEP2–PEPR2 signaling module plays a key role in Fe-deficiency responses and root growth in Arabidopsis.
doi.org/10.1111/nph....
Happy to share that our new study is now published online in @newphyt.bsky.social
We showed dat the PEP2–PEPR2 signaling module plays a key role in Fe-deficiency responses and root growth in Arabidopsis.
doi.org/10.1111/nph....
We showed dat the PEP2–PEPR2 signaling module plays a key role in Fe-deficiency responses and root growth in Arabidopsis.
doi.org/10.1111/nph....
Danger‐associated peptide modulates iron deficiency signaling and root growth in Arabidopsis
Iron (Fe) is an essential micronutrient for plants and humans, with plants being a primary dietary Fe source. Fe availability significantly affects plant health, development, and yield. Its deficien...
doi.org
December 3, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Happy to share that our new study is now published online in @newphyt.bsky.social
We showed dat the PEP2–PEPR2 signaling module plays a key role in Fe-deficiency responses and root growth in Arabidopsis.
doi.org/10.1111/nph....
We showed dat the PEP2–PEPR2 signaling module plays a key role in Fe-deficiency responses and root growth in Arabidopsis.
doi.org/10.1111/nph....
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🌱 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🌱
Lu et al. review the cysteine-rich peptides RALF and EPF/EPFL, and their roles in regulating growth, development, immune responses and stress adaptation, highlighting new mechanistic insights and challenges in peptide research.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Lu et al. review the cysteine-rich peptides RALF and EPF/EPFL, and their roles in regulating growth, development, immune responses and stress adaptation, highlighting new mechanistic insights and challenges in peptide research.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 11:56 AM
🌱 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🌱
Lu et al. review the cysteine-rich peptides RALF and EPF/EPFL, and their roles in regulating growth, development, immune responses and stress adaptation, highlighting new mechanistic insights and challenges in peptide research.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Lu et al. review the cysteine-rich peptides RALF and EPF/EPFL, and their roles in regulating growth, development, immune responses and stress adaptation, highlighting new mechanistic insights and challenges in peptide research.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Check out the latest pre-print from the lab! This work is led by a very talented PhD student Pooja.
"Blue Light Promotes Root Iron Acquisition via a Shoot CRY-HY5 Signaling Module in Arabidopsis"
#IISERMohali
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
"Blue Light Promotes Root Iron Acquisition via a Shoot CRY-HY5 Signaling Module in Arabidopsis"
#IISERMohali
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Blue Light Promotes Root Iron Acquisition via a Shoot CRY-HY5 Signaling Module in Arabidopsis.
● Iron (Fe) is an essential element for almost all living organisms and its deficiency severely impacts crop productivity and human health. While the mechanisms underlying iron uptake and accumulation...
www.biorxiv.org
November 4, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Check out the latest pre-print from the lab! This work is led by a very talented PhD student Pooja.
"Blue Light Promotes Root Iron Acquisition via a Shoot CRY-HY5 Signaling Module in Arabidopsis"
#IISERMohali
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
"Blue Light Promotes Root Iron Acquisition via a Shoot CRY-HY5 Signaling Module in Arabidopsis"
#IISERMohali
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Santosh Satbhai
Sugarcane has the most complex genome of all crops. New genomics paper reveals origins including mysterious unknown ancestors. ‘The genomic footprints of wild Saccharum species trace domestication, diversification, and modern breeding of sugarcane’ Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... #plantscience 🧪
The genomic footprints of wild Saccharum species trace domestication, diversification, and modern breeding of sugarcane
Genomic analyses of 390 accessions reveal the domestication history of highly polyploid
sugarcane and the wild contributors to its diversification and to modern cultivars.
