Kakeru Mikami

Kakeru Mikami


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Academic Career Length

5Years (2022-Present)

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14 October 2022 in Plants
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CMChandiona Munthali
Chandiona Munthali
RKRintaro Kinoshita
Rintaro Kinoshita
KOKazumitsu Onishi
Kazumitsu Onishi
Aurelie RakotondrafaraAurelie Rakotondrafara
Aurelie Rakotondrafara
KMKakeru Mikami
Kakeru Mikami
DADaigo Aiuchi
Daigo Aiuchi
Low or excessive soil fertility is a major constraint to potato production. The influence of each individual nutrient element on potato plants under field studies remains ambiguous due to the influence of environmental variations. Creating an in vitro model plant with deficient or excessive nutrient content will provide a more controlled study and allow for a better understanding of how the concentration of one element can affect the uptake of other elements. Here we designed a tissue culture-based nutrition control system to systematically analyze the effects of essential nutrients on potato plants. Insufficient or excessive nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potassium (K), calcium (Ca), and magnesium (Mg) contents were created by modifying the Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium. Deficient to toxic plant nutrient statuses were successfully defined by the evaluation of dry biomass and morphological symptoms. The results showed that plant shoot growth, nutrient uptake and content, and nutrient interactions were all significantly impacted by the changes in the MS media nutrient concentrations. These tissue culture systems can be successfully used for further investigations of nutrient effects on potato production in response to biotic and abiotic stresses in vitro.