YUSUKE SAIJO

Board Member
Plant Sciences
Globalplantcouncil
Austria

Business Expert Plant Sciences
Biography

Yusuke Saijo is Associate Professor of Plant Immunity at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) in Japan. His research interests are in danger sensing and signaling in plant–microbe interactions, transcriptional reprogramming and priming, fine control of plant immunity in fluctuating environments, and endophytic and pathogenic microbes in plants. As well as a being a Board Member for the Global Plant Council from 2015, Yusuke is also a council representative for the Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists.

Research Intrest

plant–microbe interactions, transcriptional reprogramming and priming, fine control of plant immunity in fluctuating environments, and endophytic and pathogenic microbes