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Overview

Seiichi Toki is affiliated with the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization in Japan. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and agricultural and biological sciences.

Their work covers several subfields, including molecular biology, plant science, biotechnology, genetics, and insect science. Key topics addressed in their publications include CRISPR and genetic engineering, plant tissue culture and regeneration, chromosomal and genetic variations, plant virus research studies, transgenic plants and applications, insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, and GABA and rice research.

Seiichi Toki's frequently published coauthors include Ayako Nishizawa-Yokoi, M. Endo, Hiroaki Saika, Satoru Sukegawa, and Naho Hara, reflecting ongoing collaborations in related research areas.

They have contributed papers to leading scientific venues such as Frontiers in Genome Editing, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Plant and Cell Physiology, Rice, and PLANT PHYSIOLOGY.

Some recent notable publications are:

  • Potato Virus X Vector-Mediated DNA-Free Genome Editing in Plants, 2020, Plant and Cell Physiology
  • An In Vivo Targeted Deletion of the Calmodulin-Binding Domain from Rice Glutamate Decarboxylase 3 (OsGAD3) Increases γ-Aminobutyric Acid Content in Grains, 2020, Rice
  • Allelic Mutations in the Ripening-Inhibitor Locus Generate Extensive Variation in Tomato Ripening, 2020, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • In planta Genome Editing in Commercial Wheat Varieties, 2021, Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Agrobacterium T-DNA integration in somatic cells does not require the activity of DNA polymerase θ, 2020, New Phytologist

Best Publications

  • Iron fortification of rice seed by the soybean ferritin gene.

    Fumiyuki Goto;Toshihiro Yoshihara;Naoki Shigemoto;Seiichi Toki

  • Early infection of scutellum tissue with Agrobacterium allows high-speed transformation of rice

    Seiichi Toki;Naho Hara;Kazuko Ono;Haruko Onodera

  • Expression of Xa1, a bacterial blight-resistance gene in rice, is induced by bacterial inoculation

    Satomi Yoshimura;Utako Yamanouchi;Yuichi Katayose;Seiichi Toki

  • Rice WRKY45 Plays a Crucial Role in Benzothiadiazole-Inducible Blast Resistance

    Masaki Shimono;Shoji Sugano;Akira Nakayama;Chang-Jie Jiang

  • High-level expression of maize phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase in transgenic rice plants

    Maurice S.B. Ku;Sakae Agarie;Mika Nomura;Hiroshi Fukayama

  • Site-directed mutagenesis in Arabidopsis using custom-designed zinc finger nucleases

    Keishi Osakabe;Yuriko Osakabe;Seiichi Toki

  • CRISPR/Cas9-mediated mutagenesis of the RIN locus that regulates tomato fruit ripening.

    Yasuhiro Ito;Ayako Nishizawa-Yokoi;Masaki Endo;Masafumi Mikami

  • Comparison of CRISPR/Cas9 expression constructs for efficient targeted mutagenesis in rice

    Masafumi Mikami;Seiichi Toki;Masaki Endo

  • Efficient targeted mutagenesis of rice and tobacco genomes using Cpf1 from Francisella novicida

    Akira Endo;Mikami Masafumi;Hidetaka Kaya;Seiichi Toki

  • Multigene Knockout Utilizing Off-Target Mutations of the CRISPR/Cas9 System in Rice

    Masaki Endo;Masafumi Mikami;Seiichi Toki

  • OsCDPK13, a calcium-dependent protein kinase gene from rice, is induced by cold and gibberellin in rice leaf sheath.

    Fida Abbasi;Haruko Onodera;Seiichi Toki;Hiroshi Tanaka

  • Re-evaluation of the rin mutation and the role of RIN in the induction of tomato ripening.

    Yasuhiro Ito;Ayako Nishizawa-Yokoi;Masaki Endo;Masafumi Mikami

  • Expression of a Maize Ubiquitin Gene Promoter-bar Chimeric Gene in Transgenic Rice Plants

    Seiichi Toki;Susumu Takamatsu;Chyuhei Nojiri;Shinya Ooba

  • Biallelic Gene Targeting in Rice.

    Masaki Endo;Masafumi Mikami;Seiichi Toki

  • CRISPR/Cas9-mediated targeted mutagenesis in grape

    Ikuko Nakajima;Yusuke Ban;Akifumi Azuma;Noriyuki Onoue

  • Over-expression of calcium-dependent protein kinase 13 and calreticulin interacting protein 1 confers cold tolerance on rice plants.

    Setsuko Komatsu;Guangxiao Yang;Monowar Khan;Haruko Onodera

  • Increased frequency of homologous recombination and T-DNA integration in Arabidopsis CAF-1 mutants

    Masaki Endo;Yuichi Ishikawa;Keishi Osakabe;Shigeki Nakayama

  • Genome editing in plants by engineered CRISPR-Cas9 recognizing NG PAM.

    Masaki Endo;Masafumi Mikami;Masafumi Mikami;Akira Endo;Akira Endo;Hidetaka Kaya;Hidetaka Kaya

  • High Level Expression of C4-Specific NADP-Malic Enzyme in Leaves and Impairment of Photoautotrophic Growth in a C3 Plant, Rice

    Hiroko Tsuchida;Tesshu Tamai;Hiroshi Fukayama;Sakae Agarie

  • Production of high oleic/low linoleic rice by genome editing.

    Kiyomi Abe;Etsuko Araki;Yasuhiro Suzuki;Seiichi Toki

Frequent Co-Authors

Hirofumi Uchimiya
Hirofumi Uchimiya Saitama University
Yuriko Osakabe
Yuriko Osakabe Tokyo Institute of Technology
Shuichi Yanagisawa
Shuichi Yanagisawa University of Tokyo
Fumio Takaiwa
Fumio Takaiwa National Agriculture and Food Research Organization
Takeshi Itoh
Takeshi Itoh Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Barbara Hohn
Barbara Hohn Friedrich Miescher Institute
Hirohiko Hirochika
Hirohiko Hirochika Institute of Agrobiological Sciences
Masahiro Yano
Masahiro Yano National Agriculture and Food Research Organization

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