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Yasuo Nagato

Yasuo Nagato

D-Index & Metrics

Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
50
Citations
11666
World Ranking
2097
National Ranking
74

Yasuo Nagato publication distribution in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Yasuo Nagato sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 116 publications — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 467 publications or more.

Yasuo Nagato D-index placement in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Plant Science and Agronomy scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Yasuo Nagato sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 200 scientists 31 D-Index: 236 scientists 32 D-Index: 253 scientists 33 D-Index: 283 scientists 34 D-Index: 288 scientists 35 D-Index: 240 scientists 36 D-Index: 246 scientists 37 D-Index: 243 scientists 38 D-Index: 247 scientists 39 D-Index: 229 scientists 40 D-Index: 232 scientists 41 D-Index: 230 scientists 42 D-Index: 228 scientists 43 D-Index: 219 scientists 44 D-Index: 193 scientists 45 D-Index: 164 scientists 46 D-Index: 158 scientists 47 D-Index: 143 scientists 48 D-Index: 131 scientists 49 D-Index: 127 scientists 50 D-Index: 122 scientists 51 D-Index: 122 scientists 52 D-Index: 110 scientists 53 D-Index: 102 scientists 54 D-Index: 98 scientists 55 D-Index: 79 scientists 56 D-Index: 85 scientists 57 D-Index: 88 scientists 58 D-Index: 91 scientists 59 D-Index: 62 scientists 60 D-Index: 61 scientists 61 D-Index: 59 scientists 62 D-Index: 54 scientists 63 D-Index: 61 scientists 64 D-Index: 59 scientists 65 D-Index: 58 scientists 66 D-Index: 41 scientists 67 D-Index: 49 scientists 68 D-Index: 39 scientists 69 D-Index: 32 scientists 70 D-Index: 40 scientists 71 D-Index: 47 scientists 72 D-Index: 38 scientists 73 D-Index: 28 scientists 74 D-Index: 29 scientists 75 D-Index: 28 scientists 76 D-Index: 22 scientists 77 D-Index: 21 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 26 scientists 80 D-Index: 19 scientists 81 D-Index: 16 scientists 82 D-Index: 12 scientists 83 D-Index: 16 scientists 84 D-Index: 14 scientists 85 D-Index: 11 scientists 86 D-Index: 17 scientists 87 D-Index: 13 scientists 88 D-Index: 10 scientists 89 D-Index: 12 scientists 90 D-Index: 18 scientists 91 D-Index: 16 scientists 92 D-Index: 16 scientists 93 D-Index: 17 scientists 94 D-Index: 12 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 9 scientists 97 D-Index: 9 scientists 98 D-Index: 11 scientists 99 D-Index: 12 scientists 100 D-Index: 5 scientists 101 D-Index: 8 scientists 102 D-Index: 4 scientists 103 D-Index: 11 scientists 104 D-Index: 5 scientists 105 D-Index: 9 scientists 106 D-Index: 7 scientists 107 D-Index: 4 scientists 108 D-Index: 8 scientists 109+ D-Index: 99 scientists
30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 109 D-Index or more.

Best Publications

  • Direct control of shoot meristem activity by a cytokinin-activating enzyme.

    Takashi Kurakawa;Nanae Ueda;Masahiko Maekawa;Kaoru Kobayashi

  • Rice Plant Development: from Zygote to Spikelet

    Jun-Ichi Itoh;Ken-Ichi Nonomura;Kyoko Ikeda;Shinichiro Yamaki

  • The YABBY Gene DROOPING LEAF Regulates Carpel Specification and Midrib Development in Oryza sativa

    Takahiro Yamaguchi;Nobuhiro Nagasawa;Shinji Kawasaki;Makoto Matsuoka

  • Mutations in Rice (Oryza sativa) Heavy Metal ATPase 2 (OsHMA2) Restrict the Translocation of Zinc and Cadmium

    Namiko Satoh-Nagasawa;Mikako Mori;Nobushige Nakazawa;Tomohiko Kawamoto

  • SUPERWOMAN1 and DROOPING LEAF genes control floral organ identity in rice.

