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Auditorium A134, Agricultural Technology Building
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Dr. Michitaka Notaguchi (Professor, Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Department of Botany, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Japan)
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2026-10-22 11:00 - 13:00
Plant grafting has been an important technique in agriculture to propagate fruit trees as clones and to obtain benefits of certain rootstocks. However, graft-incompatibility avoiding cell-cell adhesion has limited the technique. We found that Nicotiana species showed an extreme capability of grafting and achieved grafts with a wide range of vascular plants, including eudicots and monocots, where cell walls were apparently digested in a part of graft boundary. Cellular and molecular analyses investigating the biological processes during grafting will be presented.
References:
Kurotani et al., 2025 Nature Communications
Notaguchi et al., 2020 Science
