今週の輪読

今週の輪読では下記の論文を取り上げました.
2360. Arora, S. et al. (2023). A wheat kinase and immune receptor form host-specificity barriers against the blast fungus. Nat. Plants 9: 385–392.
2361. Zhao, Y. et al. (2024). Biofortified rice provides rich sakuranetin in endosperm. Rice 17: 19.
2362. Ebrahim, S.A.M., Dweck, H.K.M., Weiss, B.L., and Carlson, J.R. (2023). A volatile sex attractant of tsetse flies. Science 379: eade1877.
2363. Bansal, S. et al. (2023). Characterization and validation of hypothetical virulence factors in recently sequenced genomes of Magnaporthe species. Physiol. Mol. Plant Pathol. 124: 101969.

後期日程入試 & 先週の輪読

3/12(火)には一般選抜後期日程の入学試験が阿見キャンパスでも実施されました.

先週の輪読では下記の論文を取り上げました.
2355. Rieksta, J. et al. (2023). Volatile responses of dwarf birch to mimicked insect herbivory and experimental warming at two elevations in Greenlandic tundra. Plant-Environ. Interact. 4: 23–35.
2356. Matsuda, H. et al. (2023). Apoplast-localized β-glucosidase elevates isoflavone accumulation in the soybean rhizosphere. Plant Cell Physiol. 64: 486–500.
2357. Nakamori, H., Nunome, M., Takayama, T., Okada, K., and Inoue, K. Isolation of momilactones A and B from rice husk using high-speed countercurrent chromatography. Chromatography in press.
2358. Yildiz, I. et al. (2023). N-Hydroxypipecolic acid induces systemic acquired resistance and transcriptional reprogramming via TGA transcription factors. Plant Cell Environ. 46: 1900–1920.
2359. Hirano, T. et al. (2023). Ab-GALFA, A bioassay for insect gall formation using the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Sci Rep. 13: 2554.

今週の輪読

今週の輪読では下記の論文を取り上げました.
2350. Götze, S. et al. (2023). Ecological niche-inspired genome mining leads to the discovery of crop-protecting nonribosomal lipopeptides featuring a transient amino acid building block. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 145: 2342–2353.
2351. Huang, P.-C. et al. (2023). A non-JA producing oxophytodienoate reductase functions in salicylic acid-mediated antagonism with jasmonic acid during pathogen attack. Mol. Plant Pathol. 24: 725–741.
2352. Lin, Y., Zhang, R., Wang, D., and Cernak, T. (2023). Computer-aided key step generation in alkaloid total synthesis. Science 379: 453–457.
2353. Böttner, L. et al. (2023). Natural rubber reduces herbivory and alters the microbiome below ground. New Phytol. 239: 1475–1489.
2354. Kumar, V., Chaudhary, P., Prasad, A., Dogra, V., and Kumar, A. (2023). Jasmonic acid limits Rhizoctonia solani AG1-IA infection in rice by modulating reactive oxygen species homeostasis. Plant Physiol. Biochem. 196: 520–530.

前期日程試験 & 今週の輪読

2/25(日)は茨城大学農学部でも一般選抜前期日程と帰国生徒選抜の入学試験が実施されました.

今週の輪読では下記の論文を取り上げました.
2345. Jiang, B. et al. (2024). Characterization and heterologous reconstitution of Taxus biosynthetic enzymes leading to baccatin III. Science 383: 622–629.
2346. Lacchini, E. et al. (2023). The saponin bomb: a nucleolar-localized β-glucosidase hydrolyzes triterpene saponins in Medicago truncatula. New Phytol. 239: 705–719.
2347. Gross, J.J. et al. (2023). Turnover of benzoxazinoids during the aerobic deterioration of maize silage (Zea mays). J. Agric. Food Chem. 71: 2370–2376.
2348. Gu, B. et al. (2023). A single region of the Phytophthora infestans avirulence effector Avr3b functions in both cell death induction and plant immunity suppression. Mol. Plant Pathol. 24: 317–330.
2349. Zhang, W. et al. (2023). Discovery of a unique flavonoid biosynthesis mechanism in fungi by genome mining. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 62: e202215529.