全原著論文

2024年

• Ha, Q. T. Moe, S., Reyes, V., Doi, K., Miura, K., Mizushima, M., Maeno, A., Tsuda, K., Nagai, K. and Ashikari, M. Detection of QTLs regulating the second internode length in rice dwarf mutant d1.
  Breeding Science, in press. (2024)

• Jiménez, JdlC., Noorrohmah, S., Suresh, K., Zeisler-Diehl, V.V., Peralta Ogorek, L.L., Herzog, M., Pellegrini, E., Nagai, K., Ashikari, M., Takahashi, H., Pedersen, O., Schreiber, L. and Nakazono, M. LGF1 in rice contributes to accumulation of glycerol esters and the formation of a tight root barrier to radial O2 loss.
  Plant Physiology, in press. (2024)

2023年

• Mayumi Kikuta, Daniel Makori Menge, Emily Waringa Gichuhi, Rena Tomita, John Munji Kimani, Ruth Nzisa Musila, Kazuyuki Doi, Motoyuki Ashikari, Rosalyn Angeles-Shim, Kshirod Kumar Jena, Daigo Makihara. Contribution of genes related to grain number (Gn1a and WFP) introgressed into NERICA 1 to grain yield under tropical highland conditions in central Kenya.
  PLANT PRODUCTION SCIENCE, Pages 309-319. (2023)

• Tomoyuki Furuta, Toshio Yamamoto, Motoyuki Ashikari. GBScleanR: robust genotyping error correction using a hidden Markov model with error pattern recognition.
  Genetics, 26;224(2):iyad055. (2023)

• Ayumi Agata, Motoyuki Ashikari, Yutaka Sato, Hidemi Kitano, Tokunori Hobo. Designing rice panicle architecture via developmental regulatory genes.
  Breeding Science, 73(1): 86-94. (2023)

• Kanako Bessho-Uehara, Kengo Masuda, Diane R. Wang, Rosalyn B. Angeles-Shim, Keisuke Obara, Keisuke Nagai, Riri Murase, Shin-ichiro Aoki, Tomoyuki Furuta, Kotaro Miura, Jianzhong Wu, Yoshiyuki Yamagata, Hideshi Yasui, Michael Kantar, Atsushi Yoshimura, Takumi Kamura, Susan R. McCouch, Motoyuki Ashikari. REGULATOR OF AWN ELONGATION 3 is responsible for loss of awns during African rice domestication.
  PNAS (2023)

2022年

• Keisuke Nagai, Yusuke Kurokawa, Yoshinao Mori, Anzu Minami, Stefan Reuscher, Jianzhong Wu, Takashi Matsumoto, Motoyuki Ashikari. SNORKEL Genes Relating to Flood Tolerance Were Pseudogenized in Normal Cultivated Rice.
  Plants, 11(3): 376. (2022)

• Yoko Niimi, Keisuke Nagai, Motoyuki Ashikari, Yoko Mizuta. Deep Fluorescence Observation in Rice Shoots via Clearing Technology.
  Journal of Visualized Experiments, 184. (2022)

2021年

• Kanako Bessho-Uehara, Yoshiyuki Yamagata, Tomonori Takashi, Takashi Makino, Hideshi Yasui, Atsushi Yoshimura, Motoyuki Ashikari. Exploring the Loci Responsible for Awn Development in Rice through Comparative Analysis of All AA Genome Species.
  Plants, 10(4): 725. (2021)

• Vincent P. Reyes, Rosalyn B. Angeles-Shim, Merlyn S. Mendioro, Ma. Carmina C. Manuel, Ruby S. Lapis, Junghyun Shim, Hidehiko Sunohara, Shunsaku Nishiuchi, Mayumi Kikuta, Daigo Makihara, Kshirod K. Jena, Motoyuki AshikariKazuyuki Doi. Marker-Assisted Introgression and Stacking of Major QTLs Controlling Grain Number (Gn1a) and Number of Primary Branching (WFP) to NERICA Cultivars.
  Plants, 10(5): 844. (2021)

• Cheng Peng, Cao Ling-Jie, Bai Chen, Ashikari Motoyuki, Song Xian-Jun. Fine mapping and characterization of two novel quantitative trait loci for early seedling growth in rice.
  Planta, volume 253, Article number: 56. (2021)

