EMBO Associate Member
Keiko Sugimoto
EMBO 2021
RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama, Japan
Cellular basis of plant growth and regeneration
My group wants to understand how plants integrate developmental and environmental cues to optimize organ growth. We study how plants coordinate cell proliferation and differentiation in a changing environment. We also investigate how plants establish and maintain cellular differentiation status and how various biotic or abiotic stimuli override the developmental commitments to undergo cellular reprogramming.
Keywords
Cell proliferation / cell differentiation / cell reprogramming / pluripotency / regeneration / organ growth / plants