Study on Molecular Mechanism for Plant Immune System
update:2020/06/16
- Features and Uniqueness
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- Plants have immune system against pathogen infection. In our research group, isolation of disease resistance genes, analysis of signal transduction pathways for disease resistance and characterization of defense-related proteins have been performed so far. In addition, we produced transgenic plants expressing green fluorescent protein under the control of defense-inducible promoter, which will be useful to visualize the induction of defense system.
- Practical Application
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Our knowledge obtained from the study on the mechanism(s) for plant immune system and the reporter transgenic plants will be available for screening chemical compounds activating plant immune system (so-called "plant activator").
- Keywords
Researchers
Graduate School of Agricultural Science
Hideki Takahashi, Professor
Doctor of Agriculture