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Satoru N Kino

@strnk17desejp.bsky.social
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Postdoc researcher at the University of Münster 🇩🇪 AG Finkemeier (also affiliated with Nagoya University in Kinoshita Group 🇯🇵) Plant physiology, carbon metabolism, sugar signalling🌱 PhD, he/ him, Japanese

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Cell - a Cell Press journal @cp-cell.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Now online! A pseudoenzyme sensor of trehalose-6-phosphate directly represses the metabolic integrator SnRK1 in plants
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A pseudoenzyme sensor of trehalose-6-phosphate directly represses the metabolic integrator SnRK1 in plants
In Arabidopsis, pseudoenzyme class II T6P synthase functions as a T6P sensor that directly represses the master metabolic regulator SnRK1, highlighting a conserved switch that couples carbon availability to metabolic homeostasis in plants.
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Plant & Cell Physiology @plantcellphysiol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Great to see our former #ECR Budding Editors doing so well in their independent careers! 🤩 Revisit Anuphon's earlier Commentary here: doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...
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Wound-Induced Rooting in Plants—A big BIG ROle Emerges for Calcium and Auxin
As a graduate student, I would root a supermarket-bought basil plant in water to propagate it in order to satisfy my herb-craving needs. In fact, many plan
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Satoru N Kino @strnk17desejp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We had a genuinely exciting talk by Dr. Anuphon Laohavisit (Anu-san) today, from Nagoya University. Fantastic, new perspective in copper-dependent regulation of CARD1! 🤩
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International Society for Protein Termini (ISPT) @ispt-proteinterm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Rubisco, a CO2-fixing enzyme and a major reservoir of nitrogen and carbon in plant leaves, requires a unique N-terminal maturation pathway | Dong Xie et al. @giglionelab.bsky.social @ifink-lab.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Şuayb Üstün @suaybuestuen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Yeah!!!! @seedbarrett.bsky.social from our lab won the poster award!! congrats sooo much Thorben 🤗 another #ProudPI moment at #BT2026
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Nature Plants @natplants.nature.com · 08/09/2026
New Letter: "An LRR co-receptor kinase essential for systemic nitrogen-demand signalling" rdcu.be/bePgscq8DY4a It is co-receptor for CEPR1, assigning a function to the last unknown clade of this receptor family. Key regulator of systemic N-demand signalling in plants. #PlantScience
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Satoru N Kino @strnk17desejp.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We wrote a commentary on the exciting Kale study with state-of-the-art proteomics and metabolomics! Valuable insight for those kale cultivars under various light environments. 🥬
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Satoru N Kino @strnk17desejp.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Huge congratulations 🎉🎉
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Satoru N Kino @strnk17desejp.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Exciting result! Congratulations 👏
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Akira Yoshinari @ayoshinari.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
We’re thrilled to announce that our new preprint is now live! In this study, we uncover a previously unrecognized molecular framework underlying radial cell polarity in plants. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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The Lateral Protein Cluster as a Key Component of Plant Cell Polarity
Cell polarity is an ancient organizing principle across kingdoms. As in animal epithelial cells, plant cells asymmetrically distribute proteins to establish functionally distinct membrane domains. In ...
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Plant Energy Biology Lab @schwarzlanderlab.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Dry seeds are not waiting to build mitochondria—they come pre-packaged with cristae and full respiratory complexes. ⚡️🌱🌱🌱 Check out the updated growth-and-division model in @currentbiology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
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Satoru N Kino @strnk17desejp.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
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Plant & Cell Physiology @plantcellphysiol.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Restricted opening...🕑 Shin et al identified stomatal closing compounds SCL10 & SCL11 (clorgyline) through a chemical screen; both SCLs completely suppressed light-induced stomatal opening but did not affect fungal toxin fusicoccin-induced opening of #stomata doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantScience
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Stomatal closing compounds dissect the signaling pathway for light-induced stomatal opening and confer drought tolerance in plants
Abstract. Stomata in the plant epidermis open in response to light, but the molecular mechanisms underlying this process remain incompletely understood. In
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Universität Münster @uni-muenster.de · 14/07/2026
Researchers led by Professor Iris Finkemeier @ifink-lab.bsky.social from the Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology discovered a specific chemical mark in the ‘histone code’ of thale cress that is responsible for adaptation to salt stress. #Biology
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Researchers discover a mechanism for salt tolerance in plants
Researchers led by Professor Iris Finkemeier from the Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology discovered a specific chemical mark in the ‘histone code’ of thale cress that is responsible for adap...
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Satoru N Kino @strnk17desejp.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Super interesting perspective! Also there might be a species' preference in specific flux of amino acid biosynthesis?
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Plant Energy Biology Lab @schwarzlanderlab.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Organelle positioning as a principle of metabolic regulation and stress tolerance 🌿🔋🍃 Looking ahead in this joint perspective 🔮 with the Fernie and Sonnewald labs @theplantjournal.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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PERSPECTIVE: organelle positioning as a principle of metabolic regulation and stress tolerance
Understanding how plant cells coordinate metabolism remains a major challenge, particularly at the level of intracellular organization. This perspective proposes that dynamic organelle positioning ac...
