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18667
National Ranking
1339

Overview

Hiroshi Takatsuji is affiliated with the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization in Japan. Their research primarily addresses topics within Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a significant focus on Plant Science and Molecular Biology. The work spans areas of Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity, Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies, and Plant Tissue Culture and Regeneration. Additionally, their research touches on Healthcare Education and Workforce Issues as well as Health and Wellbeing Research.

The profile of Hiroshi Takatsuji's recent scholarly contributions includes two papers published in 2024. One paper, titled "Improvement of Broad-Spectrum Disease-Resistant Rice by the Overexpression of BSR1 via a Moderate-Strength Constitutive Promoter and a Pathogen-Inducible Promoter," appeared in the journal Plants. Another contribution is "Verification of Reliability and Validity in Developing the Japanese Version of the Nursing Profession Self-Efficacy Scale (NPSS)," published in the Journal of Japan Academy of Nursing Science.

Their research collaborations have involved a range of coauthors, including Satoru Maeda, Shingo Goto, Haruhiko Inoue, Haruka Suwazono, and Masaki Mori. These collaborations reflect the interdisciplinary and cross-institutional aspects of Takatsuji's scientific activities.

Publication venues where Takatsuji's work has appeared include:

  • Plants
  • Journal of Japan Academy of Nursing Science

Main fields of study covered in their publications are:

  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Subfields of study associated with Takatsuji's research include:

  • Plant Science
  • Molecular Biology
  • Leadership and Management
  • General Health Professions

The main topics of their academic work are:

  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
  • Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies
  • Plant tissue culture and regeneration
  • Healthcare Education and Workforce Issues
  • Health and Wellbeing Research

Best Publications

  • Rice WRKY45 Plays a Crucial Role in Benzothiadiazole-Inducible Blast Resistance

    Masaki Shimono;Shoji Sugano;Akira Nakayama;Chang-Jie Jiang

  • Zinc-finger transcription factors in plants.

    H. Takatsuji

  • WRKY76 is a rice transcriptional repressor playing opposite roles in blast disease resistance and cold stress tolerance

    Naoki Yokotani;Yuko Sato;Shigeru Tanabe;Tetsuya Chujo

  • Durable panicle blast-resistance gene Pb1 encodes an atypical CC-NBS-LRR protein and was generated by acquiring a promoter through local genome duplication.

    Nagao Hayashi;Haruhiko Inoue;Takahiro Kato;Taketo Funao

  • Zinc-finger proteins: the classical zinc finger emerges in contemporary plant science.

    Hiroshi Takatsuji

  • Abscisic acid interacts antagonistically with salicylic acid signaling pathway in rice-Magnaporthe grisea interaction.

    Chang-Jie Jiang;Masaki Shimono;Shoji Sugano;Mikiko Kojima

  • A plant glutamate decarboxylase containing a calmodulin binding domain: Cloning, sequence, and functional analysis

    G. Baum;Yali Chen;T. Arazi;H. Takatsuji

  • Rice WRKY45 plays important roles in fungal and bacterial disease resistance

    Masaki Shimono;Hironori Koga;Aya Akagi;Nagao Hayashi

  • Genome-wide identification of C2H2 zinc-finger gene family in rice and their phylogeny and expression analysis.

    Pinky Agarwal;Rita Arora;Swatismita Ray;Ashok K. Singh

  • A rice fungal MAMP-responsive MAPK cascade regulates metabolic flow to antimicrobial metabolite synthesis

    Mitsuko Kishi-Kaboshi;Kazunori Okada;Leona Kurimoto;Shinya Murakami

  • Blast resistance of CC-NB-LRR protein Pb1 is mediated by WRKY45 through protein–protein interaction

    Haruhiko Inoue;Nagao Hayashi;Akane Matsushita;Liu Xinqiong

  • Suppression of the Rice Fatty-Acid Desaturase Gene OsSSI2 Enhances Resistance to Blast and Leaf Blight Diseases in Rice

    Chang-Jie Jiang;Masaki Shimono;Satoru Maeda;Haruhiko Inoue

  • Characterization of a zinc finger DNA-binding protein expressed specifically in Petunia petals and seedlings.

    H. Takatsuji;M. Mori;P. N. Benfey;L. Ren

  • Cys2/His2 zinc-finger protein family of petunia: Evolution and general mechanism of target-sequence recognition

    Ken-ichi Kubo;Ayako Sakamoto;Akira Kobayashi;Zbigniew Rybka

  • Silencing of the tapetum-specific zinc finger gene TAZ1 causes premature degeneration of tapetum and pollen abortion in petunia.

    Sanjay Kapoor;Akira Kobayashi;Hiroshi Takatsuji

  • Stress-responsive zinc finger gene ZPT2-3 plays a role in drought tolerance in petunia

    Shoji Sugano;Hironori Kaminaka;Zbigniew Rybka;Rafael Catala

  • Cytokinins act synergistically with salicylic acid to activate defense gene expression in rice.

    Chang-Jie Jiang;Masaki Shimono;Shoji Sugano;Mikiko Kojima

  • Diterpenoid phytoalexin factor, a bHLH transcription factor, plays a central role in the biosynthesis of diterpenoid phytoalexins in rice

    Chihiro Yamamura;Emi Mizutani;Kazunori Okada;Hitoshi Nakagawa

  • Nuclear ubiquitin proteasome degradation affects WRKY45 function in the rice defense program

    Akane Matsushita;Haruhiko Inoue;Shingo Goto;Akira Nakayama

  • A new family of zinc finger proteins in petunia: structure, DNA sequence recognition, and floral organ-specific expression.

    Hiroshi Takatsuji;Norihisa Nakamura;Yukihisa Katsumoto

Frequent Co-Authors

Hirohiko Hirochika
Hirohiko Hirochika Institute of Agrobiological Sciences
Hitoshi Sakakibara
Hitoshi Sakakibara Nagoya University
Minami Matsui
Minami Matsui Kihara Institute for Biological Research
Kazunori Okada
Kazunori Okada University of Tokyo
Hisakazu Yamane
Hisakazu Yamane Teikyo University
Toshihisa Kotake
Toshihisa Kotake Saitama University
Yoichi Tsumuraya
Yoichi Tsumuraya Saitama University
Takanari Ichikawa
Takanari Ichikawa RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science
Akio Miyao
Akio Miyao National Agriculture and Food Research Organization
Gerco C. Angenent
Gerco C. Angenent Wageningen University & Research

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