Yoko Nishizawa

Best Publications

• The complete sequence of the rice (Oryza sativa) chloroplast genome: Intermolecular recombination between distinct tRNA genes accounts for a major plastid DNA inversion during the evolution of the cereals

  Junzou Hiratsuka;Hiroaki Shimada;Robert Whittier;Takashi Ishibashi

  1673
  Citations

• Plant cells recognize chitin fragments for defense signaling through a plasma membrane receptor

  Hanae Kaku;Yoko Nishizawa;Naoko Ishii-Minami;Chiharu Akimoto-Tomiyama

  1508
  Citations

• Two LysM receptor molecules, CEBiP and OsCERK1, cooperatively regulate chitin elicitor signaling in rice

  Takeo Shimizu;Takuto Nakano;Daisuke Takamizawa;Yoshitake Desaki

  817
  Citations

• Effector-Mediated Suppression of Chitin-Triggered Immunity by Magnaporthe oryzae Is Necessary for Rice Blast Disease

  Thomas A. Mentlak;Anja Kombrink;Tomonori Shinya;Lauren S. Ryder

  590
  Citations

• WRKY76 is a rice transcriptional repressor playing opposite roles in blast disease resistance and cold stress tolerance

  Naoki Yokotani;Yuko Sato;Shigeru Tanabe;Tetsuya Chujo

  371
  Citations

• Enhanced resistance to blast (Magnaporthe grisea) in transgenic Japonica rice by constitutive expression of rice chitinase.

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  309
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• Identification of rice Allene Oxide Cyclase mutants and the function of jasmonate for defence against Magnaporthe oryzae

  Michael Riemann;Ken Haga;Takafumi Shimizu;Kazunori Okada

  279
  Citations

• The Bifunctional Plant Receptor, OsCERK1, Regulates Both Chitin-Triggered Immunity and Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis in Rice

  Kana Miyata;Toshinori Kozaki;Yusuke Kouzai;Kenjirou Ozawa

  264
  Citations

• Transgenic cucumber plants harboring a rice chitinase gene exhibit enhanced resistance to gray mold (Botrytis cinerea).

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  255
  Citations

• Transgenic grapevine plants expressing a rice chitinase with enhanced resistance to fungal pathogens

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  249
  Citations

• Surface α-1,3-glucan facilitates fungal stealth infection by interfering with innate immunity in plants.

  Takashi Fujikawa;Ayumu Sakaguchi;Yoko Nishizawa;Yusuke Kouzai

  236
  Citations

• Perception of the chitin oligosaccharides contributes to disease resistance to blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae in rice.

  Kyutaro Kishimoto;Yusuke Kouzai;Hanae Kaku;Naoto Shibuya

  209
  Citations

• OsWRKY28, a PAMP-responsive transrepressor, negatively regulates innate immune responses in rice against rice blast fungus.

  Tetsuya Chujo;Tetsuya Chujo;Koji Miyamoto;Takeo Shimogawa;Takafumi Shimizu;Takafumi Shimizu

  154
  Citations

• Transgenic chrysanthemum (Dendranthema grandiflorum (Ramat.) Kitamura) expressing a rice chitinase gene shows enhanced resistance to gray mold (Botrytis cinerea)

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  148
  Citations

• Overexpression of Phosphomimic Mutated OsWRKY53 Leads to Enhanced Blast Resistance in Rice

  Tetsuya Chujo;Koji Miyamoto;Satoshi Ogawa;Yuka Masuda

  145
  Citations

• Salicylic acid-dependent immunity contributes to resistance against Rhizoctonia solani, a necrotrophic fungal agent of sheath blight, in rice and Brachypodium distachyon

  Yusuke Kouzai;Mamiko Kimura;Megumi Watanabe;Kazuki Kusunoki

  139
  Citations

• Targeted Gene Disruption of OsCERK1 Reveals Its Indispensable Role in Chitin Perception and Involvement in the Peptidoglycan Response and Immunity in Rice

  Yusuke Kouzai;Susumu Mochizuki;Keisuke Nakajima;Yoshitake Desaki

  131
  Citations

• Regulation of the chitinase gene expression in suspension-cultured rice cells by N-acetylchitooligosaccharides: differences in the signal transduction pathways leading to the activation of elicitor-responsive genes.

  Yoko Nishizawa;Akira Kawakami;Tadaaki Hibi;Dao-Yao He

  128
  Citations

• Characterization of transgenic rice plants over-expressing the stress-inducible β-glucanase gene Gns1

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  126
  Citations

• Detailed analysis of rice chitinase gene expression in transgenic cucumber plants showing different levels of disease resistance to gray mold (Botrytis cinerea)

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  124
  Citations