Rahul Puthan Valappil
@rahulpvnewland.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Researcher (2025-, UPSC, SLU, Sweden) | PhD (2017-2024, PCDB Group, IISERBhopal) | BS-MS (2012-17, IISERB) | 🇮🇳🇸🇪
Plant Cell & Development 🌱🔬/ Light Signaling 💡/ Flowering 🌺
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JnVMydYAAAAJ&hl=en
Plant Cell & Development 🌱🔬/ Light Signaling 💡/ Flowering 🌺
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JnVMydYAAAAJ&hl=en
Pinned
Excited to start my new journey as a Postdoctoral Researcher at @srobertgroup.bsky.social SR Group, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences #SLU, @umeaplantsciencecentre.se!
Looking forward 🤞🙏😇
Looking forward 🤞🙏😇
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📣 Finishing your PhD or recently graduated?
Looking to shape your own postdoc project?🧪🌾
Join us for the UPSC Symposium for Early Career Plant Scientists on 28–29 Apr 2026, Umeå, Sweden, and network with the UPSC community!
Learn more and apply: www.upsc.se/early-career...
📅 Apply by 11 Jan 2026
Looking to shape your own postdoc project?🧪🌾
Join us for the UPSC Symposium for Early Career Plant Scientists on 28–29 Apr 2026, Umeå, Sweden, and network with the UPSC community!
Learn more and apply: www.upsc.se/early-career...
📅 Apply by 11 Jan 2026
November 18, 2025 at 6:54 AM
📣 Finishing your PhD or recently graduated?
Looking to shape your own postdoc project?🧪🌾
Join us for the UPSC Symposium for Early Career Plant Scientists on 28–29 Apr 2026, Umeå, Sweden, and network with the UPSC community!
Learn more and apply: www.upsc.se/early-career...
📅 Apply by 11 Jan 2026
Looking to shape your own postdoc project?🧪🌾
Join us for the UPSC Symposium for Early Career Plant Scientists on 28–29 Apr 2026, Umeå, Sweden, and network with the UPSC community!
Learn more and apply: www.upsc.se/early-career...
📅 Apply by 11 Jan 2026
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Looking for a fantastic place for your next career step? Come to speak about your science and meet us @umeaplantsciencecentre.se
Have a look at the research groups www.upsc.se/research/res... and build up your next project
Have a look at the research groups www.upsc.se/research/res... and build up your next project
November 18, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Looking for a fantastic place for your next career step? Come to speak about your science and meet us @umeaplantsciencecentre.se
Have a look at the research groups www.upsc.se/research/res... and build up your next project
Have a look at the research groups www.upsc.se/research/res... and build up your next project
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@marhava.bsky.social and myself have edited a special issue on Auxin for Physiologia plantarum! Have a look at the nice contributions! @umeaplantsciencecentre.se
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
The A to Z of Auxin in Plant Development: Physiologia Plantarum
Click on the title to browse this issue
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 17, 2025 at 9:06 AM
@marhava.bsky.social and myself have edited a special issue on Auxin for Physiologia plantarum! Have a look at the nice contributions! @umeaplantsciencecentre.se
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
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Humbled to be a part of Indian Science Academies, @ IAScBng, @nasi_academy, and Now @insa_academy
Such moments remind me how fortunate I am to work with talented lab members (past and present), collaborators, colleagues and mentors all along. Thank you for this opportunity 🙏
Such moments remind me how fortunate I am to work with talented lab members (past and present), collaborators, colleagues and mentors all along. Thank you for this opportunity 🙏
September 29, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Humbled to be a part of Indian Science Academies, @ IAScBng, @nasi_academy, and Now @insa_academy
Such moments remind me how fortunate I am to work with talented lab members (past and present), collaborators, colleagues and mentors all along. Thank you for this opportunity 🙏
Such moments remind me how fortunate I am to work with talented lab members (past and present), collaborators, colleagues and mentors all along. Thank you for this opportunity 🙏
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ELONGATED HYPOCOTYL 5 and miR156d orchestrate axillary meristem maturation and AHL15-mediated plant longevity (Subhash Reddy Gaddam, Ashish Sharma, Anwesha Anyatama, Prabodh Kumar Trivedi) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience
September 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
ELONGATED HYPOCOTYL 5 and miR156d orchestrate axillary meristem maturation and AHL15-mediated plant longevity (Subhash Reddy Gaddam, Ashish Sharma, Anwesha Anyatama, Prabodh Kumar Trivedi) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience
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Having fun with the group for Sandeep Farewell! @sharmavinod.bsky.social @siamsadoyle.bsky.social @loupitgreg.bsky.social @sandeep18887.bsky.social @absolutemaverick.bsky.social @umeaplantsciencecentre.se
September 23, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Having fun with the group for Sandeep Farewell! @sharmavinod.bsky.social @siamsadoyle.bsky.social @loupitgreg.bsky.social @sandeep18887.bsky.social @absolutemaverick.bsky.social @umeaplantsciencecentre.se
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Thrilled to share our latest story on the ERAD machinery and how it controls the conditional turnover of PIN-LIKES for acclimative growth
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
ERAD machinery controls the conditional turnover of PIN-LIKES in plants
Plant ERAD machinery governs the turnover of auxin transporters involved in developmental and stress responses.
www.science.org
September 20, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Thrilled to share our latest story on the ERAD machinery and how it controls the conditional turnover of PIN-LIKES for acclimative growth
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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What a cool story presented by @elkebarbez.bsky.social from @uni-freiburg.de at @umeaplantsciencecentre.se !!
