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Miki Fujita
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Latest papers
Cellulose-rich secondary walls in wave-swept red macroalgae fortify flexible tissues.
Planta · 2019
Primary wall cellulose synthase regulates shoot apical meristem mechanics and growth.
Development (Cambridge, England) · 2019
Exploring Microtubule-Dependent Cellulose-Synthase-Complex Movement with High Precision Particle Tracking.
Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018
9 publications.
Cellulose-rich secondary walls in wave-swept red macroalgae fortify flexible tissues.
Martone PT, Janot K, Fujita M, Wasteneys G, Ruel K, Joseleau JP, Estevez JM
Primary wall cellulose synthase regulates shoot apical meristem mechanics and growth.
Sampathkumar A, Peaucelle A, Fujita M, Schuster C, Persson S, Wasteneys GO, Meyerowitz EM
Exploring Microtubule-Dependent Cellulose-Synthase-Complex Movement with High Precision Particle Tracking.
Woodley M, Mulvihill A, Fujita M, Wasteneys GO
Microtubules in Plant Cells: Strategies and Methods for Immunofluorescence, Transmission Electron Microscopy, and Live Cell Imaging.
Celler K, Fujita M, Kawamura E, Ambrose C, Herburger K, Holzinger A, Wasteneys GO
A survey of cellulose microfibril patterns in dividing, expanding, and differentiating cells of Arabidopsis thaliana.
Fujita M, Wasteneys GO
The anisotropy1 D604N mutation in the Arabidopsis cellulose synthase1 catalytic domain reduces cell wall crystallinity and the velocity of cellulose synthase complexes.
Fujita M, Himmelspach R, Ward J, Whittington A, Hasenbein N, Liu C, Truong TT, Galway ME, Mansfield SD, Hocart CH, Wasteneys GO
The missing link: do cortical microtubules define plasma membrane nanodomains that modulate cellulose biosynthesis?
Fujita M, Lechner B, Barton DA, Overall RL, Wasteneys GO
Cortical microtubules optimize cell-wall crystallinity to drive unidirectional growth in Arabidopsis.
Fujita M, Himmelspach R, Hocart CH, Williamson RE, Mansfield SD, Wasteneys GO
Establishing and maintaining axial growth: wall mechanical properties and the cytoskeleton.
Wasteneys GO, Fujita M
Frequent collaborators
- Miki Fujita and Chris Ambrose: 1 shared paper
- Miki Fujita and Geoffrey Wasteneys: 1 shared paper
- Department of Zoology at UBC
- Biology
- Botany - The University of British Columbia
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