Publications

2025

• Ravindran, N., Rao, K.V. and Datta, S. (2025), BBX32 integrates ethylene and light signaling to delay apical hook opening and optimize seedling soil emergence. New Phytol. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70236

• Sourav Datta, Madhusmita Panigrahy, Kishore C S Panigrahi (2025)  Advances in plant photobiology: let’s light it up once again (EDITORIAL). Journal of Experimental Botany. DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eraf001

• Nikhil Job, Shubhi Dwivedi, Maneesh Lingwan, Sourav Datta (2025)  BBX22 enhances the accumulation of antioxidants to inhibit DNA damage and promotes DNA repair under high UV-B. Physiologia Plantarum. DOI: 10.1111/ppl.70038 

2024

• Deeksha Singh, Oihik Mitra, Kalyan Mahapatra, Akshat Singh Ranghuvanshi, Rucha Kulkarni, Sourav Datta (2024)
  REPRESSOR OF UV-B PHOTOMORPHOGENESIS proteins target ABA INSENSITIVE 5 for degradation to promote early plant development. Plant Physiology. DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiae/59

• Puthan Valappil Rahul, Premachandran Yadukrishnan, Anagha Sasidharan, Sourav Datta (2024) The B-box protein BBX13/COL15 suppresses photoperiodic flowering by attenuating the action of CONSTANS in Arabidopsis. Plant, Cell &
  Environment. DOI: 10.1111/pce.15120

• Mahapatra K, Dwivedi S, Mukherjee A, Pradhan AA, Rao KV, Singh D, Bhagavatula L, Datta S (2024) Interplay of Light and ABA signaling to modulate plant development. Journal of Experimental Botany. DOI: org/10.1093/jxb/erae192

• Mahapatra K, Mukherjee A, Suyal S, Dar MA, Bhagavatula L, Datta S (2024)Regulation of chloroplast biogenesis, development, and signaling by endogenous and exogenous cues. Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants. DOI: org/10.1007/s12298-024-01427-8

2023

• Ajinkya Bharatraj Patil, Debojyoti Kar, Sourav Datta, Nagarjun Vijay (2023) Genomic and Transcriptomic Analyses Illuminates Unique Traits of Elusive Night Flowering Jasmine Parijat (Nyctanthes arbor-tristis). Physiologia Plantarum. DOI: 10.1111/ppl.14119
  
  

• Reena Deshmukh & Sourav Datta (2023) Comparative cross-species analysis of Glycine BBX gene family reveals lineage-specific evolution and expansion. Plant Systematics and Evolution. DOI: 10.1007/s00606-023-01878-8
  
  

• Maneesh Lingwan, Ajar Anupam Pradhan, Amit Kumar Kushwaha, Mansoor Ali Dar, Lavanya Bhagavatula, Sourav Datta (2023) Photoprotective role of plant secondary metabolites: Biosynthesis, photoregulation, and prospects of metabolic engineering for enhanced protection under excessive light. Environmental and Experimental Botany. DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2023.105300
  
  

• Arpan Mukherjee, Shubhi Dwivedi, Lavanya Bhagavatula, Sourav Datta (2023) Integration of light and ABA signaling pathways to combat drought stress in plants. Plant Cell Reports. DOI: 10.1007/s00299-023-02999-7
  
  

• Deeksha Singh, Sourav Datta (2023) BBX30/miP1b and BBX31/miP1a form a positive feedback loop with ABI5 to regulate ABA-mediated post-germination seedling growth arrest. New Phytologist. DOI: 10.1111/nph.18866

2022

• Amit Kumar Kushwaha, Shubhi Dwivedi, Arpan Mukherjee, Maneesh Lingwan, Mansoor Ali Dar, Lavanya Bhagavatula, Sourav Datta (2022) Plant microProteins: Small but powerful modulators of plant development. iScience. DOI:10.1016/j.isci.2022.105400 

• Nikhil Job, Maneesh Lingwan, Shyam Kumar Masakapalli, Sourav Datta (2022) Transcription factors BBX11 and HY5 interdependently regulate the molecular and metabolic responses to UV-B. Plant Physiology. DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiac195

2021

• Debojyoti Kar, Lavanya Bhagavatula, Arka Dutta & Sourav Datta (2021) Conserved functions of MATE transporters and their potential to enhance plant tolerance to aluminium toxicity. Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology. DOI: 10.1007/s13562-021-00743-4

