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Yutaka Sato is affiliated with the National Institute of Genetics in Japan and has made significant contributions to research in agricultural and biological sciences as well as biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spans multiple subfields including plant science, molecular biology, genetics, cell biology, and biomedical engineering.

The main topics of their research focus on plant molecular biology, genetic mapping and diversity in plants and animals, plant reproductive biology, plant tissue culture and regeneration, chromosomal and genetic variations, plant responses to water stress, and plant nutrient uptake and metabolism.

Frequently publishing in scientific journals, Yutaka Sato has contributed to the fields through venues such as:

  • Breeding Science
  • Rice
  • The Plant Journal
  • Plant and Cell Physiology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Yutaka Sato has worked closely with collaborators including Atsushi Toyoda, Misuzu Nosaka-Takahashi, Ken-Ichi Nonomura, Takanori Yoshikawa, and Sae Shimizu-Sato, among others.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Yutaka Sato include:

  • Antagonistic regulation of the gibberellic acid response during stem growth in rice, 2020, Nature
  • WUSCHEL-related homeobox family genes in rice control lateral root primordium size, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Adaptive reduction of male gamete number in the selfing plant Arabidopsis thaliana, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Mutation of the imprinted geneOsEMF2ainduces autonomous endosperm development and delayed cellularization in rice, 2020, The Plant Cell
  • Agrobacterium-Mediated Genetic Transformation of Wild Oryza Species Using Immature Embryos, 2020, Rice

Best Publications

  • The Gibberellin Signaling Pathway Is Regulated by the Appearance and Disappearance of SLENDER RICE1 in Nuclei

    Hironori Itoh;Miyako Ueguchi-Tanaka;Yutaka Sato;Motoyuki Ashikari

  • Low-affinity cation transporter (OsLCT1) regulates cadmium transport into rice grains

    Shimpei Uraguchi;Takehiro Kamiya;Takuya Sakamoto;Koji Kasai

  • A Zinc Finger Transcription Factor ART1 Regulates Multiple Genes Implicated in Aluminum Tolerance in Rice

    Naoki Yamaji;Chao Feng Huang;Sakiko Nagao;Masahiro Yano

  • RiceXPro Version 3.0: expanding the informatics resource for rice transcriptome

    Yutaka Sato;Hinako Takehisa;Kaori Kamatsuki;Hiroshi Minami

  • Ectopic Expression of KNOTTED1-Like Homeobox Protein Induces Expression of Cytokinin Biosynthesis Genes in Rice

    Tomoaki Sakamoto;Hitoshi Sakakibara;Mikiko Kojima;Yuko Yamamoto

  • RiceXPro: a platform for monitoring gene expression in japonica rice grown under natural field conditions

    Yutaka Sato;Baltazar A. Antonio;Nobukazu Namiki;Hinako Takehisa

  • Inflorescence Meristem Identity in Rice Is Specified by Overlapping Functions of Three AP1/FUL-Like MADS Box Genes and PAP2, a SEPALLATA MADS Box Gene

    Kaoru Kobayashi;Naoko Yasuno;Yutaka Sato;Masahiro Yoda

  • TAWAWA1, a regulator of rice inflorescence architecture, functions through the suppression of meristem phase transition

    Akiko Yoshida;Masafumi Sasao;Naoko Yasuno;Kyoko Takagi

  • Isolation and characterization of a rice WUSCHEL‐type homeobox gene that is specifically expressed in the central cells of a quiescent center in the root apical meristem

    Noriko Kamiya;Hiroshi Nagasaki;Atsushi Morikami;Yutaka Sato

  • LAX PANICLE2 of rice encodes a novel nuclear protein and regulates the formation of axillary meristems.

    Hiroaki Tabuchi;Yu Zhang;Susumu Hattori;Minami Omae

  • Deciphering and Prediction of Transcriptome Dynamics under Fluctuating Field Conditions

    Atsushi J. Nagano;Yutaka Sato;Motohiro Mihara;Baltazar A. Antonio

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

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

  • Loss-of-function mutations in the rice homeobox gene OSH15 affect the architecture of internodes resulting in dwarf plants.

    Yutaka Sato;Naoki Sentoku;Yoshio Miura;Hirohiko Hirochika

  • Gateway binary vectors with the bialaphos resistance gene, bar, as a selection marker for plant transformation.

    Shinya Nakamura;Shoji Mano;Shoji Mano;Yuji Tanaka;Masato Ohnishi

  • Regional Expression of the Rice KN1 -Type Homeobox Gene Family during Embryo, Shoot, and Flower Development

    Naoki Sentoku;Yutaka Sato;Nori Kurata;Yukihiro Ito

  • 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

  • Positive Autoregulation of a KNOX Gene Is Essential for Shoot Apical Meristem Maintenance in Rice

    Katsutoshi Tsuda;Yukihiro Ito;Yutaka Sato;Nori Kurata;Nori Kurata

  • 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

  • Overexpression of rice OSH genes induces ectopic shoots on leaf sheaths of transgenic rice plants.

    Naoki Sentoku;Yutaka Sato;Makoto Matsuoka

  • RiceFREND: a platform for retrieving coexpressed gene networks in rice

    Yutaka Sato;Nobukazu Namiki;Hinako Takehisa;Kaori Kamatsuki

Frequent Co-Authors

Yoshiaki Nagamura
Yoshiaki Nagamura National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences
Yasuo Nagato
Yasuo Nagato University of Tokyo
Hidemi Kitano
Hidemi Kitano Nagoya University
Hitoshi Sakakibara
Hitoshi Sakakibara Nagoya University
Motoyuki Ashikari
Motoyuki Ashikari Nagoya University
Nori Kurata
Nori Kurata National Institute of Genetics
Akio Miyao
Akio Miyao National Agriculture and Food Research Organization
Hirohiko Hirochika
Hirohiko Hirochika Institute of Agrobiological Sciences
Atsushi Toyoda
Atsushi Toyoda National Institute of Genetics
Rod A. Wing
Rod A. Wing University of Arizona

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