• Yong-Gen Yin, Yoshinao Mori, Nobuo Suzui, Keisuke Kurita, Mitsutaka Yamaguchi, Yuta Miyoshi, Yuto Nagao, Motoyuki Ashikari, Keisuke Nagai, Naoki Kawachi. Noninvasive imaging of hollow structures and gas movement revealed the gas partial-pressure-gradient-driven long-distance gas movement in the aerenchyma along the leaf blade to submerged organs in rice.
  New Phytologist, 232(5): 1974-1984. (2021)

2019年

• Mori Y., Kurokawa Y., Koike M., Malik A.I., Colmer T.D., Ashikari M., Pedersen O., Nagai K. Diel O2 Dynamics in Partially and Completely Submerged Deepwater Rice: Leaf Gas Films Enhance Internodal O2 Status, Influence Gene Expression and Accelerate Stem Elongation for ‘Snorkelling’ during Submergence.
  Plant and Cell Physiology. Volume 60, Issue 5, May 2019, Pages 973–985. (2019)

2018年

• Bessho-Uehara K, Nugroho JE, Kondo H, Angeles-Shim RB, Ashikari M. Sucrose affects the developmental transition of rhizomes in Oryza longistaminata.
  Journal of Plant Research. 131(4): 693–707. (2018)
• Reuscher S., Furuta T., Bessho-Uehara K., Cosi M., Jena K. K., Toyoda A., Fujiyama A., Kurata N. and Ashikari M. Assembling the genome of the African wild rice Oryza longistaminata by exploiting synteny in closely related Oryza species.
  Nature Communications Biology. 1, Article number: 162. (2018)
• Kuroha T., Nagai K., Gamuyao R., Wang D., Furuta T., Nakamori M., Kataoka T., Adachi K., Minami M., Mori Y., Seto Y., Mashiguchi k., Yamaguchi S., Kojima M., Sakakibara H., Wu J., Ebana K., Mitsuda N., ohme-Takagi M., Yanagisawa S., Yamasaki M., Yokoyama R., Nishitani K., Mochizuki T., Tamiya G., McCouch S., and Ashikari M. Ethylene-Gibberellin Signaling Underlies Adaptation of Rice to Periodic Flooding.
  Science. Vol. 361, Issue 6398, pp. 181-186. (2018)
• Kurokawa Y., Nagai N., Hung P.D., Shimazaki K., Qu H., Mori Y., Toda Y., Kuroha K., Hayashi N., Aiga S., Itoh J., Yoshimura A., Sasaki-Sekimoto Y., Ohta H., Shimojima M., Malik A.I., Pedersen O., Colmer T.D. Ashikari M. Rice leaf hydrophobicity and gas films are conferred by a wax synthesis gene (LGF1) and contribute to flood tolerance.
  New Phytologist. Jun;218(4):1558-1569. (2018)
• Minami A., Yano K., Gamuyao R., Nagai K., Kuroha T., Ayano M., Nakamori M., Koike M., Kondo Y., Niimi Y., Kuwata K., Suzuki T., Higashiyama T., Takebayashi Y., Kojima M., Sakakibara H., Toyoda A., Fujiyama A., Kurata N., Ashikari M., Reuscher S. Time-course transcriptomics analysis reveals key responses of submerged deepwater rice to flooding.
  Plant Physiol. Apr;176(4):3081-3102. (2018)
• Kim S.R., Ramos J.M., Hizon R.J.M., Ashikari M., Virk P.S., Torres E.A., Nissila E., Jena K.K. Introgression of a functional epigenetic OsSPL14WFP allele into elite indica rice genomes greatly improved panicle traits and grain yield.
  Sci Rep. 8(1): 3833. (2018)

