Minami Matsui

TL;DR: Transport assays in yeast and insect cells demonstrated that at least one of the candidates ABA-IMPORTING TRANSPORTER (AIT) 1, which had been characterized as the low-affinity nitrate transporter NRT1.2, mediates cellular ABA uptake.

TL;DR: Results indicate that the gene product of DFL1 is involved in auxin signal transduction, and inhibits shoot and hypocotyl cell elongation and lateral root cell differentiation in light.

TL;DR: All of the subunits of the COP9 complex contain structural features that are also present in the components of the proteasome regulatory complex and the translation initiation factor eIF3 complex, which suggests that the COP 9 complex is an important cellular regulator modulating multiple signaling pathways.

TL;DR: It is shown that in Arabidopsis, endoreduplication is induced by DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs), but not directly by DNA replication stress, suggesting that plants have evolved a distinct strategy to sustain growth under genotoxic stress.

TL;DR: Ten genes are identified that showed upregulation by HL, drought, cold and also salt stress, most of which are thought to be involved in the protection of cellular components.