Kiwamu Minamisawa

This study shows Cyclophilin A modulates RIN4 conformation to control legume infection by rhizobia, revealing a host-symbiont interaction mechanism.

This study identifies a unipolar polysaccharide gene cluster in Bradyrhizobium ottawaense SG09 that mediates attachment to plant roots via single cellular poles.

The paper examines how soil nutrition affects the root-associated microbiome of rice across seasons and conditions, finding nitrogen-fixing bacteria dominate in non-fertilized fields and a machine learning model can predict soil fertilization status from microbiome data.

This paper develops a novel bioprocess using a down-flow hanging sponge reactor to efficiently remove high concentrations of nitrous oxide, achieving over 96% removal efficiency for 300 ppm N2O.

This study evaluates methods for extracting microbial cells from soil aggregates and finds that sonication improves microbial recovery and diversity compared to bead-vortexing.