1. Purpose

In post genome functional analysis, assignment of gene function requires detailed physiological / phenotypic measurements of plants that contain a mutation in a specific gene of interest. To obtain detailed and accurate measurements of rice plants growing over time, we are developing the 'Hitachi Rice Imaging System (HI-RIS)' that collects and evaluates image data for multiple rice seedlings.

2. Project Outline

• Hitachi Rice Imaging System (HI-RIS) ^{(2003/8/16 Update!)}

3. Images and growth data

• Images and growth data ^{(2003/8/16 Update!)}

4. Recent related publications and presentations

• Shinomura T. (2003) The Plant Growth Imaging System and its Application for Rice Circumnutation. Plant Cell Physiol. 44(suppl.): 16.
• Kuno, N., Moller, S. G., Shinomura, T., Xu, X.M., Chua, N.-H. and Furuya. (2003) The novel MYB protein EPR1 is a component of a peripheral circadian slave oscillator in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell (in press).
• Tanabata, T., Ishizuka T., Takano, M., Shinomura, T. (2002) The plant growth imaging system for the phenotypic functional analysis. The Blue Light Syndrome IV, International Meeting on UV/Blue Light: Perception and responses in plants and microorganisms, Okazaki
• Ishizuka, T., Tanabata, T., Shinomura, (2002) Analysis of Change in Leaf Area of Arabidopsis thaliana from Images. Arabidopisi Workshop 2002, Kazusa DNA Research Institute, October, 2002
• Tanabata, T., Ishizuka, T., Takano, M., Shinomura, T. (2002) The rice growth monitoring system for the phenotypic functional analysis. International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, (http://www.ismb02.org/).
• Shinomura, T., Hanzawa, H., Furuya, M. (2002) Phytochromes A and B: Specificity of photoperception and structure/function analysis of bilin chromophores. Journal of Photoscience9:90-93.

5. Project members

• Tomoko Shinomura, Project leader (Hitachi Central Research Laboratory) e-mail: shino @ harl.hitachi.co.jp
• Takanari Tanabata, Imaging system and Informatics (Hitachi Central Research Laboratory) e-mail: ttanaba @ hrl.hitachi.co.jp
• Toru Ishizuka, Physiological experiments (Hitachi Central Research Laboratory) e-mail: torui @ harl.hitachi.co.jp
• Kumiko Nissaka, Technical assistant (Hitachi Central Research Laboratory)
• Tomoko Watanabe, Technical assistant (Hitachi Central Research Laboratory)

6. Collaborator

• Akio Miyao (National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences)
• Hirohiko Hirochika (National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences)
• Makoto Takano (National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences)
• Masahiro Yano (National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences)

7. Acknowledgment

• This work was supported by a grant from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan (Rice Genome Project SY-1108, IP-1006).

8. Address

2520, Akanuma, Hatoyama-cho, Hiki-gun, Saitama, 350-0395, Japan.
c/o Advanced Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd.
TEL. +81-49-296-6111
FAX. +81-49-296-6006

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