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Yoshiyuki Murata

Yoshiyuki Murata

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
72
Citations
21284
World Ranking
6212
National Ranking
401

Overview

Yoshiyuki Murata is affiliated with Okayama University in Japan and has contributed extensively to the field of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a particular focus on Plant Science. Their scholarly work spans 141 publications in this main discipline, illustrating a sustained commitment to research over time.

Their research concentrates significantly on Plant Science, with 132 publications in this subfield alone. Other areas of interest include Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Nutrition and Dietetics, and Pathology and Forensic Medicine.

Key topics covered in Murata's work encompass:

  • Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
  • Plant responses to water stress
  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
  • Aluminum toxicity and tolerance in plants and animals
  • Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects
  • Genomics, phytochemicals, and oxidative stress
  • Seed Germination and Physiology

The scientist has published research in several notable venues, with repeated contributions to Bioscience Biotechnology and Biochemistry (13 publications), International Journal of Molecular Sciences (5 publications), Journal of soil science and plant nutrition (4 publications), Plant and Cell Physiology (3 publications), and Agronomy (3 publications).

Recent publications include:

  • Seed Priming with Phytohormones: An Effective Approach for the Mitigation of Abiotic Stress, 2020, Plants
  • Citric Acid-Mediated Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants, 2021, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Stomatal Immunity Against Fungal Invasion Comprises Not Only Chitin-Induced Stomatal Closure but Also Chitosan-Induced Guard Cell Death, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 5-aminolevulinic Acid-Mediated Plant Adaptive Responses to Abiotic Stress, 2021, Plant Cell Reports
  • Insights into Nitric Oxide-Mediated Water Balance, Antioxidant Defence and Mineral Homeostasis in Rice (Oryza sativa L.) under Chilling Stress, 2020, Nitric Oxide

Murata has collaborated frequently with a number of researchers, including Shintaro Munemasa, Yoshimasa Nakamura, Md. Tahjib-Ul-Arif, Toshiyuki Nakamura, and Mohammad Saidur Rhaman. These frequent co-authorships denote a well-established network within the scientific community focused on plant physiology and stress tolerance mechanisms.

Best Publications

  • Calcium channels activated by hydrogen peroxide mediate abscisic acid signalling in guard cells

    Zhen-Ming Pei;Yoshiyuki Murata;Gregor Benning;Sébastien Thomine

  • Abscisic Acid Activation of Plasma Membrane Ca2+ Channels in Guard Cells Requires Cytosolic NAD(P)H and Is Differentially Disrupted Upstream and Downstream of Reactive Oxygen Species Production in abi1-1 and abi2-1 Protein Phosphatase 2C Mutants

    Yoshiyuki Murata;Zhen-Ming Pei;Izumi C. Mori;Julian Schroeder

  • CDPKs CPK6 and CPK3 Function in ABA Regulation of Guard Cell S-Type Anion- and Ca2+- Permeable Channels and Stomatal Closure

    Izumi C. Mori;Yoshiyuki Murata;Yoshiyuki Murata;Yingzhen Yang;Shintaro Munemasa;Shintaro Munemasa

  • MAP kinases MPK9 and MPK12 are preferentially expressed in guard cells and positively regulate ROS-mediated ABA signaling

    Fabien Jammes;Charlotte Song;Charlotte Song;Dongjin Shin;Dongjin Shin;Shintaro Munemasa

  • The coronatine-insensitive 1 Mutation Reveals the Hormonal Signaling Interaction between Abscisic Acid and Methyl Jasmonate in Arabidopsis Guard Cells. Specific Impairment of Ion Channel Activation and Second Messenger Production

    Shintaro Munemasa;Kenji Oda;Megumi Watanabe-Sugimoto;Yoshimasa Nakamura

  • Exogenous proline and glycinebetaine increase NaCl-induced ascorbate–glutathione cycle enzyme activities, and proline improves salt tolerance more than glycinebetaine in tobacco Bright Yellow-2 suspension-cultured cells

    Md. Anamul Hoque;Mst. Nasrin Akhter Banu;Eiji Okuma;Katsumi Amako

  • Exogenous proline mitigates the detrimental effects of salt stress more than exogenous betaine by increasing antioxidant enzyme activities

    Md. Anamul Hoque;Eiji Okuma;Mst. Nasrin Akhter Banu;Yoshimasa Nakamura

  • Mechanism of Stomatal Closure in Plants Exposed to Drought and Cold Stress.

