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Plants are exposed to an everchanging environment and are thefore masters of adaption. I am interested in the ability of plants to adapt to extreme stress condtions like microgravity, mechanical stress etc. To better understand how a plant can grow under these conditions it is necessary to better understand the mechanical responses of a plant. For this purpose i currently started to analyze the mechanical properties of plants in response to stress. Current coopeartions include researchers from mechanical enginnering, chemistry and mathematics. The goal of these cooperations is the establishment of microdevices that enable us to to measure the changes in a variety of condtitions.

References

• Root shape adaptation to mechanical stress derived from unidirectional vibrations in Populus nigra. Marcel Pascal Beier, Satoru Tsugawa, Taku Demura, Toru Fujiwara. Plant Biotechnology 37(4): 423-428, Dec 25, 2020.
• The urea transporter DUR3 contributes to rice production under nitrogen-deficient and field conditions. Beier, M.P., Fujita, T., Sasaki, K., Kanno, K., Ohashi, M., Tamura, W., Konishi, N., Saito, M., Imagawa, F., Ishiyama, K., Miyao, A., Yamaya, T., Kojima, S. Physiologia Plantarum 167(1): 75-89, 2019.
• Lack of ACTPK1, an STY kinase, enhances ammonium uptake and use, and promotes growth of rice seedlings under sufficient external ammonium. Beier, M.P., Obara, M., Taniai, A., Sawa, Y., Ishizawa, J., Yoshida, H., Tomita, N., Yamanaka, T., Ishizuka, Y., Kudo, S., Yoshinari, A., Takeuchi, S., Kojima, S., Yamaya, T., Hayakawa, T. Plant Journal 93(6): 992-1006, 2018.