Plant Immunity

- Professor
- SAIJO Yusuke
- Assistant Professor
- TATEDA Chika, YASUDA Shigetaka
- Labs HP
- https://bsw3.naist.jp/saijo/
Outline of Research and Education
In nature, plants host a rich diversity of microbes, ranging from mutualistic symbionts to pathogens. The mode and outcome of plant-microbe interactions, including crop disease epidemics, are profoundly influenced by environmental factors, such as light, temperatures, water and nutrients. We aim to decipher the mechanisms by which plants sense and integrate microbial and abiotic cues to monitor and manage their associations with microbes, and also how microbes infect and influence host plants, under fluctuating environments. Our major research topics involve immune receptor signaling, biotic-abiotic stress signaling crosstalk, and functional significance and infection strategies of pathogenic and endophytic microbes. We hope our studies will reveal key principles underlying host-microbe interactions and contribute to developing human and biological resources for future sciences and sustainable agriculture.
Major Research Topics
- Danger sensing and signaling in plant immunity
- Signal integration between biotic and abiotic stress responses
- Beneficial and pathogenic microbes in plants
- Plant-associated microbiomes



References
- Okada et al., New Phytologist, in press 2020
- Saijo and Loo, New Phytologist, 225, 87-104, 2020
- Shinya et al., Plant J., 94, 4, 626-637, 2018
- Saijo et al., Plant J., 93, 592-613, 2018
- Hiruma et al., Curr. Opin. Plant Biol., 44, 145-154, 2018
- Ariga et al., Nature Plants, 3, 17072, 2017
- Yasuda, Okada and Saijo, Curr. Opin. Plant Biol., 38, 10-18, 2017
- Yamada et al., Science, 354,1427-1430, 2016
- Espinas et al., Front. Plant Sci., 7, 1201, 2016
- Hiruma et al., Cell, 165, 464-474, 2016
- Yamada et al, EMBO J., 35, 46-61, 2016
- Ross et al., EMBO J., 33, 62-75, 2014
- Tintor et al., Proc Natl Acad Sci U.S.A., 110, 6211-6216, 2013
- Serrano et al., Plant Physiol., 158, 408-422, 2012
- Lu et al., Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 106, 22522-22527, 2009
- Saijo et al., EMBO J., 28, 3439-3449, 2009
- Saijo et al., Molecular Cell, 31, 607-613, 2008
- Shen et al., Science, 315, 1098-1103, 2007