Professor
Howard H. and Maryam R. Newman Chair in Plant Biology
Peng, J., Agudo-Canalejo, J., Chodasiewicz, M., Van Damme, D., Daskalakis, V., González-Fuente, M., Gao, R., Filippidi, E., Guo, H., He, S., Huang, K., Huang, S., Jang, G.J., Jia, M., Knorr, R.L., Lai, X., Li, R., Liang, Q., Liu, C., Liu, X., Miao, Y., Ouyang, M., Quan, X., Solis-Miranda, J., Strader, L.C., Üstün, S., Wang, S., Wang, W., Wang, Z., Xiong, Y., Xu, C., Xu, G., Ye, H., Zhao, C., Zhu, P., Zhu, Y., Gutierrez-Beltran, E., Moschou, P.N., Fang, X. A practical guide to investigating biomolecular condensates: a comment from the plant community. (2026) Sci China Life Sci. DOI: 10.1007/s11427-026-3459-x
Sageman-Furnas, K., Strader, L.C. Nuclear auxin signaling and temperature: perception and response across scales. (2026) New Phytol. DOI: 10.1111/nph.71505
Chu, J., Ang, A.C.H., de Roij, M., Strader, L., Xu, T., Weijers, D. Auxin signaling. (2026) Cell. 189(15):4531-4547. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2026.06.024
Ban, Z., Prigge, M.J., Zhu, Y., Morffy, N., Neher, W.R., Muroyama, A., Strader, L., Estelle, M. Mutational analyses of an instability domain reveal its conserved role in the regulation of class-B ARF levels in Arabidopsis. (2026) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 123(23):e2537963123. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2537963123
Nguyen, N.T., LaMontagne-Mueller, E.D., Kauffman, G.F., Vedra, M., Peck, S.C., Strader, L.C., Heese, A. Clathrin adaptor EPSIN1 (EPS1) modulates plasma membrane abundance of PLEIOTROPIC DRUG RESISTANCE PDR9 for effective hormone homeostasis. (2026) New Phytol. DOI: 10.1111/nph.71208
Wilkinson, E.G., Sageman-Furnas, K., Pereyra, M.E., Borniego, M.B., Casal, J.J., Strader, L.C. AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR thermostability. (2026) Nature Communications. 17(1). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-71012-y
Borniego, M.B., Pereyra, M.E., Sageman-Furnas, K., Rossi, A.H., Wilkinson, E.G., Strader, L.C., Casal, J.J. Thermosensory reconfiguration of the auxin transcriptional pathway to drive root cell growth. (2026) Nature Communications. 17(1). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-71011-z
Kim, J., Strader, L., Damodaran, S. Cytokinin signaling mediated by KMD2 promotes Arabidopsis hypocotyl grafting success. (2026) MicroPubl Biol. 2026. DOI: 10.17912/micropub.biology.001768
Pathak, S., Chakravarti, A., Bersche, C., Joseph, J.A., Strader, L.C. Molecular basis for thermoresponsive protein condensation in plants. (2025) bioRxiv. DOI: 10.64898/2025.12.18.695255
Ma, Q., Liu, S., Doyle, S.M., Raggi, S., Pařízková, B., Barange, D.K., Ratnakaram, H., Wilkinson, E.G., Crespo Garcia, I., Bygdell, J., Wingsle, G., Boer, D.R., Strader, L.C., Almqvist, F., Novák, O., Robert, S. RACK1A positively regulates opening of the apical hook in via suppression of its auxin response gradient. (2025) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 122(30):e2407224122. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2407224122
Strader, L.C., Edwards, D., Sureshkumar, S., Balasubramanian, S., Chen, T., Dong, X., Antunes, M.S., Zebluim, L., Chaisupa, P., Wright, R.C. Core biological principles and tools stemming from basic Arabidopsis research. (2025) Plant Cell. 37(7). DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koaf141
Damodaran, S., Strader, L.C. Protocol for determining regulators of competence in regeneration of adventitious roots using hypocotyl wounding approach in Arabidopsis. (2025) STAR Protoc. 6(2):103818. DOI: 10.1016/j.xpro.2025.103818
Due, A.D., Davey, N.E., Thomasen, F.E., Morffy, N., Prestel, A., Brakti, I., O'Shea, C., Strader, L.C., Lindorff-Larsen, K., Skriver, K., Kragelund, B.B. Hierarchy in regulator interactions with distant transcriptional activation domains empowers rheostatic regulation. (2025) Protein Science. 34(6):e70142. DOI: 10.1002/pro.70142