• Kavuri Venkateswara, Nevedha Ravindran, Lavanya Bhagavatula & Sourav Datta (2021) Molecular mechanisms to sense soil overlay and optimize emergence in plants. Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology. DOI: 10.1007/s13562-021-00736-3

• Nevedha Ravindran, Harshil Ramachandran, Nikhil Job, Arpita Yadav, K P Vaishak, Sourav Datta (2021) B-box protein BBX32 integrates light and brassinosteroid signals to inhibit cotyledon opening. Plant Physiology. DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiab304

2020

• Job N, Datta S (2020) PIF3-HY5 module regulates BBX11 to suppress protochlorophyllide levels in dark and promote photomorphogenesis in light. New Phytologist. DOI: 10.1111/nph.17149

• Yadav A, Ravindran N, Singh D, Rahul PV, Datta S (2020) Role of Arabidopsis BBX proteins in light signaling. Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology. DOI: 10.1007/s13562-020-00597-2

• Yadukrishnan P, Datta S (2020) Light and abscisic acid interplay in early seedling development. (Tansley Insights) New Phytologist. DOI: 10.1111/nph.16963

• Kar D, Pradhan AA, Datta S (2020) The role of solute transporters in aluminium toxicity and tolerance. Physiologia Plantarum. DOI: 10.1111/ppl.13214

• Yadukrishnan P, Rahul PV, Datta S (2020) HY5 suppresses, rather than promotes, ABA-mediated inhibition of post-germination seedling development. Plant Physiology. DOI: 10.1104/pp.20.00783

• Yadukrishnan P, Rahul PV, Ravindran N, Bursch K, Johansson H, Datta S (2020) CONSTITUTIVELY PHOTOMORPHOGENIC1 promotes ABA-mediated inhibition of post-germination seedling establishment. The Plant Journal. DOI: 10.1111/tpj.14844. 

Featured as a research highlight: Brandizzi F (2020) To grow or not to grow. The Plant Journal. DOI: 10.1111/tpj.14860

• Yadav A, Singh D, Lingwan M, Yadukrishnan P, Masakapalli SK, Datta S (2020) Light signaling and UV-B mediated plant growth regulation. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology. DOI: 10.1111/jipb.12932. 

Featured as the cover image of special issue on Photobiology, Journal of Integrative Plant Biology. DOI: 10.1111/jipb.13012.

• Upadhyay N, Kar D, Datta S (2020) A Multidrug and Toxic compound Extrusion (MATE) transporter modulates auxin levels in root to regulate root development and promotes aluminium tolerance. Plant, Cell & Environment. DOI: 10.1111/pce.13658. 

2019

• Biswas S, Upadhyay N, Kar D, Datta S, Koner AL (2019) Visible light-controlled NO generation for photoreceptor-mediated plant root growth regulation. Nitric Oxide. DOI: 10.1016./j.niox.2019.07.010

• Upadhyay N, Kar D, Mahajan Deepak B, Nanda S, Rahiman R, Panchakshari N A, Bhagavatula L, Datta S (2019) The multitasking abilities of MATE transporters in plants. Journal Of Experimental Botany. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erz246

• Yadav A*, Lingwan M*, Yadukrishnan P, Masakapalli SK, Datta S (2019) BBX31 promotes hypocotyl growth, primary root elongation and UV-B tolerance in Arabidopsis. Plant Signaling & Behavior. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/15592324.2019.1588672.

• Yadav A, Bakshi S, Yadukrishnan P, Lingwan M, Dolde U, Wenkel S, Masakapalli SK, Datta S (2019) The B-box  containing microprotein miP1a/BBX31 regulates photomorphogenesis and UV-B protection in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.18.01258.

• Vaishak KP, Yadukrishnan P, Bakshi S, Kushwaha AK, Ramachandran H,   Job N, Babu D, Datta S (2019) The B-box Bridge between Light and Hormones in Plants. Journal of Photobiology and Photochemistry. DOI: 10.1016/j/jphotobiol.2018.12.021

2018

• Yadukrishnan P, Job N, Johansson H, Datta S (2018). Opposite roles of group IV BBX proteins: Exploring missing links between structural and functional diversity. Plant Signaling & Behavior. DOI: 10.1080/15592324.2018.1462641

• Job N, Yadukrishnan P, Bursch K, Datta S, Johansson H (2018). Two B-box proteins regulate photomorphogenesis by oppositely modulating HY5 through their diverse C-terminal domains. Plant Physiology. DOI: 10.1104/pp.17.00856 

Publications before joining IISER Bhopal