NOBUTOSHI YAMAGUCHI (15)

former postdoc, now assistant professor at NARA Inst. of Science & Technology, Japan | email

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Regulatory interactions that lead to the formation of the first flower in Arabidopsis

Yamaguchi, N, Winter CM, Wu MF, Kanno Y, Yamaguchi A, Seo M, Wagner D.  2014.  Gibberellin acts positively then negatively to control onset of flower formation in Arabidopsis, May 9. Science. 344:638-41., Number 6184 AbstractWebsite

Yamaguchi, N., Wu, M.-F., Winter, C., Berns, M., Nole-Wilson, S., Yamaguchi, A., Coupland, G., Krizek, B., and Wagner, D. (2013) Auxin-mediated Initiation of the Flower Primordium. Developmental Cell 24, 1–12.

Yamaguchi, N., Yamaguchi, A., Abe, M., Wagner, D., and Komeda, Y. (2012). LEAFY controls Arabidopsis pedicel length and orientation by affecting adaxial-abaxial cell fate. Plant Journal 69, 844-856.

Wu, M.F., Sang, Y., Bezhani, S., Yamaguchi, N., Han, S.K., Li, Z., Su, Y., Slewinski, T.L., and Wagner, D. (2012). SWI2/SNF2 chromatin remodeling ATPases overcome polycomb repression and control floral organ identity with the LEAFY and SEPALLATA3 transcription factors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109, 3576-3581.

 

Pastore, J.J., Limpuangthip, A., Yamaguchi, N., Wu, M.F., Sang, Y., Han, S.K., Malaspina, L., Chavdaroff, N., Yamaguchi, A., and Wagner, D. (2011). LATE MERISTEM IDENTITY2 acts together with LEAFY to activate APETALA1.Development 138, 3189-3198.

 

1Winter, C.M., Austin, R.S., Blanvillain-Baufume, S., Reback, M.A., Monniaux, M., Wu, M.F., Sang, Y., Yamaguchi, A.,Yamaguchi, N., Parker, J.E., J.E., Parcy, F., Jensen, S.T., Li, H., Wagner, D. (2011). LEAFY Target Genes Reveal Floral Regulatory Logic, cis Motifs, and a Link to Biotic Stimulus Response. Developmental Cell 20, 430-443.

Nobu pioneered live imaging and FAIRE in the lab and is fantastic at ChIP.