Msami Watanabe
Associate Professor
Bioresource Science Course Applied Biological Chemistry
Chiba University
Japan
Biography
Graduated Meiji University and obtained Ph.D. at The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Agriculture. A present research interest is understanding Totipotency of plant cells. Plant cells have inherent ability to regenerate from a single cell to the whole plant. However, plant cells can not always accomplish regeneration, but die during the culture. I found that this dying process was caused by apoptotic cell death. I am analyzing the mechanisms of execution of the apoptotic cell death.
Research Interest
Application of plant cell technology to crop improvement is another research goal. If a plant cell can effectively regenerate a whole plant, we will save time, space and money to produce many useful transgenic plants.
Publications
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M. Watanabe, T. Hoshino, A. Kikuchi and Y. Watanabe, Purification and characterization of two glutamate dehydrogenase isoenzymes from Brassica napus, Plant Physiol. Biochem. 37 (1999) 731-739.
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M. Watanabe, K. Suzuki, H. Kawasaki and Y. Watanabe, Differential responses of Brassica napus and Petunia hybrida to leaf protoplast isolation stress, Physiol. Plant. 114 (2002) 645-651.
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M. Watanabe, D. Setoguchi, K. Uehara, W. Ohtsuka and Y. Watanabe, Apoptotic-like cell death of Brassica napus leaf protoplasts, New Phytol. 156 (2002) 417-426.
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M. Watanabe, Y. Itho, K. Yasuda, K. Kamachi and Y. Watanabe, Redox and translational regulation of glutamate dehydrogenase α subunits in Brassica napus under wounding stress, Plant Sci. 172 (2007) 1182-1192.
