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Takayuki Kohchi

Takayuki Kohchi

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76
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18190
World Ranking
1845
National Ranking
71

Overview

Takayuki Kohchi is a researcher affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan. Their work primarily focuses on Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant contributions to the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Within these broader fields, their research emphasizes Plant Science and Molecular Biology, alongside interests in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior, and Systematics.

The scientist's research covers a range of topics, particularly within Plant Molecular Biology Research, Plant Reproductive Biology, and Bryophyte Studies and Records. Other research areas include Plant Parasitism and Resistance, Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, Botany and Plant Ecology Studies, and Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism.

Takayuki Kohchi has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Ryuichi Nishihama
  • Shohei Yamaoka
  • Kimitsune Ishizaki
  • Katsuyuki T. Yamato
  • John L. Bowman

Their publications have appeared regularly in key journals such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Plant and Cell Physiology
  • Current Biology
  • Nature Plants
  • The Plant Cell

Notable recent papers include:

  • Chromatin Organization in Early Land Plants Reveals an Ancestral Association between H3K27me3, Transposons, and Constitutive Heterochromatin, 2020, Current Biology
  • Development and Molecular Genetics of Marchantia polymorpha, 2021, Annual Review of Plant Biology
  • Design principles of a minimal auxin response system, 2020, Nature Plants
  • The renaissance and enlightenment of Marchantia as a model system, 2022, The Plant Cell
  • Induction of Multichotomous Branching by CLAVATA Peptide in Marchantia polymorpha, 2020, Current Biology

Best Publications

  • Chloroplast gene organization deduced from complete sequence of liverwort Marchantia polymorpha chloroplast DNA

    Kanji Ohyama;Hideya Fukuzawa;Takayuki Kohchi;Hiromasa Shirai;Hiromasa Shirai

  • Insights into Land Plant Evolution Garnered from the Marchantia polymorpha Genome

    John L Bowman;Takayuki Kohchi;Katsuyuki T Yamato;Jerry Jenkins

  • Gene organization deduced from the complete sequence of liverwort Marchantia polymorpha mitochondrial DNA. A primitive form of plant mitochondrial genome

    Kenji Oda;Katsuyuki Yamato;Eiji Ohta;Yasukazu Nakamura

  • The Arabidopsis Photomorphogenic Mutant hy1 Is Deficient in Phytochrome Chromophore Biosynthesis as a Result of a Mutation in a Plastid Heme Oxygenase

    Takuya Muramoto;Takayuki Kohchi;Takayuki Kohchi;Akiho Yokota;Inhwan Hwang

  • The tify family previously known as ZIM.

    Bartel Vanholme;Wim Grunewald;Alex Bateman;Takayuki Kohchi

  • Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of the haploid liverwort Marchantia polymorpha L., an emerging model for plant biology.

    Kimitsune Ishizaki;Shota Chiyoda;Katsuyuki T. Yamato;Takayuki Kohchi

  • The Arabidopsis HY2 gene encodes phytochromobilin synthase, a ferredoxin-dependent biliverdin reductase.

    Takayuki Kohchi;Keiko Mukougawa;Nicole Frankenberg;Munehisa Masuda

  • CRISPR/Cas9-mediated targeted mutagenesis in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha L.

    Shigeo S. Sugano;Makoto Shirakawa;Junpei Takagi;Yoriko Matsuda

  • Efficient Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation of the Liverwort Marchantia polymorpha Using Regenerating Thalli

    Akane Kubota;Kimitsune Ishizaki;Masashi Hosaka;Takayuki Kohchi

  • Functional Genomic Analysis of the HY2 Family of Ferredoxin-Dependent Bilin Reductases from Oxygenic Photosynthetic Organisms

    Nicole Frankenberg;Keiko Mukougawa;Takayuki Kohchi;J. Clark Lagarias

  • Development of Gateway Binary Vector Series with Four Different Selection Markers for the Liverwort Marchantia polymorpha

    Kimitsune Ishizaki;Ryuichi Nishihama;Minoru Ueda;Keisuke Inoue

  • Chromatin Organization in Early Land Plants Reveals an Ancestral Association between H3K27me3, Transposons, and Constitutive Heterochromatin

    Sean A. Montgomery;Yasuhiro Tanizawa;Bence Galik;Nan Wang

  • Molecular Genetic Tools and Techniques for Marchantia polymorpha Research

    Kimitsune Ishizaki;Ryuichi Nishihama;Katsuyuki T. Yamato;Takayuki Kohchi

  • Ligand-receptor co-evolution shaped the jasmonate pathway in land plants.

    Isabel Monte;Sakiko Ishida;Angel M. Zamarreño;Mats Hamberg

  • Responses of wild watermelon to drought stress: accumulation of an ArgE homologue and citrulline in leaves during water deficits.

    Shinji Kawasaki;Chikahiro Miyake;Takayuki Kohchi;Shinichiro Fujii

  • Efficient CRISPR/Cas9-based genome editing and its application to conditional genetic analysis in Marchantia polymorpha

    Shigeo S. Sugano;Ryuichi Nishihama;Makoto Shirakawa;Junpei Takagi

  • Expression and Biochemical Properties of a Ferredoxin-Dependent Heme Oxygenase Required for Phytochrome Chromophore Synthesis

    Takuya Muramoto;Noriyuki Tsurui;Matthew J. Terry;Akiho Yokota

  • Auxin-Mediated Transcriptional System with a Minimal Set of Components Is Critical for Morphogenesis through the Life Cycle in Marchantia polymorpha

    Hirotaka Kato;Kimitsune Ishizaki;Masaru Kouno;Makoto Shirakawa

  • Homologous recombination-mediated gene targeting in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha L

    Kimitsune Ishizaki;Yasuyo Johzuka-Hisatomi;Sakiko Ishida;Shigeru Iida

  • Metabolic engineering to produce phytochromes with phytochromobilin, phycocyanobilin, or phycoerythrobilin chromophore in Escherichia coli.

    Keiko Mukougawa;Keiko Mukougawa;Hirosuke Kanamoto;Toshikazu Kobayashi;Toshikazu Kobayashi;Akiho Yokota

Frequent Co-Authors

Kimitsune Ishizaki
Kimitsune Ishizaki Kobe University
Ryuichi Nishihama
Ryuichi Nishihama Tokyo University of Science
Katsuyuki T. Yamato
Katsuyuki T. Yamato Kindai University
Akiho Yokota
Akiho Yokota Nara Institute of Science and Technology
John L. Bowman
John L. Bowman Monash University
Hideya Fukuzawa
Hideya Fukuzawa Kyoto University
Takashi Ueda
Takashi Ueda National Institute for Basic Biology
Kazuhiko Umesono
Kazuhiko Umesono Kyoto University
Frédéric Berger
Frédéric Berger Austrian Academy of Sciences
Yasukazu Nakamura
Yasukazu Nakamura National Institute of Genetics

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