Plant Nutritional Physiology laboratory is focusing on sustainable crop production and the conservation of agricultural environment by introducing not only applicable field techniques but also molecular-level gene technologies.

1) Improving crop productivity and quality under adverse environmental conditions (Saneoka, H.)

2) Molecular physiology and genetic engineering of abiotic stress tolerance in plants (Ueda, A.)

Crop production, Plant nutritional ecology, Environmental stress tolerance,Salinity stress, Transgenic plants

Soybean plants and experimental field

Screening of salinity tolerant cultivars from diverse rice collections

Liu LY, Hany A. El-Shemy, Hirofumi Saneoka. (2017) Effects of 5-aminolevulinic acid on water uptake, ionic toxicity, and antioxidant capacity of Swiss chard (Beta vulgaris L.) under sodic-alkaline conditions. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, 180: 535-543.

Liyun, L., Ngyen T.N., Ueda, A., Saneoka, H. (2014) Effects of 5-aminolevulinic acid on Swiss chard (Beta vulgaris L. subsp. cicla) seedling growth under saline conditions. Plant Growth Regulation 74: 219-228.
 
Raboy, V., Cichy, K., Peterson, K., Reichman, S., Sompong, U., Srinives, P., Saneoka, H. (2014) Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) low phytic acid 1-1: An endosperm-specific, filial determinant of seed total phosphorus. Journal of Heredity 105: 656-665.
 
Assaha, D.V.M., Ueda, A., Saneoka, H. (2013) Comparison of growth and mineral accumulation of two solanaceous species, Solanum scabrum Mill. (huckleberry) and S. melongena L. (eggplant), under salinity stress. Soil Science and Plant Nutrition 59: 912–920.
 
Fukuda, Y., Tatsukawa, E., Saneoka, H., Hoshina, T., Uefuji, M., Raboy, V. (2011) Growth characteristics, phytate contents, and coagulation properties of soymilk from a low-phytate Japanese soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) line. Soil Science and Plant Nutrition 57: 674-680.

Wangsawang, T., Chuamnakthong, S., Kohnishi, E., Sripichitt, P., Sreewongchai, T., Ueda, A. (2018) A salinity tolerant japonica cultivar has Na⁺ exclusion mechanism at leaf sheaths through the function of a Na⁺ transporter OsHKT1;4 under salinity stress. Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science 204: 274-284.

Mekawy, A.M.M., Assaha, D.V.M., Munehiro, R., Kohnishi, E., Nagaoka, T., Ueda, A., Saneoka, H. (2018)Characterization of type 3 metallothionein-like gene (OsMT-3a) from rice, revealed its ability to confer tolerance to salinity and heavy metal stresses. Environmental and Experimental Botany 147: 157-166.

Ueda, A., Wood, T.K. (2009) Connecting quorum sensing, c-di-GMP, pel polysaccharide, and biofilm formation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa through tyrosine phosphatase TpbA (PA3885).  PLoS Pathogens 5:e1000483. (Journal Cover)

Ueda, A., Li, P., Feng, Y., Vikram, M., Kim, S., Kang, C.H., Kang, J.S., Bahk, J.D., Lee, S.Y., Fukuhara, T., Staswick, P.E., Pepper, A.E., Koiwa, H. (2008) The Arabidopsis thaliana carboxyl-terminal domain phosphatase-like 2 regulates plant growth, stress and auxin responses. Plant Molecular Biology 67: 683-697. (Journal Cover)

Professor　Saneoka, H.
Associate Professor　Ueda, A.