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Minami Matsui is affiliated with the Kihara Institute for Biological Research in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on plant molecular biology, encompassing a broad spectrum of topics within agricultural and biological sciences and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. This includes a significant emphasis on plant science and molecular biology, with additional engagements in cell biology, mechanical engineering, and nature and landscape conservation.

Their recent published work spans several high-impact journals and covers key topics in plant biology. Notable publications include:

  • Two types of bHLH transcription factor determine the competence of the pericycle for lateral root initiation (2021, Nature Plants)
  • BPG4 regulates chloroplast development and homeostasis by suppressing GLK transcription factors and involving light and brassinosteroid signaling (2024, Nature Communications)
  • Advances in single-cell metabolomics to unravel cellular heterogeneity in plant biology (2023, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY)
  • Light controls stamen elongation via cryptochromes, phytochromes and COP1 through HY5 and HYH (2020, The Plant Journal)
  • Time-Course Transcriptome Study Reveals Mode of bZIP Transcription Factors on Light Exposure in Arabidopsis (2020, International Journal of Molecular Sciences)

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers, highlighting a network of co-authors who have contributed to multiple projects. These frequent collaborators include Yuko Makita, Yukio Kurihara, Emiko Okubo-Kurihara, Tomoko Kuriyama, and Tri Rapani Febbiyanti.

Minami Matsui's research outputs have appeared multiple times in various scientific venues, reflecting an interdisciplinary approach to plant biology and molecular research. Key publication venues include:

  • PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • The Plant Journal
  • Nature Communications
  • Plant and Cell Physiology
  • Plant Biotechnology

The central themes in their work focus heavily on plant molecular biology research, photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, and the effects of light on plants. Other areas addressed are RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, chromosomal and genetic variations, plant nutrient uptake and metabolism, and plant stress responses and tolerance.

Best Publications

  • COP1, an arabidopsis regulatory gene, encodes a protein with both a zinc-binding motif and a Gβ homologous domain

    Xing Wang Deng;Xing Wang Deng;Minami Matsui;Ning Wei;Doris Wagner

  • Identification of an abscisic acid transporter by functional screening using the receptor complex as a sensor

    Yuri Kanno;Atsushi Hanada;Yasutaka Chiba;Takanari Ichikawa

  • The COP9 complex, a novel multisubunit nuclear regulator involved in light control of a plant developmental switch.

    Daniel A Chamovitz;Ning Wei;Mark T Osterlund;Albrecht G von Arnim

  • DFL1, an auxin-responsive GH3 gene homologue, negatively regulates shoot cell elongation and lateral root formation, and positively regulates the light response of hypocotyl length.

    Miki Nakazawa;Naoto Yabe;Takanari Ichikawa;Yoshiharu Y. Yamamoto

  • The COP9 complex is conserved between plants and mammals and is related to the 26S proteasome regulatory complex

    Ning Wei;Tomohiko Tsuge;Giovanna Serino;Naoshi Dohmae

  • The FOX hunting system: an alternative gain-of-function gene hunting technique.

    Takanari Ichikawa;Miki Nakazawa;Mika Kawashima;Haruko Iizumi

  • Expression of rice heat stress transcription factor OsHsfA2e enhances tolerance to environmental stresses in transgenic Arabidopsis

    Naoki Yokotani;Takanari Ichikawa;Youichi Kondou;Minami Matsui

  • Programmed induction of endoreduplication by DNA double-strand breaks in Arabidopsis

    Sumiko Adachi;Kazunori Minamisawa;Yoko Okushima;Soichi Inagaki

  • Arabidopsis GROWTH-REGULATING FACTOR7 Functions as a Transcriptional Repressor of Abscisic Acid– and Osmotic Stress–Responsive Genes, Including DREB2A

    June-Sik Kim;Junya Mizoi;Satoshi Kidokoro;Kyonoshin Maruyama

  • Metabolomics reveals comprehensive reprogramming involving two independent metabolic responses of Arabidopsis to UV-B light

    Miyako Kusano;Takayuki Tohge;Atsushi Fukushima;Makoto Kobayashi

  • ETHYLENE RESPONSE FACTOR6 Acts as a Central Regulator of Leaf Growth under Water-Limiting Conditions in Arabidopsis

    Marieke Dubois;Aleksandra Skirycz;Hannes Claeys;Katrien Maleux

  • Identification of Arabidopsis genes regulated by high light-stress using cDNA microarray.

    Mitsuhiro Kimura;Yoshiharu Y. Yamamoto;Motoaki Seki;Tetsuya Sakurai

  • Classification and expression analysis of Arabidopsis F-box-containing protein genes.

    Hirofumi Kuroda;Naoki Takahashi;Hiroaki Shimada;Motoaki Seki

  • Activation tagging, a novel tool to dissect the functions of a gene family

    Miki Nakazawa;Takanari Ichikawa;Akie Ishikawa;Hiroko Kobayashi

  • ydk1-D, an auxin-responsive GH3 mutant that is involved in hypocotyl and root elongation

    Tomoyuki Takase;Miki Nakazawa;Akie Ishikawa;Mika Kawashima

  • Arabidopsis Homologs of a c-Jun Coactivator Are Present Both in Monomeric Form and in the COP9 Complex, and Their Abundance Is Differentially Affected by the Pleiotropic cop/det/fus Mutations

    Shing F. Kwok;Roberto Solano;Tomohiko Tsuge;Daniel A. Chamovitz

  • Small open reading frames associated with morphogenesis are hidden in plant genomes

    Kousuke Hanada;Mieko Higuchi-Takeuchi;Masanori Okamoto;Takeshi Yoshizumi

  • Cyanobacteria: Photoautotrophic Microbial Factories for the Sustainable Synthesis of Industrial Products

    Nyok Sean Lau;Minami Matsui;Amirul Al Ashraf Abdullah

  • Photoactivation and inactivation of Arabidopsis cryptochrome 2

    Qin Wang;Qin Wang;Zecheng Zuo;Zecheng Zuo;Xu Wang;Xu Wang;Lianfeng Gu

  • Identification of plant promoter constituents by analysis of local distribution of short sequences

    Yoshiharu Y Yamamoto;Hiroyuki Ichida;Minami Matsui;Junichi Obokata

Frequent Co-Authors

Takanari Ichikawa
Takanari Ichikawa RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science
Hirohiko Hirochika
Hirohiko Hirochika Institute of Agrobiological Sciences
Tadao Asami
Tadao Asami University of Tokyo
Tetsuya Sakurai
Tetsuya Sakurai Kōchi University
Miki Fujita
Miki Fujita University of British Columbia
Xing Wang Deng
Xing Wang Deng Peking University
Hitoshi Sakakibara
Hitoshi Sakakibara Nagoya University

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