Highlighted Publications
The Whole and its Parts: Cell-specific Functions of Brassinosteroids.
Aardening, Z., Khandal, H., Erlichman, O. A., & Savaldi-Goldstein, S. Ι Trends in Plant Science (Vol. 30, Issue 4, pp. 389–408), 2025
Polarity-guided Uneven Mitotic Divisions Control Brassinosteroid Activity in Proliferating Plant Root Cells
Vukašinović, N., Hsu, C. W., Marconi, M., Li, S., Zachary, C., Shahan, R., Szekley, P., Aardening, Z., … Savaldi-Goldstein, S., Wabnik, K., Nolan, T. M., & Russinova, E. Ι Cell, 188(8), 2063-2080.e24, 2025
Root Growth and Branching are Enabled by Brassinosteroid-regulated Growth Anisotropy and Carbon Allocation.
Khandal, H., Horev, G., van den Herik, B., Soroka, Y., Lahav, T., Avin-Wittenberg, T., ten Tusscher, K., & Savaldi-Goldstein, S. Ι Nature Communications , 16(1), 2025
Auxin Requirements for a Meristematic State in Roots Depend on a Dual Brassinosteroid Function
Ackerman-Lavert, M., Fridman, Y., Matosevich, R., Khandal, H., Friedlander-Shani, L., Vragović, K., Ben El, R., Horev, G., Tarkowská, D., Efroni, I., & Savaldi-Goldstein, S. Ι Current Biology : CB, 31(20), 4462–4472, 2021
Optimal BR Signalling is Required for Adequate Cell Wall Orientation in the Arabidopsis Root Meristem
Li, Z., Sela, A., Fridman, Y., Garstka, L., Höfte, H., Savaldi-Goldstein, S., & Wolf, S Ι Development (Cambridge, England), 148(21), 2021
The Root Meristem is Shaped by Brassinosteroid Control of Cell Geometry
Fridman, Y., Strauss, S., Horev, G., Ackerman-Lavert, M., Reiner-Benaim, A., Lane, B., Smith, R. S., & Savaldi-Goldstein, S. Ι Nature Plants, 7(11), 1475–1484, 2021
Growth Models From a Brassinosteroid Perspective
Ackerman-Lavert, M., & Savaldi-Goldstein, S. Ι Current Opinion in Plant Biology (Vol. 53, pp. 90–97), 2020
Interdependent Nutrient Availability and Steroid Hormone Signals Facilitate Root Growth Plasticity
Singh, A. P., Fridman, Y., Holland, N., Ackerman-Lavert, M., Zananiri, R., Jaillais, Y., Henn, A., & Savaldi-Goldstein, S. Ι Developmental Cell, 46(1), 59-72.e4, 2018
Translatome Analyses Capture of Opposing Tissuespecific Brassinosteroid Signals Orchestrating Root Meristem Differentiation
Vragović, K., Selaa, A., Friedlander-Shani, L., Fridman, Y., Hacham, Y., Holland, N., Bartom, E., Mockler, T. C., & Savaldi-Goldstein, S. Ι Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(3), 923–928, 2015
Growth Control: Brassinosteroid Activity Gets Context
Singh, A. P., & Savaldi-Goldstein, S. Ι Journal of Experimental Botany (Vol. 66, Issue 4, pp. 1123–1132), 2015
Activity of the Brassinosteroid Transcription Factors BRASSINAZOLE RESISTANT1 and BRASSINOSTEROID INSENSITIVE1-ETHYL METHANESULFONATE-SUPPRESSOR1/ BRASSINAZOLE RESISTANT2 Blocks Developmental Reprogramming in Response to Low Phosphate Svailability
Singh, A. P., Fridman, Y., Friedlander-Shani, L., Tarkowska, D., Strnad, M., & Savaldi-Goldstein, S. Ι Plant Physiology, 166(2), 578–588, 2014
Root Growth is Modulated by Differential Hormonal Sensitivity in Neighboring Cells
Fridman, Y., Elkouby, L., Holland, N., Vragović, K., Elbaum, R., & Savaldi-Goldstein, S. Ι Genes and Development, 28(8), 912–920, 2014
Brassinosteroids in Growth Control: How, When and Where
Fridman, Y., & Savaldi-Goldstein, S. Ι Plant Science (Vol. 209, pp. 24–31), 2013
Brassinosteroid Perception in the Epidermis Controls Root Meristem Size
Hacham, Y., Holland, N., Butterfield, C., Ubeda-Tomas, S., Bennett, M. J., Chory, J., & Savaldi-Goldstein, S. Ι Development, 138(5), 839–848, 2011