Tetsuya Sakurai

TL;DR: An accurate soybean genome sequence will facilitate the identification of the genetic basis of many soybean traits, and accelerate the creation of improved soybean varieties.

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: In this paper, a dual experimental strategy was used to verify and correct the initial genome sequence annotation of the reference plant Arabidopsis and identified 5817 novel transcription units including a substantial amount of antisense gene transcription, and 40 genes within the genetically defined centromeres.

TL;DR: The sequence database of the RAFL c DNAs is useful for promoter analysis and correct annotation of predicted transcription units and gene products, and the full-length cDNAs are useful resources for analyses of the expression profiles, functions, and structures of plant proteins.

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.