Profile

Myself, Dr. Ashverya Laxmi, am working to understand the responses of plants to various environmental conditions to create knowledge and resources for developing climate resilient plants.

Current Focus Areas

  • Heat stress tolerance in plants

Selected Publications

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

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

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

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

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

Skills & Proficiency

Arabidopsis heat stress climate resilience molecular biology signal transduction plant biotechnology plant physiology stress tolerance plant growth and development root architecture