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Utsunomiya CampusA research group led by Professor Asahina of Faculty of Science and Engineering has elucidated the mechanism of cell proliferation that occurs when plants repair their own wounds.

On Friday, September 13, 2024, Masashi Asahina, Professor the Department of Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Biosciences Teikyo University, in a joint research project with Hiroaki Iwai Associate Professor the School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, and others, discovered the gene At2-MMP, which is responsible for appropriately controlling cell division activated to fill wounds and completing wound repair, in relation to the self-repair ability of plants.
If progress can be made in identifying the cell division-promoting factors that are the targets of At2-MMP, it is expected that this will lead to the creation of new agricultural and horticultural technologies, such as improving the efficiency of graft adhesion, treating and protecting plants from damage caused by natural disasters, developing injury-resistant plants, and increasing biomass production.
This research paper was published in Plant and Cell Physiology on Friday, September 13, 2024.

Press release here
The published paper is available here (in English).
For more information about Professor Masashi Asahina, Department Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Biosciences please click here.
For more information about the Laboratory of Plant Physiology (Masashi Asahina Laboratory), click here.

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