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Takayuki Tohge is affiliated with the Nara Institute of Science and Technology in Japan and specializes in research within the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, as well as Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their work mainly focuses on Molecular Biology, Plant Science, and related subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology, and Biochemistry.

Their research interests cover a variety of topics linked to plant biology and biochemistry including Plant Gene Expression Analysis, Plant Biochemistry and Biosynthesis, Plant Molecular Biology Research, Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies, Plant Parasitism and Resistance, and comparative Plant and Animal Studies.

Takayuki Tohge has contributed to multiple scientific publications in prominent venues, frequently publishing in:

  • PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • The Plant Journal
  • Plant and Cell Physiology
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Takayuki Tohge include:

  • "Mass spectrometry-based metabolomics: a guide for annotation, quantification and best reporting practices" (2021) published in Nature Methods
  • "Diversity of anthocyanin and proanthocyanin biosynthesis in land plants" (2020) published in Current Opinion in Plant Biology
  • "Selection of a subspecies-specific diterpene gene cluster implicated in rice disease resistance" (2020) published in Nature Plants
  • "Exploiting Natural Variation in Tomato to Define Pathway Structure and Metabolic Regulation of Fruit Polyphenolics in the Lycopersicum Complex" (2020) published in Molecular Plant
  • "An Oryza-specific hydroxycinnamoyl tyramine gene cluster contributes to enhanced disease resistance" (2021) published in Science Bulletin

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Takayuki Tohge include:

  • Alisdair R. Fernie
  • Mutsumi Watanabe
  • Saleh Alseekh
  • Leonardo Perez de Souza
  • Thomas Naake

Best Publications

  • MassBank: a public repository for sharing mass spectral data for life sciences.

    Hisayuki Horai;Masanori Arita;Masanori Arita;Shigehiko Kanaya;Yoshito Nihei

  • Enhancement of oxidative and drought tolerance in Arabidopsis by overaccumulation of antioxidant flavonoids

    Ryo Nakabayashi;Keiko Yonekura-Sakakibara;Kaoru Urano;Makoto Suzuki

  • Functional genomics by integrated analysis of metabolome and transcriptome of Arabidopsis plants over-expressing an MYB transcription factor.

    Takayuki Tohge;Yasutaka Nishiyama;Yasutaka Nishiyama;Masami Yokota Hirai;Mitsuru Yano

  • Mass spectrometry-based metabolomics: a guide for annotation, quantification and best reporting practices

    Saleh Alseekh;Asaph Aharoni;Yariv Brotman;Kevin Contrepois

  • The flavonoid biosynthetic pathway in Arabidopsis: Structural and genetic diversity

    Kazuki Saito;Keiko Yonekura-Sakakibara;Ryo Nakabayashi;Yasuhiro Higashi

  • Omics-based identification of Arabidopsis Myb transcription factors regulating aliphatic glucosinolate biosynthesis

    Masami Yokota Hirai;Kenjiro Sugiyama;Yuji Sawada;Takayuki Tohge

  • Metabolic priming by a secreted fungal effector

    Armin Djamei;Kerstin Schipper;Kerstin Schipper;Kerstin Schipper;Franziska Rabe;Anupama Ghosh

  • JUNGBRUNNEN1, a Reactive Oxygen Species–Responsive NAC Transcription Factor, Regulates Longevity in Arabidopsis

    Anhui Wu;Annapurna Devi Allu;Prashanth Garapati;Hamad Siddiqui

  • Members of the LBD Family of Transcription Factors Repress Anthocyanin Synthesis and Affect Additional Nitrogen Responses in Arabidopsis

    Grit Rubin;Takayuki Tohge;Fumio Matsuda;Kazuki Saito

  • Mercator: a fast and simple web server for genome scale functional annotation of plant sequence data

    Marc Lohse;Axel Nagel;Thomas Herter;Patrick May

  • The genome of the stress-tolerant wild tomato species Solanum pennellii

    Anthony Bolger;Federico Scossa;Marie E Bolger;Christa Lanz

  • Protein degradation - an alternative respiratory substrate for stressed plants

    Wagner L. Araújo;Takayuki Tohge;Kimitsune Ishizaki;Kimitsune Ishizaki;Christopher J. Leaver

  • Shikimate and phenylalanine biosynthesis in the green lineage

    Takayuki Tohge;Mutsumi Watanabe;Rainer Hoefgen;Alisdair R. Fernie

  • Identification of the 2-Hydroxyglutarate and Isovaleryl-CoA Dehydrogenases as Alternative Electron Donors Linking Lysine Catabolism to the Electron Transport Chain of Arabidopsis Mitochondria

    Wagner L. Araújo;Kimitsune Ishizaki;Adriano Nunes-Nesi;Tony R. Larson

  • Systems Biology of Tomato Fruit Development: Combined Transcript, Protein, and Metabolite Analysis of Tomato Transcription Factor (nor, rin) and Ethylene Receptor (Nr) Mutants Reveals Novel Regulatory Interactions

    Sonia Osorio;Rob Alba;Cynthia M.B. Damasceno;Gloria Lopez-Casado

  • Comparative transcriptomics reveals patterns of selection in domesticated and wild tomato

    Daniel Koenig;José M. Jiménez-Gómez;Seisuke Kimura;Daniel Fulop

  • Comprehensive Flavonol Profiling and Transcriptome Coexpression Analysis Leading to Decoding Gene–Metabolite Correlations in Arabidopsis

    Keiko Yonekura-Sakakibara;Takayuki Tohge;Fumio Matsuda;Ryo Nakabayashi

  • Arabidopsis SLIM1 Is a Central Transcriptional Regulator of Plant Sulfur Response and Metabolism

    Akiko Maruyama-Nakashita;Yumiko Nakamura;Takayuki Tohge;Kazuki Saito

  • Analysis of PRODUCTION OF FLAVONOL GLYCOSIDES-dependent flavonol glycoside accumulation in Arabidopsis thaliana plants reveals MYB11-, MYB12- and MYB111-independent flavonol glycoside accumulation.

    Ralf Stracke;Oliver Jahns;Matthias Keck;Takayuki Tohge

  • Identification of a flavonol 7-O-rhamnosyltransferase gene determining flavonoid pattern in Arabidopsis by transcriptome coexpression analysis and reverse genetics.

    Keiko Yonekura-Sakakibara;Takayuki Tohge;Rie Niida;Kazuki Saito

Frequent Co-Authors

Alisdair R. Fernie
Alisdair R. Fernie Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
Kazuki Saito
Kazuki Saito Chiba University
Zoran Nikoloski
Zoran Nikoloski Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
Sonia Osorio
Sonia Osorio University of Malaga
Rainer Hoefgen
Rainer Hoefgen Max Planck Society
Wagner L. Araújo
Wagner L. Araújo Universidade Federal de Viçosa
Adriano Nunes-Nesi
Adriano Nunes-Nesi Universidade Federal de Viçosa
Mark Stitt
Mark Stitt Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
Bernd Mueller-Roeber
Bernd Mueller-Roeber University of Potsdam
Yariv Brotman
Yariv Brotman Tel Aviv University

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