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Our addition to the growing toolkit for characterizing strigolactone receptors. We love transient expression in benthi, so why not use CRISPR to make it a better platform? Led by grad student Alex White with help from Jose Mendez and Aashima Khosla dx.doi.org/10.1002/pld3.3…

Shukla Group Briana Sobecks ChBE Illinois Stanford University Jiming F Chen Undergraduate Research @ Illinois Congratulations Briana Sobecks! Check out her first author paper recently published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry on plant hormone receptors. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Be our next colleague! Tenure-track Assistant Professor position at University of California Riverside in metabolomics, focusing on cellular and physiological adaptive responses in plants. aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01546

Our recent work on activation mechanism of plant strigolactone receptors now featured as #CoverArt JCIM & JCTC Journals! Congratulations to Jiming F Chen for designing the cover. ACS for Authors #MyACSCover Diwakar Shukla Dave Nelson

Comparative genomics in Orobanchaceae provides insight into the origin and evolution of plant parasitism biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_plants

Our new paper ⁦Nature Plants⁩ is out! We combined structure function approaches & CRISPR editing in plants to elucidate the conformational switch of MAX2 #ubiquitin ligase in #strigolactone path & we found a primary metabolite that unlocks the ligase nature.com/articles/s4147…

We are very excited to officially announce that Caroline Gutjahr will join our institute MPIMP Potsdam Golm 🌱🧪 as a new director to build a department focusing on mycorrhizal symbiosis. We are very much appreciating to welcome you here Potsdam Science Park 🧪🌱🔭 Park and to do exciting research together!

Way to go, Michael!

Our publication is in Nature Communications on strigolactones as chemoattractants for host tropism in Orobanchaceae parasitic plants. Thank you Shirasu Lab@RIKEN Dave Nelson alex RIKEN NAIST (English) UC Riverside ! disq.us/t/49y4r56

Pretty proud of this review that Mark Waters and I wrote on karrikin signaling and the (still) mysterious KAI2 ligand. 18 years after the discovery of karrikins in smoke, this field has come a long way! Final version is out now nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

Proud of the fantastic work of PhD student Changsheng Li and collaboration with great international team of scientists, here it is: Maize resistance to witchweed through changes in strigolactone biosynthesis science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Our latest work from Dr. Qingtian Li Qingtian We find that degradation-resistant SMXL proteins attenuate strigolactone signaling by interfering with targeting of other members of the SMXL family by D14-MAX2. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🎉check out our latest exciting collaborative study published Science Magazine with Dudareva group (Purdue U with Nitzan Shabek Biological Sciences funded by U.S. National Science Foundation): communication in plants relies on a KAI2-mediated signaling pathway science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

How do karrikins and strigolactones control plant growth? A beautiful structure-function analysis by graduate student Sunhyun Chang reveals a major regulatory domain that specifies the development “outputs” of SMXL proteins biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

When a receptor becomes its own evil twin. New work from the recent Dr. Alex White Dominant-negative KAI2d paralogs putatively attenuate strigolactone responses in root parasitic plants academic.oup.com/pcp/article-ab…