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Plant Science Spotlight @plant-sci.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
🌿🧬Chloroplast genome editing of rbcL boosted photosynthetic rates & growth. M309I & D397N substitutions increased catalytic rate without reducing Rubisco content. Structural changes in catalytic loops underpin the improvement A non GMO path to enhanced photosynthesis www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Chloroplast genome editing of Rubisco boosts photosynthesis and plant growth - Nature Communications
Rubisco has inherently low catalytic efficiency limiting crop productivity. Here the authors show that chloroplast genome editing can be used to generate substitutions in Arabidopsis rbcL that increas...
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Ryo Yokoyama @yokoyama-ryo.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Genome engineering of plant photosynthesis for carbon sequestration - Nature reviews bioengineering www.nature.com/articles/s44... @natrevbioeng.nature.com
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Genome engineering of plant photosynthesis for carbon sequestration - Nature Reviews Bioengineering
Gene editing to enhance photosynthesis in crop plants offers a strategy to boost plant carbon capture and mitigate climate change. This Review explores the agronomic, molecular and technical challenge...
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Ken Shirasu @shirasulab.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
CARD1 cryo structure now on Nature Comm. Well done, Nobu and Anu! rdcu.be/fjrIq
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Satoru N Kino @strnk17desejp.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Congratulations, Eliza!! 💐
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Satoru N Kino @strnk17desejp.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Congratulations 🎉🎉
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The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) @tairnews.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
🎉📣 #TAIR12, the latest reannotation of the Arabidopsis thaliana genome, is now available under accession number PRJEB100887 on ENA and NCBI! Thank you all the volunteer researchers whose hard work has made this possible! #plantscience #plantbiology 🧪 bit.ly/3ZHtneT
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Announcing the publication of TAIR12: Consult the fully reannotated genome on the European Nucleotide Archive - Phoenix Bioinformatics
TAIR (The Arabidopsis Information Resource), together with our nonprofit host Phoenix Bioinformatics, is pleased to announce the public release of TAIR12
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Satoru N Kino @strnk17desejp.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Such a treat to have Eliza-san @elizaloopi.bsky.social from HHU Düsseldorf visit us in Münster yesterday!👏 Super cool talk on the spatial distribution of metabolites and microbiota (plus transporters!).
Seminar picture
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Tatsuya Nobori @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
We are excited to welcome Akari Maeda as a new postdoc in our lab 🎉 Akari is supported by a JSPS fellowship associated with the JSPS Ikushi Prize, one of Japan’s most prestigious honours for outstanding doctoral researchers, awarded for her work on the circadian clock. Welcome!
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Satoru N Kino @strnk17desejp.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Thank you, Thorben! Have a nice holiday too!
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Satoru N Kino @strnk17desejp.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
See you in Münster next year, Ora!
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Satoru N Kino @strnk17desejp.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Very grateful for being back at my PhD supervisor's group in Japan and giving my progress report. Insightful discussion and suggestions for my projects next year ☑️ Now, wish all a merry Christmas and a happy New year🎄
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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
☀️🍅 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🍅☀️ Heuvelink et al. examine how light intensity, photoperiod, spectrum, directionality and energy regulate whole-plant physiological processes including morphogenesis, source–sink interactions and assimilate partitioning. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪
Fig. 3.Schematic representation of the different photoreceptors in tomato, their respective absorption spectra, corresponding chromophores, and main functions. FAD, flavin adenine dinucleotide; FMN, flavin mononucleotide; PHY, phytochromobilin; Trp, tryptophan residues.
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Satoru N Kino @strnk17desejp.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
おめでとうございます!!
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KunzLab@LMU @kunzlab.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Now online in its final version. Plz surf to doi.org/10.1111/tpj....
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Catch & Release—rapid cost‐effective protein purification from plants using a DIY GFP‐Trap‐protease approach
‘Catch & Release’ represents a cost-effective, rapid, and reliable one-step protein purification workflow that accelerates plant research. It offers a functionality-confirmed and versatile binary vec...
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
#TansleyInsight: Trehalose 6-phosphate – a central regulator at the crossroads of sugar #signalling, #metabolism, and development By Franziska Fichtner 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue
Fig. 3 Intracellular localization of proteins involved in trehalose 6-phosphate (Tre6P) biosynthesis and signalling in Arabidopsis thaliana.
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bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
HDA19-mediated deacetylation of histone H3.3 lysine 27 and 36 regulates plant sensitivity to salt stress www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Institute Jean-Pierre Bourgin for Plant Sciences (IJPB) @ijpb-versaillescly.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
#IJPB event Three inspiring days at the 3rd Workshop on Carbon Allocation in Plants 🌿 Thanks to all participants and sponsors for the great discussions! 👏 Special mention to Rozenn Le Hir @catsteam.bsky.social 👉 bit.ly/4dy5hHO and Wenjia Xu CHRODYNO team 👉 bit.ly/4fqSSq9 for sharing their works!
