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Takahito Nomura

Takahito Nomura

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
49
Citations
9119
World Ranking
17999
National Ranking
1296

Overview

Takahito Nomura is affiliated with Utsunomiya University in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on the agricultural and biological sciences, with particular emphasis on plant science and its related disciplines.

Their work spans several subfields including plant science, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, insect science, molecular biology, and nature and landscape conservation. These areas are reflected in Nomura's publication record and research interests.

Nomura has contributed to topics such as plant parasitism and resistance, plant and animal studies, and plant molecular biology research. Additional areas covered in their research include insect-plant interactions and control, allelopathy and phytotoxic interactions, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, and plant and fungal species descriptions.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Nomura include Xiaonan Xie, Akiyoshi Yoda, Kohki Akiyama, Kaori Yoneyama, and Koichi Yoneyama.

The scientist's research is published predominantly in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Experimental Botany, New Phytologist, Frontiers in Plant Science, and Current Biology, with multiple publications in each.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Nomura are:

  • An ancestral function of strigolactones as symbiotic rhizosphere signals, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Hydroxyl carlactone derivatives are predominant strigolactones in Arabidopsis, 2020, Plant Direct
  • Canonical strigolactones are not the major determinant of tillering but important rhizospheric signals in rice, 2022, Science Advances
  • Identification of two oxygenase genes involved in the respective biosynthetic pathways of canonical and non-canonical strigolactones in Lotus japonicus, 2020, Planta
  • Strigolactone biosynthesis catalyzed by cytochrome P450 and sulfotransferase in sorghum, 2021, New Phytologist

Best Publications

  • ELONGATED UPPERMOST INTERNODE Encodes a Cytochrome P450 Monooxygenase That Epoxidizes Gibberellins in a Novel Deactivation Reaction in Rice

    Yongyou Zhu;Takahito Nomura;Yonghan Xu;Yingying Zhang

  • How do nitrogen and phosphorus deficiencies affect strigolactone production and exudation

    Kaori Yoneyama;Xiaonan Xie;Hyun Il Kim;Takaya Kisugi

  • Carlactone is converted to carlactonoic acid by MAX1 in Arabidopsis and its methyl ester can directly interact with AtD14 in vitro

    Satoko Abe;Aika Sado;Kai Tanaka;Takaya Kisugi

  • The tomato DWARF enzyme catalyses C-6 oxidation in brassinosteroid biosynthesis

    Gerard J. Bishop;Takahito Nomura;Takao Yokota;Kate Harrison

  • The Arabidopsis DIMINUTO/DWARF1 Gene Encodes a Protein Involved in Steroid Synthesis

    Ulrich Klahre;Takahiro Noguchi;Shozo Fujioka;Suguru Takatsuto

  • Isolation and Characterization of a Rice Dwarf Mutant with a Defect in Brassinosteroid Biosynthesis

    Masaki Mori;Takahito Nomura;Hisako Ooka;Masumi Ishizaka

  • Overexpression of the vascular brassinosteroid receptor BRL3 confers drought resistance without penalizing plant growth

    Norma Fàbregas;Fidel Lozano-Elena;David Blasco-Escámez;Takayuki Tohge

  • Lateral branching oxidoreductase acts in the final stages of strigolactone biosynthesis in Arabidopsis

    Philip B. Brewer;Kaori Yoneyama;Fiona Filardo;Emma Meyers

  • Blockage of Brassinosteroid Biosynthesis and Sensitivity Causes Dwarfism in Garden Pea.

    T. Nomura;M. Nakayama;J. B. Reid;Y. Takeuchi

  • Brassinosteroid-6-oxidases from Arabidopsis and tomato catalyze multiple C-6 oxidations in brassinosteroid biosynthesis

    Yukihisa Shimada;Shozo Fujioka;Narumasa Miyauchi;Masayo Kushiro

  • Cloning the Tomato Curl3 Gene Highlights the Putative Dual Role of the Leucine-Rich Repeat Receptor Kinase tBRI1/SR160 in Plant Steroid Hormone and Peptide Hormone Signaling

    Teresa Montoya;Takahito Nomura;Takahito Nomura;Kerrie Farrar;Tsuyoshi Kaneta

  • The last reaction producing brassinolide is catalyzed by cytochrome P-450s, CYP85A3 in tomato and CYP85A2 in Arabidopsis

    Takahito Nomura;Tetsuo Kushiro;Takao Yokota;Yuji Kamiya

  • Regulation of Transcript Levels of the Arabidopsis Cytochrome P450 Genes Involved in Brassinosteroid Biosynthesis

    Simona Bancoş;Takahito Nomura;Tatsuro Sato;Gergely Molnár

  • BRASSINOSTEROID UPREGULATED1, encoding a helix-loop-helix protein, is a novel gene involved in brassinosteroid signaling and controls bending of the lamina joint in rice.

    Atsunori Tanaka;Hitoshi Nakagawa;Chikako Tomita;Chikako Tomita;Zenpei Shimatani;Zenpei Shimatani

  • CYP714B1 and CYP714B2 encode gibberellin 13-oxidases that reduce gibberellin activity in rice

    Hiroshi Magome;Takahito Nomura;Atsushi Hanada;Noriko Takeda-Kamiya

  • Confirming Stereochemical Structures of Strigolactones Produced by Rice and Tobacco

    Xiaonan Xie;Kaori Yoneyama;Takaya Kisugi;Kenichi Uchida

  • Conversion of carlactone to carlactonoic acid is a conserved function of MAX1 homologs in strigolactone biosynthesis

    Kaori Yoneyama;Kaori Yoneyama;Kaori Yoneyama;Narumi Mori;Tomoyasu Sato;Akiyoshi Yoda

  • Patterns of Dwarf expression and brassinosteroid accumulation in tomato reveal the importance of brassinosteroid synthesis during fruit development

    Teresa Montoya;Takahito Nomura;Takahito Nomura;Takao Yokota;Kerrie Farrar

  • Which are the major players, canonical or non-canonical strigolactones?

    Koichi Yoneyama;Xiaonan Xie;Kaori Yoneyama;Kaori Yoneyama;Takaya Kisugi

  • Brassinosteroid/Sterol synthesis and plant growth as affected by lka and lkb mutations of Pea

    Takahito Nomura;Yukiko Kitasaka;Suguru Takatsuto;James B. Reid

Frequent Co-Authors

Takao Yokota
Takao Yokota Teikyo University
Koichi Yoneyama
Koichi Yoneyama Ehime University
Xiaonan Xie
Xiaonan Xie Utsunomiya University
Kaori Yoneyama
Kaori Yoneyama Ehime University
Shinjiro Yamaguchi
Shinjiro Yamaguchi Kyoto University
Suguru Takatsuto
Suguru Takatsuto Joetsu University of Education
Tadao Asami
Tadao Asami University of Tokyo
James B. Reid
James B. Reid University of Tasmania
Yuji Kamiya
Yuji Kamiya RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science
Yasutomo Takeuchi
Yasutomo Takeuchi Utsunomiya University

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