1/21（木）に遺伝子実験施設 1 階の研修セミナー室で連合農学研究科博士課程 3 年の堀江清孝君の学位論文発表会が開催されました．堀江君の研究成果はイネのフィトアレキシンの構造の多様性を明らかにした重要な研究で，博士課程から新たに研究を始めた 3 年間の研究としてはかなり充実した結果が得られています．
2015/12/28〜2016/1/22 の輪読では下記の論文を取り上げました．
871. Soliman, S. et al. (2015). An endophyte constructs fungicide-containing extracellular barriers for its host plant. Curr. Biol. 25: 2570–2576.
872. Pimentel-Elardo, S.M. et al. (2015). Activity-independent discovery of secondary metabolites using chemical elicitation and cheminformatic inference. ACS Chem. Biol. 10: 2616–2623.
873. Cho, J.-G. et al. (2015). Diterpenes from the roots of Oryza sativa L. and their inhibition activity on NO production in LPS-stimulated RAW264.7 macrophages. Chem. Biodiversity 12: 1356–1364.
874. Goto, S. et al. Development of disease-resistant rice by pathogen-responsive expression of WRKY45. Plant Biotechnol. J. in press.
875. Xu, X.-H. et al. (2015). Friend or foe: differential responses of rice to invasion by mutualistic or pathogenic fungi revealed by RNAseq and metabolite profiling. Sci. Rep. 5: 13624.
876. Ueno, Y. et al. (2015). Abiotic stresses antagonize the rice defence pathway through the tyrosine-dephosphorylation of OsMPK6. PLoS Pathogens 11: e1005231.
877. Wolkenstein, K., Sun, H., Falk, H., and Griesinger, C. (2015). Structure and absolute configuration of Jurassic polyketide-derived spiroborate pigments obtained from microgram quantities. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 137: 13460–13463.
878. Fang, M. et al. (2015). Thermal degradation of small molecules: a global metabolomic investigation. Anal. Chem. 87: 10935–10941.
879. Lin, B. et al. (2016). A novel nematode effector suppresses plant immunity by activating host reactive oxygen species-scavenging system. New Phytol. 209: 1159–1173.
880. Mao, H., Liu, J., Ren, F., Peters, R.J., and Wang, Q. (2016). Characterization of CYP71Z18 indicates a role in maize zealexin biosynthesis. Phytochemistry 121: 4–10.
881. García-Cristobal, J., García-Villaraco, A., Ramos, B., Gutierrez-Mañero, J., and Lucas, J.A. (2015). Priming of pathogenesis related-proteins and enzymes related to oxidative stress by plant growth promoting rhizobacteria on rice plants upon abiotic and biotic stress challenge. J. Plant Physiol. 188: 72–79.
882. Li, Y., Kim, J.I., Pysh, L., and Chapple, C. (2015). Four isoforms of Arabidopsis thaliana 4-coumarate: CoA ligase have overlapping yet distinct roles in phenylpropanoid metabolism. Plant Physiol. 169: 2409–2421.
883. Yamamura, C. et al. (2015). Diterpenoid phytoalexin factor, a bHLH transcription factor, plays a central role in the biosynthesis of diterpenoid phytoalexins in rice. Plant J. 84: 1100–1113.