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KunzLab@LMU @kunzlab.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Hi all @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social members and other 🌽community folks, #MBP2026 🌱 is no open for registration. Please 🏄‍♀️ to: www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...
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Conference "Molecular Biology of Plants", annual meeting of the Section Plant Physiology and Molecular Biology in the DBG
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Eliza Loo @elizaloopi.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
How do you detect transgenes in genome-edited crops? We tested several methods and report our findings in 2 back-to-back papers: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... rdcu.be/eLgUi
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Ensuring effective removal of transgenes before release of genome-edited crops
Nature Biotechnology - Genome editing technology is evolving fast, and many labs worldwide are generating crop plants with improved traits. If transgenes were used to generate the edits, foreign...
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bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Artificial Soil (ArtSoil): recreating soil conditions in synthetic plant growth media www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Satoru N Kino @strnk17desejp.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Wow, Congratulations!! 🎉🎉 おめでとうございます!!
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The Plant Journal @theplantjournal.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Meet the 𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 𝐓𝐏𝐉-𝐏𝐒𝐍𝐀 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 🏆 This award recognizes outstanding postdocs and research scientists, with preference for early-career researchers ready to launch independent labs: 💠Ryo Yokoyama @yokoyama-ryo.bsky.social 💠 Boaz Negin CONGRATULATIONS! @psna-official.bsky.social ⬇️
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Satoru N Kino @strnk17desejp.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Now the typesetting of our methodology letter is completed! I am not a big fan of team Slytherin though 😂
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Plant & Cell Physiology @plantcellphysiol.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Chamber of Secrets? Kinoshita @strnk17desejp.bsky.social & Finkemeier @ifink-lab.bsky.social present an alternative method to precisely measure CO2 assimilation rate & transpiration of #Arabidopsis leaves in whole-plant chambers Open Access🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantPhysiology #PlantScience
Figure 1 from Kinoshita and Finkemeier article showing gas-exchange measurements of petiole-cut Arabidopsis leaves in the whole plant chambers of the LI-6800 system. Panel A shows a schematic diagram of the method i.e. petiole cutting on wet paper and insertion of leaves into a parafilm-sealed dish containing water. Panels B-E are graphs that show C02 assimilation and transpiration rates under different conditions tested
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bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Evidence for rapid hydrolysis of shoot-derived sucrose using an ultrasensitive ratiometric Matryoshka-type MGlucoMeter sensor www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Finkemeier Lab @ifink-lab.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Celebrating the successful PhD defense of Dr Jie Shen! Thank you 🙏 to the second and third examiners @schwarzland_lab and @shuqing_xu and many congratulations, Jie !! 👏🍾 very much looking forward to seeing your amazing work published. Stay tuned! @IFink_lab @uni_muenster
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Eliza Loo @elizaloopi.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I was recently interviewed by @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social for their Scientific Mobility series. I hope my 2 cents helped with your mobility ;) www.cell.com/trends/micro...
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Scientific mobility in microbiology – 9
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CATS team (curated by Rozenn Le Hir) @catsteam.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
🌱 Stiill time to join us for the 3rd Workshop on Carbon Allocation in Plants — it’s going to be unforgettable! ⏳ Register before Sept 12 👉 bit.ly/4kYzzrT
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Registration - 3rd Workshop Carbon Allocation in Plants
Early registration deadline : 10th August 2025Registration is mandatoryPlease note that the number of participants is limited to 135 and registrations are handl...
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Satoru N Kino @strnk17desejp.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Special thanks to the travel funding from JSPP MIRAI2030 programme. @jspp-news.bsky.social
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Satoru N Kino @strnk17desejp.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
It's already a week ago but I joined the International workshop of Plant Membrane Biology in Helsingør 🇩🇰. Fantastic talks about plant membrane biology and beautiful conference venues! Such a successful meeting, all thanks to the organisers 🙌
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Satoru N Kino @strnk17desejp.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Wow, super cool! Congratulations 🎉
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Nature Plants @natplants.nature.com · 25/08/2025
New OA Article: "Apoplastic metabolomics reveals sugars as mesophyll messengers regulating guard cell ion transport under red light" rdcu.be/eCiMg Sugars as messengers from the leaf interior enhance stomatal opening via regulation of the guard cell H+-ATPase & anion channels.
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Nature @nature.com · 24/08/2025
Nature research paper: Structural basis for the dynamic regulation of mTORC1 by amino acids go.nature.com/3V8r3Lw
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Structural basis for the dynamic regulation of mTORC1 by amino acids - Nature
Using cryo-electron microscopy, the interactions of Sestrin2 and CASTOR1 with GATOR2 were resolved, revealing how mTORC1 activation is regulated and how nutrient availability triggers signalling for cellular growth.
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Ryo Yokoyama @yokoyama-ryo.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
TPS Proteins coordinate plant growth with sugar availability via the SnRK1 Kinase www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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TPS Proteins coordinate plant growth with sugar availability via the SnRK1 Kinase
The ability to sense and respond to nutrients determines adaptation and survival in all organisms. In plants, sucrose stimulates growth and developmental progression via the signalling sugar trehalose...
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