Teruaki Taji

TL;DR: A full-length cDNA microarray containing approximately 7000 independent, full- length cDNA groups is prepared to analyse the expression profiles of genes under drought, cold (low temperature) and high-salinity stress conditions over time, suggesting that various transcriptional regulatory mechanisms function in the drought,cold or high- salinity stress signal transduction pathways.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the expression of an NCED gene of Arabidopsis, AtNCED3, is induced by drought stress and controls the level of endogenous ABA under drought-stressed conditions.

TL;DR: Results show that stress-inducible galactinol synthase plays a key role in the accumulation of galactInol and raffinose under abiotic stress conditions, and that galact inol and RFO may function as osmoprotectants in drought-stress tolerance of plants.

TL;DR: Results indicate that the DREB1/CBF cold-responsive pathway is conserved in rice and the D REB1-type genes are quite useful for improvement of stress tolerance to environmental stresses in various kinds of transgenic plants including rice.

TL;DR: Under normal growing conditions, salt cress accumulated Pro at much higher levels than did Arabidopsis, and this corresponded to a higher expression of AtP5CS in Salt cress, a key enzyme of Pro biosynthesis, which suggests that the salt tolerance in salt cressing results from mechanisms that are similar to those operating in glycophytes.