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Haruko Kuroiwa is affiliated with Japan Women's University in Japan and has contributed significantly to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and environmental science. Their research primarily focuses on molecular biology, ecology, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, cell biology, and oceanography.

The main topics of their work include microbial community ecology and physiology, protist diversity and phylogeny, genomics and phylogenetic studies, algal biology and biofuel production, marine and coastal plant biology, polar research and ecology, and mitochondrial function and pathology.

Frequent coauthors of Haruko Kuroiwa include Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa, Fumi Yagisawa, Yuuta Imoto, Osami Misumi, and Mio Ohnuma.

The scientist has published research in several venues, with a notable presence in CYTOLOGIA and PROTOPLASMA, each with two publications, and additional works in Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, and Communications Biology.

Recent papers include:

  • "Efficient open cultivation of cyanidialean red algae in acidified seawater" (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • "ESCRT Machinery Mediates Cytokinetic Abscission in the Unicellular Red Alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae" (2020, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology)
  • "Genomic analysis of an ultrasmall freshwater green alga, Medakamo hakoo" (2023, Communications Biology)
  • "Mitotic Karyotype of the Primitive Red Alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae 10D" (2020, CYTOLOGIA)
  • "Smooth Loop-Like Mitochondrial Nucleus in the Primitive Red Alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae Revealed by Drying Treatment" (2021, CYTOLOGIA)

Best Publications

  • Genome sequence of the ultrasmall unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae 10D

    Motomichi Matsuzaki;Osami Misumi;Tadasu Shin-I;Shinichiro Maruyama

  • GENERATIVE CELL SPECIFIC 1 is essential for angiosperm fertilization

    Toshiyuki Mori;Haruko Kuroiwa;Tetsuya Higashiyama;Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa

  • Pollen Tube Attraction by the Synergid Cell

    Tetsuya Higashiyama;Shizu Yabe;Narie Sasaki;Yoshiki Nishimura

  • A 100%-complete sequence reveals unusually simple genomic features in the hot-spring red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae

    Hisayoshi Nozaki;Hiroyoshi Takano;Osami Misumi;Kimihiro Terasawa

  • The Division Apparatus of Plastids and Mitochondria

    Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa;Haruko Kuroiwa;Atsushi Sakai;Hidenori Takahashi

  • Guidance in Vitro of the Pollen Tube to the Naked Embryo Sac of Torenia fournieri

    Tetsuya Higashiyama;Haruko Kuroiwa;Shigeyuki Kawano;Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa

  • A Plant-Specific Dynamin-Related Protein Forms a Ring at the Chloroplast Division Site

    Shin-ya Miyagishima;Keiji Nishida;Toshiyuki Mori;Motomichi Matsuzaki

  • The selective increase or decrease of organellar DNA in generative cells just after pollen mitosis one controls cytoplasmic inheritance

    Noriko Nagata;Chieko Saito;Atsushi Sakai;Haruko Kuroiwa

  • Three-dimensional analysis of the senescence program in rice (Oryza sativa L.) coleoptiles: Investigations of tissues and cells by fluorescence microscopy

    Noriko Inada;Atsushi Sakai;Haruko Kuroiwa;Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa

  • Dynamic recruitment of dynamin for final mitochondrial severance in a primitive red alga.

    Keiji Nishida;Manabu Takahara;Shin-ya Miyagishima;Haruko Kuroiwa

  • Pollen-tube guidance: beacons from the female gametophyte.

    Tetsuya Higashiyama;Haruko Kuroiwa;Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa

  • Plastid Division Is Driven by a Complex Mechanism That Involves Differential Transition of the Bacterial and Eukaryotic Division Rings

    Shin-ya Miyagishima;Manabu Takahara;Toshiyuki Mori;Haruko Kuroiwa

  • The phylogenetic position of red algae revealed by multiple nuclear genes from mitochondria-containing eukaryotes and an alternative hypothesis on the origin of plastids

    Hisayoshi Nozaki;Motomichi Matsuzaki;Manabu Takahara;Osami Misumi

  • Genes for the peptidoglycan synthesis pathway are essential for chloroplast division in moss

    Mariko Machida;Katsuaki Takechi;Hiroshi Sato;Sung Jin Chung

  • Tetrapyrrole signal as a cell-cycle coordinator from organelle to nuclear DNA replication in plant cells.

    Yuki Kobayashi;Yu Kanesaki;Ayumi Tanaka;Haruko Kuroiwa

  • Isolated chloroplast division machinery can actively constrict after stretching.

    Yamato Yoshida;Haruko Kuroiwa;Osami Misumi;Keiji Nishida

  • Behavior of organelles and their nucleoids in the shoot apical meristem during leaf development in Arabidopsis thaliana L.

    Makoto Fujie;Haruko Kuroiwa;Shigeyuki Kawano;Shoshi Mutoh

  • 1,8-Cineole inhibits root growth and DNA synthesis in the root apical meristem ofBrassica campestris L.

    Ritsuko Koitabashi;Takeshi Suzuki;Tamotsu Kawazu;Atsushi Sakai

  • Cyanidioschyzon merolae genome. A tool for facilitating comparable studies on organelle biogenesis in photosynthetic eukaryotes.

    Osami Misumi;Motomichi Matsuzaki;Hisayoshi Nozaki;Shin-ya Miyagishima

  • Species Preferentiality of the Pollen Tube Attractant Derived from the Synergid Cell of Torenia fournieri

    Tetsuya Higashiyama;Rie Inatsugi;Sachio Sakamoto;Narie Sasaki

Frequent Co-Authors

Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa
Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa Japan Women's University
Shigeyuki Kawano
Shigeyuki Kawano University of Tokyo
Shin-ya Miyagishima
Shin-ya Miyagishima National Institute of Genetics
Tetsuya Higashiyama
Tetsuya Higashiyama University of Tokyo
Hisayoshi Nozaki
Hisayoshi Nozaki University of Tokyo
Kan Tanaka
Kan Tanaka Tokyo Institute of Technology
Sachihiro Matsunaga
Sachihiro Matsunaga Tokyo University of Science
Yukio Fujiki
Yukio Fujiki Kyushu University
Hideo Takahashi
Hideo Takahashi University of Tokyo
Toshiyuki Mori
Toshiyuki Mori National Institute for Materials Science

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