Chikara Masuta

Best Publications

• The Soybean Stem Growth Habit Gene Dt1 Is an Ortholog of Arabidopsis TERMINAL FLOWER1

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• On the role of RNA silencing in the pathogenicity and evolution of viroids and viral satellites

  M. B. Wang;X. Y. Bian;L. M. Wu;L. X. Liu

  365
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• A viral satellite RNA induces yellow symptoms on tobacco by targeting a gene involved in chlorophyll biosynthesis using the RNA silencing machinery.

  Hanako Shimura;Vitantonio Pantaleo;Takeaki Ishihara;Nobutoshi Myojo

  327
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• Characterization of Silencing Suppressor 2b of Cucumber Mosaic Virus Based on Examination of its Small RNA-Binding Abilities

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  311
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• RNA silencing and plant viral diseases.

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  287
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• Tobacco calmodulin-like protein provides secondary defense by binding to and directing degradation of virus RNA silencing suppressors

  Kenji S. Nakahara;Chikara Masuta;Syouta Yamada;Hanako Shimura

  249
  Citations

• Functional analysis of deletion mutants of cucumber mosaic virus RNA3 using an in vitro transcription system

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  239
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• Patterning of virus-infected Glycine max seed coat is associated with suppression of endogenous silencing of chalcone synthase genes.

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  201
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• Functional analysis of soybean genes involved in flavonoid biosynthesis by virus-induced gene silencing.

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  199
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• The star-type color pattern in Petunia hybrida 'red Star' flowers is induced by sequence-specific degradation of chalcone synthase RNA.

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  183
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• Virus‐mediated efficient induction of epigenetic modifications of endogenous genes with phenotypic changes in plants

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  154
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• Virus-induced necrosis is a consequence of direct protein–protein interaction between a viral RNA silencing suppressor and a host catalase

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  153
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• Developmental Regulation of Intercellular Protein Trafficking through Plasmodesmata in Tobacco Leaf Epidermis

  Asuka Itaya;Young-Min Woo;Chikara Masuta;Yiming Bao

  138
  Citations

• Resistant and susceptible responses in tomato to cyst nematode are differentially regulated by salicylic acid.

  Taketo Uehara;Shunpei Sugiyama;Hideyuki Matsuura;Tsutomu Arie

  130
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• Point mutations in the coat protein of cucumber mosaic virus affect symptom expression and virion accumulation in tobacco.

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  127
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• Aquaporin-mediated long-distance polyphosphate translocation directed towards the host in arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis: application of virus-induced gene silencing

  Yusuke Kikuchi;Nowaki Hijikata;Ryo Ohtomo;Yoshihiro Handa

  125
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• A single amino Acid change in viral genome-associated protein of potato virus y correlates with resistance breaking in 'virgin a mutant' tobacco.

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  123
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• Development of clover yellow vein virus as an efficient, stable gene-expression system for legume species.

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  98
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• Interaction between viral RNA silencing suppressors and host factors in plant immunity.

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  95
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• Rapid induction of transcriptional and post-transcriptional gene silencing using a novel Cucumber mosaic virus vector

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  93
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