Dr DAVID GOPAULCHAN's Outputs (4)

Individual leaf microbiota tunes a genetic regulatory network to promote leaf growth (2025)
Journal Article
Custódio, V., Salas-González, I., Gopaulchan, D., Flis, P., Amorós-Hernández, R., Gao, Y.-Q., Jia, X., Moreno, Â., Carrera, E., Marcon, C., Hochholdinger, F., Margarida Oliveira, M., Salt, D. E., & Castrillo, G. (2025). Individual leaf microbiota tunes a genetic regulatory network to promote leaf growth. Cell Host and Microbe, 33(3), 436-450.e15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2025.02.002

In natural ecosystems, microbes have the ability to stably colonize plant leaves, overcoming the fluctuating environmental conditions that the leaves represent. How the phyllosphere microbiota influences the growth of individual leaves remains poorly... Read More about Individual leaf microbiota tunes a genetic regulatory network to promote leaf growth.

Impact of whole-genome duplications on structural variant evolution in Cochlearia (2024)
Journal Article
Hämälä, T., Moore, C., Cowan, L., Carlile, M., Gopaulchan, D., K. Brandrud, M. K., Birkeland, S., Loose, M., Kolář, F., Koch, M., & Yant, L. (2024). Impact of whole-genome duplications on structural variant evolution in Cochlearia. Nature Communications, 15, Article 5377. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-49679-y

Polyploidy, the result of whole-genome duplication (WGD), is a major driver of eukaryote evolution. Yet WGDs are hugely disruptive mutations, and we still lack a clear understanding of their fitness consequences. Here, we study whether WGDs result in... Read More about Impact of whole-genome duplications on structural variant evolution in Cochlearia.

Plant microbiota controls an alternative root branching regulatory mechanism in plants (2023)
Journal Article
Gonin, M., Salas-González, I., Gopaulchan, D., Frene, J. P., Roden, S., Van de Poel, B., Salt, D. E., & Castrillo, G. (2023). Plant microbiota controls an alternative root branching regulatory mechanism in plants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(15), Article e2301054120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2301054120

The establishment of beneficial interactions with microbes has helped plants to modulate root branching plasticity in response to environmental cues. However, how the plant microbiota harmonizes with plant roots to control their branching is unknown.... Read More about Plant microbiota controls an alternative root branching regulatory mechanism in plants.

Coordination between microbiota and root endodermis supports plant mineral nutrient homeostasis (2020)
Journal Article
Salas-González, I., Reyt, G., Flis, P., Custódio, V., Gopaulchan, D., Bakhoum, N., Dew, T. P., Suresh, K., Franke, R. B., Dangl, J. L., Salt, D. E., & Castrillo, G. (2021). Coordination between microbiota and root endodermis supports plant mineral nutrient homeostasis. Science, 371(6525), Article eabd0695. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abd0695

Copyright © 2021, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Plant roots and animal guts have evolved specialized cell layers to control mineral nutrient homeostasis. These layers must tolerate the resident microbiota while keeping homeosta... Read More about Coordination between microbiota and root endodermis supports plant mineral nutrient homeostasis.