A paper by Dr. Nakamura, Dr. Izumi, and Prof. Hagihara on chloroplast autophagy and ubiquitination has been published in Plant Physiology.

2020.07.13

A paper by Dr. Nakamura, Dr. Izumi, and Prof. Hagihara on chloroplast autophagy and ubiquitination has been published in Plant Physiology.
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Press release (Japanese only)

Yamada-kun and Kato-san took a doctoral and a master degrees, respectively. Congrats!
Dr. Izumi won the 38th Incentive Award from Japanese Society of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition.

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