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Plant Science and Agronomy

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36
Citations
9289
World Ranking
4765
National Ranking
192

Best Publications

  • Control of root system architecture by DEEPER ROOTING 1 increases rice yield under drought conditions

    Yusaku Uga;Kazuhiko Sugimoto;Satoshi Ogawa;Satoshi Ogawa;Jagadish Rane;Jagadish Rane

  • Retrotransposons of rice involved in mutations induced by tissue culture

    Hirohiko Hirochika;Kazuhiko Sugimoto;Yoshiaki Otsuki;Hidehito Tsugawa

  • Characterizing the role of rice NRAMP5 in Manganese, Iron and Cadmium Transport

    Yasuhiro Ishimaru;Yasuhiro Ishimaru;Ryuichi Takahashi;Khurram Bashir;Hugo Shimo

  • RiceXPro Version 3.0: expanding the informatics resource for rice transcriptome

    Yutaka Sato;Hinako Takehisa;Kaori Kamatsuki;Hiroshi Minami

  • Molecular identification of a major quantitative trait locus, qLTG3-1, controlling low-temperature germinability in rice

    Kenji Fujino;Hiroshi Sekiguchi;Yasuyuki Matsuda;Kazuhiko Sugimoto

  • Molecular cloning of Sdr4, a regulator involved in seed dormancy and domestication of rice

    Kazuhiko Sugimoto;Yoshinobu Takeuchi;Kaworu Ebana;Akio Miyao

  • RiceXPro: a platform for monitoring gene expression in japonica rice grown under natural field conditions

    Yutaka Sato;Baltazar A. Antonio;Nobukazu Namiki;Hinako Takehisa

  • Isolation and Characterization of a Rice Dwarf Mutant with a Defect in Brassinosteroid Biosynthesis

    Masaki Mori;Takahito Nomura;Hisako Ooka;Masumi Ishizaka

  • Ehd3, encoding a plant homeodomain finger-containing protein, is a critical promoter of rice flowering.

    Kazuki Matsubara;Utako Yamanouchi;Yasunori Nonoue;Kazuhiko Sugimoto

  • A 13‐bp cis‐regulatory element in the LTR promoter of the tobacco retrotransposon Tto1 is involved in responsiveness to tissue culture, wounding, methyl jasmonate and fungal elicitors

    Shin Takeda;Kazuhiko Sugimoto;Hiroshi Otsuki;Hirohiko Hirochika

  • A natural variant of NAL1, selected in high-yield rice breeding programs, pleiotropically increases photosynthesis rate

    Toshiyuki Takai;Shunsuke Adachi;Shunsuke Adachi;Fumio Taguchi-Shiobara;Yumiko Sanoh-Arai

  • Root angle modifications by the DRO1 homolog improve rice yields in saline paddy fields.

    Yuka Kitomi;Eiko Hanzawa;Noriyuki Kuya;Haruhiko Inoue

  • MYB-Related Transcription Factor NtMYB2 Induced by Wounding and Elicitors is a Regulator of the Tobacco Retrotransposon Tto1 and Defense-Related Genes

    Kazuhiko Sugimoto;Shin Takeda;Hirohiko Hirochika

  • Unleashing floret fertility in wheat through the mutation of a homeobox gene

    Shun Sakuma;Guy Golan;Zifeng Guo;Taiichi Ogawa

  • Transcriptional activation of the tobacco retrotransposon Tto1 by wounding and methyl jasmonate

    Shin Takeda;Kazuhiko Sugimoto;Hiroshi Otsuki;Hirohiko Hirochika

  • Field transcriptome revealed critical developmental and physiological transitions involved in the expression of growth potential in japonica rice

    Yutaka Sato;Baltazar Antonio;Nobukazu Namiki;Ritsuko Motoyama

  • Isolation and molecular characterization of a Spotted leaf 18 mutant by modified activation-tagging in rice.

    Masaki Mori;Chikako Tomita;Kazuhiko Sugimoto;Morifumi Hasegawa

  • Autonomous transposition of the tobacco retrotransposon Tto1 in rice.

    Hirohiko Hirochika;Hiroshi Otsuki;Masanobu Yoshikawa;Yoshiaki Otsuki

  • Multiple functional polymorphisms in a single disease resistance gene in rice enhance durable resistance to blast

    Shuichi Fukuoka;Shin-Ichi Yamamoto;Ritsuko Mizobuchi;Utako Yamanouchi

  • RICE SALT SENSITIVE3 Forms a Ternary Complex with JAZ and Class-C bHLH Factors and Regulates Jasmonate-Induced Gene Expression and Root Cell Elongation

    Yosuke Toda;Maiko Tanaka;Daisuke Ogawa;Kyo Kurata

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