Yasuyuki Yamaji

TL;DR: It is shown that a single virulence factor, tengu-su inducer (TENGU), induces witches' broom and dwarfism and is a small secreted protein of the plant-pathogenic bacterium, phytoplasma.

TL;DR: This study focused on an abundant cell-surface membrane protein of the phytoplasma named antigenic membrane protein (Amp), which is not homologous with any reported functional protein, and reported interactions between pathogens and mammalian microfilaments between a bacterial surface protein and a host microfilament in insect cells.

TL;DR: This review focuses on recent advances related to antiviral recessive resistance genes evaluated in model plants and several crop species, and addresses the roles of next-generation sequencing and genome editing technologies in improving plant genetic resources for recessive Resistance-based antiviral breeding in various crop species.

TL;DR: Analysis of resistance of certain Arabidopsis thaliana ecotypes to a potexvirus to show the existence of lectin genes that show a variety of levels of virus resistance, their targets, and their properties, which are distinct from those of known R genes, suggests the generality of Lectin-mediated resistance in plant innate immunity.

TL;DR: It is suggested that systemic necrosis and HR consist of PCD and a restraint of virus multiplication, and that the latter is induced through unknown pathways independent from the former.