Ryouichi Tanaka

Best Publications

• Tetrapyrrole Biosynthesis in Higher Plants

  Ryouichi Tanaka;Ayumi Tanaka

  1030
  Citations

• Rice NON-YELLOW COLORING1 Is Involved in Light-Harvesting Complex II and Grana Degradation during Leaf Senescence

  Makoto Kusaba;Hisashi Ito;Ryouhei Morita;Shuichi Iida

  692
  Citations

• Chlorophyll a oxygenase (CAO) is involved in chlorophyll b formation from chlorophyll a

  Ayumi Tanaka;Hisashi Ito;Ryouichi Tanaka;Nobuaki K. Tanaka

  584
  Citations

• Chlorophyll metabolism.

  Unknown

  427
  Citations

• Identification of a Vinyl Reductase Gene for Chlorophyll Synthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana and Implications for the Evolution of Prochlorococcus Species

  Nozomi Nagata;Ryouichi Tanaka;Soichirou Satoh;Ayumi Tanaka

  426
  Citations

• Cloning and functional expression of the gene encoding the key enzyme for chlorophyll b biosynthesis (CAO) from Arabidopsis thaliana

  Ulrike Oster;Ryouichi Tanaka;Ayumi Tanaka;Wolfhart Rüdiger

  369
  Citations

• The cell biology of tetrapyrroles: a life and death struggle.

  Nobuyoshi Mochizuki;Ryouichi Tanaka;Bernhard Grimm;Tatsuru Masuda

  347
  Citations

• Chlorophyll cycle regulates the construction and destruction of the light-harvesting complexes

  Ryouichi Tanaka;Ayumi Tanaka

  347
  Citations

• Tetrapyrrole Metabolism in Arabidopsis thaliana.

  Ryouichi Tanaka;Koichi Kobayashi;Tatsuru Masuda

  311
  Citations

• Participation of Chlorophyll b Reductase in the Initial Step of the Degradation of Light-harvesting Chlorophyll a/b-Protein Complexes in Arabidopsis

  Yukiko Horie;Hisashi Ito;Makoto Kusaba;Ryouichi Tanaka

  298
  Citations

• The steady-state level of Mg-protoporphyrin IX is not a determinant of plastid-to-nucleus signaling in Arabidopsis.

  Nobuyoshi Mochizuki;Ryouichi Tanaka;Ayumi Tanaka;Tatsuru Masuda

  271
  Citations

• Identification of the 7-Hydroxymethyl Chlorophyll a Reductase of the Chlorophyll Cycle in Arabidopsis

  Miki Meguro;Hisashi Ito;Atsushi Takabayashi;Ryouichi Tanaka

  243
  Citations

• Reduced activity of geranylgeranyl reductase leads to loss of chlorophyll and tocopherol and to partially geranylgeranylated chlorophyll in transgenic tobacco plants expressing antisense RNA for geranylgeranyl reductase

  Ryouichi Tanaka;Ulrike Oster;Elisabeth Kruse;Wolfhart Rüdiger

  233
  Citations

• Role of Magnesium Chelatase Activity in the Early Steps of the Tetrapyrrole Biosynthetic Pathway

  Jutta Papenbrock;Hans-Peter Mock;Ryouichi Tanaka;Elisabeth Kruse

  213
  Citations

• The Arabidopsis-accelerated cell death gene ACD1 is involved in oxygenation of pheophorbide a: inhibition of the pheophorbide a oxygenase activity does not lead to the "stay-green" phenotype in Arabidopsis.

  Ryouichi Tanaka;Masumi Hirashima;Soichirou Satoh;Ayumi Tanaka

  212
  Citations

• Stay-green plants: what do they tell us about the molecular mechanism of leaf senescence

  Makoto Kusaba;Ayumi Tanaka;Ryouichi Tanaka

  197
  Citations

• Effect of salicylic acid on chlorophyll and carotenoid contents of wheat and moong seedlings

  S.T. Moharekar;S.T. Moharekar;S.D. Lokhande;T. Hara;R. Tanaka

  180
  Citations

• Molecular cloning and sequence of a cholesterol-repressible enzyme related to prenyltransferase in the isoprene biosynthetic pathway.

  C F Clarke;R D Tanaka;K Svenson;M Wamsley

  178
  Citations

• The N-Terminal Domain of Chlorophyllide a Oxygenase Confers Protein Instability in Response to Chlorophyll b Accumulation in Arabidopsis

  Akihiro Yamasato;Nozomi Nagata;Ryouichi Tanaka;Ayumi Tanaka

  175
  Citations

• Overexpression of chlorophyllide a oxygenase (CAO) enlarges the antenna size of photosystem II in Arabidopsis thaliana.

  Ryouichi Tanaka;Yoshihiro Koshino;Shinichiro Sawa;Sumie Ishiguro

  167
  Citations