www.cell.com
October 26, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Sugarcane has the most complex genome of all crops. New genomics paper reveals origins including mysterious unknown ancestors. ‘The genomic footprints of wild Saccharum species trace domestication, diversification, and modern breeding of sugarcane’ Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... #plantscience 🧪
Reposted by Santosh Satbhai
Engineered pattern recognition receptors enhance broad-spectrum plant resistance - @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social go.nature.com/474nnA9
October 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Engineered pattern recognition receptors enhance broad-spectrum plant resistance - @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social go.nature.com/474nnA9
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Unlocking gene regulatory networks for crop resilience and sustainable agriculture
Our new review is now online @natbiotech.nature.com
w/ Richalynn, Xin, Bob, Toshi, & Jorge
A full-text view-only is accessible via rdcu.be/euscD
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our new review is now online @natbiotech.nature.com
w/ Richalynn, Xin, Bob, Toshi, & Jorge
A full-text view-only is accessible via rdcu.be/euscD
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Unlocking gene regulatory networks for crop resilience and sustainable agriculture
Nature Biotechnology - Gene regulatory networks are crucial for understanding complex gene regulation in plants and could advance crop improvement for more sustainable and climate-resilient...
rdcu.be
July 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Unlocking gene regulatory networks for crop resilience and sustainable agriculture
Our new review is now online @natbiotech.nature.com
w/ Richalynn, Xin, Bob, Toshi, & Jorge
A full-text view-only is accessible via rdcu.be/euscD
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our new review is now online @natbiotech.nature.com
w/ Richalynn, Xin, Bob, Toshi, & Jorge
A full-text view-only is accessible via rdcu.be/euscD
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Santosh Satbhai
How plants sense injury in their barrier tissue, periderm? Painstakingly detailed and amazing work by post doc Hiroyuki Iida shows that wounding is sensed by the diffusion of two gases: ethylene and oxygen. @treebiocoe.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu 1/x 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Plants monitor the integrity of their barrier by sensing gas diffusion - Nature
A study using Arabidopsis shows that plants can monitor the integrity of their outer barriers by sensing gas diffusion, enabling them to initiate wound repair to prevent water loss and pathogen entry.
www.nature.com
July 2, 2025 at 4:20 PM
How plants sense injury in their barrier tissue, periderm? Painstakingly detailed and amazing work by post doc Hiroyuki Iida shows that wounding is sensed by the diffusion of two gases: ethylene and oxygen. @treebiocoe.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu 1/x 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Santosh Satbhai
New paper out showcasing the ALFA tag/ALFA nanobody technology for plant protein tagging. www.cell.com/plant-commun...
@lrsv-toulouse.bsky.social @mplantpcom.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social
@lrsv-toulouse.bsky.social @mplantpcom.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social
Broad application of the ALFA tagging technology for in planta nanobody-based imaging and biochemical characterization of plant proteins
Short summary paragraph : The versatile ALFA tag/ALFA Nanobody system enables a wide
range of imaging and biochemical approaches for studying proteins in plants, including
localization, protein:protei...
www.cell.com
July 2, 2025 at 6:56 AM
New paper out showcasing the ALFA tag/ALFA nanobody technology for plant protein tagging. www.cell.com/plant-commun...
@lrsv-toulouse.bsky.social @mplantpcom.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social
@lrsv-toulouse.bsky.social @mplantpcom.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social
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🎉 Congratulations to our director Gwyneth Ingram, awarded the 2025 CNRS Silver Medal!
A well-deserved recognition of her outstanding research in plant developmental biology. 🌱
👉 More info: www.cnrs.fr/fr/actualite...
👉 Her profile: www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/personne/...
A well-deserved recognition of her outstanding research in plant developmental biology. 🌱
👉 More info: www.cnrs.fr/fr/actualite...
👉 Her profile: www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/personne/...
June 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
🎉 Congratulations to our director Gwyneth Ingram, awarded the 2025 CNRS Silver Medal!
A well-deserved recognition of her outstanding research in plant developmental biology. 🌱
👉 More info: www.cnrs.fr/fr/actualite...
👉 Her profile: www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/personne/...
A well-deserved recognition of her outstanding research in plant developmental biology. 🌱
👉 More info: www.cnrs.fr/fr/actualite...
👉 Her profile: www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/personne/...