Friesner, J., Argueso, C.T., Busch, W., Hamann, T., Strader, L., Williams, M., Wu, S., Roeder, A.H.K. In defense of funding foundational plant science. (2025) Plant Cell. DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koaf106
Chauhan, G., Wilkinson, E.G., Yuan, Y., Cohen, S.R., Onishi, M., Pappu, R.V., Strader, L.C. Active transport enables protein condensation in cells. (2025) Science Advances. 11(21):eadv7875. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adv7875
Roeder, A.H.K., Argueso, C.T., Williams, M., Auge, G., Li, X., Strader, L., Uauy, C., Wu, S. Focus on Translational Research from Arabidopsis to Crop Plants and Beyond. (2025) Plant Cell. 37(5). DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koaf119
Prigge, M.J., Morffy, N., de Neve, A., Szutu, W., Abraham-Juárez, M.J., McAllister, T., Jones, H., Johnson, K., Do, N., Lavy, M., Hake, S., Strader, L.C., Estelle, M., Richardson, A.E. Comparative mutant analyses reveal a novel mechanism of ARF regulation in land plants. (2025) Nature Plants. 11(4):821-835. DOI: 10.1038/s41477-025-01973-3
Allen, J.R., Flanagan, M., Pathak, S., Emenecker, S.K., Emenecker, R.J., Strader, L.C. An improved toolkit of gateway- and gibson assembly-compatible vectors for protoplast transfection and agrobacterium-mediated plant transformation. (2025) BMC Res Notes. 18(1):149. DOI: 10.1186/s13104-025-07231-1
Delaforge, E., Due, A.D., Theisen, F.F., Morffy, N., O'Shea, C., Blackledge, M., Strader, L.C., Skriver, K., Kragelund, B.B. Allovalent scavenging of activation domains in the transcription factor ANAC013 gears transcriptional regulation. (2025) Nucleic Acids Research. 53(4). DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkaf065
Pérez-Henríquez, P., Nagawa, S., Liu, Z., Pan, X., Michniewicz, M., Tang, W., Rasmussen, C., Cui, X., Van Norman, J., Strader, L., Yang, Z. PIN2-mediated self-organizing transient auxin flow contributes to auxin maxima at the tip of Arabidopsis cotyledons. (2025) Nature Communications. 16(1):1380. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-55480-8
Coll, N.S., Moreno-Risueno, M., Strader, L.C., Goodnight, A.V., Sozzani, R. Advancing our understanding of root development: Technologies and insights from diverse studies. (2025) Plant Physiology. 197(2). DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiae605
Meese, E.K., Strader, L.C. Biomolecular condensates modulate membrane remodeling. (2025) Molecular Plant. 18(1):17-18. DOI: 10.1016/j.molp.2024.11.009
Willoughby, A.C., Strader, L.C. Apical hook opening of plant seedlings: Unfolding the role of auxin and the cell wall. (2024) Developmental Cell. 59(24):3194-3196. DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2024.11.018
Damodaran, S., Strader, L.C. Factors governing cellular reprogramming competence in Arabidopsis adventitious root formation. (2024) Developmental Cell. 59(20):2745-2758.e3. DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2024.06.019
Mellado-Ortega, E., Jing, H., Wilkinson, E., Lois, M., Strader, L. Methodology to enable high-throughput imaging of Arabidopsis seedlings on cover glass-bottom multiwell plates. (2024) MicroPubl Biol. 2024. DOI: 10.17912/micropub.biology.001255
Morffy, N., Van den Broeck, L., Miller, C., Emenecker, R.J., Bryant, J.A., Lee, T.M., Sageman-Furnas, K., Wilkinson, E.G., Pathak, S., Kotha, S.R., Lam, A., Mahatma, S., Pande, V., Waoo, A., Wright, R.C., Holehouse, A.S., Staller, M.V., Sozzani, R., Strader, L.C. Identification of plant transcriptional activation domains. (2024) Nature. 632(8023):166-173. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07707-3
Pérez-Henríquez, P., Nagawa, S., Liu, Z., Pan, X., Michniewicz, M., Tang, W., Rasmussen, C., Van Norman, J., Strader, L., Yang, Z. PIN2-mediated self-organizing transient auxin flow contributes to auxin maxima at the tip of Arabidopsis cotyledons. (2024) bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2024.06.24.599792
