Education

M.S. in Agriculture, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan

Current position

Researcher, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

Publications

1. Ishiga, Y., Ishiga, T., Ikeda, Y., Matsuura, T. and Mysore, K. S. (2016). NADPH-dependent thioredoxin reductase C plays a role in nonhost disease resistance against Pseudomonas syringae pathogens by regulating chloroplast-generated reactive oxygen species. PeerJ 4: e1938.
2. Ishiga, Y., Ishiga, T., Uppalapati, S. R. and Mysore, K. S. (2013). Jasmonate ZIM-domain (JAZ) protein regulates host and nonhost pathogen-induced cell death in tomato and Nicotiana benthamiana. PLoS One 8(9): e75728.
3. Ishiga, Y., Ishiga, T., Wangdi, T., Mysore, K. S. and Uppalapati, S. R. (2012). NTRC and chloroplast-generated reactive oxygen species regulate Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato disease development in tomato and Arabidopsis. Mol Plant Microbe Interact 25(3): 294-306.
4. Ishiga, Y., Ishiga, T., Uppalapati, S. R. and Mysore, K. S. (2011). Arabidopsis seedling flood-inoculation technique: a rapid and reliable assay for studying plant-bacterial interactions. Plant Methods 7: 32.
5. Ishiga, Y., Uppalapati, S. R., Ishiga, T. and Mysore, K. S. (2011). Involvement of SGT1 in COR-mediated signal transduction pathway leading to disease symptom development. Plant Signal Behav 6(7): 1072-1073.
6. Uppalapati, S. R., Ishiga, Y., Ryu, C. M., Ishiga, T., Wang, K., Noel, L. D., Parker, J. E. and Mysore, K. S. (2011). SGT1 contributes to coronatine signaling and Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato disease symptom development in tomato and Arabidopsis. New Phytol 189(1): 83-93.
7. Ishiga, Y., Uppalapati, S. R., Ishiga, T. and Bender, C. L. (2010). Exogenous coronatine, but not coronafacic acid or methyl jasmonate, restores the disease phenotype of a coronatine defective mutant of Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato on tomato seedlings. J. Gen. Plant Pathol. 76: 188-195.
8. Ishiga, Y., Uppalapati, S. R., Ishiga, T., Elavarthi, S., Martin, B. and Bender, C. L. (2009). Involvement of coronatine-inducible reactive oxygen species in bacterial speck disease of tomato. Plant Signal Behav 4(3): 237-239.
9. Ishiga, Y., Uppalapati, S. R., Ishiga, T., Elavarthi, S., Martin, B. and Bender, C. L. (2009). The phytotoxin coronatine induces light-dependent reactive oxygen species in tomato seedlings. New Phytol 181(1): 147-160.
10. Uppalapati, S. R., Ishiga, Y., Wangdi, T., Urbanczyk-Wochniak, E., Ishiga, T., Mysore, K. S. and Bender, C. L. (2008). Pathogenicity of Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato on tomato seedlings: phenotypic and gene expression analyses of the virulence function of coronatine. Mol Plant Microbe Interact 21(4): 383-395.