2017年

• Furuta T., Ashikari M., Jena K. K., Doi K., Reuscher S. Adapting Genotyping-by-Sequencing for Rice F2 Populations.
  G3-GENES GENOMES GENETICS 7(3): 881-893. (2017)
• Kuroha T., Nagai K., Kurokawa Y., Nagamura Y., Kusano M., Yasui H., Ashikari M., Fukushima A. eQTLs Regulating Transcript Variations Associated with Rapid Internode Elongation in Deepwater Rice.
  Front. Plant Sci. 8: 1753. (2017)
• Win KT., Yamagata Y., Doi K., Uyama K., Nagai Y., Toda Y., Kani T., Ashikari M., Yasui H., Yoshimura A. A single base change explains the independent origin of and selection for the nonshattering gene in African rice domestication.
  New Phytologist 213(4): 1925-1935. (2017)
• Bessho-Uehara K., Furuta T., Masuda K., Yamada S., Angeles-Shim R., Ashikari M., Takashi T. Construction of rice chromosome segment substitution lines harboring Oryza barthii genome and evaluation of yield-related traits.
  Breeding Science 67, (4): 408-415. (2017)
• Gamuyao R., Nagai K., Ayano M., Mori Y., Minami A., Kojima M., Suzuki T., Sakakibara H., Higashiyama T., Ashikari M., Reuscher S. Hormone Distribution and Transcriptome Profiles in Bamboo Shoots Provide Insights on Bamboo Stem Emergence and Growth.
  Plant Cell Physiol 58 (4): 702-716. (2017)

2016年

• Furuta T., Uehara K., Shim R., Shim J., Nagai K., Ashikari M., Takashi T. Development of chromosome segment substitution lines harboring Oryza nivara genomic segments in Koshihikari and evaluation of yield-related traits.
  Breeding Science 66: 845-850. (2016)
• Bessho- Uehara K., Wang D. R., Furuta T., Minami A., Nagai K., Gamuyao R., Asano K., Shim R., Shimizu Y., Ayano M., Komeda N., Doi K., Miura K., Toda Y., Kinoshita T., Okuda S., Higashiyama T., Nomoto M., Tada Y., Shinohara H, Matsubayashi Y., Greenberg A., Wu J., Yasui H., Yoshimura A., Mori H., McCouch S.R.& Ashikari M. Loss of function at RAE2, a previously unidentified EPFL, is required for awnlessness in cultivated Asian rice.
  PNAS 113, (32) 8969–8974. (2016)
• Toda Y., Wang Y., Takahashi A., Kawai Y., Tada Y., Yamaji N., Feng Ma J., Ashikari M., Kinoshita T. Oryza sativa H+-ATPase (OSA) is Involved in the Regulation of Dumbbell-Shaped Guard Cells of Rice.
  Plant Cell Physiol Jun 57, (6) 1220-1230. (2016)
• Segami S., Yamamoto K., Oki K., Noda T., Kanamori H., Sasaki H., Mori S., Ashikari M., Kitano H., Katayose Y., Iwasaki Y., Miura K. Detection of novel QTLs regulating grain size in extra-large grain rice (Oryza sativa L.) lines.
  Rice. (2016)
• Ramos J., Furuta T., Uehara K., Chihiro N., Shim R. A., Shim J, Brar D., Ashikari M. and Jena K. Development of chromosome segment substitution lines (CSSLs) of Oryza longistaminata A. Chev. & Röhr in the background of the elite japonica rice cultivar, Taichung 65 and their evaluation for yield traits.
  Euphytica 200, 151-163. (2016)
• Kubo T., Takashi T., Ashikari M., Yoshimura A., Kurata N. Two tightly linked genes at the hsa1 locus cause both F1 and F2 hybrid sterility in rice.
  Mol Plant Feb 1, 9(2) 221-32. (2016)
• Kurokawa Y., Noda T., Yamagata Y., Shim R. A., Sunohara H., Uehara K., Furuta T., Nagai K., Jena K. K., Yasui H., Yoshimura A., Ashikari M. and Doi K. Construction of a versatile SNP array for pyramiding useful genes of rice.
  Plant Science Jan 242, 131-9. (2016)

2015年

• Furuta T., Komeda N., Asano K., Uehara K., Gamuyao R., Shim R.A., Nagai K., Doi K., Wang D.R., Yasui H., Yoshimura A., Wu J., McCouch S.R. and Ashikari M. Convergent loss of awn in two cultivated rice species Oryza sativa and Oryza glaberrima is caused by mutations in different Loci.
  Genes Genomes Genetics Sep 2, 5(11) 2267-74. (2015)
• Song X-J., Kuroha T., Ayano M., Furuta T., Nagai K., Komeda N., Segami S., Miura K., Ogawa D., Kamura T., Suzuki T., Higashiyama T., Yamasaki M., Mori H., Inukai Y., Wu J., Kitano H., Sakakibara H., Jacobsen SE and Ashikari M. Rare allele of a previously unidentified histone H4 acetyltransferase enhances grain weight, yield, and plant biomass in rice.
  PNAS 112, (1) 76-81. (2015)

