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Hase, Yoshihiro; Fujioka, Shozo*; Yoshida, Shigeo*; Sun, G.; Umeda, Masaaki*; Tanaka, Atsushi
Journal of Experimental Botany, 56(414), p.1263 - 1268, 2005/04
Times Cited Count:41 Percentile:64.65(Plant Sciences)The (
) mutant, that has serrated petals and sepals but no other large changes in plant morphology, was studied. The
had a mutation in
and an altered sterol composition. It was found that the
mutation causes ectopic endoreduplication in petal tips that do not normally endoreduplicate. The rosette leaves of
also showed an enhanced level of endoreduplication, but their morphology was hardly affected. These facts suggest that the suppression of endoreduplication is important for petal morphogenesis and the normal sterol composition is required for this suppression.
Kitamura, Satoshi; Shikazono, Naoya; Tanaka, Atsushi
Plant Journal, 37(1), p.104 - 114, 2004/01
Times Cited Count:410 Percentile:99.11(Plant Sciences)Flavonoid compounds such as anthocyanins and proanthocyanidins (PAs; so-called condensed tannins) must be transported from the site of synthesis in the cytosol to the vacuoles. Novel Arabidopsis mutants, transparent testa 19 (tt19), which were induced by ion beam irradiation, showed a great reduction of anthocyanin pigments in the vegetative parts as well as brown pigments in the seed coat. The TT19 gene was isolated by chromosome walking and the gene candidate approach, and was shown to be a member of the Arabidopsis glutathione S-transferase (GST) gene family. Heterologous expression of a putative ortholog, petunia AN9, in tt19 complemented the anthocyanin accumulation but not the brown pigmentation in the seed coat. This suggests that the TT19 gene is required for vacuolar uptake of anthocyanins into vacuoles, but that it has also a different function from AN9. The depositional pattern of PA precursors in the mutant was different from that in the wild type. These results indicate that TT19 participates in the PA pathway as well as the anthocyanin pathway of Arabidopsis.
Sakamoto, Ayako; Lan, V. T. T.; Hase, Yoshihiro; Shikazono, Naoya; Matsunaga, Tsukasa*; Tanaka, Atsushi
Plant Cell, 15(9), p.2042 - 2057, 2003/09
Times Cited Count:81 Percentile:83.37(Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)In order to investigate UV-response mechanisms in higher plants, we isolated a UV-sensitive mutant, , in
. The root growth of
was inhibited after UV-B irradiation under both photoreactivating and non-photoreactivating conditions. We found that chromosome 1 of
was broken at least at three points, causing chromosome inversion and translocation. A gene disrupted by this rearrangement encoded the catalytic subunit of DNA polymerase
(
), which is thought to be involved in translesion synthesis. The
seedlings were also sensitive to
-rays and MMC, which are known to inhibit DNA replication. The incorporation of BrdU after UV-B irradiation was less in
than in the wild type plant. These results suggest that UV-damaged DNA interrupted DNA replication in the
mutant, leading to the inhibition of cell division and root elongation.
Shikazono, Naoya; Yokota, Yukihiko*; Kitamura, Satoshi; Suzuki, Chihiro*; Watanabe, Hiroshi; Tano, Shigemitsu; Tanaka, Atsushi
Genetics, 163(4), p.1449 - 1455, 2003/04
Irradiation of by carbon ions was carried out to investigate the mutational effect of ion particles in higher plants. Frequencies of embryonic lethals and chlorophyll deficient mutants were found to be significantly higher after carbon ion-irradiation than after electron-irradiation (11-fold and 7.8-fold per unit dose, respectively). During the isolation of mutants, two new classes of flavonoid mutants (
) were isolated from carbon ion-mutagenized M2 plants. From PCR and sequence analysis, two of the three
mutant alleles were found to have a small deletion within the
gene and the other was revealed to contain a rearrangement. Using the segregation rates, the mutation rate of carbon ions was estimated to be 17-fold higher than that of electrons. The isolation of novel mutants and the high mutation rate suggest that ion particles can be used as a valuable mutagen for plant genetics.
Shikazono, Naoya; Tanaka, Atsushi; Kitayama, Shigeru*; Watanabe, Hiroshi; Tano, Shigemitsu*
Radiation and Environmental Biophysics, 41(2), p.159 - 162, 2002/04
Times Cited Count:41 Percentile:70.86(Biology)no abstracts in English
Hase, Yoshihiro; Tanaka, Atsushi; Baba, Tomohiro*; Watanabe, Hiroshi
Plant Journal, 24(1), p.21 - 32, 2000/10
Times Cited Count:47 Percentile:70.55(Plant Sciences)no abstracts in English
Choe, S.*; Dilkes, B. P.*; Gregory, B. D.*; Ross, A. S.*; Yuan, H.*; Noguchi, Takahiro*; Fujioka, Shozo*; Takatsuto, Suguru*; Tanaka, Atsushi; Yoshida, Shigeo*; et al.
Plant Physiology, 119(3), p.897 - 907, 1999/03
Times Cited Count:205 Percentile:97.49(Plant Sciences)no abstracts in English
Choe, S.*; Noguchi, Takahiro*; Fujioka, Shozo*; Takatsuto, Suguru*; Tissier, C. P.*; Gregory, B. D.*; Ross, A. S.*; Tanaka, Atsushi; Yoshida, Shigeo*; Tax. F. E.*; et al.
Plant Cell, 11, p.207 - 221, 1999/02
Times Cited Count:214 Percentile:97.70(Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)no abstracts in English
; Tano, Shigemitsu*; T.Chantes*; Yokota, Yukihiko*; Shikazono, Naoya; Watanabe, Hiroshi
Genes and Genetic Systems, 72(3), p.141 - 148, 1997/06
Times Cited Count:52 Percentile:72.97(Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)no abstracts in English
Tanaka, Atsushi; Tano, Shigemitsu*; Chantes, T.*; Yokota, Yukihiko*; Shikazono, Naoya; Watanabe, Hiroshi
Genes and Genetic Systems, 72(3), p.141 - 148, 1997/00
Times Cited Count:52 Percentile:72.45(Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)no abstracts in English
; Shikazono, Naoya; Yokota, Yukihiko*; Watanabe, Hiroshi; Tano, Shigemitsu*
International Journal of Radiation Biology, 72(1), p.121 - 127, 1997/00
no abstracts in English
; Tano, Shigemitsu*; Watanabe, Hiroshi; Shikazono, Naoya; Yokota, Yukihiko*
Ikushugaku Zasshi, 46(SUPPL.1), 60 Pages, 1996/00
no abstracts in English
; Yokota, Yukihiko*; Watanabe, Hiroshi; Shikazono, Naoya; Tano, Shigemitsu*
GSI-95-10, 0, p.87 - 90, 1995/00
no abstracts in English
; Yokota, Yukihiko*; Shikazono, Naoya; Watanabe, Hiroshi; Tano, Shigemitsu*
Radiation Research 1985-1995, Congress Proc., Vol. I, 0, 445 Pages, 1995/00
no abstracts in English