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Ryohei Terauchi

Ryohei Terauchi

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Genetics

D-Index
75
Citations
22171
World Ranking
1895
National Ranking
73

Overview

Ryohei Terauchi is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan and has an extensive research portfolio focused primarily on agricultural and biological sciences as well as biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spans several subfields, including plant science, molecular biology, immunology, genetics, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

The scientist's research interests emphasize plant-microbe interactions and immunity, with significant contributions to plant pathogenic bacteria studies, genomics and phylogenetics, fungal and yeast genetics research, toxin mechanisms and immunotoxins, genetic mapping and diversity in plants and animals, and plant parasitism and resistance.

Terauchi's frequent collaborators include Motoki Shimizu, Akira Abe, Sophien Kamoun, Mark J. Banfield, and Yu Sugihara. Their publications appear regularly in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS Pathogens, eLife, and Plant and Cell Physiology.

Notable recent papers are:

  • Multiple variants of the fungal effector AVR-Pik bind the HMA domain of the rice protein OsHIPP19, providing a foundation to engineer plant defense (2021, Journal of Biological Chemistry)
  • The complete chloroplast genome of Onobrychis gaubae (Fabaceae-Papilionoideae): comparative analysis with related IR-lacking clade species (2022, BMC Plant Biology)
  • High-performance pipeline for MutMap and QTL-seq (2022, PeerJ)
  • Two NLR immune receptors acquired high-affinity binding to a fungal effector through convergent evolution of their integrated domain (2021, eLife)
  • Genome analyses reveal the hybrid origin of the staple crop white Guinea yam (Dioscorea rotundata) (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

Best Publications

  • QTL-seq: rapid mapping of quantitative trait loci in rice by whole genome resequencing of DNA from two bulked populations.

    Hiroki Takagi;Akira Abe;Kentaro Yoshida;Shunichi Kosugi

  • Genome sequencing reveals agronomically important loci in rice using MutMap

    Akira Abe;Shunichi Kosugi;Kentaro Yoshida;Satoshi Natsume

  • Emerging concepts in effector biology of plant-associated organisms.

    S. A. Hogenhout;R. A. L. Van der Hoorn;R. Terauchi;S. Kamoun

  • The Rice Resistance Protein Pair RGA4/RGA5 Recognizes the Magnaporthe oryzae Effectors AVR-Pia and AVR1-CO39 by Direct Binding

    Stella Cesari;Gaëtan Thilliez;Cécile Ribot;Véronique Chalvon

  • Effector-Mediated Suppression of Chitin-Triggered Immunity by Magnaporthe oryzae Is Necessary for Rice Blast Disease

    Thomas A. Mentlak;Anja Kombrink;Tomonori Shinya;Lauren S. Ryder

  • Association Genetics Reveals Three Novel Avirulence Genes from the Rice Blast Fungal Pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae

    Kentaro Yoshida;Hiromasa Saitoh;Shizuko Fujisawa;Hiroyuki Kanzaki

  • Harvesting the promising fruits of genomics: Applying genome sequencing technologies to crop breeding

    Rajeev K. Varshney;Ryohei Terauchi;Susan R. McCouch

  • Two distinct secretion systems facilitate tissue invasion by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae

    Martha C. Giraldo;Yasin F. Dagdas;Yogesh K. Gupta;Thomas A. Mentlak;Thomas A. Mentlak

  • NLR network mediates immunity to diverse plant pathogens.

    Chih Hang Wu;Ahmed Abd-El-Haliem;Tolga O. Bozkurt;Tolga O. Bozkurt;Khaoula Belhaj

  • A multifaceted genomics approach allows the isolation of the rice Pia‐blast resistance gene consisting of two adjacent NBS‐LRR protein genes

    Yudai Okuyama;Hiroyuki Kanzaki;Akira Abe;Kentaro Yoshida

  • MutMap+: Genetic Mapping and Mutant Identification without Crossing in Rice

    Rym Fekih;Hiroki Takagi;Muluneh Tamiru;Akira Abe

  • MutMap accelerates breeding of a salt-tolerant rice cultivar

    Hiroki Takagi;Muluneh Tamiru;Akira Abe;Kentaro Yoshida

  • Gene expression analysis of plant host-pathogen interactions by SuperSAGE

    Hideo Matsumura;Stefanie Reich;Akiko Ito;Hiromasa Saitoh

  • The NB-LRR proteins RGA4 and RGA5 interact functionally and physically to confer disease resistance

    Stella Césari;Stella Césari;Hiroyuki Kanzaki;Tadashi Fujiwara;Maud Bernoux

  • Arms race co-evolution of Magnaporthe oryzae AVR-Pik and rice Pik genes driven by their physical interactions.

    Hiroyuki Kanzaki;Kentaro Yoshida;Hiromasa Saitoh;Koki Fujisaki

  • Structural basis of pathogen recognition by an integrated HMA domain in a plant NLR immune receptor.

    A Maqbool;H Saitoh;M Franceschetti;C E M Stevenson

  • Cytosolic HSP90 and HSP70 are essential components of INF1-mediated hypersensitive response and non-host resistance to Pseudomonas cichorii in Nicotiana benthamiana.

    H. Kanzaki;H. Saitoh;A. Ito;S. Fujisawa

  • Multiple Translocation of the AVR-Pita Effector Gene among Chromosomes of the Rice Blast Fungus Magnaporthe oryzae and Related Species

    Izumi Chuma;Chihiro Isobe;Yuma Hotta;Kana Ibaragi

  • SuperSAGE: the drought stress-responsive transcriptome of chickpea roots

    Carlos I. Molina;Björn Rotter;Ralf Horres;Sripada M Udupa

  • MutMap-Gap: whole-genome resequencing of mutant F2 progeny bulk combined with de novo assembly of gap regions identifies the rice blast resistance gene Pii

    Hiroki Takagi;Aiko Uemura;Hiroki Yaegashi;Muluneh Tamiru

Frequent Co-Authors

Hiromasa Saitoh
Hiromasa Saitoh Rice University
Sophien Kamoun
Sophien Kamoun University of East Anglia
Kentaro Yoshida
Kentaro Yoshida Kobe University
Mark J. Banfield
Mark J. Banfield John Innes Centre
Günter Kahl
Günter Kahl Goethe University Frankfurt
Hideki Innan
Hideki Innan The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI
Thomas Berberich
Thomas Berberich Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre
Detlev H. Krüger
Detlev H. Krüger Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Yoshitaka Takano
Yoshitaka Takano Kyoto University
Yukio Tosa
Yukio Tosa Kobe University

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