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Tadao Kondo

Tadao Kondo

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
52
Citations
8612
World Ranking
13623
National Ranking
1048

Overview

Tadao Kondo is affiliated with Nagoya University in Japan and has contributed to the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research primarily intersects Plant Science, Molecular Biology, and Biochemistry.

The main topics explored in their work include Phytochemicals and Antioxidant Activities, Plant Gene Expression Analysis, Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance, Injection Molding Process and Properties, Cassava research and cyanide, Dye analysis and toxicity, and Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kondo include Kumi Yoshida, Kin-ichi Oyama, Song Qi, Yuto Takagi, and Ken'ichi Yano.

Kondo's notable recent publications are:

  • Discovery of a natural cyan blue: A unique food-sourced anthocyanin could replace synthetic brilliant blue, 2021, Science Advances
  • Single-cell analysis clarifies mosaic color development in purple hydrangea sepal, 2020, New Phytologist
  • Determination of Anthocyanins and Antioxidants in 'Titanbicus' Edible Flowers In Vitro and In Vivo, 2020, Plant Foods for Human Nutrition
  • Insight into chemical mechanisms of sepal color development and variation in hydrangea, 2021, Proceedings of the Japan Academy Series B
  • Blue flower coloration of Corydalis ambigua requires ferric ion and kaempferol glycoside, 2021, Bioscience Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Their work has been published in various journals, including Science Advances, New Phytologist, Plant Foods for Human Nutrition, Proceedings of the Japan Academy Series B, and Bioscience Biotechnology and Biochemistry.

Best Publications

  • Stereoselective ring-opening polymerization of a racemic lactide by using achiral salen- and homosalen-aluminum complexes.

    Nobuyoshi Nomura;Ryohei Ishii;Yoshihiko Yamamoto;Tadao Kondo

  • Blue flower color development by anthocyanins: from chemical structure to cell physiology.

    Unknown

  • Structure and Molecular Stacking of Anthocyanins—Flower Color Variation

    Unknown

  • Cause of blue petal colour

    Kumi Yoshida;Tadao Kondo;Yoshiji Okazaki;Kiyoshi Katou

  • Salicylaldimine-Aluminum Complexes for the Facile and Efficient Ring-Opening Polymerization of ∊-Caprolactone

    Nobuyoshi Nomura;Takuji Aoyama;Ryohei Ishii;Tadao Kondo

  • Human Homolog of Caenorhabditis elegans sqv-3 Gene Is Galactosyltransferase I Involved in the Biosynthesis of the Glycosaminoglycan-Protein Linkage Region of Proteoglycans

    Tetsuya Okajima;Kumi Yoshida;Tadao Kondo;Koichi Furukawa

  • Structural Analysis and Measurement of Anthocyanins from Colored Seed Coats of Vigna, Phaseolus, and Glycine Legumes

    Kumi Yoshida;Yoshie Sato;Reiko Okuno;Kiyoshi Kameda

  • Functionalization of 2-deoxy-2,3-dehydro-N-acetylneuraminic acid methyl ester.

    Kaoru Okamoto;Tadao Kondo;Toshio Goto

  • An antifungal compound, 9,12,13-trihydroxy-(E)-10-octadecenoic acid, from Colocasia antiquorum inoculated with Ceratocystis fimbriata

    Hironori Masui;Tadao Kondo;Mineo Kojima

  • Structure of gentiodelphin, an acylated anthocyanin isolated from Gentiana Makinoi, that is stable in dilute aqueous solution

    Toshio Goto;Tadao Kondo;Hirotoshi Tamura;Hiroyuki Imagawa

  • Ferric ions involved in the flower color development of the Himalayan blue poppy, Meconopsis grandis.

    Unknown

  • Structure determination of Heavenly blue anthocyanin, a complex monomeric anthocyanin from the morning glory Ipomoea tricolor, by means of the negative NOE method

    Tadao Kondo;Takatoshi Kawai;Hirotoshi Tamura;Toshio Goto

  • Total synthesis of flavocommelin, a component of the blue supramolecular pigment from Commelina communis, on the basis of direct 6-C-glycosylation of flavan.

    Kin-Ichi Oyama;Tadao Kondo

  • Chiral Molecular Recognition on Formation of a Metalloanthocyanin: A Supramolecular Metal Complex Pigment from Blue Flowers of Salvia patens.

    Tadao Kondo;Kin-ichi Oyama;Kumi Yoshida

  • The involvement of tonoplast proton pumps and Na+(K+)/H+ exchangers in the change of petal color during flower opening of Morning Glory, Ipomoea tricolor cv. Heavenly Blue.

    Kumi Yoshida;Miki Kawachi;Mihoko Mori;Masayoshi Maeshima

  • Amyloid β2-microglobulin is modified with Nε-(carboxymethyl)lysine in dialysis-related amyloidosis

    Toshimitsu Niwa;Mitsuhiko Sato;Tomoyuki Katsuzaki;Toshiyuki Tomoo

  • Intramolecular stacking conformation of gentiodelphin, a diacylated anthocyanin from Gentiana makinoi

    Kumi Yoshida;Tadao Kondo;Toshio Goto

  • A new molecular mechanism of blue color development with protocyanin, a supramolecular pigment from cornflower, Centaurea cyanus

    Tadao Kondo;Minoru Ueda;Minoru Isobe;Toshio Goto

  • Formation of anthocyanins from cells cultured from different parts of strawberry plants.

    Tsukasa Mori;Miei Sakurai;Jun-Ichi Shigeta;Kumi Yoshida

  • Anthocyanins from flowers of Cichorium intybus.

    Rikke Nørbæk;Karina Nielsen;Tadao Kondo

  • Stereoselective Bulk Polymerization of Racemic Lactide for Stereoblock Poly(racemic lactide) Using an Achiral Aluminum Complex

    Ryohei Ishii;Nobuyoshi Nomura;Tadao Kondo

  • Total synthesis of apigenin 7,4′-di-O-β-glucopyranoside, a component of blue flower pigment of Salvia patens, and seven chiral analogues

    Kin-ichi Oyama;Tadao Kondo

  • Chemistry of Metalloanthocyanins

    T. Goto;H. Tamura;T. Kawai;T. Hoshino

  • Contribution of each caffeoyl residue of the pigment molecule of gentiodelphin to blue color development.

    Kumi Yoshida;Yuki Toyama;Kiyoshi Kameda;Tadao Kondo

Frequent Co-Authors

Toshio Goto
Toshio Goto Nagoya University
Minoru Isobe
Minoru Isobe National Tsing Hua University
Kiyoyuki Yamada
Kiyoyuki Yamada Nagoya University
Minoru Ueda
Minoru Ueda Tohoku University
Makoto Ojika
Makoto Ojika Nagoya University
Masayoshi Maeshima
Masayoshi Maeshima Nagoya University
Hideshi Nakamura
Hideshi Nakamura Nagoya University
Mikio Nishimura
Mikio Nishimura National Institute for Basic Biology
Nobuyuki Harada
Nobuyuki Harada Tohoku University
Masayoshi Nakayama
Masayoshi Nakayama National Agriculture and Food Research Organization

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