2014年

• Seki M., Feugier F. Song X-J.,Ashikari M.,Nakamura H.,Ishiyama K.,Yamaya T.,Inari-Ikeda M., Kitano H.and Satake A.. A Mathematical Model of Phloem Sucrose Transport as a New Tool for Designing Rice Panicle Structure for High Grain Yield.
  Plant cell physiology, Volume 56, Issue 4, April 2015, Pages 605–619. (2014)
• Nagai K., Kondo Y., Kitaoka T., Noda T., Kuroha T., Shim R. A., Yasui H., Yoshimura A. and Ashikari M. QTL analysis of internode elongation in response to gibberellin in deepwater rice.
  AOB plant 6, 1-12. (2014)
• Ayano M, Kani T., Kojima M, Sakakibara H., Kitaoka T., Kuroha T., Shim R. A., Kitano H., Nagai K. and Ashikari M. Gibberellin biosynthesis and signal transduction is essential for internode elongation in deepwater rice.
  Plant Cell and Environment 37, 10 2313-2324. (2014)
• Furuta T. , Uehara K. , Shim R. A., Shim J. H., Ashikari M. and Takashi T. Development and evaluation of chromosome segment substitution lines (CSSLs) carrying chromosome segments derived from Oryza rufipogon in the genetic background of Oryza sativa L.
  Breeding Science 63, (5) 468-475. (2014)

2013年

• Ishii T., Numaguchi K., Miura K., Yoshida K., Thanh P. T., Htun T. M.,Yamasaki M., Komeda N., Matsumoto T., Terauchi R., Ishikawa R. and Ashikari, M. OsLG1 regulates a closed panicle trait in domesticated rice.
  Nature Genetics 45, (4) 462-465. (2013)

2012年

• Sato-Izawa K., Nakaba S., Tamura K., Yamagishi Y., Nakano Y., Nishikubo N., Kawai S., Kajita S., Ashikari M., Funada R., Katayama Y. and Kitano H. DWARF50 (D50), a rice (Oryza sativa L.) gene encoding inositol polyphosphate 5-phosphatase, is required for proper development of intercalary meristem.
  Plant Cell Environ 35, (11) 2031-2044. (2012)
• Shim, R. A., Asano K., Takashi T., Shim J.H., Kuroha T., Ayano M. and Ashikari M. A WUSCHEL-related homeobox 3B gene, depilous (dep), confers glabrousness of rice leaves and glumes.
  Rice 28. (2012)
• Luo L., Li W., Miura K., Ashikari M. and Kyozuka J. Control of Tiller Growth of Rice by OsSPL14 and Strigolactones, Which Work in Two Independent Pathways.
  Plant & Cell Physiology 53, (10) 1793-1801. (2012)
• Nagai K., Kuroha T., Ayano M., Kurokawa Y., Shim R. A., Shim J. H., Yasui H, Yoshimura A. and Ashikari M. Two novel QTLs regulate internode elongation in deepwater rice during the early vegetative stage.
  Breeding Science 62, 178–185. (2012)

2011年

• Asano K., Yamasaki M., Takuno S., Miura K., Katagiri S., Ito T., Doi K., Wu J., Ebana K., Matsumoto T., Innan H., Kitano H., Ashikari M. and Matsuoka M. Artificial selection for a green revolution gene during japonica rice domestication.
  PNAS 108, (27) 11034-11039. (2011）
• Muto Y., Segami S., Hayashi H., Sakurai J., Murai-Hatano M., Hattori Y., Ashikari M. and Maeshima M. Vacuolar Proton Pumps and Aquaporins Involved in Rapid Internode Elongation of Deepwater Rice.
  Biosc Biotechnol Biochem 75, (1) 114-122. (2011)

