Tatsuru Masuda

This study introduces regioselective bacterial heme oxygenases into Arabidopsis hy1-1 to test the retrograde heme signaling hypothesis, showing differential complementation of phenotypes related to phytochrome assembly and heme signaling.

This study shows that RLF, a heme-binding protein, is essential for organ development in Marchantia polymorpha and is evolutionarily conserved with a role in Arabidopsis thaliana.

This study identifies GUN1's molecular function as RNA binding and maturation by analyzing plastid transcriptomes and validating targets through RNA immunoprecipitation.