Pérez-Henríquez, P., Li, H., Zhou, X., Pan, X., Lin, W., Tang, W., Nagawa, S., Lin, D., Xu, T., Michniewicz, M., Prigge, M.J., Strader, L.C., Estelle, M., Hayashi, K.I., Friml, J., Qi, L., Liu, Z., Van Norman, J., Yang, Z. Hierarchical global and local auxin signals coordinate cellular interdigitation in . (2024) bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2024.06.17.599171
Pathak, S., Strader, L.C. GRP7 phase separation as an interpreter of temperature cues. (2024) Molecular Plant. 17(6):842-844. DOI: 10.1016/j.molp.2024.04.010
Cowling, C.L., Homayouni, A.L., Callwood, J.B., McReynolds, M.R., Khor, J., Ke, H., Draves, M.A., Dehesh, K., Walley, J.W., Strader, L.C., Kelley, D.R. ZmPILS6 is an auxin efflux carrier required for maize root morphogenesis. (2024) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 121(22):e2313216121. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2313216121
Cohen, J.D., Strader, L.C. An auxin research odyssey: 1989-2023. (2024) Plant Cell. 36(5):1410-1428. DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koae054
Kohler, A.R., Scheil, A., Hill, J.L., Allen, J.R., Al-Haddad, J.M., Goeckeritz, C.Z., Strader, L.C., Telewski, F.W., Hollender, C.A. Defying gravity: WEEP promotes negative gravitropism in peach trees by establishing asymmetric auxin gradients. (2024) Plant Physiology. 195(2):1229-1255. DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiae085
Theisen, F.F., Prestel, A., Elkjær, S., Leurs, Y.H.A., Morffy, N., Strader, L.C., O'Shea, C., Teilum, K., Kragelund, B.B., Skriver, K. Molecular switching in transcription through splicing and proline-isomerization regulates stress responses in plants. (2024) Nature Communications. 15(1):592. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-44859-2
Del Bianco, M., Friml, J., Strader, L., Kepinski, S. Auxin research: creating tools for a greener future. (2023) J Exp Bot. 74(22):6889-6892. DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erad420
Emenecker, R.J., Cammarata, J., Yuan, I., Howard, C., Ebrahimi Naghani, S., Robert, H.S., Nambara, E., Strader, L.C. Abscisic acid biosynthesis is necessary for full auxin effects on hypocotyl elongation. (2023) Development. 150(23). DOI: 10.1242/dev.202106
Jing, H., Wilkinson, E.G., Sageman-Furnas, K., Strader, L.C. Auxin and abiotic stress responses. (2023) J Exp Bot. 74(22):7000-7014. DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erad325
Prigge, M.J., Morffy, N., de Neve, A., Szutu, W., Abraham-Juárez, M.J., Johnson, K., Do, N., Lavy, M., Hake, S., Strader, L., Estelle, M., Richardson, A.E. Comparative mutant analyses reveal a novel mechanism of ARF regulation in land plants. (2023) bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2023.11.09.566459
Allen, J., Flanagan, M., Pathak, S., Emenecker, S., Emenecker, R., Strader, L. An Improved Toolkit of Gateway- and Gibson Assembly-Compatible Vectors for Protoplast Transfection and Agrobacterium-Mediated Plant Transformation. (2023) Res Sq. DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3558280/v1
Jing, H., Strader, L.C. AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR protein accumulation and function. (2023) BioEssays. 45(11):e2300018. DOI: 10.1002/bies.202300018
Gutierrez-Beltran, E., Strader, L., Bozhkov, P.V. Focus on biomolecular condensates. (2023) Plant Cell. 35(9):3155-3157. DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koad182
Field, S., Jang, G.J., Dean, C., Strader, L.C., Rhee, S.Y. Plants use molecular mechanisms mediated by biomolecular condensates to integrate environmental cues with development. (2023) Plant Cell. 35(9):3173-3186. DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koad062
Jing, H., Yang, X., Emenecker, R.J., Feng, J., Zhang, J., Figueiredo, M.R.A., Chaisupa, P., Wright, R.C., Holehouse, A.S., Strader, L.C., Zuo, J. Nitric oxide-mediated S-nitrosylation of IAA17 protein in intrinsically disordered region represses auxin signaling. (2023) J Genet Genomics. 50(7):473-485. DOI: 10.1016/j.jgg.2023.05.001
