Munenori Kitagawa  Professor, Ph.D. Supervisor

Publications：

1. Kitagawa M, Tran TM, Jackson D. Traveling with purpose: cell-to-cell transport of plant mRNAs. Trends Cell Biol. 

2024 Jan;34(1):48-57. 

2. Kitagawa M. SA-Related Defense Signaling Supports the Trade-Off between Shoot Growth and Low-Ca Tolerance. 

Plant Cell Physiol. 2023 Dec 21;64(12):1576-1578. 

3. Kitagawa M, Xu X, Jackson D. Trafficking and localization of KNOTTED1 related mRNAs in shoot meristems. 

Commun Integr Biol. 2022 Jul 6;15(1):158-163. 

4. Kitagawa M, Wu P, Balkunde R, Cunniff P, Jackson D. An RNA exosome subunit mediates cell-to-cell trafficking 

of a homeobox mRNA via plasmodesmata. Science. 2022 Jan 14;375(6577):177-182. 

5. Kitagawa M, Jackson D. A Forward Genetic Approach to Identify Plasmodesmal Trafficking Regulators Based on

 Trichome Rescue. Methods Mol Biol. 2022;2457:393-407. 

6. Kitagawa M, Balkunde R, Bui H, Jackson D. An Aminoacyl tRNA Synthetase, OKI1, Is Required for Proper Shoot 

Meristem Size in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell Physiol. 2019 Nov 1;60(11):2597-2608.

7. Kitagawa M, Tomoi T, Fukushima T, Sakata Y, Sato M, Toyooka K, Fujita T, Sakakibara H. Abscisic Acid Acts as a

 Regulator of Molecular Trafficking through Plasmodesmata in the Moss Physcomitrella patens. Plant Cell Physiol. 

2019 Apr 1;60(4):738-751. 

8. Kitagawa M, Jackson D. Control of Meristem Size. Annu Rev Plant Biol. 2019 Apr 29;70:269-291. 

9. Balkunde R, Kitagawa M, Xu XM, Wang J, Jackson D. SHOOT MERISTEMLESS trafficking controls axillary 

meristem formation, meristem size and organ boundaries in Arabidopsis. Plant J. 2017 May;90(3):435-446. 

10. Kitagawa M, Jackson D. Plasmodesmata-Mediated Cell-to-Cell Communication in the Shoot Apical Meristem: 

How Stem Cells Talk. Plants (Basel). 2017 Mar 1;6(1):12. 

11. Kitagawa M, Paultre D, Rademaker H. Intercellular communication via plasmodesmata. New Phytol. 2015 Feb;

205(3):970-972. 

12. Kitagawa M, Fujita T. A model system for analyzing intercellular communication through plasmodesmata using 

moss protonemata and leaves. J Plant Res. 2015 Jan;128(1):63-72.

13. Kitagawa M, Fujita T. Quantitative imaging of directional transport through plasmodesmata in moss protonemata 

via single-cell photoconversion of Dendra2. J Plant Res. 2013 Jul;126(4):577-85.