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Akiho Yokota is affiliated with the Nara Institute of Science and Technology in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with particular emphasis on Molecular Biology, Plant Science, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Yokota has also contributed to studies within Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment as well as Clinical Biochemistry.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Light effects on plants
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Algal biology and biofuel production
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny
  • Advanced Glycation End Products research
  • Biochemical effects in animals

Yokota's recent publications reflect a focus on photosynthesis and plant biology. Key papers include:

  • "Two cyclic electron flows around photosystem I differentially participate in C4 photosynthesis," 2023, published in PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • "Dynamic changes of genome sizes and gradual gain of cell-specific distribution of C 4 enzymes during C 4 evolution in genus Flaveria," 2021, published in The Plant Genome
  • "Effect of chronic administration with human thioredoxin-1 transplastomic lettuce on diabetic mice," 2021, published in Food Science & Nutrition
  • "Two cyclic electron flows around photosystem I differentially participate in C4 photosynthesis," 2022, published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent collaborators in Yokota's work include Yukimi Y. Taniguchi, Yuri Munekage, Takako Ogawa, Kana Kobayashi, and Toshiharu Shikanai. Collaboration with these researchers has been observed across multiple publications, indicating ongoing research partnerships.

Publication venues where Yokota's research has appeared include:

  • PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • The Plant Genome
  • Food Science & Nutrition
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • Oxidative stress inhibits the repair of photodamage to the photosynthetic machinery.

    Yoshitaka Nishiyama;Yoshitaka Nishiyama;Hiroshi Yamamoto;Suleyman I. Allakhverdiev;Masami Inaba

  • Directed disruption of the tobacco ndhB gene impairs cyclic electron flow around photosystem I

    Toshiharu Shikanai;Tsuyoshi Endo;Takashi Hashimoto;Yasuyuki Yamada

  • The Arabidopsis Photomorphogenic Mutant hy1 Is Deficient in Phytochrome Chromophore Biosynthesis as a Result of a Mutation in a Plastid Heme Oxygenase

    Takuya Muramoto;Takayuki Kohchi;Takayuki Kohchi;Akiho Yokota;Inhwan Hwang

  • Citrulline, a novel compatible solute in drought‐tolerant wild watermelon leaves, is an efficient hydroxyl radical scavenger

    Kinya Akashi;Chikahiro Miyake;Akiho Yokota

  • The Arabidopsis HY2 gene encodes phytochromobilin synthase, a ferredoxin-dependent biliverdin reductase.

    Takayuki Kohchi;Keiko Mukougawa;Nicole Frankenberg;Munehisa Masuda

  • Programmed Proteome Response for Drought Avoidance/Tolerance in the Root of a C3 Xerophyte (Wild Watermelon) Under Water Deficits

    Kazuya Yoshimura;Akiko Masuda;Masayoshi Kuwano;Akiho Yokota

  • Physiological functions of the water-water cycle (Mehler reaction) and the cyclic electron flow around PSI in rice leaves.

    Amane Makino;Chikahiro Miyake;Akiho Yokota

  • Potent hydroxyl radical-scavenging activity of drought-induced type-2 metallothionein in wild watermelon.

    Kinya Akashi;Noriyuki Nishimura;Yoshinori Ishida;Akiho Yokota

  • RIBULOSE-1,5-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE/OXYGENASE FROM THERMOPHILIC RED ALGAE WITH A STRONG SPECIFICITY FOR CO2 FIXATION

    K. Uemura;Anwaruzzaman;S. Miyachi;A. Yokota

  • Isolation of Intact Vacuoles and Proteomic Analysis of Tonoplast from Suspension-Cultured Cells of Arabidopsis thaliana

    Taise Shimaoka;Miwa Ohnishi;Takashi Sazuka;Naoto Mitsuhashi

  • Determination of the Rate of Photoreduction of O2 in the Water-Water Cycle in Watermelon Leaves and Enhancement of the Rate by Limitation of Photosynthesis

    Chikahiro Miyake;Akiho Yokota

  • Citrulline and DRIP‐1 Protein (ArgE Homologue) in Drought Tolerance of Wild Watermelon

    Akiho Yokota;Shinji Kawasaki;Megumi Iwano;Chie Nakamura

  • Inhibition of ascorbate peroxidase under oxidative stress in tobacco having bacterial catalase in chloroplasts

    Toshiharu Shikanai;Toru Takeda;Haruko Yamauchi;Satoshi Sano

  • Bacterial variations on the methionine salvage pathway.

    Agnieszka Sekowska;Valérie Dénervaud;Hiroki Ashida;Karine Michoud

  • A Functional Link Between RuBisCO-like Protein of Bacillus and Photosynthetic RuBisCO

    Hiroki Ashida;Yohtaro Saito;Chojiro Kojima;Kazuo Kobayashi

  • Responses of wild watermelon to drought stress: accumulation of an ArgE homologue and citrulline in leaves during water deficits.

    Shinji Kawasaki;Chikahiro Miyake;Takayuki Kohchi;Shinichiro Fujii

  • Resistance of Photosynthesis to Hydrogen Peroxide in Algae

    Toru Takeda;Akiho Yokota;Shigeru Shigeoka

  • Expression and Biochemical Properties of a Ferredoxin-Dependent Heme Oxygenase Required for Phytochrome Chromophore Synthesis

    Takuya Muramoto;Noriyuki Tsurui;Matthew J. Terry;Akiho Yokota

  • Leaf-specifically expressed genes for polypeptides destined for chloroplasts with domains of sigma70 factors of bacterial RNA polymerases in Arabidopsis thaliana.

    Kyoichi Isono;Masanori Shimizu;Kohki Yoshimoto;Yasuo Niwa

  • The DNA-binding protease, CND41, and the degradation of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase in senescent leaves of tobacco

    Yusuke Kato;Shinya Murakami;Yumiko Yamamoto;Hiroshi Chatani

Frequent Co-Authors

Takayuki Kohchi
Takayuki Kohchi Kyoto University
Chikahiro Miyake
Chikahiro Miyake Kobe University
Shigeru Shigeoka
Shigeru Shigeoka Kindai University
Yasushi Kai
Yasushi Kai Osaka University
Tsuyoshi Inoue
Tsuyoshi Inoue Osaka University
Toshiharu Shikanai
Toshiharu Shikanai Kyoto University
Yoshihisa Nakano
Yoshihisa Nakano Osaka Metropolitan University
Norio Murata
Norio Murata National Institute for Basic Biology
Antoine Danchin
Antoine Danchin Institut Cochin
Daisuke Shibata
Daisuke Shibata Kyoto University

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