2025

• Zhang, D., Chirinos, X., Del Chiaro, A., Shukla, V., Ryder, A., Del Pozo Beltrán, A., Iacopino, S., Bota, P., Živković, D., Fioriti, F., et al. (2025). KDM7-mediated oxygen sensing reprograms chromatin to enhance hypoxia tolerance in the root. bioRxiv.

• Panicucci, G., Shukla, V., Voloboeva, V., Jo, L., van Kollenburg, K., Buti, S., Dalle Carbonare, L., Licausi, F., Weits, D. A. (2025). Progressive oxygenation of developing leaves directs morphogenesis. bioRxiv.

• Chirinos, X., Shukla, V., Lavilla-Puerta, M., Bär, R., Lilley, R. J., Mustroph, A., Licausi, F. (2025). Anatomy and habitat shape the oxygen sensing machinery of angiosperms. bioRxiv.

• Reis-Barata, D., Confraria, A., Margalha, L., Peixoto, B., Lopes, F., Belda-Palazón, B., Jurke, B., Arrivault, S., Shukla, V., Feil, R., et al. (2025). TPS proteins coordinate plant growth with sugar availability via the SnRK1 kinase. bioRxiv.

• Dirr, A., Del Greco, A., Howe, S., Walker, L. S., Perri, M., Shukla, V., Licausi, F., Flashman, E. (2025). Engineering reduced activity in the oxygen-sensing Arabidopsis thaliana plant cysteine oxidase 4 enzyme results in improved flood resilience. bioRxiv.

• Iida, H., Abreu, I., López Ortiz, J., Peralta Ogorek, L. L., Shukla, V., Mäkelä, M., Lyu, M., Shapiguzov, A., Licausi, F., Mähönen, A. P. (2025). Plants monitor the integrity of their barrier by sensing gas diffusion. Nature.

• Dalle Carbonare, L., van Veen, H., Shukla, V., Perri, M., Bui, L., Holdsworth, M. J., Licausi, F. (2025). ERFVIIs as transducers of oxygen sensing in the evolution of land plant responses to hypoxia. Molecular Plant, 18, 1072–1087.

• Han, J.-P., Lefebvre-Legendre, L., Yu, J., Capitão, M. B., Beaulieu, C., Gully, K., Shukla, V., Wu, Y., Boland, A., Nawrath, C., et al. (2025). GWAS reveals SUBER GENE1-mediated suberization via type-one phosphatases. bioRxiv.

2024

• Shukla, V., Iacopino, S., Dalle Carbonare, L., He, Y., Del Chiaro, A., Papachristodoulou, A., Giuntoli, B., Licausi, F. (2024). Engineering prolyl hydroxylase-dependent proteolysis enables orthogonal control of hypoxia responses in plants. bioRxiv.

• Akter, S., Perri, M., Lavilla-Puerta, M., Ferretti, B., Dalle Carbonare, L., Shukla, V., Telara, Y., Zhang, D., Gunawardana, D. M., Myers, W. K., et al. (2024). H₂O₂ repurposes the plant oxygen-sensing machinery to control the transcriptional response to oxidative stress. bioRxiv.

• Swain, J., Shukla, V., Licausi, F., Gupta, K. J. (2024). Unearthing the secrets of ERFVIIs: new insights into hypoxia signaling. Trends in Plant Science, 29, 275–277.

2023

• Dalle Carbonare, L., Basile, A., Rindi, L., Bulleri, F., Hamedeh, H., Iacopino, S., Shukla, V., Weits, D. A., Lombardi, L., Sbrana, A., et al. (2023). Dim artificial light at night alters gene expression rhythms and growth in a key seagrass species (Posidonia oceanica). Scientific Reports, 13, 10620.

• Weits, D. A., Zhou, L., Giuntoli, B., Dalle Carbonare, L., Iacopino, S., Piccinini, L., Lombardi, L., Shukla, V., Bui, L. T., Novi, G., et al. (2023). Acquisition of hypoxia inducibility by oxygen-sensing N-terminal cysteine oxidase in spermatophytes. Plant, Cell & Environment, 46, 322–338.

2021

• Shukla, V., Han, J.-P., Cléard, F., Lefebvre-Legendre, L., Gully, K., Flis, P., Berhin, A., Andersen, T. G., Salt, D. E., Nawrath, C., et al. (2021). Suberin plasticity to developmental and exogenous cues is regulated by a set of MYB transcription factors. PNAS, 118, e2101730118.

• Shukla, V., Barberon, M. (2021). Building and breaking of a barrier: suberin plasticity and function in the endodermis. Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 64, 102153.

2020

• Bui, L. T., Shukla, V., Giorgi, F. M., Trivellini, A., Perata, P., Licausi, F., Giuntoli, B. (2020). Differential submergence tolerance between juvenile and adult Arabidopsis plants involves the ANAC017 transcription factor. The Plant Journal, 104, 979–994.

• Shukla, V., Lombardi, L., Pencik, A., Novak, O., Weits, D. A., Loreti, E., Perata, P., Giuntoli, B., Licausi, F. (2020). Jasmonate signalling contributes to primary root inhibition upon oxygen deficiency in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plants, 9, 1046.

2019

• Shukla, V., Lombardi, L., Iacopino, S., Pencik, A., Novak, O., Perata, P., Giuntoli, B., Licausi, F. (2019). Endogenous hypoxia in lateral root primordia controls root architecture by antagonizing auxin signaling in Arabidopsis. Molecular Plant, 12, 538–551.

• Carbonare, L. D., White, M. D., Shukla, V., Francini, A., Perata, P., Flashman, E., Sebastiani, L., Licausi, F. (2019). Zinc excess induces a hypoxia-like response by inhibiting cysteine oxidases in poplar roots. Plant Physiology, 180, 1614–1628.

• Puerta, M. L., Shukla, V., Dalle Carbonare, L., Weits, D. A., Perata, P., Licausi, F., Giuntoli, B. (2019). A ratiometric sensor based on plant N-terminal degrons able to report oxygen dynamics in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Journal of Molecular Biology, 431, 2810–2820.

• Basile, A., Fambrini, M., Tani, C., Shukla, V., Licausi, F., Pugliesi, C. (2019). The Ha-ROXL gene is required for initiation of axillary and floral meristems in sunflower. Genesis, 57, e23307.

2017

• Giuntoli, B., Shukla, V., Maggiorelli, F., Giorgi, F. M., Lombardi, L., Perata, P., Licausi, F. (2017). Age-dependent regulation of ERF-VII transcription factor activity in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant, Cell & Environment, 40, 2333–2346.