Satoko Nonaka

TL;DR: This is the first study describing the application of the CRISPR/Cas9 system to increase GABA content in tomato fruits, and its findings provide a basis for the improvement of other types of crop by CRISpr/ Cas9-based genetic modification.

TL;DR: It is reported that a group of jasmonate-responsive transcription factors of the ETHYLENE RESPONSE FACTOR (ERF) family (JREs) are close homologs of alkaloid regulators in Cathranthus roseus and tobacco, and regulate production of SGAs in tomato, and mediate transcriptional co-ordination of a series of metabolic genes involved in SGA biosynthesis.

TL;DR: It is found that wounding treatment is essential for shoot regeneration from roots in the conventional tissue culture of Arabidopsis thaliana and it is shown that an AP2/ERF transcription factor WOUND INDUCED DEDIFFERENTIATION1 (WIND1) plays a pivotal role for the acquisition of regeneration competency in the culture system.

TL;DR: The resources produced in this work considerably increase the reliability of the melon genome assembly and resolution of the gene models paving the way for further studies in melon and related species.

TL;DR: It is suggested strongly that NHEJ is involved in Agrobacterium-mediated stable transformation in rice, and that there is a competitive and complementary relationship between the N HEJ and HR pathways for DNA double-strand break repair in rice.