September 5, 2025 at 11:12 AM
What a cool story presented by @elkebarbez.bsky.social from @uni-freiburg.de at @umeaplantsciencecentre.se !!
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Honoured & excited that ‘Breathing Underground’ has been funded by the ERC!
This will let me explore one of the most fundamental questions of plant life: how roots breathe underground? @erc.europa.eu
This will let me explore one of the most fundamental questions of plant life: how roots breathe underground? @erc.europa.eu
September 4, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Honoured & excited that ‘Breathing Underground’ has been funded by the ERC!
This will let me explore one of the most fundamental questions of plant life: how roots breathe underground? @erc.europa.eu
This will let me explore one of the most fundamental questions of plant life: how roots breathe underground? @erc.europa.eu
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Looks great! We are looking forward to hear more about the proceedings!
STARMORPH kick off went smoothly! Nice group of young scientists to work together with! Fantastic couple of days! @xanderjones.bsky.social @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social @nowako76.bsky.social @srobertgroup.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @umeaplantsciencecentre.se
September 3, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Looks great! We are looking forward to hear more about the proceedings!
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STARMORPH kick off went smoothly! Nice group of young scientists to work together with! Fantastic couple of days! @xanderjones.bsky.social @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social @nowako76.bsky.social @srobertgroup.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @umeaplantsciencecentre.se
September 3, 2025 at 9:48 AM
STARMORPH kick off went smoothly! Nice group of young scientists to work together with! Fantastic couple of days! @xanderjones.bsky.social @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social @nowako76.bsky.social @srobertgroup.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @umeaplantsciencecentre.se
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IN BRIEF: Sugar, we’re going down: PRC2-mediated epigenetic repression of sucrose metabolism promotes phototrophy during seedling establishment (Rory Osborne) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience
September 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
IN BRIEF: Sugar, we’re going down: PRC2-mediated epigenetic repression of sucrose metabolism promotes phototrophy during seedling establishment (Rory Osborne) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience
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Amazing how responsive different regions of the same tissue type is to tissue culture hormones! Here is the hypocotyl of a plant segmented into lower hypocotyl (seedling stem near root crown) left, middle hypocotyl, and upper hypocotyl right (seed stem near cotyledons).
September 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Amazing how responsive different regions of the same tissue type is to tissue culture hormones! Here is the hypocotyl of a plant segmented into lower hypocotyl (seedling stem near root crown) left, middle hypocotyl, and upper hypocotyl right (seed stem near cotyledons).
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Fun on the way!
STARMORPH kick off in @umeaplantsciencecentre.se ! People of the STARMORPH on their way or already enjoying north Sweden! @xanderjones.bsky.social @nowako76.bsky.social @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social @srobertgroup.bsky.social
September 1, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Fun on the way!
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STARMORPH kick off in @umeaplantsciencecentre.se ! People of the STARMORPH on their way or already enjoying north Sweden! @xanderjones.bsky.social @nowako76.bsky.social @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social @srobertgroup.bsky.social
September 1, 2025 at 1:20 PM
STARMORPH kick off in @umeaplantsciencecentre.se ! People of the STARMORPH on their way or already enjoying north Sweden! @xanderjones.bsky.social @nowako76.bsky.social @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social @srobertgroup.bsky.social
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This paper was dedicated to the memory of the late Joanne Chory:
Coincidence detection of low temperature and blue light and the control of flowering (by A. Seluzicki & J. Chory)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Coincidence detection of low temperature and blue light and the control of flowering (by A. Seluzicki & J. Chory)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
August 31, 2025 at 6:59 PM
This paper was dedicated to the memory of the late Joanne Chory:
Coincidence detection of low temperature and blue light and the control of flowering (by A. Seluzicki & J. Chory)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Coincidence detection of low temperature and blue light and the control of flowering (by A. Seluzicki & J. Chory)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Inducible RUBY expression in independent transformant lines of A.thaliana over 4 days.
Several lines (top) show induction everywhere except the petals... cool but I'd prefer the opposite!!
Several lines (top) show induction everywhere except the petals... cool but I'd prefer the opposite!!
August 30, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Inducible RUBY expression in independent transformant lines of A.thaliana over 4 days.
Several lines (top) show induction everywhere except the petals... cool but I'd prefer the opposite!!
Several lines (top) show induction everywhere except the petals... cool but I'd prefer the opposite!!
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Nice group effort and determination! Thanks to all involved!
