7/23（土）には水戸キャンパスで茨城大学オープンキャンパスが開催され，生物制御化学研究室の大学院生の勝間田君と北村君が農学部相談コーナーでポスターによる研究発表を行いました．多くの高校生や保護者の皆さんが研究についての説明を熱心に聞かれていました．
7/15 の研究室セミナーの文献紹介では，4 年生の大垣君が下記の論文について発表しました．
Das, S., and Ramana, C.V. (2015). A formal total synthesis of (–)-kumausallene. Tetrahedron 71: 8577–8584.
7/12-7/22 の輪読では下記の論文を取り上げました．
982. Uji, Y. et al. Overexpression of OsMYC2 results in the upregulation of early JA-responsive genes and bacterial blight resistance in rice. Plant Cell Physiol. in press.
983. Maeda, S., Hayashi, N., Sasaya, T., and Mori, M. (2016). Overexpression of BSR1 confers broad-spectrum resistance against two bacterial diseases and two major fungal diseases in rice. Breed. Sci. 66: 396–406.
984. Francisco, M. et al. (2016). The defense metabolite, allyl glucosinolate, modulates Arabidopsis thaliana biomass dependent upon the endogenous glucosinolate pathway. Front. Plant Sci. 7: 774.
985. Wei, Y. et al. (2016). Comparative transcriptional profiling of melatonin synthesis and catabolic genes indicates the possible role of melatonin in developmental and stress responses in rice. Front. Plant Sci. 7: 676.
986. Miyamoto, K. et al. Jasmonoyl-L-isoleucine is required for the production of a flavonoid phytoalexin but not diterpenoid phytoalexins in ultraviolet-irradiated rice leaves. Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem. in press.
987. Molla, K.A. et al. (2016). Tissue specific expression of Arabidopsis NPR1 gene in rice for sheath blight resistance without compromising phenotypic. Plant Sci. 250: 105–114.
988. Huangfu, J. et al. (2016). The transcription factor OsWRKY45 negatively modulates the resistance of rice to the brown planthopper Nilaparvata lugens. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 17: 697.
989. Willett, C.D. et al. (2016). Benzoxazinone-mediated triazine degradation: a proposed reaction mechanism. J. Agric. Food Chem. 64: 4858–4865.
