Crosstalk between brassinosteroid and autophagy in the regulation of plant grown and stress responses

Plants fine-tune their growth and stress-response programs to best suit their environment. Together with the Yin and Bassham labs, we are examining how the brassinosteroid and autophagy pathways interact to coordinate growth and stress responses.   

Define the roles of protein acetylation in plant immunity

Lysine acetylation has emerged as a major post-translational modification impacting a diverse array of cellular processes. Acetyl groups are typically added to lysine residues by lysine acetyltransferases (also termed Histone Acetyltransferases) and removed by lysine deacetylases (also referred to as Histone Deacetylases).

Network-Based Discovery of Brassinosteroid Regulation of Plant Growth and Stress Responses in Arabidopsis

Plant steroid hormones called Brassinosteroids (BRs) signal to regulate plant growth, development and response to environmental stresses. BRs signal to regulate the BES1/BZR1 family transcription factors (TFs), hundreds of BR-Related Transcription Factors (BR-TFs), and thousands of target genes.