Kohler, A.R., Scheil, A., Hill, J.L., Allen, J.R., Al-Haddad, J.M., Goeckeritz, C.Z., Strader, L.C., Telewski, F.W., Hollender, C.A. Defying Gravity: promotes negative gravitropism in (peach) shoots and roots by establishing asymmetric auxin gradients. (2023) bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2023.05.26.542472
Boeynaems, S., Chong, S., Gsponer, J., Holt, L., Milovanovic, D., Mitrea, D.M., Mueller-Cajar, O., Portz, B., Reilly, J.F., Reinkemeier, C.D., Sabari, B.R., Sanulli, S., Shorter, J., Sontag, E., Strader, L., Stachowiak, J., Weber, S.C., White, M., Zhang, H., Zweckstetter, M., Elbaum-Garfinkle, S., Kriwacki, R. Phase Separation in Biology and Disease; Current Perspectives and Open Questions. (2023) Journal of Molecular Biology. 435(5):167971. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2023.167971
Strader, L.C., Staller, M.V., Willis, A.E., Faulkner, G.J., Beggs, J.D., Cech, T.R. The complexity of transferring genetic information. (2023) Molecular Cell. 83(3):320-323. DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2023.01.002
Goloubinoff, P., Woodson, J.D., Strader, L.C., Fu, Z.Q. Important questions and future directions in plant biochemistry. (2022) Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 47(10):811-813. DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2022.07.003
Figueiredo, M.R.A., Strader, L.C. Intrinsic and extrinsic regulators of Aux/IAA protein degradation dynamics. (2022) Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 47(10):865-874. DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2022.06.004
Jing, H., Korasick, D.A., Emenecker, R.J., Morffy, N., Wilkinson, E.G., Powers, S.K., Strader, L.C. Regulation of AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR condensation and nucleo-cytoplasmic partitioning. (2022) Nature Communications. 13(1):4015. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-31628-2
Sageman-Furnas, K., Strader, L. Connected phytohormone biosynthesis pathways at the core of growth-stress tradeoffs. (2022) Molecular Plant. 15(7):1087-1089. DOI: 10.1016/j.molp.2022.06.005
Allen, J.R., Strader, L.C. Beating the heat: Phase separation in plant stress granules. (2022) Developmental Cell. 57(5):563-565. DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2022.02.012
Allen, J.R., Wilkinson, E.G., Strader, L.C. Creativity comes from interactions: modules of protein interactions in plants. (2022) FEBS Journal. 289(6):1492-1514. DOI: 10.1111/febs.15847
Strader, L., Weijers, D., Wagner, D. Plant transcription factors - being in the right place with the right company. (2022) Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 65:102136. DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2021.102136
Morffy, N., Strader, L.C. Structural Aspects of Auxin Signaling. (2022) Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. 14(1). DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a039883
Pierik, R., Fankhauser, C., Strader, L.C., Sinha, N. Architecture and plasticity: optimizing plant performance in dynamic environments. (2021) Plant Physiology. 187(3):1029-1032. DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiab402
Zhang, Y., Kilambi, H.V., Liu, J., Bar, H., Lazary, S., Egbaria, A., Ripper, D., Charrier, L., Belew, Z.M., Wulff, N., Damodaran, S., Nour-Eldin, H.H., Aharoni, A., Ragni, L., Strader, L., Sade, N., Weinstain, R., Geisler, M., Shani, E. ABA homeostasis and long-distance translocation are redundantly regulated by ABCG ABA importers. (2021) Science Advances. 7(43):eabf6069. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abf6069
