Experimental Plant Division
Plant science is important for the production of food and useful materials as well as the preservation of world environment. Since April 2002, the Experimental Plant Division has been selected as a national core institution of the Arabidopsis, plant cultured cells and DNA resources by the Japanese government. The aim of the laboratory is the collection, preservation and distribution of seeds, plant DNA materials and plant cultured cells. A model plant, Arabidopsis thaliana is the major origin of these resources. Development of novel technologies for the preservation and characterization of wild-type Arabidopsis and plant cultured cells is carried out. Training course is operated to distribute the technologies, and project information is provided through web site and presentations in the scientific conferences.
- Cryopreservation of plant cultured cells
- Development of crop genomic resources and related techniques
- Characterization of natural accessions of Arabidopsis
- Establishment and characterization of homozygous plants of Arabidopsis transposon-tagged lines
- May 29, 2007
- Experimental Plant Division of BRC identified a new plant gene involved in a plant's tolerance to acidic soil.
- February 01, 2008
- The value of Arabidopsis in crop research
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- Katori T., Ikeda A., Iuchi S., Kobayashi M., Shinozaki K., Maehashi K., Sakata Y., Tanaka S. and Taji T.:
"Dissecting the genetic control of natural variation in salt tolerance of Arabidopsis thaliana accessions"
J. Exp. Bot. 61, 1125-1138 (2010). - Abe H., Shimoda T., Onishi J., Kugimiya S., Narusaka M., Seo S., Narusaka Y., Tsuda S. and Kobayashi M.:
"Jasmonate-dependent plant defence restricts thrips performance and preference"
BMC Plant Biol. 9, 1-12 (2009) - Abe H., Ohnishi J., Narusaka M., Seo S., Narusaka Y., Tsuda S. and Kobayashi M.:
"Function of Jasmonate in Response and Tolerance of Arabidopsis to Thrip Feeding"
Plant Cell Physiol. 49, 68-80 (2008). - Iuchi S., Suzuki H., Kim Y.-C., Iuchi A., Kuromori T., Ueguchi M., Asami T., Yamaguchi I., Matsuoka M., Kobayashi M. and Nakajima M.:
"Multiple loss-of-function of Arabidopsis gibberellin receptor AtGID1s completely shuts down a gibberellin signal"
Plant J. 50, 958-966 (2007). - Iuchi S., Koyama H., Iuchi A., Kobayashi Y., Kitabayashi S., Kobayashi Y., Ikka T., Hirayama T., Shinozaki K. and Kobayashi M.:
"Zinc finger protein STOP1 is critical for proton tolerance in Arabidopsis and coregulates a key gene in aluminum tolerance"
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 104(23), 9990-9905 (2007). - Kobayashi T., Niino T. and Kobayashi M.:
"Simple cryopreservation protocol with an encapsulation technique for tabacco BY-2 suspension cell cultures"
Plant Biotechnology 22(2), 105-112 (2005). - Ueguchi-Tanaka, M., Ashikari, M., Nakajima, M., Itoh H., Katoh, E., Kobayashi, M., Chow, T., Hsing, YC., Kitano, H., Yamaguchi, I. and Matsuoka, M.:
"GIBBERELLIN INSENSITIVE DWARF1 encodes a soluble receptor for gibberellin"
Nature 437, 693-698 (2005). - Sakamoto, T., Morinaka, Y., Ishiyama, K., Kobayashi, M., Itoh, H., Kayano, T., Iwahori, S., Matsuoka, M. and Tanaka, H.:
"Genetic manipulation of gibberellin metabolism in transgenic rice"
Nature Biotech. 21, 900-913 (2003). - Sasaki, A., Itoh, H., Gomi, K., Ueguchi-Tanaka, M., Ishiyama, K., Kobayashi, M., Jeong, D.-H., An, G., Kitano, H., Ashikari, M. and Matsuoka, M.:
"Accumulation of phosphorylated repressor for gibberellin signaling in an F-box mutant"
Science 299, 1896-1898 (2003). - Sasaki, A., Ashikari, M., Ueguchi-Tanaka, M., Itoh, H., Nishimura, A., Swapen, D., Saito, T., Ishiyama, K., Kobayashi, M., Kitano, H., Khushu, GS. and Matsuoka, M.:
"A mutant gibberellin-synthesis gene in rice"
Nature 416, 701-702 (2002).
Principal Investigator
- Masatomo KOBAYASHI
- Head
Staff Scientist
- Toshihiro KOBAYASHI
- Senior Research Scientist
- Satoshi IUCHI
- Senior Research Scientist
- Hiroshi ABE
- Senior Research Scientist
Technical Assistant
- Atsuko IUCHI
- Technical Staff 2
- Issei SASAKI
- Technical Staff 2
- Kanako ISHIYAMA
- Technical Staff 2
- Fumie MORI
- Technical Staff 2
- Yuri SHITOMI
- Technical Staff 2
- Yukie ASO
- Technical Staff 2
- Setsuko KAWAMURA
- Technical Staff 2
- Tomoko UCHIDA
- Technical Staff 2

