Sakumi Nakagawa

The paper shows that temporal changes in surface tension at the growing tip of Arabidopsis zygotes maintain cortical microtubule bands, which guide the formation of the preprophase band and ensure asymmetric cell division.

This paper introduces a plasma membrane staining method using FM4-64 to visualize living cell morphology in reproductive tissues of diverse plant species, enabling high-resolution imaging and analysis without transgenic lines.

The paper uses an agent-based simulation to study cortical microtubule band movement in Arabidopsis zygotes, identifying self-organization processes and the role of directional cues.

The paper develops a viscoelastic-plastic model to simulate tip growth in Arabidopsis zygotes and identifies non-dimensional parameters that maintain a hemisphere-like shape.

The paper quantitatively analyzes intracellular structure polarization along the apical-basal axis in Arabidopsis zygotes and links compartmentalization to asymmetric cell division positioning.