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Masaki Furuya

Masaki Furuya

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Biology and Biochemistry

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61
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13463
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11338
National Ranking
779

Overview

Masaki Furuya is affiliated with Hitachi in Japan, focusing primarily on research within the field of Materials Science, with specific attention to Materials Chemistry and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Their work contributes to topics including Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry, Photoreceptor and Optogenetics research, and Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry.

Furuya's recent publications reflect interdisciplinary approaches combining chemistry and marine science. Notable papers include:

  • A chiral photoswitch based on enantiospecific interconversion between binaphthyl and helicenoid skeletons, published in 2024 in Chemical Communications
  • Development and Operation of a Free-Fall Type Glass Sphere Underwater Observation System with Suspended Cable in the Seto Inland Sea, published in 2025 in Journal of Marine Science and Engineering

The scientist collaborates with various co-authors, indicating active engagement in collaborative research projects. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Tetsuya Nakagawa
  • Ryuji Kato
  • Yuichi Iiyoshi
  • Tomoki Kitano
  • Ryo Nakamura

Furuya's research is disseminated through journals that mirror the interdisciplinary scope of their work, primarily the Chemical Communications and the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering.

Best Publications

  • Mutations in the gene for the red/far-red light receptor phytochrome B alter cell elongation and physiological responses throughout arabidopsis development

    Jason W. Reed;Punita Nagpal;Daniel S. Poole;Masaki Furuya

  • Action spectra for phytochrome A- and B-specific photoinduction of seed germination in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Tomoko Shinomura;Akira Nagatani;Hiroko Hanzawa;Mamoru Kubota

  • Three redundant brassinosteroid early response genes encode putative bHLH transcription factors required for normal growth.

    Danielle M Friedrichsen;Danielle M Friedrichsen;Jennifer Nemhauser;Takamichi Muramitsu;Julin N Maloof

  • The Induction of Seed Germination in Arabidopsis thaliana Is Regulated Principally by Phytochrome B and Secondarily by Phytochrome A.

    Tomoko Shinomura;Akira Nagatani;Joanne Chory;Masaki Furuya

  • Design and Performance of the Okazaki Large Spectrograph for Photobiological Research

    M. Watanabe;M. Furuya;Y. Miyoshi;Y. Inoue

  • Isolation and Characterization of Rice Phytochrome A Mutants

    Makoto Takano;Hiromi Kanegae;Tomoko Shinomura;Akio Miyao

  • Elementary processes of photoperception by phytochrome A for high-irradiance response of hypocotyl elongation in Arabidopsis.

    Tomoko Shinomura;Kenko Uchida;Masaki Furuya

  • Glutathione and a UV Light–Induced Glutathione S-Transferase Are Involved in Signaling to Chalcone Synthase in Cell Cultures

    Linda Loyall;Kenko Uchida;Sigurd Braun;Masaki Furuya

  • A complex and mobile structure forms a distinct subregion within the continuous vacuolar membrane in young cotyledons of Arabidopsis

    Chieko Saito;Takashi Ueda;Hiroshi Abe;Yoh Wada

  • The cucumber long hypocotyl mutant lacks a light-stable PHYB-like phytochrome.

    Enrique Lopez-Juez;Akira Nagatani;Ken-Ichi Tomizawa;Maria Deak

  • Phytochrome B Is Not Detectable in the hy3 Mutant of Arabidopsis, Which Is Deficient in Responding to End-of-Day Far-Red Light Treatments

    Akira Nagatani;Joanne Chory;Masaki Furuya

  • Photoperception and signalling of induction reactions by different phytochromes

    Masaki Furuya;Eberhard Schäfer

  • Two dominant photomorphogenic mutations of Arabidopsis thaliana identified as suppressor mutations of hy2

    Byung Chul Kim;Moon Soo Soh;Bong Joong Kang;Masaki Furuya

  • Isolation from Peas of Co-Factors and Inhibitors of Indolyl-3-Acetic Acid Oxidase

    Masaki Furuya;Arthur W. Galston;Bruce B. Stowe

  • The Novel MYB Protein EARLY-PHYTOCHROME-RESPONSIVE1 Is a Component of a Slave Circadian Oscillator in Arabidopsis

    Norihito Kuno;Simon Geir Møller;Simon Geir Møller;Tomoko Shinomura;XiangMing Xu

  • Impaired Induction of the Jasmonate Pathway in the Rice Mutant hebiba

    Michael Riemann;Axel Müller;Arthur Korte;Masaki Furuya

  • Rice Phytochrome Is Biologically Active in Transgenic Tobacco.

    Steve A. Kay;Akira Nagatani;Brian Keith;Maria Deak

  • Auto-regulation of the circadian slave oscillator component AtGRP7 and regulation of its targets is impaired by a single RNA recognition motif point mutation.

    Jan C. Schöning;Corinna Streitner;Damian R. Page;Sven Hennig

  • Serine-to-alanine substitutions at the amino-terminal region of phytochrome A result in an increase in biological activity.

    J. Stockhaus;A. Nagatani;U. Halfter;S. Kay

  • Intracellular Photoreceptive Site for Polarotropism in Protonema of the Fern Adiantum capillus-veneris L.

    Masamitsu Wada;Akeo Kadota;Masaki Furuya

Frequent Co-Authors

Akira Nagatani
Akira Nagatani Kyoto University
Peter Nick
Peter Nick Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Eberhard Schäfer
Eberhard Schäfer University of Freiburg
Naoki Sato
Naoki Sato University of Tokyo
Nam-Hai Chua
Nam-Hai Chua National University of Singapore
Joanne Chory
Joanne Chory Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Masamitsu Wada
Masamitsu Wada Kyushu University
Hong Gil Nam
Hong Gil Nam Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology
Steve A. Kay
Steve A. Kay University of Southern California

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