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Kagawa University
Education•Takamatsu, Japan•
About: Kagawa University is a education organization based out in Takamatsu, Japan. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Angiotensin II. The organization has 6028 authors who have published 11918 publications receiving 224111 citations. The organization is also known as: Kagawa Daigaku.
Topics: Population, Angiotensin II, Cancer, Lung cancer, Cell culture
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TL;DR: The recent findings on responses, adaptation, and tolerance to HT at the cellular, organellar, and whole plant levels are reviewed and various approaches being taken to enhance thermotolerance in plants are described.
Abstract: High temperature (HT) stress is a major environmental stress that limits plant growth, metabolism, and productivity worldwide Plant growth and development involve numerous biochemical reactions that are sensitive to temperature Plant responses to HT vary with the degree and duration of HT and the plant type HT is now a major concern for crop production and approaches for sustaining high yields of crop plants under HT stress are important agricultural goals Plants possess a number of adaptive, avoidance, or acclimation mechanisms to cope with HT situations In addition, major tolerance mechanisms that employ ion transporters, proteins, osmoprotectants, antioxidants, and other factors involved in signaling cascades and transcriptional control are activated to offset stress-induced biochemical and physiological alterations Plant survival under HT stress depends on the ability to perceive the HT stimulus, generate and transmit the signal, and initiate appropriate physiological and biochemical changes HT-induced gene expression and metabolite synthesis also substantially improve tolerance The physiological and biochemical responses to heat stress are active research areas, and the molecular approaches are being adopted for developing HT tolerance in plants This article reviews the recent findings on responses, adaptation, and tolerance to HT at the cellular, organellar, and whole plant levels and describes various approaches being taken to enhance thermotolerance in plants
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TL;DR: A range of plant species has evolved mechanisms that enable them to grow on acid soils where toxic concentrations of Al(3+) can limit plant growth, and organic acids play a central role in these aluminium tolerance mechanisms.
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TL;DR: The role of Si in conferring resistance to mutiple stresses is described and genetic modification of the root ability to take up Si has been proposed to obtain plants resistant to multiple stresses.
Abstract: Although silicon (Si) has not been recognized as an essential element for plant growth, the beneficial effects of Si have been observed in a wide variety of plant species. The beneficial effects of Si are usually expressed more clearly in Si-accumulating plants under various abiotic and biotic stress conditions. Silicon is effective in controlling various pests and diseases caused by both fungi and bacteria in different plant species. Silicon also exerts alleviative effects on various abiotic stresses including salt stress, metal toxicity, drought stress, radiation damage, nutrient imbalance, high temperature, freezing and so on. These beneficial effects are mainly attributed to the high accumulation of silica on the tissue stirface although other mechanisms have also been proposed. To obtain plants resistant to multiple stresses, genetic modification of the root ability to take up Si has been proposed. In this review, the role of Si in conferring resistance to mutiple stresses is described.
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TL;DR: This review has documented the recent advancement illustrating the harmful effects of ROS, antioxidant defense system involved in ROS detoxification under different abiotic stresses, and molecular cross-talk with other important signal molecules such as reactive nitrogen, sulfur, and carbonyl species.
Abstract: Global climate change and associated adverse abiotic stress conditions, such as drought, salinity, heavy metals, waterlogging, extreme temperatures, oxygen deprivation, etc., greatly influence plant growth and development, ultimately affecting crop yield and quality, as well as agricultural sustainability in general. Plant cells produce oxygen radicals and their derivatives, so-called reactive oxygen species (ROS), during various processes associated with abiotic stress. Moreover, the generation of ROS is a fundamental process in higher plants and employs to transmit cellular signaling information in response to the changing environmental conditions. One of the most crucial consequences of abiotic stress is the disturbance of the equilibrium between the generation of ROS and antioxidant defense systems triggering the excessive accumulation of ROS and inducing oxidative stress in plants. Notably, the equilibrium between the detoxification and generation of ROS is maintained by both enzymatic and nonenzymatic antioxidant defense systems under harsh environmental stresses. Although this field of research has attracted massive interest, it largely remains unexplored, and our understanding of ROS signaling remains poorly understood. In this review, we have documented the recent advancement illustrating the harmful effects of ROS, antioxidant defense system involved in ROS detoxification under different abiotic stresses, and molecular cross-talk with other important signal molecules such as reactive nitrogen, sulfur, and carbonyl species. In addition, state-of-the-art molecular approaches of ROS-mediated improvement in plant antioxidant defense during the acclimation process against abiotic stresses have also been discussed.
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TL;DR: A series of 20 maps of the Japanese Islands from their birth at ca 750-700 Ma to the present, from the viewpoint of plate tectonics is presented in this article.
Abstract: A series of paleogeographic maps of the Japanese Islands, from their birth at ca 750–700 Ma to the present, is newly compiled from the viewpoint of plate tectonics. This series consists of 20 maps that cover all of the major events in the geotectonic evolution of Japan. These include the birth of Japan at the rifted continental margin of the Yangtze craton (ca 750-700 Ma), the tectonic inversion of the continental margin from passive to active (ca 500 Ma), the Paleozoic accretionary growth incorporating fragments from seamounts and oceanic plateaux (ca 480-250 Ma), the collision between Sino-Korea and Yangtze (250–210 Ma), the Mesozoic to Cenozoic accretionary growth (210 Ma-present) including the formation of the Cretaceous paired metamorphic belts (90 Ma), and the Miocene back-arc opening of the Japan Sea that separated Japan as an island arc (25-15 Ma).
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Yuji Matsuzawa | 143 | 836 | 116711 |
Masatsugu Hori | 113 | 874 | 48028 |
Stewart T. Cole | 109 | 511 | 51942 |
Jian Feng Ma | 97 | 305 | 32310 |
H. Phillip Koeffler | 92 | 479 | 29428 |
Naoto Chatani | 87 | 597 | 26370 |
Takenobu Kamada | 86 | 700 | 27535 |
Juhn G. Liou | 83 | 301 | 21042 |
Hirofumi Makino | 82 | 803 | 30523 |
Jonathan W. Said | 78 | 437 | 25399 |
Junhua Li | 77 | 480 | 21626 |
Akira Nishiyama | 75 | 619 | 22487 |
Masayuki Fujita | 70 | 740 | 17847 |
Jun Hirabayashi | 66 | 270 | 15579 |
Mark R. Wormald | 64 | 179 | 14686 |