Molecular biology and biogeography of plant microbial symbiosis
Faculty
- NameE-mail Address
- Position
- Degree
- EZAWA Tatsuhiro
- Associate Professor
- Ph.D
tatsu[at]res.agr.hokudai.ac.jp
Researchers’ directoryWebsite
http://www.agr.hokudai.ac.jp/botagr/rhizo/RhizoCont/Rhizo_en.html
Selected Publications
- Kikuchi, Y., Hijikata, N., Yokoyama, K., Ohtomo, R., Handa, Y., Kawaguchi, M., Saito, K., and Ezawa, T. (2014) Polyphosphate accumulation is driven by transcriptome alterations that lead to near-synchronous and near-equivalent uptake of inorganic cations in an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus. New Phytologist, 204, 638-649.
- Kawahara, A. and Ezawa, T. (2013) Characterization of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities with respect to zonal vegetation in a coastal dune ecosystem. Oecologia 173, 533-543.
- Ikeda, Y., Shimura, H., Kitahara, R., Masuta, C., and Ezawa, T. (2012) A novel virus-like double-stranded RNA in an obligate biotroph arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus: a hidden player in mycorrhizal symbiosis. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 25, 1005-1012.
- Hijikata, N., Murase, M., Tani, C., Ohtomo, R., Osaki, M., and Ezawa, T. (2010) Polyphosphate has a central role in the rapid and massive accumulation of phosphorus in extraradical mycelium of an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus. New Phytologist 186, 285-289.
- Ezawa, T., Hayatsu, M., and Saito, M. (2005) A new hypothesis on the strategy for acquisition of phosphorus in arbuscular mycorrhiza: up-regulation of secreted acid phosphatase gene in the host plant. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 18, 1046-1053.