    Nobuhiro Nagasawa;Masahiro Miyoshi;Yoshio Sano;Hikaru Satoh

  • FRIZZY PANICLE is required to prevent the formation of axillary meristems and to establish floral meristem identity in rice spikelets.

    Mai Komatsu;Atsushi Chujo;Yasuo Nagato;Ko Shimamoto

  • The gene FLORAL ORGAN NUMBER1 regulates floral meristem size in rice and encodes a leucine-rich repeat receptor kinase orthologous to Arabidopsis CLAVATA1

    Takuya Suzaki;Makoto Sato;Motoyuki Ashikari;Masahiro Miyoshi

  • Rice ABERRANT PANICLE ORGANIZATION 1, encoding an F‐box protein, regulates meristem fate

    Kyoko Ikeda;Momoyo Ito;Nobuhiro Nagasawa;Nobuhiro Nagasawa;Junko Kyozuka

  • MOSAIC FLORAL ORGANS1, an AGL6-Like MADS Box Gene, Regulates Floral Organ Identity and Meristem Fate in Rice

    Shinnosuke Ohmori;Mayumi Kimizu;Maiko Sugita;Akio Miyao

  • The small interfering RNA production pathway is required for shoot meristem initiation in rice.

    Hiroshi Nagasaki;Jun Ichi Itoh;Katsunobu Hayashi;Ken Ichiro Hibara

  • ABERRANT PANICLE ORGANIZATION 2/RFL, the rice ortholog of Arabidopsis LEAFY, suppresses the transition from inflorescence meristem to floral meristem through interaction with APO1.

    Kyoko Ikeda-Kawakatsu;Masahiko Maekawa;Takeshi Izawa;Jun Ichi Itoh

  • Developmental Course of Inflorescence and Spikelet in Rice

    Unknown

  • Molecular analysis of the NAC gene family in rice

    Unknown

  • Flower development in rice

    Hitoshi Yoshida;Yasuo Nagato

  • MNU-induced mutant pools and high performance TILLING enable finding of any gene mutation in rice

    Tadzunu Suzuki;Mitsugu Eiguchi;Toshihiro Kumamaru;Hikaru Satoh

  • A rice homeobox gene, OSH1, is expressed before organ differentiation in a specific region during early embryogenesis.

    Yutaka Sato;Soon-Kwan Hong;Akemi Tagiri;Hidemi Kitano

  • PLASTOCHRON1, a timekeeper of leaf initiation in rice, encodes cytochrome P450

    Kazumaru Miyoshi;Byung Ohg Ahn;Taiji Kawakatsu;Yukihiro Ito

  • ABERRANT PANICLE ORGANIZATION 1 temporally regulates meristem identity in rice.

    Kyoko Ikeda;Nobuhiro Nagasawa;Yasuo Nagato

  • Expression level of ABERRANT PANICLE ORGANIZATION1 determines rice inflorescence form through control of cell proliferation in the meristem.

    Kyoko Ikeda-Kawakatsu;Naoko Yasuno;Tetsuo Oikawa;Shigeru Iida;Shigeru Iida

  • Developmental Role and Auxin Responsiveness of Class III Homeodomain Leucine Zipper Gene Family Members in Rice

    Jun-Ichi Itoh;Ken-Ichiro Hibara;Yutaka Sato;Yasuo Nagato

Frequent Co-Authors

Hidemi Kitano
Hidemi Kitano Nagoya University
Yutaka Sato
Yutaka Sato National Institute of Genetics
Makoto Matsuoka
Makoto Matsuoka Nagoya University
Hikaru Satoh
Hikaru Satoh Kyushu University
Hitoshi Sakakibara
Hitoshi Sakakibara Nagoya University
Hirohiko Hirochika
Hirohiko Hirochika Institute of Agrobiological Sciences
Nori Kurata
Nori Kurata National Institute of Genetics
Junko Kyozuka
Junko Kyozuka Tohoku University
Akio Miyao
Akio Miyao National Agriculture and Food Research Organization
Makoto Kusaba
Makoto Kusaba Hiroshima University

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