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D-Index
125
Citations
64335
World Ranking
312
National Ranking
7

Masahiro Yano publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Masahiro Yano sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 306 publications — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Masahiro Yano D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Masahiro Yano sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 125 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Genetics in Japan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Genetics in Japan Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Masahiro Yano is affiliated with the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization in Japan. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Medicine, with a focus on Plant Science and Genetics, among other subfields. The scientist's work addresses topics such as Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals, Heavy metals in environment, Aluminum toxicity and tolerance in plants and animals, Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance, Plant Virus Research Studies, Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism, and Plant Molecular Biology Research.

The frequent publication venues for Masahiro Yano include Breeding Research, Nature Food, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Breeding Science, and Circulation. Their publications cover a range of topics in agriculture, biology, and medicine.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Masahiro Yano are:

  • Duplication of a manganese/cadmium transporter gene reduces cadmium accumulation in rice grain (2022, Nature Food)
  • A cell wall-localized cytokinin/purine riboside nucleosidase is involved in apoplastic cytokinin metabolism in Oryza sativa (2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Development of 12 sets of chromosome segment substitution lines that enhance allele mining in Asian cultivated rice (2023, Breeding Science)
  • Pedigree Finder: A web-based crop pedigree viewer for graph databases (2022, Breeding Research)
  • Abstract 13212: Prevention of Delayed Coronary Obstruction Following Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Using Intravascular Ultrasound and "Modified" Snorkeling Stent Technique (2023, Circulation)

Masahiro Yano has collaborated frequently with notable co-authors including Jun-ichi Yonemaru, Tsuyu Ando, Shuichi Fukuoka, Kiyosumi Hori, and Ayahiko Shomura.

Best Publications

  • The map-based sequence of the rice genome

    Takashi Matsumoto;Jianzhong Wu;Hiroyuki Kanamori;Yuichi Katayose

  • Development and Mapping of 2240 New SSR Markers for Rice ( Oryza sativa L.)

    Susan R McCouch;Leonid Teytelman;Yunbi Xu;Katarzyna B Lobos

  • Hd1, a Major Photoperiod Sensitivity Quantitative Trait Locus in Rice, Is Closely Related to the Arabidopsis Flowering Time Gene CONSTANS

    Masahiro Yano;Yuichi Katayose;Motoyuki Ashikari;Utako Yamanouchi

  • A silicon transporter in rice

    Jian Feng Ma;Kazunori Tamai;Naoki Yamaji;Namiki Mitani

  • 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

  • Hd3a, a rice ortholog of the Arabidopsis FT gene, promotes transition to flowering downstream of Hd1 under short-day conditions.

    Shoko Kojima;Yuji Takahashi;Yasushi Kobayashi;Lisa Monna

  • A High-Density Rice Genetic Linkage Map with 2275 Markers Using a Single F2 Population

    Yoshiaki Harushima;Masahiro Yano;Ayahiko Shomura;Mikiko Sato

  • Genome mapping, molecular markers and marker-assisted selection in crop plants

    Madan Mohan;Suresh Nair;A. Bhagwat;T. G. Krishna

  • Deletion in a gene associated with grain size increased yields during rice domestication

    Ayahiko Shomura;Takeshi Izawa;Kaworu Ebana;Takeshi Ebitani

  • An efflux transporter of silicon in rice

    Jian Feng Ma;Naoki Yamaji;Namiki Mitani;Kazunori Tamai

  • An SNP caused loss of seed shattering during rice domestication.

    Saeko Konishi;Takeshi Izawa;Shao Yang Lin;Kaworu Ebana

  • Ehd1, a B-type response regulator in rice, confers short-day promotion of flowering and controls FT-like gene expression independently of Hd1

    Kazuyuki Doi;Takeshi Izawa;Takuichi Fuse;Utako Yamanouchi

  • Expression of Xa1, a bacterial blight-resistance gene in rice, is induced by bacterial inoculation

    Satomi Yoshimura;Utako Yamanouchi;Yuichi Katayose;Seiichi Toki

  • Gene limiting cadmium accumulation in rice

    Daisei Ueno;Naoki Yamaji;Izumi Kono;Chao Feng Huang

  • Loss of function of a proline-containing protein confers durable disease resistance in rice.

    Shuichi Fukuoka;Norikuni Saka;Hironori Koga;Kazuko Ono

  • Adaptation of photoperiodic control pathways produces short-day flowering in rice

    Ryosuke Hayama;Shuji Yokoi;Shojiro Tamaki;Masahiro Yano

  • The Pib gene for rice blast resistance belongs to the nucleotide binding and leucine‐rich repeat class of plant disease resistance genes

    Zi-Xuan Wang;Masahiro Yano;Utako Yamanouchi;Utako Yamanouchi;Masao Iwamoto

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

    Takao Komatsuda;Mohammad Pourkheirandish;Congfen He;Perumal Azhaguvel

  • The genome sequence and structure of rice chromosome 1

    Takuji Sasaki;Takashi Matsumoto;Kimiko Yamamoto;Katsumi Sakata

  • A 300 kilobase interval genetic map of rice including 883 expressed sequences.

    N Kurata;Y Nagamura;K Yamamoto;Y Harushima

Frequent Co-Authors

Takuji Sasaki
Takuji Sasaki Tokyo University of Agriculture
Tsuyu Ando
Tsuyu Ando National Agriculture and Food Research Organization
Utako Yamanouchi
Utako Yamanouchi National Agriculture and Food Research Organization
Shuichi Fukuoka
Shuichi Fukuoka Institute of Crop Science
Kiyosumi Hori
Kiyosumi Hori Institute of Crop Science
Yoshiaki Nagamura
Yoshiaki Nagamura National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences
Takeshi Izawa
Takeshi Izawa University of Tokyo
Yusaku Uga
Yusaku Uga Institute of Crop Science
Hong-Xuan Lin
Hong-Xuan Lin Chinese Academy of Sciences
Motohiko Kondo
Motohiko Kondo Nagoya University

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