Education
Ph.D., Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 2008
Current position
PRESTO researcher, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Japan
Assistant scientist, Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Publications
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Gilroy, S., Suzuki, N., Miller, G., Choi, W. G., Toyota, M., Devireddy, A. R. and Mittler, R. (2014). A tidal wave of signals: calcium and ROS at the forefront of rapid systemic signaling. Trends Plant Sci. (Epub ahead of print)
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Choi, W. G., Toyota, M., Kim, S. H., Hilleary, R. and Gilroy, S. (2014). Salt stress-induced Ca2+ waves are associated with rapid, long-distance root-to-shoot signaling in plants. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 111(17): 6497-6502.
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Tatsumi, H., Toyota, M., Furuichi, T. and Sokabe, M. (2014). Calcium mobilizations in response to changes in the gravity vector in Arabidopsis seedlings: Possible cellular mechanisms. Plant signaling & behavior 9(5): e29099.
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Iida, H., Furuichi, T., Nakano, M., Toyota, M., Sokabe, M. and Tatsumi, H. (2014). New candidates for mechano-sensitive channels potentially involved in gravity sensing in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Biol (Stuttg) 16 Suppl 1: 39-42.
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Tatsumi, H., Furuichi, T., Nakano, M., Toyota, M., Hayakawa, K., Sokabe, M. and Iida, H. (2014). Mechanosensitive channels are activated by stress in the actin stress fibres, and could be involved in gravity sensing in plants. Plant Biol (Stuttg) 16 Suppl 1: 18-22.
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Kato, T., Toyota, M., Tasaka, M. and Morita, M. T. (2014). Mini-History of Map-Based Cloning in Arabidopsis. In: Shavrukov, Y. (ed). Cleaved Amplified Polymorphic Sequences (CAPS) Markers in Plant Biology. Nova Science Publishers, Inc., pp 1-20.
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Toyota, M., Ikeda, N., Sawai-Toyota, S., Kato, T., Gilroy, S., Tasaka, M. and Morita, M. T. (2013). Amyloplast displacement is necessary for gravisensing in Arabidopsis shoots as revealed by a centrifuge microscope. Plant J 76(4): 648-660.
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Toyota, M., Furuichi, T., Sokabe, M. and Tatsumi, H. (2013). Analyses of a gravistimulation-specific Ca2+ signature in Arabidopsis using parabolic flights. Plant Physiol 163(2): 543-554.
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Toyota, M. and Gilroy, S. (2013). Gravitropism and mechanical signaling in plants. Am J Bot 100(1): 111-125.
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Toyota, M., Morita, M. T., Ikeda, N. and Tasaka, M. (2012). Live-cell imaging of plant gravity sensing by using a vertical-stage confocal microscope and a centrifuge microscope. Plant Morphology 24:23-32.
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Toyota, M., Matsuda, K., Kakutani, T., Terao Morita, M. and Tasaka, M. (2011). Developmental changes in crossover frequency in Arabidopsis. Plant J 65(4): 589-599.
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Nakamura, M., Toyota, M., Tasaka, M. and Morita, M. T. (2011). An Arabidopsis E3 ligase, SHOOT GRAVITROPISM9, modulates the interaction between statoliths and F-actin in gravity sensing. Plant Cell 23(5): 1830-1848.
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Toyota, M. and Morita, M. T. (2010). [Re-examination of starch-statolith hypothesis, a model for gravity sensing mechanism in plants]. Seikagaku 82(8): 730-734.
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Toyota, M., Furuichi, T., Tatsumi, H. and Sokabe, M. (2008). Cytoplasmic calcium increases in response to changes in the gravity vector in hypocotyls and petioles of Arabidopsis seedlings. Plant Physiol 146(2): 505-514.
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Toyota, M., Furuichi, T., Tatsumi, H. and Sokabe, M. (2008). Critical consideration on the relationship between auxin transport and calcium transients in gravity perception of Arabidopsis seedlings. Plant Signal Behav 3(8): 521-524.
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Toyota, M., Furuichi, T., Tatsumi, H. and Sokabe, M. (2007). Hypergravity stimulation induces changes in intracellular calcium concentration in Arabidopsis seedlings. Advances in Space Research 39(7): 1190-1197.