2026 Miyako Kusano: Biology and Biochemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Biology and Biochemistry	57	13697	12597	960	898	144	13359

Overview

Miyako Kusano is affiliated with the University of Tsukuba in Japan and has contributed extensively to research in agricultural and biological sciences as well as biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work predominantly focuses on plant science and molecular biology, with additional interests in pharmacology, food science, and biochemistry.

Their research spans several key topics related to plant biology, including:

Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
Plant Molecular Biology Research
Plant Nutrient Uptake and Metabolism
Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
Plant Responses to Water Stress
Light Effects on Plants
Plant Tissue Culture and Regeneration

Kusano's publication record includes multiple papers published in high-impact, peer-reviewed journals. Notable recent papers include:

Multi-omics analysis on an agroecosystem reveals the significant role of organic nitrogen to increase agricultural crop yield, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Defective cytokinin signaling reprograms lipid and flavonoid gene-to-metabolite networks to mitigate high salinity in Arabidopsis, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Integrative omics approaches revealed a crosstalk among phytohormones during tuberous root development in cassava, 2020, Plant Molecular Biology
Fruit setting rewires central metabolism via gibberellin cascades, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Effects of light quality, photoperiod, CO2 concentration, and air temperature on chlorogenic acid and rutin accumulation in young lettuce plants, 2022, Plant Physiology and Biochemistry

Their frequent coauthors, indicative of collaborative research efforts, include:

Makoto Kobayashi
Kazuki Saito
Atsushi Fukushima
Motoaki Seki
Yonathan Asikin

Publication venues where Kusano has often contributed include:

Metabolites
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Scientific Reports
Plant Biotechnology
Plant Molecular Biology

Best Publications

MassBank: a public repository for sharing mass spectral data for life sciences.

Hisayuki Horai;Masanori Arita;Masanori Arita;Shigehiko Kanaya;Yoshito Nihei

2658
Citations
Autophagy negatively regulates cell death by controlling NPR1-dependent salicylic acid signaling during senescence and the innate immune response in Arabidopsis.

Kohki Yoshimoto;Yusuke Jikumaru;Yuji Kamiya;Miyako Kusano

665
Citations
A Strategy for Identifying Differences in Large Series of Metabolomic Samples Analyzed by GC/MS

Pär Jonsson;Jonas Gullberg;Anders Nordström;Miyako Kusano

445
Citations
Acetate-mediated novel survival strategy against drought in plants.

Jong Myong Kim;Taiko Kim To;Akihiro Matsui;Keitaro Tanoi

355
Citations
Transcript profiling of an Arabidopsis PSEUDO RESPONSE REGULATOR arrhythmic triple mutant reveals a role for the circadian clock in cold stress response.

Norihito Nakamichi;Miyako Kusano;Atsushi Fukushima;Masanori Kita

331
Citations
Metabolomics reveals comprehensive reprogramming involving two independent metabolic responses of Arabidopsis to UV-B light

Miyako Kusano;Takayuki Tohge;Atsushi Fukushima;Makoto Kobayashi

286
Citations
Metabolomic approaches toward understanding nitrogen metabolism in plants

Miyako Kusano;Atsushi Fukushima;Henning Redestig;Kazuki Saito

276
Citations
Impact of clock-associated Arabidopsis pseudo-response regulators in metabolic coordination.

Atsushi Fukushima;Miyako Kusano;Norihito Nakamichi;Makoto Kobayashi

270
Citations
Integrated omics approaches in plant systems biology

Atsushi Fukushima;Miyako Kusano;Henning Redestig;Masanori Arita;Masanori Arita

264
Citations
Dissection of genotype–phenotype associations in rice grains using metabolome quantitative trait loci analysis

Fumio Matsuda;Yozo Okazaki;Akira Oikawa;Miyako Kusano

239
Citations
Data integration in plant biology: the O2PLS method for combined modeling of transcript and metabolite data.

Max Bylesjö;Daniel Eriksson;Miyako Kusano;Thomas Moritz

238
Citations
TargetSearch - a Bioconductor package for the efficient preprocessing of GC-MS metabolite profiling data

Álvaro Cuadros-Inostroza;Álvaro Cuadros-Inostroza;Camila Caldana;Henning Redestig;Miyako Kusano

233
Citations
Physiological Roles of the β-Substituted Alanine Synthase Gene Family in Arabidopsis

Mutsumi Watanabe;Miyako Kusano;Akira Oikawa;Atsushi Fukushima

221
Citations
A new class of plant lipid is essential for protection against phosphorus depletion

Yozo Okazaki;Hitomi Otsuki;Tomoko Narisawa;Makoto Kobayashi

220
Citations
Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase intrinsically located in the chloroplast of rice plays a crucial role in ammonium assimilation

Chisato Masumoto;Shin Ichi Miyazawa;Hiroshi Ohkawa;Hiroshi Ohkawa;Takuya Fukuda

202
Citations
Compensation for Systematic Cross-Contribution Improves Normalization of Mass Spectrometry Based Metabolomics Data

Henning Redestig;Atsushi Fukushima;Hans Stenlund;Thomas Moritz

195
Citations
Overexpression of an Arabidopsis thaliana galactinol synthase gene improves drought tolerance in transgenic rice and increased grain yield in the field.

Michael Gomez Selvaraj;Takuma Ishizaki;Milton Orlando Valencia;Satoshi Ogawa;Satoshi Ogawa

173
Citations
Evidence supporting distinct functions of three cytosolic glutamine synthetases and two NADH-glutamate synthases in rice

Tomoyuki Yamaya;Miyako Kusano

166
Citations
Metabolomics data reveal a crucial role of cytosolic glutamine synthetase 1;1 in coordinating metabolic balance in rice

Miyako Kusano;Mayumi Tabuchi;Atsushi Fukushima;Kazuhiro Funayama

156
Citations
Application of a metabolomic method combining one-dimensional and two-dimensional gas chromatography-time-of-flight/mass spectrometry to metabolic phenotyping of natural variants in rice.

Miyako Kusano;Atsushi Fukushima;Makoto Kobayashi;Naomi Hayashi

155
Citations