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Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki

Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki

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Genetics
Japan
2026
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Plant Science and Agronomy
Japan
2026

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Best Scientists

D-Index
164
Citations
136987
World Ranking
1061
National Ranking
18

Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
165
Citations
138315
World Ranking
6
National Ranking
2

Genetics

D-Index
164
Citations
139124
World Ranking
80
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Genetics in Japan Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Japan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Genetics in Japan Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in Japan Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Japan Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in Japan Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Japan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on the Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a significant emphasis on Plant Science. Other subfields include Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology.

The scientist's main research topics cover:

  • Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Plant responses to water stress
  • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
  • Light effects on plants
  • Soybean genetics and cultivation
  • Seed Germination and Physiology

Yamaguchi-Shinozaki has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • "Drought Stress Responses and Resistance in Plants: From Cellular Responses to Long-Distance Intercellular Communication" (2020), published in Frontiers in Plant Science
  • "Transcriptional regulatory network of plant cold-stress responses" (2022), published in Trends in Plant Science
  • "Complex plant responses to drought and heat stress under climate change" (2024), published in The Plant Journal
  • "Plant Raf-like kinases regulate the mRNA population upstream of ABA-unresponsive SnRK2 kinases under drought stress" (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • "Regulatory networks in plant responses to drought and cold stress" (2024), published in PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

The frequent co-authors in their work include:

  • Kazuo Shinozaki
  • Satoshi Kidokoro
  • Kazuo Nakashima
  • Fuminori Takahashi
  • Kaoru Urano

Selected frequent publication venues where Yamaguchi-Shinozaki has published include:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • The Plant Journal
  • Plant Molecular Biology
  • Journal of Plant Physiology

Best Publications

  • Two transcription factors, DREB1 and DREB2, with an EREBP/AP2 DNA binding domain separate two cellular signal transduction pathways in drought- and low-temperature-responsive gene expression, respectively, in Arabidopsis.

    Qiang Liu;Mie Kasuga;Yoh Sakuma;Hiroshi Abe

  • Transcriptional regulatory networks in cellular responses and tolerance to dehydration and cold stresses.

    Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki;Kazuo Shinozaki

  • Gene networks involved in drought stress response and tolerance

    Kazuo Shinozaki;Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki

  • Improving plant drought, salt, and freezing tolerance by gene transfer of a single stress-inducible transcription factor

    Mie Kasuga;Qiang Liu;Qiang Liu;Setsuko Miura;Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki

  • Arabidopsis AtMYC2 (bHLH) and AtMYB2 (MYB) Function as Transcriptional Activators in Abscisic Acid Signaling

    Hiroshi Abe;Takeshi Urao;Takuya Ito;Motoaki Seki

  • The complete nucleotide sequence of the tobacco chloroplast genome: its gene organization and expression.

    K. Shinozaki;M. Ohme;M. Tanaka;T. Wakasugi

  • A novel cis-acting element in an Arabidopsis gene is involved in responsiveness to drought, low-temperature, or high-salt stress.

    Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki;Kazuo Shinozaki

  • Regulatory network of gene expression in the drought and cold stress responses.

    Kazuo Shinozaki;Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki;Motoaki Seki

  • Monitoring the expression profiles of 7000 Arabidopsis genes under drought, cold and high-salinity stresses using a full-length cDNA microarray.

    Motoaki Seki;Mari Narusaka;Junko Ishida;Tokihiko Nanjo

  • Molecular responses to dehydration and low temperature: differences and cross-talk between two stress signaling pathways.

    Kazuo Shinozaki;Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki

  • DNA-binding specificity of the ERF/AP2 domain of Arabidopsis DREBs, transcription factors involved in dehydration- and cold-inducible gene expression

    Yoh Sakuma;Qiang Liu;Joseph G. Dubouzet;Hiroshi Abe

  • Crosstalk between abiotic and biotic stress responses: a current view from the points of convergence in the stress signaling networks

    Miki Fujita;Yasunari Fujita;Yoshiteru Noutoshi;Fuminori Takahashi

  • OsDREB genes in rice, Oryza sativa L., encode transcription activators that function in drought‐, high‐salt‐ and cold‐responsive gene expression

    Joseph G. Dubouzet;Yoh Sakuma;Yusuke Ito;Mie Kasuga

  • Isolation and Functional Analysis of Arabidopsis Stress-Inducible NAC Transcription Factors That Bind to a Drought-Responsive cis-Element in the early responsive to dehydration stress 1 Promoter

    Lam Son Phan Tran;Kazuo Nakashima;Yoh Sakuma;Sean D. Simpson

  • Arabidopsis basic leucine zipper transcription factors involved in an abscisic acid-dependent signal transduction pathway under drought and high-salinity conditions.

    Yuichi Uno;Takashi Furihata;Hiroshi Abe;Riichiro Yoshida

  • Organization of cis-acting regulatory elements in osmotic- and cold-stress-responsive promoters.

    Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki;Kazuo Shinozaki

  • AP2/ERF family transcription factors in plant abiotic stress responses.

    Junya Mizoi;Kazuo Shinozaki;Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki

  • Gene expression and signal transduction in water-stress response

    K. Shinozaki;K. Yamaguchi-Shinozaki

  • Regulation of drought tolerance by gene manipulation of 9‐cis‐epoxycarotenoid dioxygenase, a key enzyme in abscisic acid biosynthesis in Arabidopsis

    Satoshi Iuchi;Masatomo Kobayashi;Teruaki Taji;Masaaki Naramoto

  • Role of arabidopsis MYC and MYB homologs in drought- and abscisic acid-regulated gene expression.

    Hiroshi Abe;Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki;Takeshi Urao;Toshisuke Iwasaki

  • Monitoring the Expression Pattern of 1300 Arabidopsis Genes under Drought and Cold Stresses by Using a Full-Length cDNA Microarray

    Motoaki Seki;Mari Narusaka;Hiroshi Abe;Mie Kasuga

  • Gene networks involved in drought stress response and

    Kazuo Shinozaki;Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki

Frequent Co-Authors

Kyonoshin Maruyama
Kyonoshin Maruyama Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences
Kazuo Nakashima
Kazuo Nakashima Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Yasunari Fujita
Yasunari Fujita University of Tsukuba
Lam-Son Phan Tran
Lam-Son Phan Tran Texas Tech University
Junya Mizoi
Junya Mizoi University of Tokyo
Satoshi Kidokoro
Satoshi Kidokoro University of Tokyo
Yuriko Osakabe
Yuriko Osakabe Tokyo Institute of Technology
Miki Fujita
Miki Fujita University of British Columbia

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