Reposted by Santosh Satbhai
Foraging for water by MIZ1-mediated antagonism between root gravitropism and hydrotropism
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
#plantscience
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
#plantscience
May 18, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Foraging for water by MIZ1-mediated antagonism between root gravitropism and hydrotropism
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
#plantscience
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
#plantscience
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48-Hour and 24-Hour Time-lapse Single-nucleus Transcriptomics Reveal Cell-type specific Circadian Rhythms in Arabidopsis
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#plantscience
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#plantscience
48-Hour and 24-Hour Time-lapse Single-nucleus Transcriptomics Reveal Cell-type specific Circadian Rhythms in Arabidopsis - Nature Communications
This study employs time-lapse single-nucleus RNA sequencing in Arabidopsis seedlings, revealing distinct circadian rhythms in specific cell types and identifying ABF1 as a regulator that shortens the ...
www.nature.com
May 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
48-Hour and 24-Hour Time-lapse Single-nucleus Transcriptomics Reveal Cell-type specific Circadian Rhythms in Arabidopsis
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#plantscience
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#plantscience
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The TAIR12 genome reannotation has FINALLY been submitted to GenBank. Now we await review and approval. Stay tuned for updates, hopefully within the next month. Thank you to everyone that made this project possible. @labschneeberger.bsky.social @bar-plantbio.bsky.social @sigmafacto.bsky.social
May 6, 2025 at 7:18 PM
The TAIR12 genome reannotation has FINALLY been submitted to GenBank. Now we await review and approval. Stay tuned for updates, hopefully within the next month. Thank you to everyone that made this project possible. @labschneeberger.bsky.social @bar-plantbio.bsky.social @sigmafacto.bsky.social
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We have a postdoc position that just opened up in the Brady lab on reprogramming tomato root system architecture in response to changes in nutrient availability - please consider applying! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07095
Postdoctoral Researcher- Brady Lab
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ucdavis.edu
April 19, 2025 at 2:15 PM
We have a postdoc position that just opened up in the Brady lab on reprogramming tomato root system architecture in response to changes in nutrient availability - please consider applying! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07095
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Thrilled to share my first paper published at Current biology!!
We found that the expression level of one single transcription factor converts beneficial root endophyte into pathogenic guy😈 (1/8) www.cell.com/current-biol...
We found that the expression level of one single transcription factor converts beneficial root endophyte into pathogenic guy😈 (1/8) www.cell.com/current-biol...
A fungal transcription factor converts a beneficial root endophyte into an anthracnose leaf pathogen
Endophytic fungi colonize healthy plant tissues without disease. Ujimatsu et al. reveal
that the fungal transcription factor CtBOT6 triggers the virulence of a root-associated
beneficial endophyte by ...
www.cell.com
April 11, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Thrilled to share my first paper published at Current biology!!
We found that the expression level of one single transcription factor converts beneficial root endophyte into pathogenic guy😈 (1/8) www.cell.com/current-biol...
We found that the expression level of one single transcription factor converts beneficial root endophyte into pathogenic guy😈 (1/8) www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Our institute @iecb.bsky.social is looking for new group leaders. The call is also addressing plant scientists🌱! Join us in the beautiful city of Bordeaux!
www.iecb.u-bordeaux.fr/en/news/grou...
www.iecb.u-bordeaux.fr/en/news/grou...
April 11, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Our institute @iecb.bsky.social is looking for new group leaders. The call is also addressing plant scientists🌱! Join us in the beautiful city of Bordeaux!
www.iecb.u-bordeaux.fr/en/news/grou...
www.iecb.u-bordeaux.fr/en/news/grou...
Excited to share that I've been promoted to Associate Professor at IISER Mohali. I’m deeply grateful to my lab’s current and past members for their hard work. A big thank you to my mentors, especially @rootstrapping.bsky.social and my colleagues for their continuous support!
February 24, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Excited to share that I've been promoted to Associate Professor at IISER Mohali. I’m deeply grateful to my lab’s current and past members for their hard work. A big thank you to my mentors, especially @rootstrapping.bsky.social and my colleagues for their continuous support!
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OUT NOW: Bacteria use exogenous peptidoglycan as a danger signal to trigger biofilm formation
by Knut Drescher & co
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
by Knut Drescher & co
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Bacteria use exogenous peptidoglycan as a danger signal to trigger biofilm formation - Nature Microbiology
Peptidoglycan released by neighbouring kin or non-kin cell lysis induces physiological changes that protect from a range of stresses, including phage predation.
www.nature.com
January 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
OUT NOW: Bacteria use exogenous peptidoglycan as a danger signal to trigger biofilm formation
by Knut Drescher & co
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
by Knut Drescher & co
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Santosh Satbhai
Summer School 2025, Advanced Plant Imaging – API : From super-resolution to fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy
June 29 - July 4, 2025 – Versailles (France),
eng-saclay-plant-sciences.hub.inrae.fr/teaching-and...
