Research Summary

Main Research Fields

• Chemistry
• Biological Sciences
• Agricultural Sciences

Related Research Fields

• Biology

Keywords

• Environmental stress adaptation
• Epigenome regulation
• RNA regulation
• Chemical regulation
• Molecular breeding of useful cassava plants

Selected Publications

• 1. Sako, K., Futamura, Y., Shimizu, T., Matsui, A., Hirano, H., Kondoh, Y., Muroi, M., Aono, H., Tanaka, M., Honda, K., Shimizu, K., Kawatani, M., Nakano, T., Osada, H., Noguchi, K. and Seki, M.:
  "Inhibition of mitochondrial complex I by the novel compound FSL0260 enhances high salinity-stress tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana."
  Sci Rep, 10, 8691 (2020).
• 2. Nakaminami, K., Okamoto, M., Higuchi-Takeuchi, M., Yoshizumi, T., Yamaguchi, Y., Fukao, Y., Shimizu, M., Ohashi, C., Tanaka, M., Matsui, M., Shinozaki, K., Seki, M.^* and Hanada, K.^*:
  "AtPep3 is a hormone-like peptide that plays a role in salinity stress tolerance of plants."
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 115, 5810-5815 (2018).
• 3. Ueda, M., Matsui, A., Tanaka, M., Nakamura, T., Abe, T., Sako, K., Sasaki, T., Kim, J.M., Ito, A., Nishino, N., Shimada, H., Yoshida, M. and Seki, M.:
  "The distinct role of RPD3-like histone deacetylases between class I and II in salinity stress response"
  Plant Physiol. 175:1760-1773 (2017).
• 4. Matsui, A., Iida, K., Tanaka, M., Yamaguchi, K., Mizunashi, K., Kim, J.M., Takahashi, S., Kobayashi, N., Shigenobu, S., Shinozaki, K. and Seki, M.:
  "Novel stress-inducible antisense RNAs of protein-coding loci are synthesized by Arabidopsis RDRs"
  Plant Physiol. 175: 457-472 (2017).
• 5. Nguyen, H.M., Sako, K., Matsui, A., Suzuki, Y., Mostofa, M.G., Ha, C.V., Tanaka, M., Tran, L.S.P., Habu, Y. and Seki, M.:
  "Ethanol enhances high-salinity stress tolerance by detoxifying reactive oxygen species in Arabidopsis thaliana and rice"
  Front. Plant Sci. 8: 1001 (2017).
• 6. Kim, J.M., To, K.T., Matsui, A., Tanoi, K., Kobayashi, N.I., Matsuda, F., Habu, Y., Ogawa, D., Sakamoto, T., Matsunaga, S., Bashir, K., Rasheed, S., Ando, M., Takeda, H., Kawaura, K., Kusano, M., Fukushima, A., Endo, A.T., Kuromori, T., Ishida, J., Morosawa, T., Tanaka, M., Torii, C., Takebayashi, Y., Sakakibara, H., Ogihara, Y., Saito, K., Shinozaki, K., Devoto, A. and Seki, M.:
  "Acetate-mediated novel survival strategy against drought in plants"
  Nature Plants 3: 17097 (2017).
• 7. Sako, K., Kim, J.M., Matsui, A., Nakamura, K., Tanaka, M., Kobayashi, M., Saito, K., Nishino, N., Kusano, M., Taji, T., Yoshida, M. and Seki, M.:
  "Ky-2, a histone deacetylase inhibitor, enhances high-salinity stress tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana"
  Plant Cell Physiol. 57:776-783 (2016)
• 8. To, T.K., Kim, J.M., Matsui, A., Kurihara, Y., Morosawa, T., Ishida, J., Tanaka, M., Endo, T., Kakutani, T., Toyoda, T., Kimura, H., Yokoyama, S., Shinozaki, K. and Seki, M.:
  "Arabidopsis HDA6 regulates locus-directed heterochromatin silencing in cooperation with MET1"
  PLoS Genet. 7:e1002055 (2011).
• 9.Kurihara, Y., Matsui, A., Hanada, K., Kawashima, M., Ishida, J., Morosawa, T., Tanaka, M., Kaminuma, E., Mochizuki, Y., Matsushima, A., Toyoda, T., Shinozaki, K. and Seki, M.:
  "Genome-wide suppression of aberrant mRNA-like noncoding RNAs by NMD in Arabidopsis"
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 106:2453-2458 (2009).
• 10.Matsui, A., Ishida, J., Morosawa, T., Mochizuki, Y., Kaminuma, E., Endo, T.A., Okamoto, M., Nambara, E., Nakajima, M., Kawashima, M., Satou, M., Kim, J.M., Kobayashi, N., Toyoda, T., Shinozaki, K. and Seki, M.:
  "Arabidopsis Transcriptome Analysis under Drought, Cold, High-Salinity and ABA Treatment Conditions using a Tiling Array"
  Plant Cell Physiol. 49: 1135-1149 (2008).

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