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Laboratory of Eco-Devo Plant Biology


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Hirokazu TSUKAYA (Professor)
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Selected publications

Ferjani, A., Satoshi, Y., Horiguchi, G., and Tsukaya, H. (2007) Analysis of leaf development in fugu mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana reveals three compensation modes that modulate cell expansion in determinate organs. Plant Physiol. 144: 988-999.

Tsukaya, H. (2006). Mechanism of leaf shape determination. Ann. Rev. Plant Biol. 57: 477-496.

Horiguchi, G., Kim, G.-T. and Tsukaya, H. (2005) The transcription factor AtGRF5 and the transcription coactivator AN3 regulate cell proliferation in leaf primordia of Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant J. 43: 68-78.

Tsukaya, H. (2003). Organ shape and size: a lesson from studies of leaf morphogenesis. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 6: 57-62.

Kim, G.-T., Shoda, K., Tsuge, T., Cho, K.-H., Uchimiya, H., Yokoyama, R., Nishitani, K. and Tsukaya, H. (2002) The ANGUSTIFOLIA gene of Arabidopsis, a plant CtBP gene, regulates leaf-cell expansion, the arrangement of cortical microtubules in leaf cells and expression of a gene involved in cell-wall formation. EMBO J. 21: 1267-1279.


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