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Professor/Director
Institute of Plant Science and Resources (IPSR), Okayama University, Chuo 2-20-1, Kurashiki 710-0046, Japan
E-mail: maj@rib.okayama-u.ac.jp
Website: http://www.rib.okayama-u.ac.jp/plant.stress/index.html
Area of expertise: Transporter; mineral nutrient; heavy metal; aluminum tolerance; rice
Speciality AreaAbiotic Stress Responses
Selected Publications:
Che J, Huang S, Qu Y, Yoshioka Y, Tomita C, Miyaji T, Liu Z, Shen R, Yamaji N, Ma J. F. (2025). A node-localized efflux transporter for loading iron to developing tissues in rice. Nat. Commun. 16: 9916.
Huang S, Yamaji N, Ma J.F. (2024). Metal transport systems in plants. Annu. Rev. Plant Biol. 75: 1-25.
Mitani-Ueno, N., Yamaji, N., Huang, S., Yoshioka, Y., Miyaji, T. and Ma, J. F. (2023). A silicon transporter gene required for healthy growth of rice on land. Nat. Commun. 14: 6522.
Lei, G.J., Fujii-Kashino, M., Wu, D.Z., Hisano, H., Saisho, D., Deng, F., Yamaji, N., Sato, K., Zhao, F.-J., and Ma, J. F. (2020). Breeding for low cadmium barley by introgression of a Sukkula-like transposable element. Nat. Food 1: 489-499.
Yamaji, N., Takemoto, Y., Miyaji, T., Mitani-Ueno, N., Yoshida, K. T., and Ma, J. F. (2017). Reducing phosphorus accumulation in rice grains with an impaired transporter in the node. Nature 541: 92-95.
Ueno, D., Sasaki, A., Yamaji, N., Miyaji, T., Fujii, Y., Takemoto, Y., Moriyama,S., Che, J., Moriyama, Y., Iwasaki, K., and Ma, J. F. (2015). A polarly localized transporter for efficient manganese uptake in rice. Nat. Plants 1: 15170.
Yamaji, N., Sasaki, A., Xia, J.X., Yokosho, K., and Ma, J.F. (2013). A node-based switch for preferential distribution of manganese in rice. Nat. Commun. 4: 2442.
Ma, J. F., Yamaji, N., Mitani, M.,Tamai, K., Konishi, S., Fujiwara, T., Katsuhara, M., and Yano, M. (2007). An efflux transporter of silicon in rice. Nature 448: 209-211
Ma, J. F., Tamai, K., Yamaji, N., Mitani, N., Konishi, S., Katsuhara, M., Ishiguro, M., Murata, Y., and Yano, M. (2006). A silicon transporter in rice. Nature 440: 688-691.
Ma, J. F., Zheng, S. J., Hiradate, S., and Matsumoto, H. (1997). Detoxifying aluminium with buckwheat. Nature 390: 569-570.
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