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Kazufumi Yazaki

Kazufumi Yazaki

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
70
Citations
16363
World Ranking
7061
National Ranking
477

Overview

Kazufumi Yazaki is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their research primarily focuses on plant science, molecular biology, and related biochemical processes.

The scientist's recent publications cover various aspects of plant biochemistry and plant-microbe interactions. Some key papers include:

  • Tomato roots secrete tomatine to modulate the bacterial assemblage of the rhizosphere, 2021, published in PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • Secretion dynamics of soyasaponins in soybean roots and effects to modify the bacterial composition, 2020, published in Plant Direct
  • Modes of secretion of plant lipophilic metabolites via ABCG transporter-dependent transport and vesicle-mediated trafficking, 2022, published in Current Opinion in Plant Biology
  • A Cytosol-Localized Geranyl Diphosphate Synthase from Lithospermum erythrorhizon and Its Molecular Evolution, 2020, published in PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • Parallel evolution of UbiA superfamily proteins into aromatic O-prenyltransferases in plants, 2021, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Their research addresses core topics such as:

  • Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis
  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
  • Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
  • Plant tissue culture and regeneration
  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Soybean genetics and cultivation
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms

Yazaki has worked frequently with several co-authors, including Akifumi Sugiyama, Masaru Nakayasu, Yuichi Aoki, Takuji Ichino, and Ryosuke Munakata.

Publications by Yazaki have appeared in various scientific venues with repeated contributions to:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Plant and Cell Physiology
  • PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • Plant Direct
  • Current Opinion in Plant Biology

The scientist's work intersects multiple subfields, including Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Pharmacology, and Toxicology, highlighting an interdisciplinary approach within plant molecular biology and biochemistry.

Best Publications

  • Insights into Land Plant Evolution Garnered from the Marchantia polymorpha Genome

    John L Bowman;Takayuki Kohchi;Katsuyuki T Yamato;Jerry Jenkins

  • Plant ABC proteins - a unified nomenclature and updated inventory

    Paul J. Verrier;David Bird;Bo Burla;Elie Dassa

  • PGP4, an ATP Binding Cassette P-Glycoprotein, Catalyzes Auxin Transport in Arabidopsis thaliana Roots

    Kazuyoshi Terasaka;Joshua J. Blakeslee;Boosaree Titapiwatanakun;Wendy A. Peer

  • ABC transporters involved in the transport of plant secondary metabolites.

    Kazufumi Yazaki

  • The Electronic Plant Gene Register

    Matthias Schmidt;Juergen Feierabend;Ya-Hsuan Hsu;Kin-Ying To

  • Transporters of secondary metabolites

    Kazufumi Yazaki

  • Prenylation of aromatic compounds, a key diversification of plant secondary metabolites

    Kazufumi Yazaki;Kanako Sasaki;Yusuke Tsurumaru

  • Involvement of CjMDR1, a plant multidrug-resistance-type ATP-binding cassette protein, in alkaloid transport in Coptis japonica.

    Nobukazu Shitan;Ingrid Bazin;Kazuyuki Dan;Kazuaki Obata

  • Vacuolar transport of nicotine is mediated by a multidrug and toxic compound extrusion (MATE) transporter in Nicotiana tabacum

    Masahiko Morita;Nobukazu Shitan;Keisuke Sawada;Marc C.E. Van Montagu

  • Changes in the Bacterial Community of Soybean Rhizospheres during Growth in the Field

    Akifumi Sugiyama;Yoshikatsu Ueda;Takahiro Zushi;Hisabumi Takase

  • Multidrug and Toxic Compound Extrusion-Type Transporters Implicated in Vacuolar Sequestration of Nicotine in Tobacco Roots

    Tsubasa Shoji;Koji Inai;Yoshiaki Yazaki;Yasutaka Sato

  • Tannis of Casuarina and Stachyurus species. Part 1. Structures of pendunculagin, casuarictin, strictinin, casuarinin, casuariin, and stachyurin

    Takuo Okuda;Takashi Yoshida;Mariko Ashida;Kazufumi Yazaki

  • Identification of a WRKY Protein as a Transcriptional Regulator of Benzylisoquinoline Alkaloid Biosynthesis in Coptis japonica

    Nobuhiko Kato;Emilyn Dubouzet;Yasuhisa Kokabu;Sayumi Yoshida

  • Involvement of a soybean ATP-binding cassette-type transporter in the secretion of genistein, a signal flavonoid in legume-Rhizobium symbiosis.

    Akifumi Sugiyama;Nobukazu Shitan;Kazufumi Yazaki

  • From defense to symbiosis: limited alterations in the kinase domain of LysM receptor‐like kinases are crucial for evolution of legume–Rhizobium symbiosis

    Tomomi Nakagawa;Hanae Kaku;Yoshikazu Shimoda;Akifumi Sugiyama

  • Arabidopsis ABCB21 is a Facultative Auxin Importer/Exporter Regulated by Cytoplasmic Auxin Concentration

    Yoshihisa Kamimoto;Kazuyoshi Terasaka;Masafumi Hamamoto;Kojiro Takanashi

  • Geranyl diphosphate:4-hydroxybenzoate geranyltransferase from Lithospermum erythrorhizon. Cloning and characterization of a ket enzyme in shikonin biosynthesis.

    Kazufumi Yazaki;Miyuki Kunihisa;Takahiro Fujisaki;Fumihiko Sato

  • Molecular cloning and characterization of coclaurine N-methyltransferase from cultured cells of Coptis japonica.

    Kum-Boo Choi;Takashi Morishige;Nobukazu Shitan;Kazufumi Yazaki

  • Ellagitannins of the casuarinaceae, stachyuraceae and myrtaceae

    Takuo Okuda;Takashi Yoshida;Tsutomu Hatano;Kazufumi Yazaki

  • Secondary transport as an efficient membrane transport mechanism for plant secondary metabolites

    Kazufumi Yazaki;Akifumi Sugiyama;Masahiko Morita;Nobukazu Shitan

Frequent Co-Authors

Takuo Okuda
Takuo Okuda Okayama University
Fumihiko Sato
Fumihiko Sato Kyoto University
Tsutomu Hatano
Tsutomu Hatano Okayama University
Takashi Yoshida
Takashi Yoshida Matsuyama University
Frédéric Bourgaud
Frédéric Bourgaud Plant Advanced Technologies
Kazumitsu Ueda
Kazumitsu Ueda Kyoto University
Lutz Heide
Lutz Heide University of Tübingen
Shusei Sato
Shusei Sato Tohoku University
Daisuke Shibata
Daisuke Shibata Kyoto University
Satoshi Tabata
Satoshi Tabata Tokyo University of Science

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