2010年

• Miura K., Ikeda M., Matsubara A., Song X. J., Ito M, Asano K., Matsuoka M., Kitano H. and Ashikari M. OsSPL14 promotes panicle branching and higher grain productivity in rice.
  Nature Genetics 42, (6) 545-549. (2010)
• Yamagata Y., Yamamoto E., Aya K., Win K.T., Doi K., Sobrizal S., Ito M., Kanamori H., Wu J., Matsumoto T., Matsuoka M., Ashikari M. and Yoshimura A. Mitochondrial gene in the nuclear genome induces reproductive barrier in rice.
  PNAS 107, (4) 1494-1499. (2010)
• Asano K., Miyao A., Hirochika H., Kitano H., Matsuoka M. and Ashikari M. SSD1, which encodes a plant-specific novel protein, controls plant elongation by regulating cell division in rice.
  Proc Jpn Acad Ser B Phys Biol Sci 86, (3) 265-73. (2010)
• Shim R. A., Angeles E. R., Ashikari M. and Takashi T. Development and evaluation of Oryza glaberrima Steud. chromosome segment substitution lines (CSSLs) in the background of O. sativa L. cv. Koshihikari.
  Breeding Science 60, (5) 613-619. (2010)
• Yamamoto E., Takashi T., Morinaka Y., Lin S., Wu J., Matsumoto T., Kitano H., Matsuoka M. and Ashikari M. Gain of deleterious function causes an autoimmune response and Bateson-Dobzhansky-Muller incompatibility in rice.
  Mol Genet Genomics 283, (4) 305-15. (2010)

2009年

• Hattori Y., Nagai K., Furukawa S., Song X., Kawano R., Sakakibara H., Wu J., Matsumoto T., Yoshimura A., Kitano H., Matsuoka M., Mori H., and Ashikari M. The ethylene response factors SNORKEL1 and SNORKEL2 allow rice to adapt to deep water.
  Nature 460, 1026-1030. (2009)
• Kojima M., Kamada-Nobusada T., Komatsu H., Takei K., Kuroha T., Mizutani M., Ashikari M., Ueguchi-Tanaka M., Matsuoka M., Suzuki K. and Sakakibara H. Highly sensitive and high-throughput analysis of plant hormones using MS-probe modification and liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry: an application for hormone profiling in Oryza sativa.
  Plant Cell Physiol 50, (7) 1201-1214. (2009)
• Sazuka T., Kamiya N., Nishimura T., Ohmae K., Sato Y., Imamura K., Nagato Y.,Koshiba T., Nagamura Y., Ashikari M. and Kitano H., Matsuoka M. A rice tryptophan deficient dwarf mutant, tdd1, contains a reduced level of indole acetic acid and develops abnormal flowers and organless embryos.
  Plant J 60, (2) 227-241. (2009)
• Miura K., Agetsuma M., Kitano H., Yoshimura A., Matsuoka M., Jacobsen S. E., and Ashikari M. A metastable DWARF1 epigenetic mutant affecting plant stature in rice.
  PNAS 106, (27) 11218-11223. (2009)
• Miura K., Wu J., Sunohara H., Wu X., Matsumoto T., Matsuoka M., Ashikari M. and Kitano H. High-resolution mapping revealed a 1.3-Mbp genomic inversion in Ssi1, a dominant semidwarf gene in rice (Oryza sativa L.)
  Plant Breeding 128, (1) 63-69. (2009)
• Asano K., Hirano K., Ueguchi-Tanaka M., Angeles-Shim R. B., Komura T., Satoh H., Kitano H., Matsuoka M. and Ashikari M. Isolation and characterization of dominant dwarf mutants, Slr1-d, in rice.
  Mol Genet Genomics 281, (2) 223-231. (2009)

