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Kinya Toriyama

Kinya Toriyama

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
57
Citations
10678
World Ranking
13936
National Ranking
977

Overview

Kinya Toriyama is affiliated with Tohoku University in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant work also in agricultural and biological sciences. Their studies delve deeply into molecular biology, plant science, genetics, and biotechnology.

The scientist's research encompasses a range of topics, including photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, plant reproductive biology, GABA and rice research, plant molecular biology research, plant genetic and mutation studies, rice cultivation and yield improvement, and mitochondrial function and pathology.

Toriyama has contributed to several notable publications. Recent papers include:

  • Root angle modifications by the DRO1 homolog improve rice yields in saline paddy fields, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • TALEN-mediated depletion of the mitochondrial gene orf312 proves that it is a Tadukan-type cytoplasmic male sterility-causative gene in rice, 2022, The Plant Journal
  • Disruption of mitochondrial open reading frame 352 partially restores pollen development in cytoplasmic male sterile rice, 2021, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • Molecular basis of cytoplasmic male sterility and fertility restoration in rice, 2021, Plant Biotechnology
  • Fertility restoration of Chinese wild rice-type cytoplasmic male sterility by CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing of nuclear-encoded RETROGRADE-REGULATED MALE STERILITY, 2020, Plant Biotechnology

Frequent co-authors in Toriyama's work include Tomohiko Kazama, Tomoko Abe, Shin-ichi Arimura, Yoriko Hayashi, and Hiroyuki Ichida.

Their research is regularly published in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Plant Biotechnology, The Plant Journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and PLANT PHYSIOLOGY.

Best Publications

  • Genetic Regulation of Sporopollenin Synthesis and Pollen Exine Development

    Tohru Ariizumi;Kinya Toriyama

  • Enhanced heat and drought tolerance in transgenic rice seedlings overexpressing OsWRKY11 under the control of HSP101 promoter

    Xiaolan Wu;Yoko Shiroto;Sachie Kishitani;Yukihiro Ito

  • Transgenic plant production mediated by Agrobacterium in indica rice

    Hamid Rashid;Shuuji Yokoi;Kinya Toriyama;Kokichi Hinata

  • Transgenic Rice Plants After Direct Gene Transfer into Protoplasts

    Kinya Toriyama;Youichi Arimoto;Hirofumi Uchimiya;Kokichi Hinata

  • A pentatricopeptide repeat-containing gene that promotes the processing of aberrant atp6 RNA of cytoplasmic male-sterile rice.

    Tomohiko Kazama;Kinya Toriyama

  • Disruption of the novel plant protein NEF1 affects lipid accumulation in the plastids of the tapetum and exine formation of pollen, resulting in male sterility in Arabidopsis thaliana.

    Tohru Ariizumi;Katsunori Hatakeyama;Kokichi Hinata;Rie Inatsugi

  • Suppressed expression of RETROGRADE-REGULATED MALE STERILITY restores pollen fertility in cytoplasmic male sterile rice plants

    Sota Fujii;Kinya Toriyama

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

    Yuka Kitomi;Eiko Hanzawa;Noriyuki Kuya;Haruhiko Inoue

  • Rice is life: scientific perspectives for the 21st century

    K. Toriyama;K.L. Heong

  • The fertility restorer gene, Rf2, for Lead Rice-type cytoplasmic male sterility of rice encodes a mitochondrial glycine-rich protein.

    Etsuko Itabashi;Natsuko Iwata;Sota Fujii;Sota Fujii;Tomohiko Kazama

  • A novel male-sterile mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana, faceless pollen-1, produces pollen with a smooth surface and an acetolysis-sensitive exine.

    Tohru Ariizumi;Katsunori Hatakeyama;Kokichi Hinata;Shusei Sato

  • Suppression mechanism of mitochondrial ORF79 accumulation by Rf1 protein in BT‐type cytoplasmic male sterile rice

    Tomohiko Kazama;Takahiro Nakamura;Takahiro Nakamura;Masao Watanabe;Masao Watanabe;Mamoru Sugita

  • Abolition of the tapetum suicide program ruins microsporogenesis.

    Takahiro Kawanabe;Tohru Ariizumi;Maki Kawai-Yamada;Hirofumi Uchimiya

  • An increase in unsaturation of fatty acids in phosphatidylglycerol from leaves improves the rates of photosynthesis and growth at low temperatures in transgenic rice seedlings.

    Tohru Ariizumi;Sachie Kishitani;Rie Inatsugi;Ikuo Nishida

  • Curing cytoplasmic male sterility via TALEN-mediated mitochondrial genome editing.

    Tomohiko Kazama;Miki Okuno;Yuta Watari;Shungo Yanase

  • Discovery of global genomic re-organization based on comparison of two newly sequenced rice mitochondrial genomes with cytoplasmic male sterility-related genes

    Sota Fujii;Sota Fujii;Tomohiko Kazama;Mari Yamada;Kinya Toriyama

  • Tapetum-Specific Expression of the Gene for an Endo-β-1,3-glucanase Causes Male Sterility in Transgenic Tobacco

    Tohru Tsuchiya;Kinya Toriyama;Masaaki Yoshikawa;Shin Ichiro Ejiri

  • Genome Barriers between Nuclei and Mitochondria Exemplified by Cytoplasmic Male Sterility

    Sota Fujii;Kinya Toriyama

  • Introduction of the cDNA for Arabidopsis glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase (GPAT) confers unsaturation of fatty acids and chilling tolerance of photosynthesis on rice

    Shuji Yokoi;Sho Ichi Higashi;Sachie Kishitani;Norio Murata

  • Trends in crop establishment methods in Asia and research issues.

    Sushil Pandey;L. Velasco;K. Toriyama;K. L. Heong

Frequent Co-Authors

Masao Watanabe
Masao Watanabe Tohoku University
Akira Isogai
Akira Isogai Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Shusei Sato
Shusei Sato Tohoku University
Tomohiko Kato
Tomohiko Kato Kazusa DNA Research Institute
Koji Muramoto
Koji Muramoto Tohoku University
Hirofumi Uchimiya
Hirofumi Uchimiya Saitama University
Tomohisa Ogawa
Tomohisa Ogawa Tohoku University
Masaaki Umeda
Masaaki Umeda Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Akira Isogai
Akira Isogai University of Tokyo
Mohan B. Singh
Mohan B. Singh University of Melbourne

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