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Makoto Matsuoka

Makoto Matsuoka

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Genetics and Molecular Biology
Japan
2024

D-Index & Metrics

Genetics

D-Index
119
Citations
52491
World Ranking
392
National Ranking
11

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Makoto Matsuoka is affiliated with Nagoya University in Japan, focusing on research within the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work primarily spans the subfields of Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Immunology, and Agronomy and Crop Science.

The scientist's research encompasses several main topics including genetic mapping and diversity in plants and animals, plant molecular biology research, plant responses to water stress, rice cultivation and yield improvement, photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, soybean genetics and cultivation, and plant nutrient uptake and metabolism.

Matsuoka has published extensively, with notable recent papers including:

  • Whole-genome sequence diversity and association analysis of 198 soybean accessions in mini-core collections (2021, DNA Research)
  • Genome-wide association study identifies a gene responsible for temperature-dependent rice germination (2022, Nature Communications)
  • Production of novel beneficial alleles of a rice yield-related QTL by CRISPR/Cas9 (2020, Plant Biotechnology Journal)
  • Making the 'Green Revolution' Truly Green: Improving Crop Nitrogen Use Efficiency (2021, Plant and Cell Physiology)
  • A common allosteric mechanism regulates homeostatic inactivation of auxin and gibberellin (2020, Nature Communications)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Matsuoka include:

  • Hideki Yoshida
  • Fanmiao Wang
  • Masaki Mori
  • Mayuko Kawamura
  • Eriko Koketsu

Matsuoka's research appears regularly in several publication venues, with multiple contributions in:

  • Molecular Plant
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Nature Communications
  • Plant and Cell Physiology
  • Communications Biology

Best Publications

  • Green revolution: a mutant gibberellin-synthesis gene in rice.

    A. Sasaki;M. Ashikari;M. Ueguchi-Tanaka;H. Itoh

  • GIBBERELLIN INSENSITIVE DWARF1 encodes a soluble receptor for gibberellin

    Miyako Ueguchi-Tanaka;Motoyuki Ashikari;Masatoshi Nakajima;Hironori Itoh

  • OsSPL14 promotes panicle branching and higher grain productivity in rice

    Kotaro Miura;Mayuko Ikeda;Atsushi Matsubara;Xian-Jun Song

  • The ethylene response factors SNORKEL1 and SNORKEL2 allow rice to adapt to deep water.

    Yoko Hattori;Keisuke Nagai;Shizuka Furukawa;Xian Jun Song

  • Loss of function of a rice brassinosteroid insensitive1 homolog prevents internode elongation and bending of the lamina joint.

    Chizuko Yamamuro;Yoshihisa Ihara;Xiong Wu;Takahiro Noguchi

  • An Overview of Gibberellin Metabolism Enzyme Genes and Their Related Mutants in Rice

    Tomoaki Sakamoto;Koutarou Miura;Hironori Itoh;Tomoko Tatsumi

  • slender Rice, a Constitutive Gibberellin Response Mutant, Is Caused by a Null Mutation of the SLR1 Gene, an Ortholog of the Height-Regulating Gene GAI/RGA/RHT/D8

    Akira Ikeda;Miyako Ueguchi-Tanaka;Yutaka Sonoda;Hidemi Kitano

  • The OsTB1 gene negatively regulates lateral branching in rice

    Taito Takeda;Yuko Suwa;Makoto Suzuki;Hidemi Kitano

  • Accumulation of Phosphorylated Repressor for Gibberellin Signaling in an F-box Mutant

    Akie Sasaki;Hironori Itoh;Kenji Gomi;Miyako Ueguchi-Tanaka

  • Six-rowed barley originated from a mutation in a homeodomain-leucine zipper I-class homeobox gene

    Takao Komatsuda;Mohammad Pourkheirandish;Congfen He;Perumal Azhaguvel

  • A novel cytochrome P450 is implicated in brassinosteroid biosynthesis via the characterization of a rice dwarf mutant, dwarf11, with reduced seed length.

    Sumiyo Tanabe;Motoyuki Ashikari;Shozo Fujioka;Suguru Takatsuto

  • Genome-wide association study using whole-genome sequencing rapidly identifies new genes influencing agronomic traits in rice

    Kenji Yano;Eiji Yamamoto;Koichiro Aya;Hideyuki Takeuchi

  • A Rice Brassinosteroid-Deficient Mutant, ebisu dwarf (d2), Is Caused by a Loss of Function of a New Member of Cytochrome P450

    Zhi Hong;Miyako Ueguchi-Tanaka;Kazuto Umemura;Sakurako Uozu

  • Highly Sensitive and High-Throughput Analysis of Plant Hormones Using MS-Probe Modification and Liquid Chromatography–Tandem Mass Spectrometry: An Application for Hormone Profiling in Oryza sativa

    Mikiko Kojima;Tomoe Kamada-Nobusada;Hirokazu Komatsu;Kentaro Takei

  • The Gibberellin Signaling Pathway Is Regulated by the Appearance and Disappearance of SLENDER RICE1 in Nuclei

    Hironori Itoh;Miyako Ueguchi-Tanaka;Yutaka Sato;Motoyuki Ashikari

  • Crown rootless1, Which Is Essential for Crown Root Formation in Rice, Is a Target of an AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR in Auxin Signaling

    Yoshiaki Inukai;Tomoaki Sakamoto;Miyako Ueguchi-Tanaka;Yohko Shibata

  • Identification and characterization of Arabidopsis gibberellin receptors.

    Masatoshi Nakajima;Asako Shimada;Yoshiyuki Takashi;Young-Cheon Kim

  • High-level expression of maize phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase in transgenic rice plants

    Maurice S.B. Ku;Sakae Agarie;Mika Nomura;Hiroshi Fukayama

  • Genetic approaches to crop improvement: responding to environmental and population changes.

    Shin Takeda;Makoto Matsuoka

  • Rice dwarf mutant d1, which is defective in the alpha subunit of the heterotrimeric G protein, affects gibberellin signal transduction.

    Miyako Ueguchi-Tanaka;Yukiko Fujisawa;Masatomo Kobayashi;Motoyuki Ashikari

Frequent Co-Authors

Hidemi Kitano
Hidemi Kitano Nagoya University
Motoyuki Ashikari
Motoyuki Ashikari Nagoya University
Yutaka Sato
Yutaka Sato National Institute of Genetics
Yuko Ohashi
Yuko Ohashi Hokkaido University
Masatomo Kobayashi
Masatomo Kobayashi RIKEN BioResource Research Center
Maurice S. B. Ku
Maurice S. B. Ku National Chiayi University
Mitsue Miyao
Mitsue Miyao Tohoku University
Hitoshi Sakakibara
Hitoshi Sakakibara Nagoya University
Yoshiaki Inukai
Yoshiaki Inukai Nagoya University
Masahiro Yano
Masahiro Yano National Agriculture and Food Research Organization

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