Prof. Keiko Torii
@keikoutorii.bsky.social
'Plant twitter' via stomatal pores. I'm a Scientist. Views my own. she/her. Tweets from the lab @stomata-tweets.bsky.social
光合成する緑藻クラミドモナスは、眼点で光を感じて鞭毛を動かし、光に向かって(もしくは光を避けて)泳ぐ。その光受容体がチャネルロドプシン。医学から最も遠そうな単細胞植物の驚くべき仕組み。多種多様な生物の生存メカニズムを研究する意義がまさにここにある。Plants rock🪴! (So excited to see "botanists" winning the Nobel Prize of Physiology or Medicine)
Nobel Prize@nobelprize.org · yesterdayBREAKING NEWS The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
SI=Stomatal Index = (number of stomata/unit area)/((number of stomata + non-stomatal epidermal cells)/unit area) x 100 🌱
Our Special Issue on receptor-ligand interactions is now online! Thanks to all the authors for sharing their knowledge and views! Huge thanks to @adsteinbrenner.bsky.social @veroglez.bsky.social and @isabelmonte.bsky.social for great collaboration: ) @theplantjournal.bsky.social for the venue!
The Plant Journal@theplantjournal.bsky.social · last wk.𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐏𝐓𝐎𝐑-𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 🌱 Edited by @adsteinbrenner.bsky.social @veroglez.bsky.social @isabelmonte.bsky.social @elwirasmakowska.bsky.social 📖 Read the Editorial 👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.71135 🔎 Explore the complete Special Issue 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
Since the discovery of tomato Systemin in 1991, the world of plant peptides & receptors completely has changed the paradigm of plant cell-cell signaling. It is the true joy to witness the rise of this important research field throughout my career paths😍🌱. 2/2
I am proud to share my No-AI-assisted perspective review "Plant Peptide Hormones: Three Decades of Discovery and Emerging Paradigms" for the Centennial issue of @plantphys.bsky.social 🌱🍅. It's OA, so everyone can access! 1/ academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...
@keikoutorii.bsky.social shared her work investigating patterning & differentiation in stomata in her #SLS26 talk "The plant-specific ACTL domain determines bHLH transcription factor heterodimeric partner selectivity during stomatal development" More at: plant-stomata.org #PlantScience
Plant geneticists #SLS26 having scientific discussion at The Eagle, Cambridge, where Watson and Crick announced their discovery of the double helix 🧬 in 1953
Torii lab's research featured by @hhmi-science.bsky.social "Reading the Leaves: Decoding the Secret Cellular Language of Plants"🌱🧬🦠! ペプチドホルモンー受容体キナーゼを介した植物の気孔の発生への免疫シグナル経路の介入など、私の研究グループの取り組みに関するハワードヒューズ医学研究所の紹介記事です🌱🧬🦠 www.hhmi.org/news/reading...
Reading the Leaves: Decoding the Secret Cellular Language of Plants | HHMI
Early in her career, HHMI Investigator Keiko Torii figured out how plant cells talk to each other. Three decades later, she’s still listening — and uncovering exactly what they’re saying.
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Plant cells have their own language, & #HHMIInvestigator Keiko Torii has spent 30 years decoding it. Her team’s new work on how cells communicate to guide stomatal development — & how plants balance that with pathogen defense — could help scientists develop more resilient crops: bit.ly/4hFvOIy.
Arrived at the final destination of my long trips! Looking forward to learn more about yet another exciting forefront of plant morphogenesis 🌱🇬🇧
😅 What about a leaf eliciting Systemin peptide signaling or JA response? 🍃 (BTW, Andreas, it was so nice seeing you virtually in Montreal, 🇨🇦—safe travels back in 🇪🇺
Thank you, everyone, for the 2 full days of exciting plant science, ~VIB Ghent at the Forefront of Plant Research~ at beautiful Handelsbeursgebouw 🧪🌱🧬! www.vibconferences.be/events/at-th...
Very nice PPRM2026 ( Plant Peptide Receptor Meeting) closes in Freising. Organised by @julien-gronnier.bsky.social , @isabelmonte.bsky.social and @kpkinase.bsky.social
Fantastic moment to reunite with amazing plant biologists🌱, great meeting #PPRM2026 in a beautiful city of Freising🇩🇪🥂🍻—Vielen Dank
#PPRM2026 starts now! Thanks to @julien-gronnier.bsky.social et al for organizing! I look forward to 3 days with this lovely community!
At Peptide Receptor Meeting #PPRM2026. A theme that came back twice is re-evaluation of old published results. We know about ABP1 and the systemin receptor, but there were two other examples today: WAK1 perception of OGs, and BSU1 Tyr dephosphorylation of BIN2 in BR signalling. #PlantScience
🚨🌱🦠 IT'S OUT! Lead by Pedro Jiménez-Sandoval from Julia Santiago's group, we found that IGP1 is a DAMP receptor for the sugar cellotriose. Interesting finding -> we found that DAMP recognition is a key immune layer for proper PAMP-triggered immunity signaling prior to PAMP detection.
Glycan recognition by a plant damage-sensing immune receptor
Pathogens target and degrade the extracellular matrix surrounding plant cells. A central question is how cell wall-derived damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) are recognized and integrated to...
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We sincerely thank Senator Bill Nelson (FL, D) and Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (TX, R) for your continued bipartisan support for science 🤠🚀- at TAMEXT reception. フロリダ州ビル•ネルソン上院議員と。スペースシャトル•コロンビアに搭乗した元宇宙飛行士の政治家で、NASA長官も務めた。NASAの存続のために超党派として活躍された方
📣Join us for the upcoming ASPB Member webinar series on September 1 and 2 at 9:45 am Eastern Time, organized by the ASPB International Committee, with support from the John Templeton Foundation, in collaboration with CICY and Universidad del Valle de Guatemala. 👉 Free registration at buff.ly/s545Wtx
🫘Webinar Alert🥑 International Committee @aspbofficial.bsky.social announces @plantaeofficial.bsky.social Webinar "Crops of the Future: Revisiting Neglected & Underutilized Crops for Global Nutrition". Supported by @templetonfdn.bsky.social. Sept 1-2. Please register→ blog.aspb.org/crops-of-the...
@eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu and I stand firmly with the International Criminal Court, President Tomoko Akane and the officials who uphold its mission. The ICC helps deliver justice to the victims of some of the world’s most horrific crimes.
I am proud to announce that I am making non-AI used, hand-drawn (using mouse) figures for a review article. It's very pretty. Stay tuned!🌱😘👩🎨
New paper! Amphibious plant, H. difformis, reprograms C3 to potential C4 photosynthesis underwater, highlighting its amazing plasticity of carbon assimilation machineries for aquatic environment. Congrats, Hongwei & the team🥳🌿🐸! academic.oup.com/hr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/hr/uhag230/8708086
Want to learn how ligand-induced ubiquitination of a receptor kinase translates into proper number and patterning of plant stomata? Check out the poster by the Torii lab postdoc, Dr. Minh Huy Vu and say hi #2026SDB @socdevbio.bsky.social 🌱🔬🥳
