Toshihiro Yoshihara

TL;DR: The rice seed-storage protein glutelin promoter, GluB-1, was used to drive expression of the soybean gene specifically in developing, self-pollinated seeds (T1 seeds) of transgenic plants, as confirmed by reverse transcription PCR analysis.

TL;DR: It is indicated that raising seedlings treated with blue light promoted the growth of lettuce plants after transplanting, likely because of high shoot and root biomasses, a high content of photosynthetic pigments, and high antioxidant activities in the lettuce seedlings before transplanting.

TL;DR: The results indicated that high-intensity green LED light was effective to promote plant growth and, in particular, short-wavelength green light was available for active plant growth.

TL;DR: The mean Fe concentration in leaves of ferritin over-expressing lines decreased to less than half of the non-transformant while that the plant biomasses and seed yields of the ferrit in-transformed lines were not significantly different from those of theNon-transformants, suggesting that accumulation of Fe in seeds of hyper-expression ferritIn rice did not always depend on the expression level of exogenousFerritin but may have been limited by Fe uptake and transport.

TL;DR: The identification of novel cis-acting elements, IDE1 and IDE2, will provide powerful tools to clarify the molecular mechanisms regulating Fe homeostasis in higher plants.