2008年以前

• Hattori Y., Nagai K., Mori H., Kitano H., Matsuoka M. and Ashikari M. Mapping of three QTLs that regulate internode elongation in deepwater rice.
  Breeding Science 58, (1) 39-46. (2008)
• Miura K., Yamamoto E., Morinaka Y., Takashi T., Kitano H., Matsuoka M. and Ashikari M. The hybrid breakdown 1 (t) locus induces interspecific hybrid breakdown between rice Oryza sativa cv. Koshihikari and its wild relative O. nivara.
  Breeding Science 58, (2) 99-105. (2008)
• Nagasaki H., Itoh J., Hayashi K., Hibara K., Satoh-Nagasawa N., Nosaka M., Mukouhata M., Ashikari M., Kitano H., Matsuoka M., Nagato Y. and Sato Y. The small interfering RNA production pathway is required for shoot meristem initiation in rice.
  PNAS 104, (37) 14867-14871. (2007)
• Hattori Y., Miura K., Asano K., Yamamoto E., Mori H., Kitano H., Matsuoka M. and Ashikari M. A Major QTL Confers Rapid Internode Elongation in Response to Water Rise in Deepwater Rice.
  Breeding Science 57, (4) 305-314. (2007)
• Chhun T., Aya K., Asano K., Yamamoto E., Morinaka Y., Watanabe M., Kitano H., Ashikari M., Matsuoka M. and Ueguchi-Tanaka M. Gibberellin regulates pollen viability and pollen tube growth in rice.
  Plant Cell 19, (12) 3876-3888. (2007)
• Hirano K., Nakajima M., Asano K., Nishiyama T., Sakakibara H., Kojima M., Katoh E., Xiang H., Tanahashi T., Hasebe M., Banks JA., Ashikari M., Kitano H., Ueguchi-Tanaka M. and Matsuoka M. The GID1-Mediated Gibberellin Perception Mechanism Is Conserved in the Lycophyte Selaginella moellendorffii but Not in the Bryophyte Physcomitrella patens.
  Plant Cell 19, (10) 3058-3079. (2007)
• Ueguchi-Tanaka M., Nakajima M., Katoh E., Ohmiya H., Asano K., Saji S., Hongyu X., Ashikari M., Kitano H., Yamaguchi I. and Matsuoka M. Molecular interactions of a soluble gibberellin receptor, GID1, with a rice DELLA protein, SLR1, and gibberellin.
  Plant Cell 19, (7) 2140-2155. (2007)
• Yamamoto E., Takashi T., Morinaka Y., Lin S., Kitano H., Matsuoka M. and Ashikari M. Interaction of two recessive genes, hbd2 and hbd3, induces hybrid breakdown in rice.
  Theoretical and applied genetics 115, (2) 187-194. (2007)
• Asano K., Takashi T., Miura K., Qian, Q., Kitano H., Matsuoka M. and Ashikari M. Genetic and molecular analysis of utility of sd1 alleles in rice breeding.
  Breeding Science 57, (1) 53-58. (2007)
• Sunohara H., Miura K., Wu X., Saeda T., Mizuno S., Ashikari M., Matsuoka M. and Kitano H. Effects of Ssi1 gene controlling dm-type internode elongation pattern on lodging resistance and panicle characters in rice.
  Breeding Science 56, (3) 261-268. (2006)
• Shimada A., Ueguchi-Tanaka M., Sakamoto, T., Fujioka S., Takatsuto S., Yoshida S., Sazuka T., Ashikari M. and Matsuoka M. The rice SPINDLY gene functions as a negative regulator of gibberellin signaling by controlling the suppressive function of the DELLA protein, SLR1, and modulating brassinosteroid synthesis.
  Plant J 48, (3) 390-402. (2006)
• Kamiya T., Akahori T., Ashikari M. and Maeshima M. Expression of the Vacuolar Ca2+/H+ Exchanger, OsCAX1a, in Rice: Cell and Age Specificity of Expression, and Enhancement by Ca2+.
  Plant Cell Physiol 47, (1) 96-106. (2006)
• Tsuji H., Aya K., Ueguchi-Tanaka M., Shimada Y., Nakazono M., Watanabe R., Nishizawa N-K., Gomi K., Shimada A., Kitano H., Ashikari M. and Matsuoka M. GAMYB controls different sets of genes and is differentially regulated by microRNA in aleurone cells and anthers.
  Plant J 47, (3) 427-444. (2006)
• Morinaka Y., Sakamoto T., Inukai Y., Agetsuma M., Kitano H., Ashikari M. and Matsuoka M. Morphological Alteration Caused by Brassinosteroid Insensitivity Increases the Biomass and Grain Production of Rice.
  Plant Physiol 141, (3) 924-931. (2006)
• Hattori Y., Kaneko M., Ashikari M., Matsuoka M. and Hattori K. Mapping of the Temperature sensitivE gene, TS.
