A collaborative research team, including Dr. Ryouichi Tanaka and Dr. Atsushi Takabayashi (Group A03) from the Institute of Low Temperature Science at Hokkaido University, Dr. Seiji Akimoto (Group B02) from the Graduate School of Science at Kobe University, Dr. Makio Yokono (Group A03) from the Division of Environmental Photobiology at the National Institute for Basic Biology, and Dr. Mitsutoshi Kitao from the Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute demonstrated that a chloroplast protein called ELIP is important in a photosynthetic response of evergreen trees in wintertime through combined analyses of fluorescence measurement in picoseconds (note: a picosecond is one trillionth of a second), gene expression throughout the year, measurement of photosynthetic proteins and pigments, and protein structure prediction.

【Press release (in Japanese)】 https://www.hokudai.ac.jp/news/pdf/241122_pr2.pdf
【Journal】 Journal of Experimental Botany
【Title】Revisiting the early light-induced protein hypothesis in the sustained thermal dissipation mechanism in yew leaves

【Authors】Zihao Ye, Mina Sawada, Makiko Iwasa, Ryo Moriyama, Debayan Dey, Miyu Furutani, Mitsutoshi Kitao, Toshihiko Hara, Ayumi Tanaka, Junko Kishimoto, Makio Yokono, Seiji Akimoto, *Atsushi Takabayashi, *Ryouichi Tanaka (Corresponding authors)

【DOI】10.1093/jxb/erae412
【URL】 https://academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jxb/erae412/7810948