Profile

Myself, Dr. Ashverya Laxmi work to understand response of plants to various environmental condition to create knowledge and resources for developing climate resilient plants.

Current Focus Areas

  • Heat stress tolerance in plants

Selected Publications

  • Jindal S, Kerchev P, Berka M, Cerny M, Botta HK, Laxmi A*, Brzobohaty B (2022) Type-A response regulators negatively mediate heat stress response by altering redox homeostasis in Arabidopsis. Front. Plant Sci. 13:968139. (*Correspondence) Sharma M, Sharma M, Jamsheer KM, Laxmi A (2022) A glucose-TOR signaling axis integrates environmental history of heat stress through maintenance of transcription-associated epigenetic memory in Arabidopsis. J. Exp. Bot., 73(20):7083-7102 Agrawal R, Sharma M, Dwivedi N, Maji S, Thakur P, Junaid A, Fajkus J, Laxmi A*, Thakur JK (2022) MEDIATOR SUBUNIT17 integrates jasmonate and auxin signaling pathways to regulate thermomorphogenesis. Plant Physiol. 189(4):2259-2280. 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, Sharma Mohan, Jamsheer KM, Laxmi A (2022) Jasmonic acid coordinates with light, glucose and auxin signalling in regulating branching angle of Arabidopsis lateral roots. Plant Cell Environ. 45:1554-1572 Sharma M, Jamsheer KM, Shukla BN, Sharma M, Awasthi P, Mahtha SK, Yadav G, Laxmi A (2021) Arabidopsis Target of Rapamycin Coordinates with Transcriptional and Epigenetic Machinery to Regulate Thermotolerance. Front. Plant Sci. 12:741965. 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, Shukla BN, Jindal S, Gopan N, Mannully CT, Laxmi A (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. J Biol Chem. 293(34):13134-13150. 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. Singh M, Gupta A, Singh D, Khurana JP, Laxmi A (2017) Arabidopsis RSS1 mediates cross- talk between glucose and light signaling during hypocotyl elongation growth. Scientific Reports 7: 16101. 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. Singh M, Gupta A, Laxmi A (2014) Glucose control of root growth direction in Arabidopsis thaliana. J. Exp. Bot. 65(12): 2981-2993. Kushwah S, Laxmi A (2014) The interaction between glucose and cytokinin signal transduction pathway in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell Environ. 37(1): 235-53. Gupta A, Singh M, Jones AM, Laxmi A (2012) Hypocotyl directional growth in Arabidopsis: A complex trait. Plant Physiol. 159(4): 1463-1476. Kushwah S, Jones AM, Laxmi A (2011) Cytokinin interplay with ethylene, auxin and glucose signaling controls Arabidopsis seedling root directional growth. Plant Physiol. 156(4): 1851-1866. Murray JD, Muni RR, Torres-Jerez I, Tang Y, Allen S, Andriankaia M, Li G, Laxmi 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. Plant J. 65(2): 244-52. Tripathi V, Parasuraman B, Laxmi A, Chattopadhyay D (2009) CIPK6, a CBL-interacting protein kinase is required for development and salt tolerance in plant. Plant 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. Plant 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. Plant Mol. Biol. 56: 185-201. Price J, Laxmi A, St. Martin SK, and Jang JC (2004) Global transcription profiling reveals multiple sugar signalling mechanisms in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 16(8): 2128-2150.

Skills & Proficiency

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