June 29 - July 4, 2025 – Versailles (France),
eng-saclay-plant-sciences.hub.inrae.fr/teaching-and...
December 17, 2024 at 10:13 PM
Summer School 2025, Advanced Plant Imaging – API : From super-resolution to fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy
June 29 - July 4, 2025 – Versailles (France),
eng-saclay-plant-sciences.hub.inrae.fr/teaching-and...
June 29 - July 4, 2025 – Versailles (France),
eng-saclay-plant-sciences.hub.inrae.fr/teaching-and...
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Preprint alert, please share!!
With our new study, we engineered an orthogonal hypoxia-responsive system in plants inspired by mammalian HIF protein degradation. We demonstrated that this system could control protein stability and activity, enabling modulation of Oxygen sensing outputs. Here's how:
With our new study, we engineered an orthogonal hypoxia-responsive system in plants inspired by mammalian HIF protein degradation. We demonstrated that this system could control protein stability and activity, enabling modulation of Oxygen sensing outputs. Here's how:
December 15, 2024 at 5:46 PM
Preprint alert, please share!!
With our new study, we engineered an orthogonal hypoxia-responsive system in plants inspired by mammalian HIF protein degradation. We demonstrated that this system could control protein stability and activity, enabling modulation of Oxygen sensing outputs. Here's how:
With our new study, we engineered an orthogonal hypoxia-responsive system in plants inspired by mammalian HIF protein degradation. We demonstrated that this system could control protein stability and activity, enabling modulation of Oxygen sensing outputs. Here's how:
Reposted by Santosh Satbhai
NPR1 promotes blue light–induced plant photomorphogenesis by ubiquitinating and degrading PIF4
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
#plantscience
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
#plantscience
December 22, 2024 at 11:37 AM
NPR1 promotes blue light–induced plant photomorphogenesis by ubiquitinating and degrading PIF4
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
#plantscience
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
#plantscience
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GetGenome Seminar Series arriving in 2025!
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December 22, 2024 at 11:44 AM
GetGenome Seminar Series arriving in 2025!
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With this news in mind, I am happy to announce we are recruiting a postdoc or PhD student with expertise in Plant Microbiology. Come join us in sunny Freiburg ! Please share far and wide, thank you, and happy holidays! 🌲
#plantscience #phd
www.hartman-plantlab.com/post/we-re-r...
#plantscience #phd
www.hartman-plantlab.com/post/we-re-r...
December 20, 2024 at 12:28 PM
With this news in mind, I am happy to announce we are recruiting a postdoc or PhD student with expertise in Plant Microbiology. Come join us in sunny Freiburg ! Please share far and wide, thank you, and happy holidays! 🌲
#plantscience #phd
www.hartman-plantlab.com/post/we-re-r...
#plantscience #phd
www.hartman-plantlab.com/post/we-re-r...
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Great to be able to comment with Jeff Dangl on a couple of important papers published today in Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A common immune response node in diverse plants
Small molecules activate a defense mechanism shared by all flowering plants
www.science.org
December 20, 2024 at 9:46 AM
Great to be able to comment with Jeff Dangl on a couple of important papers published today in Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reposted by Santosh Satbhai
Hyperosmolarity-induced suppression of group B1 Raf-like protein kinases modulates drought-growth trade-off in Arabidopsis
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
#plantscience
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
#plantscience
Hyperosmolarity-induced suppression of group B1 Raf-like protein kinases modulates drought-growth trade-off in Arabidopsis | PNAS
When plants are exposed to drought stress, there is a trade-off between plant growth
and stress responses. Here, we identified a signaling mechanis...
www.pnas.org
December 22, 2024 at 9:43 AM
Hyperosmolarity-induced suppression of group B1 Raf-like protein kinases modulates drought-growth trade-off in Arabidopsis
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
#plantscience
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
#plantscience
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NLR toys at Mauricio Contreras @mpcontreras4 seminar today 🧸 🌱 #NLRbiology
November 26, 2024 at 12:06 PM
NLR toys at Mauricio Contreras @mpcontreras4 seminar today 🧸 🌱 #NLRbiology