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Bob Ridge

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 Arabidopsis hypocotyl epidermis, GFP-ER, looping animated gif at 50x normal speed. Central cell focused at the plasma membrane. Note illumination of nuclear envelope, reticulated ER, and bright myristoyl ER bodies.
© R.W.Ridge
 
 Emeritus Professor of Cell Biology
Department of Natural Sciences
International Christian University
3-10-2 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8585, Japan

email: rwr(at)icu.ac.jp
 

 
Website opened August 1994
This new site up since June 18th 2007
Site moved to bobridge.uk on 25th March 2016 due to retirement from ICU
Please also visit "Working as a Scientist in Japan" at the old website
 
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Most recent paper for 2014
Perrine-Walker F.M., Lartaud M., Kouchi H. and Ridge R.W. (2014)


Our images are on the PROTOPLASMA COVER PAGE for 2014
Perrine-Walker F.M., Kouchi H. and Ridge R.W. (2014)


Ridge R.W. and Emons A.M.C. (2000)

Welcome to my web site!

Here you can find information related to my research, teaching, and some personal stuff.

In recent years my research has moved to aspects of the plant cell related to the cytoskeleton, mostly using Arabidopsis hypocotyl (GFP-TU and GFP-ER). But I still maintain interest in the root hair, currently using clover and GFP-fusions of Lotus japonicus (GFP-TU and GFP-ER).

Please visit my publications page where some of our recent papers can be downloaded as pdfs.

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THESE TWO RECENT PAPERS are from three years work ! :
If you cannot download the .pdfs through your institution website, please email me: rwr[at]icu.ac.jp
   
Perrine-Walker F.M., Lartaud M., Kouchi H. and Ridge R.W. (2014) Microtubule array formation during root hair infection thread initiation and elongation in the Mesorhizobium-Lotus symbiosis. Protoplasma 251(5):1099-1111. Impact Factor = 3.171     Click here to download .pdf (Protoplasma website)
 
Perrine-Walker F.M., Kouchi H. and Ridge R.W. (2014) Endoplasmic reticulum targeted GFP reveals ER remodelling in Mezorhizobium-treated Lotus japonicus root hairs during root hair curling and infection thread formation. Protoplasma 251(4):817-826. Impact Factor = 3.171    
Click here to download .pdf (Protoplasma website)
 

Best papers in recent years:
   
Vassileva, V.N., H. Kouchi, and R.W. Ridge (2005) Microtubule Dynamics in Living Root Hairs: Transient Slowing by Lipochitin Oligosaccharide Nodulation Signals. Plant Cell 17(6):1-11.
Impact Factor = 10.125     Click here to download pdf.
   
Kumagai H., Kinoshita E., Ridge R.W., Kouchi H. (2006) RNAi Knockdown of ENOD40s Leads to Significant Suppression of Nodule Formation in Lotus japonicus. Plant Cell Physiology 47(8): 1102-1111.
Impact Factor = 4.134     Click here to download pdf.
   
Hideg Éva, Beáta Vitányi, Annamária Kósa, Katalin Solymosi, Károly Bóka, Sungae Won, Yumi Inoue, Robert W. Ridge, Béla Böddi. (2010) Reactive oxygen species from type-I photosensitized reactions contribute to the light-induced wilting of dark-grown pea (Pisum sativum L.) epicotyls. Physiologia Plantarum 138:485-492.
Impact Factor = 3.656     Click here to download pdf.
 
Ridge RW, Uozumi Y, Plazinski J, Hurley U and Williamson RE (1999) Developmental transitions and dynamics of the cortical ER of Arabidopsis cells seen with green fluorescent protein. Plant Cell Physiol. 40(12):1253-1261. Impact Factor = 4.134     Click here to download pdf.

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