Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
📍 3F8, Academic Block 2
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Research Area
Plant Development, Plant-Environment Interactions, Stress Biology, Climate Change, Plant Genetics, Plant-Microbe Interactions
Research Interests
How plant root development and growth is influenced and regulated by environmental signals is a major research question of our group. In particular, we focus on the effects of nutrient starvation, high temperature, cold temperature, salinity and drought on root system architecture (RSA) using Arabidopsis plants. We are applying experimental [forward/reverse genetics approach, transcriptomics approach, biochemical techniques, high-throughput phenotyping, Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) and live imaging] and computational approaches to answer this question. As stress signaling pathways are evolutionary conserved, we also aim to translate knowledge gained from Arabidopsis to wheat, tomato and maize.
Finding genes or regulatory systems that modify root development might have adaptive value and has various implications for biotechnology and agronomy. In particular, the ability to generate plants with different root growth has great potential for adapting plants to specific habitat.
2017 - 2018 : Research Associate at SALK institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, USA
2011 - 2017 : Postdoctoral Fellow at Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
2007 - 2011 : PhD at Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
2002 - 2004 : MSc (Bio-chemistry) Pune University, Pune, India
1999 - 2001 : BSc (Chemistry) S.S.G.M. College, Kopargaon (Pune University), India
BIOSANTEXC Discovery Program 2023 Travel Grant (for 7 day visit to ENS Lyon in September-October 2023)
International Travel grant, Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India (2022) Not availed
International Travel Support grant, SERB- Department of Science and Technology, Government of India (2022)
Early Career Research (ECR) Award, SERB- Department of Science and Technology, Government of India (2019-2022)
Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellowship Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India (2019-2024)
Travel grant award to attend Plant Biology-2017 by American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (2017)
Travel grant award to attend Keystone symposia “Plant Sensing, Response and Adaptation to the Environment” at Montana, USA (2009)
Awarded Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho) Scholarship (Ministry of Education Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: MEXT Government of Japan for PhD study in Japan (2006-2011)
Samriti Mankotia, Pooja Jakhar and Santosh B Satbhai. HY5: a key regulator for light-mediated nutrient uptake and utilization by plants. New Phytologist 241(5):1929–1935, 2024.
Samriti Mankotia, Dhriti Singh, Kumari Monika, Muskan Kalra, Himani Meena, Varsha Meena, Ram Kishor Yadav, Ajay Kumar Pandey and Santosh B Satbhai. ELONGATED HYPOCOTYL 5 regulates BRUTUS and affects iron acquisition and homeostasis in Arabidopsis thaliana. The Plant Journal 114(6):1267–1284, 2023.
Deep Shikha, Pooja Jakhar and Santosh B Satbhai. Role of jasmonate signaling in the regulation of plant responses to nutrient deficiency. Journal of Experimental Botany 74(4):1221–1243, 2023.
Matthieu Pierre Platre, Santosh B Satbhai, Lukas Brent, Matias F Gleason, Min Cao, Magali Grison, Marie Glavier, Ling Zhang, Christophe Gaillochet, Christian Goeschl and others. The receptor kinase SRF3 coordinates iron-level and flagellin dependent defense and growth responses in plants. Nature Communications 13(1):4445, 2022.
Snigdha Rai, Prashant Kumar Singh, Samriti Mankotia, Jagannath Swain and Santosh B Satbhai. Iron homeostasis in plants and its crosstalk with copper, zinc, and manganese. Plant Stress 1:100008, 2021.
Takehiko Ogura, Christian Goeschl, Daniele Filiault, Madalina Mirea, Radka Slovak, Bonnie Wolhrab, Santosh B Satbhai and Wolfgang Busch. Root system depth in Arabidopsis is shaped by EXOCYST70A3 via the dynamic modulation of auxin transport. Cell 178(2):400–412, 2019.
Nadia Bouain, Santosh B Satbhai, Arthur Korte, Chorpet Saenchai, Guilhem Desbrosses, Pierre Berthomieu, Wolfgang Busch and Hatem Rouached. Natural allelic variation of the AZI1 gene controls root growth under zinc-limiting condition. PLoS Genetics 14(4):e1007304, 2018.
Elwira Smakowska-Luzan, Adam G Mott, Katarzyna Parys, Martin Stegmann, Timothy C Howton, Mehdi Layeghifard, Jana Neuhold, Anita Lehner, Jixiang Kong, Karin Grünwald and others. An extracellular network of Arabidopsis leucine-rich repeat receptor kinases. Nature 553(7688):342–346, 2018.
Santosh B Satbhai, Claudia Setzer, Florentina Freynschlag, Radka Slovak, Envel Kerdaffrec and Wolfgang Busch. Natural allelic variation of FRO2 modulates Arabidopsis root growth under iron deficiency. Nature communications 8(1):15603, 2017.
Mónica Meijón, Santosh B Satbhai, Takashi Tsuchimatsu and Wolfgang Busch. Genome-wide association study using cellular traits identifies a new regulator of root development in Arabidopsis. Nature genetics 46(1):77–81, 2014.