  Rice Genet Newslet 22,64-66. (2005)
• Hattori Y., Ashikari M., Kitano H. and Matsuoka M. Detection QTLs for deepwater rice ability.
  Rice Genet Newslet. 22,67-68. (2005)
• Murakami M., Matsushita A., Ashikari M., Yamashino T. and Mizuno T. Circadian-Associated Rice Pseudo Response Regulators (OsPRRs) : Insight into the Control of Flowering Time.
  Biosci Biotechnol Biochem 69, (2) 410-414. (2005)
• Nishimura A., Ashikari M., Lin, S., Takashi T., Angeles E.R., Yamamoto T. and Matsuoka M. Isolation of a rice regeneration Quantitative trait loci gene and its application to transformation systems.
  PNAS 102, (33) 11940-11944. (2005)
• Ueguchi-Tanaka M., Ashikari M., Nakajima M., Itoh H., Katoh E., Kobayashi M., Chow T.-Y., Hsing Y. C., Kitano H., Yamaguchi I. and Matsuoka M. GIBBERELLIN INSENSITIVE DWARF1 encodes a soluble receptor for gibberellin.
  Nature 437, (7059) 693-698. (2005)
• Itoh H., Sasaki A., Ueguchi-Tanaka M., Ishiyama K., Kobayashi M., Hasegawa Y., Minami E., Ashikari M. and Matsuoka, M. Dissection of the Phosphorylation of Rice DELLA Protein, SLENDER RICE1.
  Plant Cell Physiol 46, (8) 1392-1399. (2005)
• Ashikari M., Sakakibara H., Lin S., Yamamoto T., Takashi T., Nishimura A., Angeles E. R., Qian Q., Kitano H. and Matsuoka M. Cytokinin oxidase regulates rice grain production.
  Science 309, (5735) 741-745. (2005)
• Hong Z., Ueguchi-Tanaka M., Fujioka S., Takatsuto S., Yoshida S., Hasegawa Y., Ashikari M., Kitano H. and Matsuoka M. The rice brassinosteroid-deficient dwarf2 mutant, defective in the rice homolog of Arabidopsis DIMINUTO/DWARF1 , is rescued by the endogenously accumulated alternative bioactive brassinosteroid, dolichosterone.
  Plant Cell 17, (8) 2243-2254. (2005)
• Komorisono M., Ueguchi-Tanaka M., Aichi I., Hasegawa Y., Ashikari M., Kitano H., Matsuoka M. and Sazuka T. Analysis of the rice mutant dwarf and gladius leaf 1: aberrant katanin-mediated microtubule organization causes up-regulation of gibberellin biosynthetic genes independently of gibberellin signaling.
  Plant Physiol 138, (4) 1982-1993. (2005)
• Inukai Y., Sakamoto T., Ueguchi-Tanaka M., Shibata Y., Gomi K., Umemura I., Hasegawa Y., Ashikari M., Kitano H. and Matsuoka M. Crown rootless1, which is essential for crown root formation in rice, is a target of an AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR in auxin signaling.
  Plant Cell 17, (5) 1387-1396. (2005)
• Itoh H., Shimada A., Ueguchi-Tanaka M., Kamiya N., Hasegawa Y., Ashikari M. and Matsuoka M. Overexpression of a GRAS protein lacking the DELLA domain confers altered gibberellin responses in rice.
  Plant J 44, (4) 669-679. (2005)
• Tanabe S., Ashikari M., Fujioka S., Takatsuto S., Yoshida S., Yano M., Yoshimura A., Kitano H., Matsuoka M., Fujisawa Y., Kato H. and Iwasaki Y. A Novel Cytochrome P450 Is Implicated in Brassinosteroid Biosynthesis via the Characterization of a Rice Dwarf Mutant, dwarf11, with Reduced Seed Length.
  Plant Cell 17, (3) 776-790. (2005)
• Suzaki T., Sato M., Ashikari M., Miyoshi M., Nagato Y. and Hirano H. The gene FLORAL ORGAN NUMBER１ regulates floral meristem size in rice and encodes a leucine-rich repeat receptor kinase orthologous to Arabidopsis CLAVATA1.
  Development 131, (22) 5649-5657. (2004)
• Itoh H., Tatsumi T., Sakamoto T., Otomo K., Toyomasu T., Kitano H., Ashikari M., Ichihara S. and Matsuoka M. A rice semi-dwarf gene, Tan-Ginbozu(D35), encodes the gibberellin biosynthesis enzyme, ent-kaurene oxidase.
  Plant Mol Biol 54, (4) 533-547. (2004)
• Sakamoto T., Miura K., Itoh H., Tatsumi T., Ueguchi-Tanaka M., Ishiyama K., Kobayashi M., Agrawal G. K., Takeda S., Abe K., Miyao A., Hirochika H., Kitano H., Ashikari M. and Matsuoka M. An overview of gibberellin metabolism enzyme genes and their related mutants in rice.
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