Early in her career, HHMI Investigator Keiko Torii figured out how plant cells talk to each other. Three decades later, she’s still listening — and uncovering exactly what they’re saying.

Pathogens target and degrade the extracellular matrix surrounding plant cells. A central question is how cell wall-derived damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) are recognized and integrated to...

　英科学誌ネイチャーは7日までに、法律婚による改姓が日本の女性研究者に「大きな影響を与えている」との記事を伝えた。日本の「男女共同参画学協会連絡会」が6月に発表した理系研究者を対象としたアンケート結果 ...

Plants have a remarkable ability to reprogram their somatic cells into stem cells. A new study reveals that a transcription factor, LEC2, together with SPEECHLESS, directly reprograms a stomatal precu...

【読売新聞】

This study identifies epidermal patterning factor (EPF)-processing proteinases as the key activators of EPF1 and EPF2 peptides, establishing their proteolytic processing as the critical missing link f...