    Srinivas Agurla;Shashibhushan Gahir;Shintaro Munemasa;Yoshiyuki Murata

  • Arabidopsis abi1-1 and abi2-1 Phosphatase Mutations Reduce Abscisic Acid–Induced Cytoplasmic Calcium Rises in Guard Cells

    Gethyn J. Allen;Kazuyuki Kuchitsu;Sarah P. Chu;Yoshiyuki Murata

  • Exogenous proline and glycinebetaine increase antioxidant enzyme activities and confer tolerance to cadmium stress in cultured tobacco cells.

    Mohammad Muzahidul Islam;Md. Anamul Hoque;Eiji Okuma;Mst. Nasrin Akhter Banu

  • Proline and glycinebetaine enhance antioxidant defense and methylglyoxal detoxification systems and reduce NaCl-induced damage in cultured tobacco cells.

    Md. Anamul Hoque;Mst. Nasrin Akhter Banu;Yoshimasa Nakamura;Yasuaki Shimoishi

  • Proline and glycinebetaine induce antioxidant defense gene expression and suppress cell death in cultured tobacco cells under salt stress.

    Mst. Nasrin Akhter Banu;Md. Anamul Hoque;Megumi Watanabe-Sugimoto;Ken Matsuoka

  • SIZ1 deficiency causes reduced stomatal aperture and enhanced drought tolerance via controlling salicylic acid-induced accumulation of reactive oxygen species in Arabidopsis.

    Kenji Miura;Kenji Miura;Hiroyuki Okamoto;Eiji Okuma;Hayato Shiba

  • Involvement of extracellular oxidative burst in salicylic acid‐induced stomatal closure in Arabidopsis

    Atiqur Rahman Khokon;Eiji Okuma;Mohammad Anowar Hossain;Shintaro Munemasa

  • Diverse stomatal signaling and the signal integration mechanism

    Yoshiyuki Murata;Izumi C. Mori;Shintaro Munemasa

  • Mushroom Tyrosinase Inhibitory Activity of Esculetin Isolated from Seeds of Euphorbia lathyris L.

    Yukimitsu Masamoto;Hideya Ando;Yoshiyuki Murata;Yasuaki Shimoishi

  • Convergence of Calcium Signaling Pathways of Pathogenic Elicitors and Abscisic Acid in Arabidopsis Guard Cells

    Birgit Klüsener;Jared J. Young;Yoshiyuki Murata;Gethyn J. Allen

  • Disruption of a Guard Cell–Expressed Protein Phosphatase 2A Regulatory Subunit, RCN1, Confers Abscisic Acid Insensitivity in Arabidopsis

    June M. Kwak;Ji Hye Moon;Yoshiyuki Murata;Kazuyuki Kuchitsu

  • Dominant Negative Guard Cell K+ Channel Mutants Reduce Inward-Rectifying K+ Currents and Light-Induced Stomatal Opening in Arabidopsis

    June M. Kwak;Yoshiyuki Murata;Victor M. Baizabal-Aguirre;Jennifer Merrill

  • Involvement of Endogenous Abscisic Acid in Methyl Jasmonate-Induced Stomatal Closure in Arabidopsis

    Mohammad Anowar Hossain;Shintaro Munemasa;Misugi Uraji;Yoshimasa Nakamura

Frequent Co-Authors

Yoshimasa Nakamura
Yoshimasa Nakamura Okayama University
Shintaro Munemasa
Shintaro Munemasa Okayama University
Izumi C. Mori
Izumi C. Mori Okayama University
Beiwei Zhu
Beiwei Zhu Dalian Polytechnic University
Julian I. Schroeder
Julian I. Schroeder University of California, San Diego
June M. Kwak
June M. Kwak Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology
Toshinori Kinoshita
Toshinori Kinoshita Nagoya University
Ken Matsuoka
Ken Matsuoka Kyushu University
Zhen-Ming Pei
Zhen-Ming Pei Duke University
Ken-ichiro Shimazaki
Ken-ichiro Shimazaki Kyushu University

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