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