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Tsuchiya Lab
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A lab that uses chemical tools to study the parasitic plant Striga and develop ways to control it.
AboutAbout the lab
Using chemistry to uncover how parasitic plants work.
The Tsuchiya Lab studies parasitic plants, which grow by taking nutrients from other plants, to understand the diversity of plant capabilities and the mechanisms that drive their evolution.
During parasitism, a parasitic plant senses signaling molecules released by its host plant and changes its form one stage after another.
The lab investigates these mechanisms by manipulating and visualizing gene function with small-molecule probes.
The lab also aims to develop new control methods for Striga, a parasitic plant that causes major damage to cereal crops in Africa, and thereby contribute to increased food production.
The lab is a research group of the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM).
Key terms
- parasitic plant
- A heterotrophic plant that grows by taking nutrients from other plants
- strigolactone
- A signaling molecule released from the roots of host plants. Striga seeds sense it and begin to germinate
- suicidal germination
- A control method that forces seeds to germinate where there is no host, causing them to die
ResearchResearch themes
Parasitic plants sense various signaling molecules released by their host plants and undergo successive morphological changes. Using small-molecule probes, this lab aims to clarify how this mechanism took shape over the course of evolution.
*Illustrative imageGermination Stimulation by Strigolactones
Striga seeds germinate when they sense strigolactones released from host roots. In collaboration with a chemistry team, the lab developed a fluorescent probe, and uses it to observe a wave-like pattern of strigolactone perception within the seeds and examine how it is linked to germination.
*Illustrative imageControlling Striga through Suicidal Germination
Sphynolactone-7, a hybrid molecule of an artificial scaffold and strigolactone, is a potent germination stimulant. The lab is testing the suicidal germination method, which forces seeds to germinate where there is no host so that they die, in experimental fields in Kenya.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Tsuchiya Lab consist of faculty members, postdoctoral researchers, and technicians.
- Project ProfessorYuichiro Tsuchiya
- Project LecturerAkira Morikawa
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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: “Striga hermonthica 1148108” USDA APHIS PPQ - Oxford, North Carolina , USDA APHIS PPQ, Bugwood.org / CC BY 3.0 us (cropped)
- Germination Stimulation by Strigolactones: “Germinated Striga hermonthica Delle (Benth.)” Yuliya Krasylenko / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Controlling Striga through Suicidal Germination: “Maize and beans farm” Cut angles / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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