Education
Ph.D., Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, 1995
Current position
Professor, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Japan
Publications (since 2005)
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Hashiguchi, Y., Yano, D., Nagafusa, K., Kato, T., Saito, C., Uemura, T., Ueda, T., Nakano, A., Tasaka, M. and Terao Morita, M. (2014). A unique HEAT repeat-containing protein SHOOT GRAVITROPISM6 is involved in vacuolar membrane dynamics in gravity-sensing cells of Arabidopsis inflorescence stem. Plant Cell Physiol 55(4): 811-822.
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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 (ed). Cleaved Amplified Polymorphic Sequences (CAPS) Markers In Plant Biology. NOVA Publishers, 1-20.
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Le, J., Liu, X.-G., Yang, K.-Z., Chen, X.-L., Zou, J.-J., Wang, H.-Z., Wang, M., Vanneste, S., Morita, M. and Tasaka, M. (2014). Auxin transport and activity regulate stomatal patterning and development. Nature Communications 5.
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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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Morita, M. T. and Nakamura, M. (2012). Dynamic behavior of plastids related to environmental response. Curr Opin Plant Biol 15(6): 722-728.
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Hashiguchi, Y., Tasaka, M. and Morita, M. T. (2013). Mechanism of higher plant gravity sensing. Am J Bot 100(1): 91-100.
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Moirta, M. T., Nakamura, M. and Tasaka, M. (2012). Gravity sensing, interpretation, and response. In: Witzany and Baluska (ed). Biocommunication of Plants. Springer, 51-66.
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Toyota, M., Morita, M., 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 Morph 24: 23-32.
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Saito, C., Uemura, T., Awai, C., Tominaga, M., Ebine, K., Ito, J., Ueda, T., Abe, H., Morita, M. T., Tasaka, M. and Nakano, A. (2011). The occurrence of 'bulbs', a complex configuration of the vacuolar membrane, is affected by mutations of vacuolar SNARE and phospholipase in Arabidopsis. Plant J 68(1): 64-73.
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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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Ding, Z., Galvan-Ampudia, C. S., Demarsy, E., Langowski, L., Kleine-Vehn, J., Fan, Y., Morita, M. T., Tasaka, M., Fankhauser, C., Offringa, R. and Friml, J. (2011). Light-mediated polarization of the PIN3 auxin transporter for the phototropic response in Arabidopsis. Nat Cell Biol 13(4): 447-452.
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Toyota, M., Matsuda, K., Kakutani, T., Terao Morita, M. and Tasaka, M. (2011). Developmental changes in crossover frequency in Arabidopsis. The Plant Journal 65(4): 589-599.
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Kleine-Vehn, J., Ding, Z., Jones, A. R., Tasaka, M., Morita, M. T. and Friml, J. (2010). Gravity-induced PIN transcytosis for polarization of auxin fluxes in gravity-sensing root cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107(51): 22344-22349.
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Uemura, T., Morita, M. T., Ebine, K., Okatani, Y., Yano, D., Saito, C., Ueda, T. and Nakano, A. (2010). Vacuolar/pre-vacuolar compartment Qa-SNAREs VAM3/SYP22 and PEP12/SYP21 have interchangeable functions in Arabidopsis. Plant J 64(5): 864-873.
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Kato, T., Morita, M. T. and Tasaka, M. (2010). Defects in dynamics and functions of actin filament in Arabidopsis caused by the dominant-negative actin fiz1-induced fragmentation of actin filament. Plant Cell Physiol 51(2): 333-338.
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Zadnikova, P., Petrasek, J., Marhavy, P., Raz, V., Vandenbussche, F., Ding, Z., Schwarzerova, K., Morita, M. T., Tasaka, M., Hejatko, J., Van Der Straeten, D., Friml, J. and Benkova, E. (2010). Role of PIN-mediated auxin efflux in apical hook development of Arabidopsis thaliana. Development 137(4): 607-617.
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Hashiguchi, Y., Niihama, M., Takahashi, T., Saito, C., Nakano, A., Tasaka, M. and Morita, M. T. (2010). Loss-of-function mutations of retromer large subunit genes suppress the phenotype of an Arabidopsis zig mutant that lacks Qb-SNARE VTI11. Plant Cell 22(1): 159-172.
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Morita, M. T. (2010). Directional gravity sensing in gravitropism. Annu Rev Plant Biol 61: 705-720.
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Hamaji, K., Nagira, M., Yoshida, K., Ohnishi, M., Oda, Y., Uemura, T., Goh, T., Sato, M. H., Morita, M. T., Tasaka, M., Hasezawa, S., Nakano, A., Hara-Nishimura, I., Maeshima, M., Fukaki, H. and Mimura, T. (2009). Dynamic aspects of ion accumulation by vesicle traffic under salt stress in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell Physiol 50(12): 2023-2033.
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Niihama, M., Takemoto, N., Hashiguchi, Y., Tasaka, M. and Morita, M. T. (2009). ZIP genes encode proteins involved in membrane trafficking of the TGN-PVC/vacuoles. Plant Cell Physiol 50(12): 2057-2068.
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Dello Ioio, R., Nakamura, K., Moubayidin, L., Perilli, S., Taniguchi, M., Morita, M. T., Aoyama, T., Costantino, P. and Sabatini, S. (2008). A genetic framework for the control of cell division and differentiation in the root meristem. Science 322(5906): 1380-1384.
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Ebine, K., Okatani, Y., Uemura, T., Goh, T., Shoda, K., Niihama, M., Morita, M. T., Spitzer, C., Otegui, M. S., Nakano, A. and Ueda, T. (2008). A SNARE complex unique to seed plants is required for protein storage vacuole biogenesis and seed development of Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell 20(11): 3006-3021.
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Morita, M. T., Saito, C., Nakano, A. and Tasaka, M. (2007). endodermal-amyloplast less 1 is a novel allele of SHORT-ROOT. Advances in Space Research 39(7): 1127-1133.
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Yamaguchi, N., Suzuki, M., Fukaki, H., Morita-Terao, M., Tasaka, M. and Komeda, Y. (2007). CRM1/BIG-mediated auxin action regulates Arabidopsis inflorescence development. Plant and Cell Physiology 48(9): 1275-1290.
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Harrison, B., Morita, M. T., Masson, P. H. and Tasaka, M. (2008). Signal transduction in gravitropism. Plant Tropisms 2: 21-45.
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Morita, M. T., Sakaguchi, K., Kiyose, S., Taira, K., Kato, T., Nakamura, M. and Tasaka, M. (2006). A C2H2-type zinc finger protein, SGR5, is involved in early events of gravitropism in Arabidopsis inflorescence stems. Plant J 47(4): 619-628.
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Kitazawa, D., Hatakeda, Y., Kamada, M., Fujii, N., Miyazawa, Y., Hoshino, A., Iida, S., Fukaki, H., Morita, M. T., Tasaka, M., Suge, H. and Takahashi, H. (2005). Shoot circumnutation and winding movements require gravisensing cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102(51): 18742-18747.
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Niihama, M., Uemura, T., Saito, C., Nakano, A., Sato, M. H., Tasaka, M. and Morita, M. T. (2005). Conversion of functional specificity in Qb-SNARE VTI1 homologues of Arabidopsis. Curr Biol 15(6): 555-560.
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Saito, C., Morita, M. T., Kato, T. and Tasaka, M. (2005). Amyloplasts and vacuolar membrane dynamics in the living graviperceptive cell of the Arabidopsis inflorescence stem. Plant Cell 17(2): 548-558.