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Suzuki Lab
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A lab that uncovers how tiny plant viruses cause disease and turns them into useful tools.
AboutAbout the lab
Unraveling the interplay of plants, insects, and microbes
Suzuki Lab studies the relationships among plants, insects, and microorganisms, which have evolved together over a long time, with the aim of creating useful biological resources.
Plant diseases are a good model for studying the relationships among these three groups.
In recent years, the lab has focused mainly on viruses, the smallest of plant pathogens.
It investigates at the molecular level how viruses with only a few genes make plants sick.
Key terms
- Viral vector
- A tool that incorporates a foreign gene into a virus and delivers it into cells so that the gene can function there
- RNA interference
- A mechanism that uses RNA as a guide to suppress the activity of a specific gene. Also called silencing
- Nucleotide sequence
- The order of the four kinds of building blocks (nucleotides) that make up a gene. It is the genetic information itself
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies the functions of plant virus genes and how plants respond to them at the molecular level, in order to uncover how plants become diseased. It also aims to create useful resources by taking advantage of the distinctive ways viral genes work and the strong replication ability of viruses.
*Illustrative imageHow viruses cause disease
Viruses that differ by just a single nucleotide can sometimes cause different diseases. Using viruses with modified genes, the lab examines important nucleotide and amino acid sequences and searches for the plant genes involved.
*Illustrative imageDevelopment of plant viral vectors
Taking advantage of the high replication ability of viruses, foreign genes can be made to function in plants, and RNA interference can be used to suppress the activity of plant genes. The lab is currently developing viral vectors for legumes that suppress the activity of harmful or unwanted genes.
MembersFaculty
- Associate ProfessorMasashi SuzukiPublications ↗
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Report an errorAbout the images
The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “TMV virus under magnification” Chb / Public domain (cropped)
- How viruses cause disease: “Leaf mosaic, green islands and shoestrings- Symptoms of papaya ringspot disease” Plant pests and diseases / CC0 (cropped)
- Development of plant viral vectors: “Pés de Feijão Vermelho - Phaseolus Vulgaris - Sítio Caramonã” Rodrigo Padula / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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