Dr. Toshiyuki Nagata, emeritus professor at both The University of Tokyo and Hosei University, recently won the BSJ Fundamental Prize. The “BSJ Fundamental Prize” is awarded to a botanist who has contributed to The Botanical Society of Japan and to the development of plant sciences. Professor Nagata has established the highly synchronized tobacco BY-2 cell line and the regeneration of tobacco plant from single mesophyll protoplast that were highly evaluated by the Awards Committee.
- Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry book series, Vol. 53 Tobacco BY-2 Cells (ed. by Nagata T.,. Hasezawa S, and Inzé D.) © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004
- Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry book series, Vol. 58 Tobacco BY-2 Cells: From Cellular Dynamics to Omics (ed. By Nagata T., Matsuoka K., Inzé D.) Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg 2006.
