Agricultural and Life Sciences (IFAS)
Suzuki Lab
Led by Masaharu Suzuki · Horticultural Sciences
What we study
The Suzuki Lab studies plant development and metabolism, focusing on genetic and molecular mechanisms in maize and other plants. They use genetic resources and molecular biology techniques to explore how genes and signaling pathways influence growth and development.
What working here is like
- Wet lab
- Plants
- Papers
- 5
Recent papers, explained
- Control of embryo size by inositol phosphate signaling revealed by big embryo mutants of maize
2026 · PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
Finds that certain maize genes control embryo size by making inositol phosphates.
- Catabolism of jasmonoyl-isoleucine modulates maize development and defense responses
2026 · PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
Studies how enzymes break down a plant hormone to affect maize growth and defense.
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- Maize big embryo 6 reveals roles of plastidial and cytosolic prephenate aminotransferases in seed and plant development
2025 · The Plant Cell
Discovers that a maize enzyme affects embryo size by making amino acids.
- Maize rough endosperm6 is a predicted RNA helicase required for miRNA processing and endosperm cell patterning
2025 · PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
Shows that a maize RNA helicase helps process small RNAs and shape endosperm cells.
- Maize domestication phenotypes reveal strigolactone networks coordinating grain size evolution with kernel-bearing cupule architecture
2022 · The Plant Cell
Explores how plant hormones called strigolactones shape maize grain size.
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