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Motoyuki Ashikari

Motoyuki Ashikari

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Biology and Biochemistry

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72
Citations
31656
World Ranking
6129
National Ranking
395

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Motoyuki Ashikari is affiliated with Nagoya University in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant contributions in Plant Science and Genetics, as well as Molecular Biology.

The scientist's work covers several specialized topics, including:

  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
  • Plant responses to water stress
  • Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement
  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • GABA and Rice Research
  • Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
  • Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics

Motoyuki Ashikari has published extensively in various scientific journals, with frequent appearances in:

  • Breeding Science
  • Plants
  • Rice
  • PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • Journal of Visualized Experiments

Some of their recent publications include:

  • Antagonistic regulation of the gibberellic acid response during stem growth in rice, 2020, Nature
  • Molecular mechanisms and future improvement of submergence tolerance in rice, 2020, Molecular Breeding
  • Marker-Assisted Introgression and Stacking of Major QTLs Controlling Grain Number (Gn1a) and Number of Primary Branching (WFP) to NERICA Cultivars, 2021, Plants
  • Marker-Assisted Introgression of Quantitative Resistance Gene pi21 Confers Broad Spectrum Resistance to Rice Blast, 2020, Rice Science
  • Diverse panicle architecture results from various combinations of Prl5/GA20ox4 and Pbl6/APO1 alleles, 2020, Communications Biology

Throughout their career, Motoyuki Ashikari has collaborated frequently with the following researchers:

  • Keisuke Nagai
  • Tomoyuki Furuta
  • Yoshiyuki Yamagata
  • Hideshi Yasui
  • Atsushi Yoshimura

Motoyuki Ashikari received recognition as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Cytokinin Oxidase Regulates Rice Grain Production

    Motoyuki Ashikari;Hitoshi Sakakibara;Shaoyang Lin;Toshio Yamamoto

  • 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

  • Green revolution: a mutant gibberellin-synthesis gene in rice.

    A. Sasaki;M. Ashikari;M. Ueguchi-Tanaka;H. Itoh

  • GIBBERELLIN INSENSITIVE DWARF1 encodes a soluble receptor for gibberellin

    Miyako Ueguchi-Tanaka;Motoyuki Ashikari;Masatoshi Nakajima;Hironori Itoh

  • OsSPL14 promotes panicle branching and higher grain productivity in rice

    Kotaro Miura;Mayuko Ikeda;Atsushi Matsubara;Xian-Jun Song

  • The ethylene response factors SNORKEL1 and SNORKEL2 allow rice to adapt to deep water.

    Yoko Hattori;Keisuke Nagai;Shizuka Furukawa;Xian Jun Song

  • Loss of function of a rice brassinosteroid insensitive1 homolog prevents internode elongation and bending of the lamina joint.

    Chizuko Yamamuro;Yoshihisa Ihara;Xiong Wu;Takahiro Noguchi

  • An Overview of Gibberellin Metabolism Enzyme Genes and Their Related Mutants in Rice

    Tomoaki Sakamoto;Koutarou Miura;Hironori Itoh;Tomoko Tatsumi

  • The OsTB1 gene negatively regulates lateral branching in rice

    Taito Takeda;Yuko Suwa;Makoto Suzuki;Hidemi Kitano

  • Accumulation of Phosphorylated Repressor for Gibberellin Signaling in an F-box Mutant

    Akie Sasaki;Hironori Itoh;Kenji Gomi;Miyako Ueguchi-Tanaka

  • A novel cytochrome P450 is implicated in brassinosteroid biosynthesis via the characterization of a rice dwarf mutant, dwarf11, with reduced seed length.

    Sumiyo Tanabe;Motoyuki Ashikari;Shozo Fujioka;Suguru Takatsuto

  • A Rice Brassinosteroid-Deficient Mutant, ebisu dwarf (d2), Is Caused by a Loss of Function of a New Member of Cytochrome P450

    Zhi Hong;Miyako Ueguchi-Tanaka;Kazuto Umemura;Sakurako Uozu

  • Rice gibberellin-insensitive dwarf mutant gene Dwarf 1 encodes the α-subunit of GTP-binding protein

    Motoyuki Ashikari;Jianzhong Wu;Masahiro Yano;Takuji Sasaki

  • Highly Sensitive and High-Throughput Analysis of Plant Hormones Using MS-Probe Modification and Liquid Chromatography–Tandem Mass Spectrometry: An Application for Hormone Profiling in Oryza sativa

    Mikiko Kojima;Tomoe Kamada-Nobusada;Hirokazu Komatsu;Kentaro Takei

  • The Gibberellin Signaling Pathway Is Regulated by the Appearance and Disappearance of SLENDER RICE1 in Nuclei

    Hironori Itoh;Miyako Ueguchi-Tanaka;Yutaka Sato;Motoyuki Ashikari

  • Crown rootless1, Which Is Essential for Crown Root Formation in Rice, Is a Target of an AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR in Auxin Signaling

    Yoshiaki Inukai;Tomoaki Sakamoto;Miyako Ueguchi-Tanaka;Yohko Shibata

  • Rice dwarf mutant d1, which is defective in the alpha subunit of the heterotrimeric G protein, affects gibberellin signal transduction.

    Miyako Ueguchi-Tanaka;Yukiko Fujisawa;Masatomo Kobayashi;Motoyuki Ashikari

  • Molecular Interactions of a Soluble Gibberellin Receptor, GID1, with a Rice DELLA Protein, SLR1, and Gibberellin

    Miyako Ueguchi-Tanaka;Masatoshi Nakajima;Etsuko Katoh;Hiroko Ohmiya

  • A rice spotted leaf gene, Spl7, encodes a heat stress transcription factor protein

    Utako Yamanouchi;Masahiro Yano;Hongxuan Lin;Motoyuki Ashikari

  • Loss-of-function of a rice brassinosteroid biosynthetic enzyme, C-6 oxidase, prevents the organized arrangement and polar elongation of cells in the leaves and stem.

    Zhi Hong;Miyako Ueguchi-Tanaka;Sae Shimizu-Sato;Yoshiaki Inukai

Frequent Co-Authors

Hidemi Kitano
Hidemi Kitano Nagoya University
Kazuyuki Doi
Kazuyuki Doi Nagoya University
Hitoshi Sakakibara
Hitoshi Sakakibara Nagoya University
Kshirod K. Jena
Kshirod K. Jena KIIT University
Yoshiaki Inukai
Yoshiaki Inukai Nagoya University
Masahiro Yano
Masahiro Yano National Agriculture and Food Research Organization
Suguru Takatsuto
Suguru Takatsuto Joetsu University of Education
Masatomo Kobayashi
Masatomo Kobayashi RIKEN BioResource Research Center
Takashi Matsumoto
Takashi Matsumoto Tokyo University of Agriculture

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