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Takashi Hirayama

Takashi Hirayama

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Biology and Biochemistry

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50
Citations
15727
World Ranking
17432
National Ranking
1258

Overview

Takashi Hirayama is affiliated with Okayama University in Japan and has a research focus within the field of Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work is strongly concentrated on Plant Science, with additional contributions in Molecular Biology, Genetics, Computational Theory and Mathematics, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their research encompasses several main topics, including:

  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
  • Radioactive contamination and transfer
  • Radioactivity and Radon Measurements
  • Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology
  • Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics

Recent publications under their authorship highlight the range of their work. These include:

  • The barley pan-genome reveals the hidden legacy of mutation breeding, 2020, Nature
  • Plant Hormonomics: A Key Tool for Deep Physiological Phenotyping to Improve Crop Productivity, 2022, Plant and Cell Physiology
  • BdWRKY38 is required for the incompatible interaction of Brachypodium distachyon with the necrotrophic fungus Rhizoctonia solani, 2020, The Plant Journal
  • Decoding Plant-Environment Interactions That Influence Crop Agronomic Traits, 2020, Plant and Cell Physiology
  • Temperature-dependent fasciation mutants provide a link between mitochondrial RNA processing and lateral root morphogenesis, 2021, eLife

Hirayama's frequent coauthors include Keiichi Mochida, Takashi Saito, Katsuhisa Yamanaka, Yukiko Uehara-Yamaguchi, and Kotaro Takahagi. Collaborative efforts with these researchers have contributed significantly to their published body of work.

Their publications are commonly found in several scientific venues, reflecting a consistent presence in specific journals. The most frequent venues are:

  • Plant and Cell Physiology
  • The Plant Journal
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
  • Nature

Best Publications

  • EIN2, a bifunctional transducer of ethylene and stress responses in Arabidopsis.

    Jose M. Alonso;Takashi Hirayama;Gregg Roman;Saeid Nourizadeh

  • Research on plant abiotic stress responses in the post‐genome era: past, present and future

    Takashi Hirayama;Kazuo Shinozaki

  • Type 2C protein phosphatases directly regulate abscisic acid-activated protein kinases in Arabidopsis

    Taishi Umezawa;Naoyuki Sugiyama;Masahide Mizoguchi;Shimpei Hayashi

  • A gene encoding a mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase is induced simultaneously with genes for a mitogen-activated protein kinase and an S6 ribosomal protein kinase by touch, cold, and water stress in Arabidopsis thaliana.

    Tsuyoshi Mizoguchi;Kenji Irie;Takashi Hirayama;Nobuaki Hayashida

  • A Transmembrane Hybrid-Type Histidine Kinase in Arabidopsis Functions as an Osmosensor

    Takeshi Urao;Bakhtiyor Yakubov;Rie Satoh;Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki

  • Perception and transduction of abscisic acid signals: keys to the function of the versatile plant hormone ABA

    Takashi Hirayama;Kazuo Shinozaki

  • The barley pan-genome reveals the hidden legacy of mutation breeding.

    Murukarthick Jayakodi;Sudharsan Padmarasu;Georg Haberer;Venkata Suresh Bonthala

  • RESPONSIVE-TO-ANTAGONIST1, a Menkes/Wilson Disease–Related Copper Transporter, Is Required for Ethylene Signaling in Arabidopsis

    Takashi Hirayama;Joseph J. Kieber;Noriko Hirayama;Mikhail Kogan

  • 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

  • Zinc finger protein STOP1 is critical for proton tolerance in Arabidopsis and coregulates a key gene in aluminum tolerance.

    Satoshi Iuchi;Hiroyuki Koyama;Atsuko Iuchi;Yasufumi Kobayashi

  • A gene encoding a phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C is induced by dehydration and salt stress in Arabidopsis thaliana.

    Takashi Hirayama;Chikara Ohto;Tsuyoshi Mizoguchi;Kazuo Shinozaki

  • AtIPT3 is a Key Determinant of Nitrate-Dependent Cytokinin Biosynthesis in Arabidopsis

    Kentaro Takei;Nanae Ueda;Koh Aoki;Takashi Kuromori

  • An ABRE promoter sequence is involved in osmotic stress-responsive expression of the DREB2A gene, which encodes a transcription factor regulating drought-inducible genes in Arabidopsis

    June Sik Kim;Junya Mizoi;Takuya Yoshida;Yasunari Fujita

  • ABA-Hypersensitive Germination1 encodes a protein phosphatase 2C, an essential component of abscisic acid signaling in Arabidopsis seed.

    Noriyuki Nishimura;Tomo Yoshida;Nobutaka Kitahata;Tadao Asami

  • Elucidation of the RNA Recognition Code for Pentatricopeptide Repeat Proteins Involved in Organelle RNA Editing in Plants

    Yusuke Yagi;Shimpei Hayashi;Keiko Kobayashi;Takashi Hirayama

  • A collection of 11 800 single-copy Ds transposon insertion lines in Arabidopsis.

    Takashi Kuromori;Takashi Hirayama;Yuki Kiyosue;Hiroko Takabe

  • Hyperosmotic stress induces a rapid and transient increase in inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate independent of abscisic acid in Arabidopsis cell culture.

    Seiji Takahashi;Takeshi Katagiri;Takashi Hirayama;Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki

  • Computer vision-based phenotyping for improvement of plant productivity: a machine learning perspective

    Keiichi Mochida;Satoru Koda;Komaki Inoue;Takashi Hirayama

  • Analysis of ABA hypersensitive germination2 revealed the pivotal functions of PARN in stress response in Arabidopsis

    Noriyuki Nishimura;Nobutaka Kitahata;Motoaki Seki;Yoshihiro Narusaka

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

    Tomo Yoshida;Noriyuki Nishimura;Nobutaka Kitahata;Takashi Kuromori

Frequent Co-Authors

Takashi Kuromori
Takashi Kuromori Okayama University
Jun Kikuchi
Jun Kikuchi Yokohama City University
Izumi C. Mori
Izumi C. Mori Okayama University
Tadao Asami
Tadao Asami University of Tokyo
Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki
Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki University of Tokyo
Takashi Ueda
Takashi Ueda National Institute for Basic Biology
Ko Noguchi
Ko Noguchi Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences

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