Makoto T. Fujiwara

Plant Cells Without Detectable Plastids are Generated in the crumpled leaf Mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana (2009)

Chen, Yuling, Asano, Tomoya, Fujiwara, Makoto T., Yoshida, Shigeo, Machida, Yasunori, Yoshioka, Yasushi

Plastids are maintained in cells by proliferating prior to cell division and being partitioned to each daughter cell during cell division. It is unclear, however, whether cells without plastids are...

Live Imaging of Chloroplast FtsZ1 Filaments, Rings, Spirals, and Motile Dot Structures in the AtMinE1 Mutant and Overexpressor of Arabidopsis thaliana (2009)

Fujiwara, Makoto T., Sekine, Kohsuke, Yamamoto, Yoshiharu Y., Abe, Tomoko, Sato, Naoki, Itoh, Ryuuichi D.

Chloroplast division involves the tubulin-related GTPase FtsZ that assembles into a ring structure (Z-ring) at the mid-chloroplast division site, which is where invagination and constriction of the...

A SUPERMAN-like Gene is Exclusively Expressed in Female Flowers of the Dioecious Plant Silene latifolia (2009)

Kazama, Yusuke, Fujiwara, Makoto T., Koizumi, Ayako, Nishihara, Kiyoshi, Nishiyama, Rie, Kifune, Etsuko, ...

To elucidate the mechanism(s) underlying dioecious flower development, the present study analyzed a SUPERMAN (SUP) homolog, SlSUP, which was identified in Silene latifolia. The sex of this plant is...

The Assembly of the FtsZ Ring at the Mid-Chloroplast Division Site Depends on a Balance Between the Activities of AtMinE1 and ARC11/AtMinD1 (2008)

Fujiwara, Makoto T., Hashimoto, Haruki, Kazama, Yusuke, Abe, Tomoko, Yoshida, Shigeo, Sato, Naoki, ...

Chloroplast division comprises a sequence of events that facilitate symmetric binary fission and that involve prokaryotic-like stromal division factors such as tubulin-like GTPase FtsZ and the...

Brassinolide Induces IAA5, IAA19, and DR5, a Synthetic Auxin Response Element in Arabidopsis, Implying a Cross Talk Point of Brassinosteroid and Auxin Signaling

Nakamura, Ayako, Higuchi, Kanako, Goda, Hideki, Fujiwara, Makoto T., Sawa, Shinichiro, Koshiba, Tomokazu, ...

Despite numerous physiological studies addressing the interactions between brassinosteroids (BRs) and auxins, little is known about the underlying molecular mechanisms. We studied the expression of...

Brassinolide Induces IAA5, IAA19, and DR5, a Synthetic Auxin Response Element in Arabidopsis, Implying a Cross Talk Point of Brassinosteroid and Auxin Signaling

Nakamura, Ayako, Higuchi, Kanako, Goda, Hideki, Fujiwara, Makoto T., Sawa, Shinichiro, Koshiba, Tomokazu, ...

Despite numerous physiological studies addressing the interactions between brassinosteroids (BRs) and auxins, little is known about the underlying molecular mechanisms. We studied the expression of...