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Plant Pathology Department
201F Plant Science Building
1405 Veterans Drive
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40546-0312
USA
Tel: (859) 218-0729 Fax: (859) 323-1961
E-mail: pk62@uky.edu
https://plantpathology.ca.uky.edu/person/pradeep-kachroo
Area of expertise: Host-pathogen interaction; fatty acid and lipid signaling
Selected Publications:
Kachroo, A., and Kachroo, P. (2020). Mobile signals in systemic acquired resistance. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 58:41–47.
Kachroo, P., Liu, H., and Kachroo, A. (2020). Salicylic acid: Transport and long-distance immune signaling. Curr. Opin. Virol. 42: 53–57.
Lim, G.H., Liu, H., Yu, K., Liu, R., Shine, M.B., Fernandez, J., Burch-Smith, T., Mobley, J.K., McLetchie, N., Kachroo, A., and Kachroo, P. (2020). The plant cuticle regulates apoplastic transport of salicylic acid during systemic acquired resistance. Sci. Adv. 6: eaaz0478.
Kachroo, P., and Kachroo, A. (2020). Lipid-Modulated Trafficking in Plants. Mol. Plant. 13: 351–353.
Shine, M.B., Gao, Q.M., Chowda-Reddy, R.V., Singh, A.K., Kachroo, P., and Kachroo, A. (2019). Glycerol-3-phosphate mediates rhizobia-induced systemic signaling in soybean. Nat. Commun. 10: 5303.
Li, D., Liu, R., Singh, D., Yuan, X., Kachroo, P., and Raina, R. (2020). JMJ14 encoded H3K4 demethylase modulates immune responses by regulating defence gene expression and pipecolic acid levels. New Phytol. 225: 2108–2121.
Shine, M.B., Xiao, X., Kachroo, P., and Kachroo, A. (2019). Signaling mechanisms underlying systemic acquired resistance to microbial pathogens. Plant Sci. 279: 81–86.
Wang, C., Liu, R., Lim, GH., De Lorenzo, L., Yu, K., Zhang, K., Hunt, A.G., Kachroo, A., and Kachroo, P. (2018). Pipecolic acid confers systemic immunity by regulating free radicals. Sci. Adv. 4: eaar4509.
Kachroo, P., Kachroo, A. (2018). Plants pack a quiver full of arrows. Cell Host Microbe. 23: 573–575.
Lim, G.H., Hoey, T., Zhu, S., Clavel, M., Yu, K., Navarre, D., Kachroo, A., Deragon JM., and Kachroo, P. (2018). COP1., a negative regulator of photomorphogenesis., positively regulates plant disease resistance via double-stranded RNA binding proteins. PLoS Pathog. 14: e1006894.
Singh, A., Lim, G,H., and Kachroo, P. (2017). Transport of chemical signals in systemic acquired resistance. J Integr Plant Biol. 59:336–344.
Shine, M.B., Yang, J.W., El-Habbak, M., Nagyabhyru, P., Fu, D.Q., Navarre, D., Ghabrial, S., Kachroo, P., and Kachroo, A. (2016). Cooperative functioning between phenylalanine ammonia lyase and isochorismate synthase activities contributes to salicylic acid biosynthesis in soybean. New Phytol. 212: 627–636.
Luan, H., Shine, M.B., Cui, X., Chen, X., Ma, N., Kachroo, P., Zhi, H., and Kachroo, A. (2016). The potyviral P3 protein targets eukaryotic elongation factor 1A to promote the unfolded protein response and viral pathogenesis. Plant Physiol. 172: 221–234.
Lim, G.H., Shine, M.B., De Lorenzo, L., Yu, K., Cui, W., Navarre, D., Hunt, A.G., Lee, J.Y., Kachroo, A., and Kachroo, P. (2016). Plasmodesmata localizing proteins regulate transport and signaling during systemic acquired immunity in plants. Cell Host Microbe. 19: 541–549.
Gao, Q.M., Zhu, S., Kachroo, P., and Kachroo, A. (2015). Signal regulators of systemic acquired resistance. Front Plant Sci. 6: 228.
Gao, Q.M., Yu, K., Xia, Y., Shine, M.B., Wang, C., Navarre, D., Kachroo, A., and Kachroo, P. (2014) Mono- and digalactosyldiacylglycerol lipids function nonredundantly to regulate systemic acquired resistance in plants. Cell Rep. 9: 1681–1691
Wendehenne, D., Gao, Q.M., Kachroo, A., and Kachroo, P. (2014). Free radical-mediated systemic immunity in plants. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 20:127–134
Zhu, S., Jeong, R.D., Lim, G-H., Yu, K., Wang, C., Chandra-Shekara, A.C., Navarre, D., Klessig, D.F., Kachroo, A., and Kachroo, P. (2013). Double-stranded RNA-binding protein 4 of the RNA silencing machinery mediates induced pathogen resistance in plants. Cell Rep. 4: 1168–1184
Yu, K., Soares, J., Mandal, M.K., Wang, C., Chanda, B., Gifford, A.N., Fowler, J.S., Navarre, D., Kachroo, A., and Kachroo, P. (2013). A feed-back regulatory loop between glycerol-3-phosphate and lipid transfer proteins DIR1 and AZI1 mediates azelaic acid-induced systemic immunity. Cell Rep 3: 1266–1278
Chanda, B., Xia Y., Mandal, M., Yu, K., Sekine, K., Gao, Q-M., Selote, D., Hu, Y., Stromberg, A., Navarre, D., Kachroo, A., and Kachroo, P. (2011). Glycerol-3-phosphate., a critical mobile inducer of systemic immunity in plants. Nat. Genet. 43: 421–427
Jeong, R-D., Chandra-Shekara, A.C., Barman, S., Navarre, D., Klessig, D., Kachroo, A., and Kachroo, P. (2010). CRYPTOCHROME 2 and PHOTOTROPIN 2 regulate resistance protein mediated viral defense by negatively regulating an E3 ubiquitin ligase. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 107: 13538–13543
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