RAHMAN Abidur

写真a

Affiliation

IWATE University  Faculty of Agriculture  Department of Plant-bioscience 

Position

Professor

Laboratory Address

〒0208550 ueda 3-choume 18-8 morioka shi, iwate ken

Laboratory Phone number

+81-19-621-6144

Homepage URL

http://news7a1.atm.iwate-u.ac.jp/~abidur/

Mail Address

E-mail address

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Research Interests 【 display / non-display 】

  • abiotic stress

  • Plant hormone

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Graduating School 【 display / non-display 】

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    1994.03

    Dhaka University, Bangladesh   Faculty of Science   Biochemistry   Graduated

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Graduate School 【 display / non-display 】

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    2001.09

    Kobe University  Graduate School, Division of Science and Technology  Plant Biochemistry  Doctor's Course  Completed

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    1995.03

    Others  Graduate School, Division of Natural Science  Plant Biochemistry  Master's Course  Completed

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Degree 【 display / non-display 】

  • Kobe University -  PhD in bioscience  2001.09.30

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Campus Career 【 display / non-display 】

  • 2023.03
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    IWATE University   Faculty of Agriculture   Department of Plant-bioscience   Iwate University   Professor   [Duty]

  • 2007.04
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    2008.03

    IWATE University   Faculty of Agriculture   Cryobiosystem research center   Assistant Professor   [Duty]

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External Career 【 display / non-display 】

  • 2001.10
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    2006.09

    University of Massachusetts   Chief Researcher  

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Research Areas 【 display / non-display 】

  • Life Science / Plant molecular biology and physiology

  • Stress biology, herbicide biology

  • Life Science / Cell biology

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Message 【 display / non-display 】

  • The primary research interest of my lab lies in understanding the hormonal regulation of plant growth and development under optimum condition and various stresses. For this, we are primarily focusing on the plant hormone auxin, which influences plant behavior from embryogenesis to senescence and exhibits complex interactions with other hormones.

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Course Subject 【 display / non-display 】

  • 2007

    Advanced Study on Molecular Biology

  • 2007

  • 2008

  • 2008

    Undergraduate Research

  • 2008

    Advanced Study on Molecular Biology

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Research Career 【 display / non-display 】

  • Developing crops resistant to low temperature stress

    Periods of research：

    2017.04
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    Keywords : auxin, GNOM, temperature stress, crops

    Style of Research： Individual

    Research Program： Basic Science Research on Life Science  

    Contents of Research Career

    is aiming at bridging the basic research to applied research in field. GNOM, which we recently identified as a central regulator of cold temperature stress response, is widely conserved among plant species. In the current project, we would like to identify the proteins that are trafficked by GNOM during cold stress and also investigate the roles of GNOM in tomato in relation to cold stress. Through this research, we expect to generate new tomato lines which will be able to withstand cold stress.

  • Deciphering micro RNA mediated auxin signaling during plant cold stress response

    Periods of research：

    2015.04
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    Keywords : auxin, micro RNA, cold stress

    Style of Research： Individual

    Research Program： Basic Science Research on Life Science  

    Contents of Research Career

    The project is focused to understand the molecular pathway that integrates auxin and cold stress response by understanding the role of miRNA.

  • Auxin and cell cycle regulation

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    2013.04
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    Keywords : root meristem, auxin, cell cycle

    Style of Research： Individual

    Research Program： Basic Science Research on Life Science  

    Contents of Research Career

    This project aims at understanding the molecular link between auxin and cell cycle process during root meristem development.

  • Understanding the molecular mechanisms of cadmium and cesium toxicity in plants to engineer hyperaccumulator plants for phytoremediation

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    2012.04
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    Keywords : cesium, cadmium, ABC transporter

    Style of Research： Individual

    Research Program： Basic Science Research on Life Science  

    Contents of Research Career

    This project was aimed at identifying the molecular and cellular pathways that may function in detoxifying these metals. One of the major pathways for plant to detoxify toxic metals is through transporting them to vacuole and sequestering them. The ABC transporters, also called multidrug resistance proteins, are ubiquitous in plant and animal kingdom and play an important role in transporting various substances, including metals. Based on the function of ABC proteins in animal, we hypothesized that these proteins may function in transporting Cs and Cd to vacuole for detoxification. To prove or refute this hypothesis, we took a multi facet approach that includes; 1) mutant screening; 2) transcript profiling; 3) comparison of Cd content in wild-type and mutant, 4) cellular expression analysis of target proteins.

