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Tadao Asami is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan. Their research primarily spans the field of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a strong focus on Plant Science. This includes significant work in related subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Molecular Biology, and studies related to Insect Science and Pollution, though in smaller proportions.

The scientific topics that characterize their work include Plant Parasitism and Resistance, Plant Molecular Biology Research, Plant and animal studies, Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance, Plant Reproductive Biology, and Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies.

Recent notable papers authored or coauthored by Tadao Asami cover various aspects of plant biology and molecular interactions. These include:

  • Canonical strigolactones are not the major determinant of tillering but important rhizospheric signals in rice, 2022, Science Advances
  • Response of tomatoes primed by mycorrhizal colonization to virulent and avirulent bacterial pathogens, 2022, Scientific Reports
  • Strigolactones Modulate Salicylic Acid-Mediated Disease Resistance in Arabidopsis thaliana, 2022, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Efficient Mimics for Elucidating Zaxinone Biology and Promoting Agricultural Applications, 2020, Molecular Plant
  • Striga hermonthica Suicidal Germination Activity of Potent Strigolactone Analogs: Evaluation from Laboratory Bioassays to Field Trials, 2022, Plants

The venues in which their work is frequently published include Bioscience Biotechnology and Biochemistry, Frontiers in Plant Science, Scientific Reports, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Among frequent collaborators associated with Tadao Asami are Ikuo Takahashi, Jian You Wang, Salim Al-Babili, Muhammad Jamil, and Takeshi Nakano, reflecting a network of research partnerships in related scientific fields.

Additionally, Tadao Asami has contributed to book literature, including a recent publication titled Strigolactone: Signaling and functions in plants released in 2023 by Frontiers Media.

Best Publications

  • BES1 Accumulates in the Nucleus in Response to Brassinosteroids to Regulate Gene Expression and Promote Stem Elongation

    Yanhai Yin;Zhi Yong Wang;Santiago Mora-Garcia;Jianming Li

  • Nuclear-localized BZR1 mediates brassinosteroid-induced growth and feedback suppression of brassinosteroid biosynthesis.

    Zhi Yong Wang;Takeshi Nakano;Joshua Gendron;Joshua Gendron;Junxian He

  • The Arabidopsis cytochrome P450 CYP707A encodes ABA 8′‐hydroxylases: key enzymes in ABA catabolism

    Tetsuo Kushiro;Masanori Okamoto;Kazumi Nakabayashi;Kazutoshi Yamagishi

  • A Unique Short-Chain Dehydrogenase/Reductase in Arabidopsis Glucose Signaling and Abscisic Acid Biosynthesis and Functions

    Wan-Hsing Cheng;Wan-Hsing Cheng;Akira Endo;Li Zhou;Jessica Penney

  • D14–SCF D3 -dependent degradation of D53 regulates strigolactone signalling

    Feng Zhou;Qibing Lin;Lihong Zhu;Yulong Ren

  • A new class of transcription factors mediates brassinosteroid-regulated gene expression in Arabidopsis.

    Yanhai Yin;Dionne Vafeados;Yi Tao;Shigeo Yoshida

  • Reactive Oxygen Species Are Involved in Brassinosteroid-Induced Stress Tolerance in Cucumber

    Xiao-Jian Xia;Yan-Jie Wang;Yan-Hong Zhou;Yuan Tao

  • CYP707A1 and CYP707A2, Which Encode Abscisic Acid 8′-Hydroxylases, Are Indispensable for Proper Control of Seed Dormancy and Germination in Arabidopsis

    Masanori Okamoto;Ayuko Kuwahara;Mistunori Seo;Tetsuo Kushiro

  • Brassinosteroid functions in a broad range of disease resistance in tobacco and rice.

    Hideo Nakashita;Michiko Yasuda;Takako Nitta;Tadao Asami

  • Chloroplast to nucleus communication triggered by accumulation of Mg-protoporphyrinIX

    Åsa Strand;Tadao Asami;Jose Alonso;Joseph R. Ecker

  • Antagonistic Interaction between Systemic Acquired Resistance and the Abscisic Acid–Mediated Abiotic Stress Response in Arabidopsis

    Michiko Yasuda;Atsushi Ishikawa;Yusuke Jikumaru;Motoaki Seki

  • The AtGenExpress hormone and chemical treatment data set: experimental design, data evaluation, model data analysis and data access.

    Hideki Goda;Eriko Sasaki;Kenji Akiyama;Akiko Maruyama-Nakashita

  • Comprehensive comparison of auxin-regulated and brassinosteroid-regulated genes in Arabidopsis.

    Hideki Goda;Shinichiro Sawa;Tadao Asami;Shozo Fujioka

  • Microarray analysis of brassinosteroid-regulated genes in Arabidopsis.

    Hideki Goda;Yukihisa Shimada;Tadao Asami;Shozo Fujioka

  • ABA-Hypersensitive Germination3 Encodes a Protein Phosphatase 2C (AtPP2CA) That Strongly Regulates Abscisic Acid Signaling during Germination among Arabidopsis Protein Phosphatase 2Cs

    Tomo Yoshida;Noriyuki Nishimura;Nobutaka Kitahata;Takashi Kuromori

  • Characterization of Brassinazole, a Triazole-Type Brassinosteroid Biosynthesis Inhibitor

    Tadao Asami;Yong Ki Min;Noriko Nagata;Kazutoshi Yamagishi

  • Identification and Functional Analysis of in Vivo Phosphorylation Sites of the Arabidopsis BRASSINOSTEROID-INSENSITIVE1 Receptor Kinase

    Xiaofeng Wang;Michael B. Goshe;Erik J. Soderblom;Brett S. Phinney

  • BAK1 and BKK1 regulate brassinosteroid-dependent growth and brassinosteroid-independent cell-death pathways.

    Kai He;Xiaoping Gou;Tong Yuan;Honghui Lin;Honghui Lin

  • Brassinosteroids Interact with Auxin to Promote Lateral Root Development in Arabidopsis

    Fang Bao;Junjiang Shen;Shari R. Brady;Gloria K. Muday

  • Molecular mechanism of strigolactone perception by DWARF14

    Hidemitsu Nakamura;You-Lin Xue;Takuya Miyakawa;Feng Hou

Frequent Co-Authors

Shigeo Yoshida
Shigeo Yoshida Kurume University
Yukihisa Shimada
Yukihisa Shimada Yokohama City University
Koichi Yoneyama
Koichi Yoneyama Ehime University
Masatomo Kobayashi
Masatomo Kobayashi RIKEN BioResource Research Center
Shinjiro Yamaguchi
Shinjiro Yamaguchi Kyoto University
Isomaro Yamaguchi
Isomaro Yamaguchi University of Tokyo
Masaru Tanokura
Masaru Tanokura University of Tokyo

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