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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
57
Citations
13359
World Ranking
13697
National Ranking
960

Miyako Kusano publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 144 publications — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Miyako Kusano D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Miyako Kusano sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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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

  • 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

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

    Pär Jonsson;Jonas Gullberg;Anders Nordström;Miyako Kusano

  • Acetate-mediated novel survival strategy against drought in plants.

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

  • 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

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

    Miyako Kusano;Takayuki Tohge;Atsushi Fukushima;Makoto Kobayashi

  • Metabolomic approaches toward understanding nitrogen metabolism in plants

    Miyako Kusano;Atsushi Fukushima;Henning Redestig;Kazuki Saito

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

    Atsushi Fukushima;Miyako Kusano;Norihito Nakamichi;Makoto Kobayashi

  • Integrated omics approaches in plant systems biology

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

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

    Fumio Matsuda;Yozo Okazaki;Akira Oikawa;Miyako Kusano

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

    Max Bylesjö;Daniel Eriksson;Miyako Kusano;Thomas Moritz

  • 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

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

    Mutsumi Watanabe;Miyako Kusano;Akira Oikawa;Atsushi Fukushima

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

    Yozo Okazaki;Hitomi Otsuki;Tomoko Narisawa;Makoto Kobayashi

  • 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

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

    Henning Redestig;Atsushi Fukushima;Hans Stenlund;Thomas Moritz

  • 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

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

    Tomoyuki Yamaya;Miyako Kusano

  • 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

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Kazuki Saito
Kazuki Saito RIKEN
Makoto Kobayashi
Makoto Kobayashi University of Tsukuba
Hitoshi Sakakibara
Hitoshi Sakakibara Nagoya University
Akira Oikawa
Akira Oikawa Kyoto University
Shozo Fujioka
Shozo Fujioka RIKEN
Fumio Matsuda
Fumio Matsuda Osaka University
Hiroshi Ezura
Hiroshi Ezura University of Tsukuba
Motoaki Seki
Motoaki Seki RIKEN
Kazuo Shinozaki
Kazuo Shinozaki RIKEN
Thomas Moritz
Thomas Moritz Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

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Pieter C. Dorrestein

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Oliver Fiehn

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Yariv Brotman

Yariv Brotman

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Lothar Willmitzer

Lothar Willmitzer

Max Planck Society

Publications: 40

Thomas Moritz

Thomas Moritz

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Publications: 38

Juliane Hollender

Juliane Hollender

Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology

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Yuji Kamiya

RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science

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Wei Jia

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Jie Luo

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Steffen Neumann

Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry

Publications: 28

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Céline Masclaux-Daubresse

University of Paris-Saclay

Publications: 27

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