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Plant Molecular Physiology (Kuchitsu Lab)
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A lab that investigates at the molecular level how plants sense their environment and pathogens.
AboutAbout the lab
Reading how plants live, at the molecular level
The lab studies, at the molecular level, how plants recognize the outside world, and how they process and transmit information.
The lab believes that understanding how plants live is the key to solving problems of the global environment, food, and energy.
The lab uses molecular genetics based on genomic information, molecular physiology that examines the functions of living organisms without destroying them, and bioimaging technology that visualizes the movement of signaling molecules.
Key terms
- Bioimaging
- A technique that makes the movement of signaling molecules visible for study. The lab uses it to examine information exchange inside cells and between cells.
- Molecular physiology
- A research field that examines the functions of living organisms without destroying them.
- Molecular genetics
- A research field that investigates biological phenomena based on genomic information.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab takes on the challenge of elucidating, at the molecular level, how plants recognize the outside world, process information, and transmit it. With an eye toward producing and cultivating plants that resist disease and can be grown with fewer pesticides, as well as plants that tolerate environmental stress, it carries out basic research aimed at developing a new generation of biotechnology.
*Illustrative imageResponses to environmental stress and pathogens
The lab works to elucidate the mechanisms by which plants respond when they are exposed to environmental stress or infected by pathogens.
*Illustrative imageBioimaging to observe information exchange
The lab uses bioimaging to examine how information is processed and transmitted inside cells and between cells.
*Illustrative imageNew methods to enhance plant immunity
The lab works on developing new methods to enhance plant immunity.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorKazuyuki Kuchitsu
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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: “Tomato Leaf Mold” Elizabeth Bush, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Responses to environmental stress and pathogens: “Holy Basil plant” Prathvi Acharya / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Bioimaging to observe information exchange: “Hordeum vulgare stained by fluorescent in situ hybridization” Marcello002 and real name: Karol Głąb pl.wiki: Karol007 commons: Karol007 kamikaze007 (at) tlen.pl / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- New methods to enhance plant immunity: “Plant hypersensitive response lesions” DanieliusKa / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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