#PhDone! 🎓Congratulations Dr Avik! Avik Kumar Pal from Shiva prasad lab successfully defended his thesis!🎉 🧵👇See the thread to learn more about Avik's project on genomic imprinting and its role in the growth and development of rice plants🌾 (1/5)

Leaf infiltration is a widely used technique in plant science for delivering Agrobacterium or chemicals directly to plant cells 🍃🧬 For those who do it regularly, there’s a satisfaction in watching the liquid flow seamlessly through the leaf's airspaces—when done well..

Second chapter of talented Harshith C Y 's PhD thesis, now a preprint. This describes role of WRKY53 in wound signalling downstream of OsPEP-OsPSKR module previously identified by him. Comments are welcome. Thanks National Centre for Biological Sciences Tata Institute of Fundamental Research biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Check out our new study now in biorxiv! We show the involvement of OsWRKY53 in signalling downstream of PEPs and its role in suppression of PSK mediated transcriptional responses. Shiva prasad Dipasmit Palchaudhuri and Riju.

A true “lab” story in full bloom: Jonathan D. G. Jones, Wolf Prize Laureate in Agriculture 2025, and Caroline Dean, Wolf Prize Laureate in Agriculture 2020, are more than just partners in life — they’re also partners in discovery. Jonathan’s pioneering work revealed how plants

#ResearchExplained! In a first, Vivek Hari Sundar & team from Dr Shiva prasad's group at NCBS has identified a new H4 histone variant in rice which may have helped semi-aquatic rice varieties adapt to changing environments.🌾 Read here:bit.ly/4jNcirp By Rupsy Khurana

Preprint alert! Here is the second chapter from Avik Kumar Pal, a fantastic PhD student. We show endosperm-specific roles of OsCLSY4 chromatin remodeler especially its involvement in grain quality. Comments welcome National Centre for Biological Sciences Tata Institute of Fundamental Research DAE India biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

#LatestPublication Harshith C Y from Shiva prasad's lab identified the role of transcription factor OsWRKY53 that dictates wound responses in rice. It fine-tunes wound responses by turning on defense-related genes while turning down growth-related ones. bit.ly/4ojkJgT

Paper alert! Second first author paper from super talented Harshith C Y now in The Plant Journal OsWRKY53 dictates wound responses in rice through fine-tuning crosstalk between PEP and PSK-mediated signalling - PubMed share.google/UJKJjTMgqfkGfZ…

Disulfide bond sculpts a peptide fold that mediates phytocytokine recognition biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_plants