Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS) is pleased to announce that Umeda Tetsuya and Oh haji were selected as the winners for the fifth Tokyo Contemporary Art Award (TCAA).
An inter-university research group has succeeded in constructing the gene expression network behind the vascular development process in plants. They achieved this by performing bioinformatics analysis using the VISUAL tissue culture platform, which generates vascular stem cells from leaf cells. In this network, they also discovered a new BES/BZR transcription factor, BEH3, and illuminated its role in vascular cell maintenance.