Ryozo Imai

Ryozo Imai publication distribution in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

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Ryozo Imai D-index placement in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

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Best Publications

• Trehalose biosynthesis in response to abiotic stresses.

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  415
  Citations

• A lea-class gene of tomato confers salt and freezing tolerance when expressed in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

  Ryozo Imai;Lei Chang;Akinori Ohta;Elizabeth A. Bray

  255
  Citations

• Two Novel Mitogen-Activated Protein Signaling Components, OsMEK1 and OsMAP1, Are Involved in a Moderate Low-Temperature Signaling Pathway in Rice

  Jiang-Qi Wen;Kiyoharu Oono;Ryozo Imai

  225
  Citations

• Ent-kaurene synthase from the fungus Phaeosphaeria sp. L487. cDNA isolation, characterization, and bacterial expression of a bifunctional diterpene cyclase in fungal gibberellin biosynthesis.

  Hiroshi Kawaide;Ryozo Imai;Takeshi Sassa;Yuji Kamiya

  213
  Citations

• Biochemical identification of the OsMKK6-OsMPK3 signalling pathway for chilling stress tolerance in rice.

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  195
  Citations

• Regulation of gibberellin biosynthesis genes during flower and early fruit development of tomato.

  Mariken Rebers;Tsuyoshi Kaneta;Hiroshi Kawaide;Shinjiro Yamaguchi

  189
  Citations

• A novel plant defensin-like gene of winter wheat is specifically induced during cold acclimation

  Michiya Koike;Takashi Okamoto;Sakae Tsuda;Ryozo Imai

  187
  Citations

• Biolistic-delivery-based transient CRISPR/Cas9 expression enables in planta genome editing in wheat

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  159
  Citations

• Cold Shock Domain Protein 3 Regulates Freezing Tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana

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  159
  Citations

• An in planta biolistic method for stable wheat transformation.

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  140
  Citations

• LIP19, a Basic Region Leucine Zipper Protein, is a Fos-like Molecular Switch in the Cold Signaling of Rice Plants

  Hidekazu Shimizu;Kazuhito Sato;Thomas Berberich;Thomas Berberich;Atsushi Miyazaki

  139
  Citations

• Identification of a Novel LEA Protein Involved in Freezing Tolerance in Wheat

  Kentaro Sasaki;Nikolai Kirilov Christov;Sakae Tsuda;Sakae Tsuda;Ryozo Imai;Ryozo Imai

  132
  Citations

• Arabidopsis COLD SHOCK DOMAIN PROTEIN2 is a RNA chaperone that is regulated by cold and developmental signals

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  132
  Citations

• Biochemical characterization of rice trehalose-6-phosphate phosphatases supports distinctive functions of these plant enzymes.

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  131
  Citations

• OsMADS22, an STMADS11-like MADS-box gene of rice, is expressed in non-vegetative tissues and its ectopic expression induces spikelet meristem indeterminacy

  Naoki Sentoku;Naoki Sentoku;Hideki Kato;Hidemi Kitano;Ryozo Imai

  111
  Citations

• OsJAR1 and OsJAR2 are jasmonyl-L-isoleucine synthases involved in wound- and pathogen-induced jasmonic acid signalling.

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  100
  Citations

• A cold inducible multidomain cystatin from winter wheat inhibits growth of the snow mold fungus, Microdochium nivale.

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  93
  Citations

• The rice ethylene response factor OsERF83 positively regulates disease resistance to Magnaporthe oryzae.

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  90
  Citations

• Growth temperature downshift induces antioxidant response in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

  Lei Zhang;Kouki Onda;Ryozo Imai;Ryouichi Fukuda

  84
  Citations

• A Cold-Inducible DEAD-Box RNA Helicase from Arabidopsis thaliana Regulates Plant Growth and Development under Low Temperature.

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  72
  Citations