Vol. 21, No. 9(September 2016)

Soba (buckwheat, Fagopyrum esculentum) is a pseudocereal with rich aroma and flavor, which is mainly eaten as noodles after Edo era in Japan. Yet there still remain many problems to overcome: its lower yield than the wheat or rice mainly caused by heteromorphic self-incompatibility (SI), its allergenic property that sometimes causes severe allergic reactions, and so on. Also, SI has been preventing us from producing good cultivars using genetic approaches. Finally, the buckwheat's whole genome has just been sequenced with next-generation sequencing (NGS), and it shows us a solution for those problems. We may have low-allergenic soba noodles in the foreseeable future.

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Genes to Cells © 2016 the Molecular Biology Society of Japan and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd.

Volume 21, Issue 9, 2016.

Original Articles

Pages: 936-948 Prox1/Prosperoの線虫C. elegansホモログはグリア細胞に発現し、感覚応答行動や低温耐性に必要である Caenorhabditis elegans homologue of Prox1/Prospero is expressed in the glia and is required for sensory behavior and cold tolerance 中臺（鹿毛）　枝里子、太田　茜、宇治澤　知代、孫　思墨、西川　禎一、久原　篤、三谷　昌平 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gtc.12394

Pages: 949-965 Integrative analysis of transcriptome and miRNome unveils the key regulatory connections involved in different stages of hepatocellular carcinoma Vignesh Ramesh and Kumaresan Ganesan https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gtc.12396

Pages: 966-977 線虫Caenorhabditis elegansにおける哺乳類セリンラセマーゼホモログの性質決定：本酵素はin vivoにおけるセリン代謝において重要ではない Characterization of a homolog of mammalian serine racemase from Caenorhabditis elegans: the enzyme is not critical for the metabolism of serine in vivo 片根　真澄、斉藤　有希、内山　啓太、中山　香月、齋藤　康昭、宮本　哲也、関根　正恵、宇田　幸司、本間　浩 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gtc.12398

Pages: 978-993 DNAトポイソメラーゼII標的抗がん剤ICRF-193は、分裂酵母においてユニークなアーチ状のスピンドル異常と染色体の倍数化を誘発する ICRF-193, an anticancer topoisomerase II inhibitor, induces arched telophase spindles that snap, leading to a ploidy increase in fission yeast 中沢　宜彦、Rajesh Mehrotra、新川　織江、柳田　充弘 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gtc.12397

Pages: 994-1005 大脳皮質ニューロン樹状突起の発達においてCRMP1とCRMP2とは協調的かつ異なる役割を持つ CRMP1 and CRMP2 have synergistic but distinct roles in dendritic development 槇原　弘子、中井　栞、大久　保　航、山下　直也、中村　史雄、清成　寛、塩井　剛、實木－高橋　葵、中村　治子、田中　章景、赤瀬　智子、Pappachan Kotattukudy、五嶋　良郎 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gtc.12399

Pages: 1006-1014 hnRNP Kによる熱ストレス応答性の選択的スプライシング制御 Control of the heat stress-induced alternative splicing of a subset of genes by hnRNP K 山本　耕一、古川　真理、福村　和宏、河村　有砂、山田　智子、鈴木　仁、廣瀬　哲郎、坂本　博、井上　邦夫 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gtc.12400

Brief Report

Pages: 1015-1023 大腸菌におけるDNA複製開始のタイミング制御には、DnaA再活性化配列DARS2の染色体上の位置が重要となる Chromosomal location of the DnaA-reactivating sequence DARS2 is important to regulate timely initiation of DNA replication in Escherichia coli 井上　祐希江、田中　宏幸、加生　和寿、藤光　和之、大島　拓、片山　勉 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gtc.12395