Journal Title
Title of Journal: J Plant Res
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Abbravation: Journal of Plant Research
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Authors: Ikuo Nishida
Publish Date: 2013/08/09
Volume: 126, Issue: 5, Pages: 587-588
Abstract
Kimitsune Ishizaki Maiko Nonomura Hirotaka Kato Katsuyuki Yamato and Takayuki Kohchi at Kyoto University studied the role of the phytohormone auxin in the liverwort Ishizaki et al 2012 Auxin responses have been extensively studied in Arabidopsis and other vascular plants However it remained unclear whether nonvascular plants respond to auxin during development In research reported in this article the authors tested to see whether the soybean auxinresponsive promoter ProGH3 could drive the expression of uidA GUS reporter gene in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha They found that the activity of GUS is detected in both gametophytes and sporophytes of M polymorpha concluding that auxinmediated transcriptional activation had been established when plants emerged in the terrestrial environment This study is highly evaluated not only for its demonstration of the auxin model in nonvascular plants but also for the evolutionary interest of the researchHitoshi Sakio at Niigata University and Takehiro Masuzawa at Shizuoka University studied the advancing timberline on Mt Fuji based on ecological data collected over a 21year period Mt Fuji is a volcano with a height of 3776 m and has recently been registered as a World Heritage site by UNESCO This beautiful mountain experienced one of its biggest eruptions in 1707 which destroyed vegetation at higher altitudes Around the alpine timberline plants are known to struggle for survival causing upward and downward migration over time The main plantlimiting factors at the timberline are low air and soil temperature carbon limitation and damage by winter frost desiccation wind and snow It is also conceivable that global warming affects polar and highaltitude ecosystems Based on ecological data collected over a long period Sakio and Masuzawa confirmed that the alpine timberline is advancing upward as a recovery process from the volcanic eruption and suggested that climate changes might positively contribute to the advance We are proud of this study for such longterm efforts to understand basic ecological processesTakeshi Obayashi and Kengo Kinoshita at Tohoku University published a review article in April 2010 on the utility of ATTEDII a websupported tool for gene coexpression analyses Obayashi and Kinoshita 2010 ATTEDII is familiar to many plant molecular biologists who know that gene coexpression analyses predict or even identify the function of genes or the genes that are functionally related to query genes In this article Obayashi a founder of ATEDDII and his collaborator Kinoshita provided two basic views of ATTEDII a gene list view and a gene network view They also introduced some examples of the usage of ATTEDII which are helpful for potential users This article has been cited 23 times since 2010
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