🧪🌾News - How do seedlings straighten when emerging from the soil?🔬
@srobertgroup.bsky.social & collaborators have identified a protein that promotes this seedling straightening via the plant hormone auxin.
Read more about the story published in @pnas.org here👇:
www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...
@srobertgroup.bsky.social & collaborators have identified a protein that promotes this seedling straightening via the plant hormone auxin.
Read more about the story published in @pnas.org here👇:
www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...
August 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Nice group effort and determination! Thanks to all involved!
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STARMORPH is represented at the FASEB #PDevSRC meeting by @srobertgroup.bsky.social who has presented data from her group on apical hook development and cuticle.
August 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
STARMORPH is represented at the FASEB #PDevSRC meeting by @srobertgroup.bsky.social who has presented data from her group on apical hook development and cuticle.
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Further evidence that sugar in the plates changes the plant biology you study. Best to avoid putting sugar in the agar, unless you want to study what sugar in the agar does to plants. This paper uses sugar in the agar to study what sugar does. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #plantresearch
A multisensor high-temperature signaling framework for triggering daytime thermomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis - Nature Communications
Plants encounter high temperatures concomitantly with intense sunlight during the daytime. Here, the authors reveal a concerted chloroplast and nucleus high-temperature signaling framework that gates ...
www.nature.com
August 24, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Further evidence that sugar in the plates changes the plant biology you study. Best to avoid putting sugar in the agar, unless you want to study what sugar in the agar does to plants. This paper uses sugar in the agar to study what sugar does. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #plantresearch
Excited to start my new journey as a Postdoctoral Researcher at @srobertgroup.bsky.social SR Group, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences #SLU, @umeaplantsciencecentre.se!
Looking forward 🤞🙏😇
Looking forward 🤞🙏😇
August 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Excited to start my new journey as a Postdoctoral Researcher at @srobertgroup.bsky.social SR Group, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences #SLU, @umeaplantsciencecentre.se!
Looking forward 🤞🙏😇
Looking forward 🤞🙏😇
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Please find our latest paper in @pnas.org. Lots of work from a fantastic group: Qian Ma, Sijia Liu, @siamsadoyle.bsky.social , Sara Raggi and others including @luciastrader.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @kawresearch.bsky.social @umeaplantsciencecentre.se
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
RACK1A positively regulates opening of the apical hook in Arabidopsis thaliana via suppression of its auxin response gradient | PNAS
Apical hook development is an ideal model for studying differential growth in plants
and is controlled by complex phytohormonal crosstalk, with aux...
www.pnas.org
July 22, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Please find our latest paper in @pnas.org. Lots of work from a fantastic group: Qian Ma, Sijia Liu, @siamsadoyle.bsky.social , Sara Raggi and others including @luciastrader.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @kawresearch.bsky.social @umeaplantsciencecentre.se
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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How do plants decide the fate of a wound and what to regenerate? Water availability! Abdul Kareem and colleagues show that regeneration outcomes after tissue cutting are controlled by water. A 🧵/n 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Water availability positions auxin response maxima to determine plant regeneration fates - Nature Plants
This study reveals that water availability at the wound determines plant regeneration outcomes. High water availability induces root regeneration whereas low water availability triggers callus formati...
www.nature.com
July 8, 2025 at 11:34 AM
How do plants decide the fate of a wound and what to regenerate? Water availability! Abdul Kareem and colleagues show that regeneration outcomes after tissue cutting are controlled by water. A 🧵/n 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Who are we? @nowako76.bsky.social @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social @xanderjones.bsky.social @srobertgroup.bsky.social who work together to push the limits of plant morphogenesis understanding! First idea emerged in April 2023, granted in October 2024 by @erc.europa.eu! Starting date: March 2025!
June 24, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Who are we? @nowako76.bsky.social @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social @xanderjones.bsky.social @srobertgroup.bsky.social who work together to push the limits of plant morphogenesis understanding! First idea emerged in April 2023, granted in October 2024 by @erc.europa.eu! Starting date: March 2025!
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🌱🧩 How do plant cells get their shape? 🧪
Check out the new #open-access #review exploring the mechanochemical duet between auxin & the cell wall in shaping diverse plant cell types from @srobertgroup.bsky.social's Lab.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ppl....
#PlantBiology #CellShape #Auxin #Biomechanics
Check out the new #open-access #review exploring the mechanochemical duet between auxin & the cell wall in shaping diverse plant cell types from @srobertgroup.bsky.social's Lab.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ppl....
#PlantBiology #CellShape #Auxin #Biomechanics
May 30, 2025 at 8:29 AM
🌱🧩 How do plant cells get their shape? 🧪
Check out the new #open-access #review exploring the mechanochemical duet between auxin & the cell wall in shaping diverse plant cell types from @srobertgroup.bsky.social's Lab.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ppl....
#PlantBiology #CellShape #Auxin #Biomechanics
Check out the new #open-access #review exploring the mechanochemical duet between auxin & the cell wall in shaping diverse plant cell types from @srobertgroup.bsky.social's Lab.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ppl....
#PlantBiology #CellShape #Auxin #Biomechanics