  • Understanding the molecular cross-talk between actin and hormones during meristem development

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    2011.04
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    Keywords : root meristem, actin isovariant, auxin

    Style of Research： Individual

    Research Program： Basic Science Research on Life Science  

    Contents of Research Career

    This project aims at understanding the molecular link between actin and various hormones during meristem formation. We are using root as the model system as it provides two actively growing meristem regions, the root apical meristem and lateral root meristem.

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Published Papers 【 display / non-display 】

  • Cold stress induces malformed tomato fruits by breaking the feedback loops of stem cell regulation in floral meristem

    Junqing Wu, Wenru Sun, Chao Sun, Chunmiao Xu, Shuang Li, Pengxue Li, Huimin Xu, Danyang Zhu, Meng Li, Liling Yang, Jinbo Wei, Aya Hanzawa, Sumaiya Jannat Tapati, Reiko Uenoyama, Masao Miyazaki, Abidur Rahman, Shuang Wu

    New Phytologist ( Willey )  237 ( 6 ) 2268 - 2283   2022.12  [Refereed]

    Academic Journal  Multiple authorship

    Fruit malformation is a major constrain in fruit production worldwide resulting in substantial economic losses. The farmers for decades noticed that the chilling temperature before blooming often caused malformed fruits. However, the molecular mechanism underlying this phenomenon is unclear.
    Here we examined the fruit development in response to cold stress in tomato, and demonstrated that short-term cold stress increased the callose accumulation in both shoot apical and floral meristems, resulting in the symplastic isolation and altered intercellular movement of WUS.
    In contrast to the rapidly restored SlWUS transcription during the recovery from cold stress, the callose removal was delayed due to obstructed plasmodesmata. The delayed reinstatement of cell-to-cell transport of SlWUS prevented the activation of SlCLV3 and TAG1, causing the interrupted feedback inhibition of SlWUS expression, leading to the expanded stem cell population and malformed fruits. We further showed that the callose dynamics in response to short-term cold stress presumably exploits the mechanism of bud dormancy during the seasonal growth, involving two antagonistic hormones, abscisic acid and gibberellin.
    Our results provide a novel insight into the cold stress regulated malformation of fruit.

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  • Actin isovariant ACT7 controls root meristem development in Arabidopsis through modulating auxin and ethylene responses

    Takahiro Numata, Kenji Sugita, Arifa Ahamed Rahman, Abidur Rahman

    Journal of Experimental Botany ( Oxford Academic )  73 ( 18 ) 6255 - 6271   2022.10  [Refereed]

    Academic Journal  Multiple authorship

    The meristem is the most functionally dynamic part in a plant. The shaping of the meristem requires constant cell division and elongation, which are influenced by hormones and the cytoskeletal component, actin. Although the roles of hormones in modulating meristem development have been extensively studied, the role of actin in this process is still elusive. Using the single and double mutants of the vegetative class actin, we demonstrate that actin isovariant ACT7 plays an important role in root meristem development. In the absence of ACT7, but not ACT8 and ACT2, depolymerization of actin was observed. Consistently, the act7 mutant showed reduced cell division, cell elongation, and meristem length. Intracellular distribution and trafficking of auxin transport proteins in the actin mutants revealed that ACT7 specifically functions in the root meristem to facilitate the trafficking of auxin efflux carriers PIN1 and PIN2, and consequently the transport of auxin. Compared with act7, the act7act8 double mutant exhibited slightly enhanced phenotypic response and altered intracellular trafficking. The altered distribution of auxin in act7 and act7act8 affects the response of the roots to ethylene, but not to cytokinin. Collectively, our results suggest that ACT7-dependent auxin-ethylene response plays a key role in controlling Arabidopsis root meristem development.

