Kazunori Okada

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Best Publications

• Two LysM receptor molecules, CEBiP and OsCERK1, cooperatively regulate chitin elicitor signaling in rice

  Takeo Shimizu;Takuto Nakano;Daisuke Takamizawa;Yoshitake Desaki

  817
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• 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

  371
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• Identification of a Biosynthetic Gene Cluster in Rice for Momilactones

  Kazuhiro Shimura;Atsushi Okada;Kazunori Okada;Yusuke Jikumaru

  336
  Citations

• Biosynthesis, elicitation and roles of monocot terpenoid phytoalexins

  Eric A. Schmelz;Alisa Huffaker;James W. Sims;Shawn A. Christensen

  322
  Citations

• Five geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthases expressed in different organs are localized into three subcellular compartments in Arabidopsis.

  Kazunori Okada;Takeshi Saito;Tsuyoshi Nakagawa;Makoto Kawamukai

  311
  Citations

• Identification of rice Allene Oxide Cyclase mutants and the function of jasmonate for defence against Magnaporthe oryzae

  Michael Riemann;Ken Haga;Takafumi Shimizu;Kazunori Okada

  279
  Citations

• Echinochloa crus-galli genome analysis provides insight into its adaptation and invasiveness as a weed.

  Longbiao Guo;Jie Qiu;Chuyu Ye;Gulei Jin

  271
  Citations

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

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

  262
  Citations

• Phytoalexin accumulation in the interaction between rice and the blast fungus.

  Morifumi Hasegawa;Ichiro Mitsuhara;Shigemi Seo;Takuya Imai

  210
  Citations

• Jasmonates Induce Both Defense Responses and Communication in Monocotyledonous and Dicotyledonous Plants

  Kazunori Okada;Hiroshi Abe;Gen Ichiro Arimura

  202
  Citations

• Involvement of the elicitor-induced gene OsWRKY53 in the expression of defense-related genes in rice.

  Tetsuya Chujo;Ryota Takai;Chiharu Akimoto-Tomiyama;Sugihiro Ando

  195
  Citations

• Identification of the OsOPR7 gene encoding 12-oxophytodienoate reductase involved in the biosynthesis of jasmonic acid in rice.

  Tomoyuki Tani;Hiroyuki Sobajima;Kazunori Okada;Tetsuya Chujo

  184
  Citations

• OsTGAP1, a bZIP transcription factor, coordinately regulates the inductive production of diterpenoid phytoalexins in rice

  Atsushi Okada;Kazunori Okada;Koji Miyamoto;Jinichiro Koga

  177
  Citations

• 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

  164
  Citations

• Regulation of Microbe-Associated Molecular Pattern-Induced Hypersensitive Cell Death, Phytoalexin Production, and Defense Gene Expression by Calcineurin B-Like Protein-Interacting Protein Kinases, OsCIPK14/15, in Rice Cultured Cells

  Takamitsu Kurusu;Jumpei Hamada;Hiroshi Nokajima;Youichiro Kitagawa

  163
  Citations

• Agrobacterium tumefaciens increases cytokinin production in plastids by modifying the biosynthetic pathway in the host plant

  Hitoshi Sakakibara;Hiroyuki Kasahara;Nanae Ueda;Mikiko Kojima

  158
  Citations

• Characterization of CYP76M5-8 indicates metabolic plasticity within a plant biosynthetic gene cluster

  Qiang Wang;Matthew L. Hillwig;Kazunori Okada;Kohei Yamazaki

  155
  Citations

• Polyprenyl diphosphate synthase essentially defines the length of the side chain of ubiquinone

  Kazunori Okada;Kengo Suzuki;Yasuhiro Kamiya;XuFen Zhu

  155
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• OsWRKY28, a PAMP-responsive transrepressor, negatively regulates innate immune responses in rice against rice blast fungus.

  Tetsuya Chujo;Tetsuya Chujo;Koji Miyamoto;Takeo Shimogawa;Takafumi Shimizu;Takafumi Shimizu

  154
  Citations

• Elicitor induced activation of the methylerythritol phosphate pathway toward phytoalexins biosynthesis in rice

  Atsushi Okada;Takafumi Shimizu;Kazunori Okada;Tomohisa Kuzuyama

  150
  Citations