UMEZAWA Taishi

Professional Career

2001/04/01-2004/03/31 : Researcher, RIKEN
2004/04/01-2011/06/30 : Researcher, Plant Science Research Center, RIKENPlant Science Research Center, RIKEN
2007-2007 : Visiting Researcher, Universtiy of Missouri
2011-2011 : Visiting Researcher, Universtiy of Missouri
2011/07/01- 2019/04/30 : Associate Professor, Institute of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
2019/05/01 - present : Professor, Institute of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

Academic Degrees

2001/03 Ph.D., Agricultural Science, University of Tsukuba

Research Interests

environmental stress for plants, signal transduction, protein phosphorylation, phytohorome, Arabidopsis, soybean

Publications

• Li, Y., Kamiyama, Y., Minegishi, F., Tamura, Y., Yamashita, K., Katagiri, S., Takase, H., Otani, M., Tojo, R., Suzuki, T., Kawakami, N., Peck, S.C., Umezawa, T. Group C MAP kinases phosphorylate MBD10 to regulate ABA-induced leaf senescence in Arabidopsis. Plant Journal 2024 , doi: 10.1111/tpj.16706.
• Katagiri, S., Kamiyama, Y., Yamashita, K., Iizumi, S., Suzuki, R., Aoi, Y., Takahashi, F., Kasahara, H., Kinoshita, T. and Umezawa, T. Accumulation of Phosphorylated SnRK2 Substrate 1 Promotes Drought Escape in Arabidopsis. Plant and Cell Physiology 2024, 5(2), 259-268. doi: 10.1093/pcp/pcad146.
• Verslues, P.E., Bailey-Serres, J., Brodersen, C., Buckley, T.N., Conti, L., Christmann, A., Dinneny, J.R., Grill, E., Hayes, S., Heckman, R.W., Hsu, P.K., Juenger, T.E., Mas, P., Munnik, T., Nelissen, H., Sack, L, Schroeder, J.I., Testerink, C., Tyerman, S.D., Umezawa, T., Wigge, P.A. (2022) Burning questions for a warming and changing world: 15 unknowns in plant abiotic stress. Plant Cell 26:koac263., 12,1, 15783
• Kamiyama, Y., Hirotani, M., Ishikawa, S., Minegishi, F., Katagiri, S., Rogan, C.J., Takahashi, F., Nomoto, M., Ishikawa, K., Kodama, Y., Tada, Y., Takezawa, D., Anderson, J.C., Peck, S.C., Shinozaki, K., and Umezawa, T. (2021) Arabidopsis group C Raf-like protein kinases negatively regulate abscisic acid signaling and are direct substrates of SnRK2. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 118(30):e2100073118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2100073118. PMID: 34282011.
• Ishikawa, S., Barrero, J.M., Takahashi, F., Nakagami, H., Peck, S.C., Gubler, F., Shinozaki, K., Umezawa, T. Comparative Phosphoproteomic Analysis Reveals a Decay of ABA Signaling in Barley Embryos during After-Ripening. Plant Cell Physiology 2019 Aug21. pii: pcz163. doi: 10.1093/pcp/pcz163. 60.12.2758-2768
• Shinozawa, A., Otake, R., Takezawa, D., Umezawa, T., Komatsu, K., Tanakam K., Amagai, A., Ishikawa, S., Hara, Y., Kamisugi, Y., Cuming, A.C., Hori, K., Ohta, H., Takahashi, F., Shinozaki, K., Hayashi, T., Taji, T. and Sakata, Y. SnRK2 protein kinases represent an ancient system in plants for adaptation to a terrestrial environment. Communications Biology (Commun. Biol.) 2: 30, 2019
• Ishikawa, S., Barrero, J.M., Takahashi, F., Peck, S.C., Gubler, F., Shinozaki, K. and Umezawa, T. Comparative phosphoproteomic analysis of barley embryos with different dormancy during imbibition. International Journal of Molecular Science（Int. J. Mol. Sci.） 20: 451, 2019.