BRASSINOSTEROID-SIGNALING KINASE5 associates with immune receptors and is required for immune responses

BB Majhi, S Sreeramulu, G Sessa - Plant Physiology, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Plants utilize cell surface-localized pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) to detect pathogen-
or damage-associated molecular patterns (PAMP/DAMPs) and initiate pattern-triggered …

[HTML][HTML] Characterization of norbelladine synthase and noroxomaritidine/norcraugsodine reductase reveals a novel catalytic route for the biosynthesis of …

BB Majhi, SE Gélinas, N Mérindol, S Ricard… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Amaryllidaceae alkaloids (AAs) are a large group of plant specialized metabolites with diverse
pharmacological properties. Norbelladine is the entry compound in AAs biosynthesis and …

Auxin-Responsive OsMGH3, a Common Downstream Target of OsMADS1 and OsMADS6, Controls Rice Floret Fertility

SR Yadav, I Khanday, BB Majhi… - Plant and Cell …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
GH3 proteins control auxin homeostasis by inactivating excess auxin as conjugates of amino
acids and sugars and thereby controlling cellular bioactive auxin. Since auxin regulates …

BRASSINOSTEROID‐SIGNALLING KINASES 7 and 8 associate with the FLS2 immune receptor and are required for flg22‐induced PTI responses

BB Majhi, G Sobol, S Gachie… - Molecular Plant …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… susceptible than wild-type plants to fungal and bacterial pathogens (Majhi et al., 2019),
whereas plants overexpressing BSK5 are more resistant to pathogens (Majhi & Sessa, 2019). …

Transcriptome analysis of Leucojum aestivum and identification of genes involved in norbelladine biosynthesis

L Tousignant, AM Diaz-Garza, BB Majhi, SE Gélinas… - Planta, 2022 - Springer
Main conclusion Transcriptome analysis of Leucojum aestivum led to the identification of 50
key genes associated with Amaryllidaceae alkaloid biosynthesis including norbelladine …

Mai1 protein acts between host recognition of pathogen effectors and mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling

…, D Luciano-Rosario, BB Majhi… - Molecular Plant …, 2019 - Am Phytopath Society
The molecular mechanisms acting between host recognition of pathogen effectors by
nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat receptor (NLR) proteins and mitogen-activated protein …

Tomato receptor-like cytoplasmic kinase Fir1 is involved in flagellin signaling and preinvasion immunity

G Sobol, BB Majhi, M Pasmanik-Chor, N Zhang… - Plant …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Detection of bacterial flagellin by the tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) receptors Flagellin
sensing 2 (Fls2) and Fls3 triggers activation of pattern-triggered immunity (PTI). We identified …

Characterization of cinnamate 4-hydroxylase (CYP73A) and p-coumaroyl 3′-hydroxylase (CYP98A) from Leucojum aestivum, a source of Amaryllidaceae alkaloids

…, S Sobhanverdi, N Merindol, BB Majhi… - Plant Physiology and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Biosynthesis of Amaryllidaceae alkaloids (AA) starts with the condensation of tyramine with
3,4-dihydroxybenzaldehyde. The latter derives from the phenylpropanoid pathway that …

A novel T-DNA integration in rice involving two interchromosomal translocations

BB Majhi, JM Shah, K Veluthambi - Plant cell reports, 2014 - Springer
Key message A male sterile transgenic rice plant TC-19 harboured a novel T-DNA integration
in chromosome 8 with two interchromosomal translocations of 6.55 kb chromosome 3 and …

Effector Gene xopAE of Xanthomonas euvesicatoria 85-10 Is Part of an Operon and Encodes an E3 Ubiquitin Ligase

G Popov, BB Majhi, G Sessa - Journal of Bacteriology, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
The type III effector XopAE from the Xanthomonas euvesicatoria strain 85-10 was previously
shown to inhibit plant immunity and enhance pathogen-induced disease symptoms. …