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Mikio Nakazono

Mikio Nakazono

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
67
Citations
15269
World Ranking
8252
National Ranking
550

Overview

Mikio Nakazono is a researcher affiliated with Nagoya University in Japan. Their academic work primarily focuses on Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a significant emphasis on Plant Science as the main subfield of study.

Their research spans several related subfields, including Molecular Biology, Ecology, Genetics, and Global and Planetary Change. Nakazono's scientific output often concentrates on plant physiological responses and genetics, reflected in topics such as:

  • Plant responses to water stress
  • Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
  • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
  • Soybean genetics and cultivation
  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement
  • Genetics and Plant Breeding

The researcher has published extensively in a range of academic journals, with frequent publications in these venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • New Phytologist
  • PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Plants

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Nakazono include:

  • "Regulation of root adaptive anatomical and morphological traits during low soil oxygen," 2020, New Phytologist
  • "Key root traits of Poaceae for adaptation to soil water gradients," 2020, New Phytologist
  • "A Role for Auxin in Ethylene-Dependent Inducible Aerenchyma Formation in Rice Roots," 2020, Plants
  • "Mechanisms of lysigenous aerenchyma formation under abiotic stress," 2021, Trends in Plant Science
  • "WUSCHEL-related homeobox family genes in rice control lateral root primordium size," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Their work often involves collaboration with other scientists. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Hirokazu Takahashi
  • Akito Kaga
  • Toru Fujiwara
  • Yusuke Toda
  • Yoshihiro Ohmori

Best Publications

  • Rice plants take up iron as an Fe3+-phytosiderophore and as Fe2+.

    Yasuhiro Ishimaru;Motofumi Suzuki;Takashi Tsukamoto;Kazumasa Suzuki

  • Rice OsYSL15 is an iron-regulated iron(III)-deoxymugineic acid transporter expressed in the roots and is essential for iron uptake in early growth of the seedlings

    Haruhiko Inoue;Takanori Kobayashi;Tomoko Nozoye;Michiko Takahashi

  • The complete sequence of the rice (Oryza sativa L.) mitochondrial genome: frequent DNA sequence acquisition and loss during the evolution of flowering plants

    Y Notsu;S Masood;T Nishikawa;N Kubo

  • Drought Induction of Arabidopsis 9-cis-Epoxycarotenoid Dioxygenase Occurs in Vascular Parenchyma Cells

    Akira Endo;Yoshiaki Sawada;Hirokazu Takahashi;Masanori Okamoto

  • Nod Factor/Nitrate-Induced CLE Genes that Drive HAR1-Mediated Systemic Regulation of Nodulation

    Satoru Okamoto;Erika Ohnishi;Shusei Sato;Hirokazu Takahashi

  • Mechanisms for coping with submergence and waterlogging in rice

    Shunsaku Nishiuchi;Takaki Yamauchi;Hirokazu Takahashi;Lukasz Kotula

  • Frequent fusion and fission of plant mitochondria with unequal nucleoid distribution

    Shin-ichi Arimura;Junko Yamamoto;Gen Paul Aida;Mikio Nakazono

  • Regulation of Root Traits for Internal Aeration and Tolerance to Soil Waterlogging-Flooding Stress.

    Takaki Yamauchi;Timothy D. Colmer;Ole Pedersen;Ole Pedersen;Mikio Nakazono;Mikio Nakazono

  • GAMYB controls different sets of genes and is differentially regulated by microRNA in aleurone cells and anthers

    Hiroyuki Tsuji;Koichiro Aya;Miyako Ueguchi-Tanaka;Yukihisa Shimada

  • Ethylene promotes submergence-induced expression of OsABA8ox1, a gene that encodes ABA 8'-hydroxylase in rice.

    Hiroaki Saika;Masanori Okamoto;Kentaro Miyoshi;Tetsuo Kushiro

  • Aerenchyma formation in crop species: A review

    Takaki Yamauchi;Satoshi Shimamura;Mikio Nakazono;Toshihiro Mochizuki

  • Enhanced formation of aerenchyma and induction of a barrier to radial oxygen loss in adventitious roots of Zea nicaraguensis contribute to its waterlogging tolerance as compared with maize (Zea mays ssp. mays)

    Tomomi Abiko;Lukasz Kotula;Katsuhiro Shiono;Al Imran Malik

  • Identification of genes expressed in maize root cortical cells during lysigenous aerenchyma formation using laser microdissection and microarray analyses

    Imene Rajhi;Takaki Yamauchi;Hirokazu Takahashi;Shunsaku Nishiuchi

  • Community recommendations on terminology and procedures used in flooding and low oxygen stress research

    Rashmi Sasidharan;Julia Bailey-Serres;Julia Bailey-Serres;Motoyuki Ashikari;Brian J. Atwell

  • An NADPH Oxidase RBOH Functions in Rice Roots during Lysigenous Aerenchyma Formation under Oxygen-Deficient Conditions

    Takaki Yamauchi;Miki Yoshioka;Aya Fukazawa;Hitoshi Mori

  • Characterization of the gene family for alternative oxidase from Arabidopsis thaliana

    Daisuke Saisho;Eiji Nambara;Satoshi Naito;Nobuhiro Tsutsumi

  • Acquisition of aluminium tolerance by modification of a single gene in barley

    Miho Fujii;Kengo Yokosho;Naoki Yamaji;Daisuke Saisho

  • Ethylene and reactive oxygen species are involved in root aerenchyma formation and adaptation of wheat seedlings to oxygen-deficient conditions

    Takaki Yamauchi;Kohtaro Watanabe;Aya Fukazawa;Hitoshi Mori

  • Dynamic and reversible changes in histone H3-Lys4 methylation and H3 acetylation occurring at submergence-inducible genes in rice

    Hiroyuki Tsuji;Hiroaki Saika;Nobuhiro Tsutsumi;Atsushi Hirai

  • Transcript levels of tandem-arranged alternative oxidase genes in rice are increased by low temperature.

    Yusuke Ito;Daisuke Saisho;Mikio Nakazono;Nobuhiro Tsutsumi

Frequent Co-Authors

Nobuhiro Tsutsumi
Nobuhiro Tsutsumi University of Tokyo
Naoko K. Nishizawa
Naoko K. Nishizawa Ishikawa Prefectural University
Timothy D. Colmer
Timothy D. Colmer University of Western Australia
Ole Pedersen
Ole Pedersen University of Copenhagen
Masao Watanabe
Masao Watanabe Tohoku University
Takanori Kobayashi
Takanori Kobayashi Ishikawa Prefectural University
Yoshiaki Nagamura
Yoshiaki Nagamura National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences
Motohiko Kondo
Motohiko Kondo Nagoya University
Hiromi Nakanishi
Hiromi Nakanishi University of Tokyo
Hitoshi Mori
Hitoshi Mori Nagoya University

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