Yoo, C.Y., He, J., Sang, Q., Qiu, Y., Long, L., Kim, R.J., Chong, E.G., Hahm, J., Morffy, N., Zhou, P., Strader, L.C., Nagatani, A., Mo, B., Chen, X., Chen, M. Direct photoresponsive inhibition of a p53-like transcription activation domain in PIF3 by Arabidopsis phytochrome B. (2021) Nature Communications. 12(1):5614. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-25909-5
Morffy, N., Strader, L.C. Plant promoter-proximal pausing? (2021) Nature Plants. 7(7):862-863. DOI: 10.1038/s41477-021-00970-6
Emenecker, R.J., Holehouse, A.S., Strader, L.C. Biological Phase Separation and Biomolecular Condensates in Plants. (2021) Annual Review of Plant Biology. 72:17-46. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-arplant-081720-015238
Narlikar, G.J., Myong, S., Larson, D., Maeshima, K., Francis, N., Rippe, K., Sabari, B., Strader, L., Tjian, R. Is transcriptional regulation just going through a phase? (2021) Molecular Cell. 81(8):1579-1585. DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2021.03.046
Allen, J.R., Strader, L.C. Nucleocytoplasmic partitioning as a mechanism to regulate Arabidopsis signaling events. (2021) Current Opinion in Cell Biology. 69:136-141. DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2021.01.006
Van Norman, J.M., Strader, L.C., Sozzani, R. Editorial overview: Directionality and precision - how signaling and gene regulation drive plant development and growth. (2020) Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 57:A1-A3. DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2020.11.001
Wilkinson, E.G., Strader, L.C. A Prion-based Thermosensor in Plants. (2020) Molecular Cell. 80(2):181-182. DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2020.09.026
Emenecker, R.J., Holehouse, A.S., Strader, L.C. Emerging Roles for Phase Separation in Plants. (2020) Developmental Cell. 55(1):69-83. DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2020.09.010
Mittag, T., Strader, L.C. I Will Survive: How NPR1 Condensation Promotes Plant Cell Survival. (2020) Cell. 182(5):1072-1074. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.08.011
Trujillo-Hernandez, J.A., Bariat, L., Enders, T.A., Strader, L.C., Reichheld, J.P., Belin, C. A glutathione-dependent control of the indole butyric acid pathway supports Arabidopsis root system adaptation to phosphate deprivation. (2020) J Exp Bot. 71(16):4843-4857. DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eraa195
Morffy, N., Strader, L.C. Old Town Roads: routes of auxin biosynthesis across kingdoms. (2020) Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 55:21-27. DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2020.02.002
Homayouni, A.L., Strader, L.C. Sugar rush: Glucosylation of IPyA attenuates auxin levels. (2020) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 117(14):7558-7560. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2003305117
Powers, S.K., Strader, L.C. Regulation of auxin transcriptional responses. (2020) Developmental Dynamics . 249(4):483-495. DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.139
Emenecker, R.J., Strader, L.C. Auxin-Abscisic Acid Interactions in Plant Growth and Development. (2020) Biomolecules. 10(2). DOI: 10.3390/biom10020281
Strader, L.C., Ritchie, S., Soule, J.D., McGinnis, K.M., Steber, C.M. Recessive-interfering mutations in the gibberellin signaling gene SLEEPY1 are rescued by overexpression of its homologue, SNEEZY. (2004) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 101(34):12771-6. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0404287101
McGinnis, K.M., Thomas, S.G., Soule, J.D., Strader, L.C., Zale, J.M., Sun, T.P., Steber, C.M. The Arabidopsis SLEEPY1 gene encodes a putative F-box subunit of an SCF E3 ubiquitin ligase. (2003) Plant Cell. 15(5):1120-30. DOI: 10.1105/tpc.010827
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BS, Agronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
PhD, Molecular Plant Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
Postdoctoral Fellow, Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Rice University, Houston, TX