Publications

2025

• 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

• Kalyan Mahapatra, Shubhi Dwivedi, Arpan Mukherjee, Ajar Anupam Pradhan, Kavuri Venkateswara Rao, Deeksha Singh, Lavanya Bhagavatula, Sourav Datta (2025)  Interplay of light and abscisic acid signaling to modulate plant development. Journal of Experimental Botany. DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erae192

• 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