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  • Genetic diversity of field mustard (Brassica Rapa L.) and their staurated and unsaturated fatty acids association

    J. RAHMAN, F. SULTANA, K. FATIMA, M.M. HASAN, N. GAIN, M.S. HOSSAIN, A.K. CHOWDHURY, and A. RAHMAN

    SABRAO Journal of Breeding and Genetics ( Society for the Advancement of Breeding Research in Asia and Oceania )  54 ( 2 ) 249 - 266   2022.01  [Refereed]

    Academic Journal  Multiple authorship

    The oilseed crop improvement for Brassica rapa L. (field mustard) is considered to be important in respect of yield production coupled with unsaturated fatty acids of the existing cultivars. Hence, the genetic diversity, and nutritional components of 14 B. rapa cultivars were evaluated based on their yield attributes and fatty acid profiles at the Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. These 14 B. rapa cultivars differed significantly and were grouped into five diversified clusters. The highest intra-cluster distance was found in cluster II (2.43), while the highest intercluster distance was found between clusters II and V (20.41). In the fatty acid profile, the maximum threshold acceptable level (<7%) of saturated fatty acids for human consumption was found in Sonali Sarisha and BARI Sarisha-14. The total monounsaturated fatty acids viz., oleic, eicosenoic, and erucic acid ranged from 62.74% in BARI Sarisha-15 to 69.51% in Sonali Sarisha. The highest oleic acid and eicosenoic acid were obtained from the local variety, Maghi (21.06%) and Improved Tori (9.08%). The highest essential linoleic and linolenic acids were found in BARI Sarisha-15 (17.10%) and Improved Tori (8.16%), respectively. However, the local cultivar Maghi, containing the highest oleic acid (21.06%) has the lowest erucic acid (35.53%). On the other hand, BARI Sarisha-14 contained the lowest oleic (17.22%) and the highest erucic (44.02%) acids. The negative and strong correlation also reinforced the reverse relationship between oleic and erucic acids. Similarly, both linoleic (-0.497) and linolenic (-0.443) acids also showed a negative correlation with erucic acid. As a whole, BARI Sarisha14, BARI Sarisha-15, Maghi, Sonali Sarisha, and Improved Tori could be selected as potential parents for a hybridization program to breed potential recombinant lines with higher oil content and healthier unsaturated oleic and linoleic fatty acids.

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  • Actin isovariant ACT7 modulates root thermomorphogenesis by altering intracellular auxin homeostasis.

    Sumaya Parveen and Abidur Rahman

    International Journal of Molecular Sciences ( MDPI )  22 ( 14 ) 7749   2021.07  [Refereed]

    Academic Journal  Multiple authorship

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  • ATP Binding Cassette Proteins ABCG37 and ABCG33 are required for potassium-independent cesium uptake in Arabidopsis roots

    Ashraf MA, Akihiro T, Ito K, Kumagai S, Sugita R, Tanoi K, Rahman A

    Molecular Plant ( Cell Press; Elsevier )  14 ( 4 ) 664 - 678   2021.02  [Refereed]

    Academic Journal  Multiple authorship

    Radiocesium accumulated in the soil by nuclear accidents is a major environmental concern. The transport process of cesium (Cs+) is tightly linked to the indispensable plant nutrient potassium (K+) as they both belong to the group I alkali metals with similar chemical properties. Most of the transporters that had been characterized to date as Cs+ transporters are directly or indirectly linked to K+. Using a combinatorial approach of physiology, genetics, cell biology, and root uptake assay, here we identified two ATP-binding cassette (ABC) proteins, ABCG37 and ABCG33, as facilitators of Cs+ influx. A gain-of-function mutant of ABCG37 (abcg37-1) showed increased sensitivity to Cs+-induced root growth inhibition, while the double knockout mutant of ABCG33 and ABCG37 (abcg33-1abcg37-2) showed resistance, whereas the single loss-of-function mutants of ABCG33 and ABCG37 did not show any alteration in Cs+ response. In planta short-term radioactive Cs+-uptake assay along with growth and uptake assays in a heterologous system confirmed ABCG33 and ABCG37 as Cs+-uptake carriers. Potassium response and content were unaffected in the double-mutant background and yeast cells lacking potassium-uptake carriers transformed with ABCG33 and ABCG37 failed to grow in the absence of K+, confirming that Cs+ uptake by ABCG33 and ABCG37 is independent of K+. Collectively, this work identified two ABC proteins as new Cs+-influx carriers that act redundantly and independent of the K+-uptake pathway.

