17 Result(s)

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Iron for plants and humans

Jian Feng Ma, Hong-Qing Ling in Plant and Soil (2009)

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Acquisition of aluminium tolerance by modification of a single gene in barley

Originating from the Fertile Crescent in the Middle East, barley has now been cultivated widely on different soil types including acid soils, where aluminium toxicity is a major limiting factor. Here we show t...

Miho Fujii, Kengo Yokosho, Naoki Yamaji, Daisuke Saisho… in Nature Communications (2012)

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Molecular mechanisms of Al tolerance in gramineous plants

Aluminum (Al) toxicity has limited the productivity and expansion of cereal crops on acid soils; however, a number of plant species or cultivars have developed different strategies for detoxifying aluminum bot...

Jian Feng Ma, Zhi Chang Chen, Ren Fang Shen in Plant and Soil (2014)

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AtPHT4;4 is a chloroplast-localized ascorbate transporter in Arabidopsis

Ascorbate is an antioxidant and coenzyme for various metabolic reactions in vivo. In plant chloroplasts, high ascorbate levels are required to overcome photoinhibition caused by strong light. However, ascorbate i...

Takaaki Miyaji, Takashi Kuromori, Yu Takeuchi, Naoki Yamaji… in Nature Communications (2015)

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Exploring the power of plants to overcome environmental stresses

Motoyuki Ashikari, Jian Feng Ma in Rice (2015)

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OsHKT1;4-mediated Na⁺ transport in stems contributes to Na⁺ exclusion from leaf blades of rice at the reproductive growth stage upon salt stress

Na⁺ exclusion from leaf blades is one of the key mechanisms for glycophytes to cope with salinity stress. Certain class I transporters of the high-affinity K⁺ transporter (HKT) family have been demonstrated to me...

Kei Suzuki, Naoki Yamaji, Alex Costa, Eiji Okuma, Natsuko I. Kobayashi… in BMC Plant Biology (2016)

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A heavy metal P-type ATPase OsHMA4 prevents copper accumulation in rice grain

Rice is a major source of calories and mineral nutrients for over half the world’s human population. However, little is known in rice about the genetic basis of variation in accumulation of copper (Cu), an ess...

**n-Yuan Huang, Fenglin Deng, Naoki Yamaji, Shannon R.M. Pinson… in Nature Communications (2016)

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Deployment of check-in nodes in complex networks

In many real complex networks such as the city road networks and highway networks, vehicles often have to pass through some specially functioned nodes to receive check-in like services such as gas supplement a...

Zhong-Yuan Jiang, Jian-Feng Ma in Scientific Reports (2017)

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Erratum: Reducing phosphorus accumulation in rice grains with an impaired transporter in the node

Nature 541, 92–95 (2017); doi:10.1038/nature20610 In this Letter, owing to an error during the production process, the last column of Fig. 2b was labelled ‘PO4’ rather than ‘SO4’; this has been corrected online.

Naoki Yamaji, Yuma Takemoto, Takaaki Miyaji, Namiki Mitani-Ueno, Kaoru T. Yoshida… in Nature (2017)

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Security of a kind of quantum secret sharing with entangled states

We present a new collusion attack to a kind of quantum secret sharing schemes with entangled states. Using this attack, an unauthorized set of agents can gain access to the shared secret without the others’ co...

Tian-Yin Wang, Ying-Zhao Liu, Chun-Yan Wei, **ao-Qiu Cai… in Scientific Reports (2017)

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Acetic-acid-induced jasmonate signaling in root enhances drought avoidance in rice

Conferring drought resistant traits to crops is one of the major aims of current breeding programs in response to global climate changes. We previously showed that exogenous application of acetic acid to roots...

Daisuke Ogawa, Yuya Suzuki, Takayuki Yokoo, Etsuko Katoh, Miyu Teruya… in Scientific Reports (2021)

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Role of qGZn9a in controlling grain zinc concentration in rice, Oryza sativa L.

A candidate gene responsible for higher grain zinc accumulation in rice was identified, which was probably associated with a partial defect in anther dehiscence.

Miki Ogasawara, Naoya Miyazaki, Gotaro Monden… in Theoretical and Applied Genetics (2021)

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Structural basis for high selectivity of a rice silicon channel Lsi1

Silicon (Si), the most abundant mineral element in the earth’s crust, is taken up by plant roots in the form of silicic acid through Low silicon rice 1 (Lsi1). Lsi1 belongs to the Nodulin 26-like intrinsic pro...

Yasunori Saitoh, Namiki Mitani-Ueno, Keisuke Saito, Kengo Matsuki… in Nature Communications (2021)

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Knockout of a gene encoding a Gγ protein boosts alkaline tolerance in cereal crops

Sorghum is highly tolerant to alkaline stress, but the underlying mechanisms are not well understood. Here, based on genotypic difference in alkaline tolerance of sorghum, it was found that AT1 (Alkaline toler...

Peitong Wang, Jian Feng Ma in aBIOTECH (2023)

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A silicon transporter gene required for healthy growth of rice on land

Silicon (Si) is the most abundant mineral element in the earth’s crust. Some plants actively accumulate Si as amorphous silica (phytoliths), which can protect plants from stresses. Here, we report a gene (SIET4) ...

Namiki Mitani-Ueno, Naoki Yamaji, Sheng Huang, Yuma Yoshioka… in Nature Communications (2023)

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Diverse roles of the metal binding domains and transport mechanism of copper transporting P-type ATPases

Copper transporting P-type (P_1B-1-) ATPases are essential for cellular homeostasis. Nonetheless, the E1-E1P-E2P-E2 states mechanism of P_1B-1-ATPases remains poorly understood. In particular, the role of the intri...

Zongxin Guo, Fredrik Orädd, Viktoria Bågenholm, Christina Grønberg… in Nature Communications (2024)

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Genetic background influences mineral accumulation in rice straw and grains under different soil pH conditions

Mineral element accumulation in plants is influenced by soil conditions and varietal factors. We investigated the dynamic accumulation of 12 elements in straw at the flowering stage and in grains at the mature...

Toshio Yamamoto, Kazunari Kashihara, Tomoyuki Furuta, Qian Zhang… in Scientific Reports (2024)