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Books 【 display / non-display 】

  • Clean Technology

    Rahman Abidur, Ito Keita

    Clean Technology  2022.11

    Book (General)

  • Isotope News

    Rahman Abidur, Ito Keita

    Japan Isotope Association  2022.02 ISBN: 02855518

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  • Cold Tolerance in Plants: Physiological, Molecular and Genetic Perspectives

    Ashraf MA, Rahman A ( Pages responsible : Hormonal regulation of cold stress response pp 65-88 )

    Springer-Nature  2018.01 ISBN: 9783030014148

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  • Polar Auxin Transport, Signaling and Communication in Plants 17

    Shibasaki K, Rahman A ( Pages responsible : Auxin and Temperature Stress: Molecular and Cellular Perspectives pp 295-311 )

    Springer  2013.05 ISBN: 9783642352980

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  • Plant Tropisms

    Muday GK, Rahman A ( Pages responsible : Auxin Transport and the Integration of Gravitropic Growth pp 47-68 )

    Blackwell Publishing  2008.04 ISBN: 9780813823232

    Scholarly Book

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Presentations 【 display / non-display 】

  • ATP BINDING CASSETTE PROTEIN ABCG36 IS NOT A CADMIUM TRANSPORTER

    Oral Presentation(General)  Keita Ito, Yuhi Ino, Takashi Akihiro, Keitaro Tanoi and, Abidur Rahman

    64thAnnual Meeting of Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists  (Tohoku University) 

    2023.03
    　
    　

    Japanese society of Plant Physiology

  • Actin isovariant ACT2-mediated cellular auxin homeostasis regulates lateral root organogenesis

    Oral Presentation(General)  Aya Hanzawa, Marika Yamauchi and Abidur Rahman

    64th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists  (Tohoku University) 

    2023.03
    　
    　

    Japanese society of Plant Physiology

  • Identification of regulatory gene network for molecular breeding and genome editing to develop abiotic stress resilient crops: linking basic to applied research.

    Oral Presentation(General)  Abidur Rahman

    Symposium of Plant Breeding and genetic society of Bangladesh and Sher-e-Bangla Agriculture University  (Sher-e-Bangla Agriculture University, Dhaka, Bangladesh) 

    2022.12
    　
    　

    Sher-e-Bangla Agriculture University

  • Integration of auxin, protein trafficking, and actin in low-temperature stress response pathway: a paradigm shift

    Oral Presentation(Guest/Special)  Abidur Rahman

    PLSC990 seminar course  (University of Saskatchewan) 

    2022.09
    　
    　

    Department of Plant Science, University of Saskatchewan

  • HERBICIDAL ACTIVITY OF 2,4-DICHLOROPHENOXYACETIC ACID IS LINKED TO RIC2 AND RIC4

    Poster (General)  Sugita K, Rahman A

    2022 AAAS ANNUAL MEETING on "Understanding Dynamic Ecosystems  (webinar-zoom) 

    2022.02
    　
    　

    American Advancement of Association of Sciences

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Academic Awards Received 【 display / non-display 】

  • Global Network of Bangladeshi Biotechnologists (GNOBB)-2017 outstanding Scientist award

    2017.12.30

    All winners： Abidur Rahman

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Industrial Property 【 display / non-display 】

  • Novel genes involved in plant auxin and auxin herbicide susceptibility

    Patent

    Application number 2006-177527  Publication number JP 2008-005726 

    Application date： 2006.06.28

    Publication date： 2008.01.17

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Association Memberships 【 display / non-display 】

  • 2015.05
    　
    　
     

    Society for experimental Biology

  • 2014.06
    　
    　
     

    Scandinavian society for plant physiologists

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    Journal of Plant Growth regulation

  • 2014.05
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    2018.04
     

    Bioresearch Communication

  • 2013.06
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    2015.03
     

    Advances in Botany

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Academic Activity 【 display / non-display 】

  • 2020.03
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    Frontier in Plant Science   Associate Editor, Plant Cell Biology Section

  • 2015.10
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    Journal of Plant Growth regulation   Editor

  • 2013.06
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    2016.05

    Bioresearch Communication   Editor

  • 2011.01
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    2020.03

    Frontier in Plant Science   Editor

  • 2009.10
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    2022.06

    PLOS ONE   Editor, PLOS ONE

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