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PUBLICATIONS

Journal Publications

  1. Otani M, Zheng L, Kawakami N (2024) Genetic, epigenetic and environmental control of seed dormancy and germination. In: Kawakami, N., Sato, K. (eds) Seed Dormancy. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2830. Humana, New York, NY. ISBN 978-1-0716-3964-1
     

  2. Zheng L, Otani M, Kawakami N (2024) Assessment of dormancy level and germination ability of seeds with physiological dormancy. In: Kawakami, N., Sato, K. (eds) Seed Dormancy. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2830. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-3965-8_3
     

  3. 大谷真彦、川上直人（2024）種子休眠・発芽制御の分子機構解明をもたらす分子遺伝学的アプローチの概観と展望.　明治大学農学部研究報告 73: 11-23.  2024年3月
     

  4. 川上直人「種子休眠・発芽の生理とメカニズム」牧草と園芸　69巻　夏季号　p1-6　2021年7月
     

  5. 川上直人「アブシシン酸」　新しい植物ホルモンの科学第3版　浅見忠男・柿本辰男編　講談社　2016年11月
     

  6. Akira Endo, Mitsuhiro Kimura, Naoto Kawakami and Eiji Nambara: Functional Analysis of Abscisic Acid 8’-Hydroxylase. In: Seed Dormancy, Methods in Molecular Biology, Vol. 773, Ed. Allison R. Kermode, Humana Press Inc. p135-150, 2011年
     

  7. 藤茂雄、川上直人「発芽の季節を決めるメカニズム　温度による植物ホルモン代謝の制御と発芽の高温阻害」化学と生物　第48巻4号　228-230　2010年4月1日
     

  8. 川上直人「発芽とアブシジン酸」発芽生物学　種子発芽の生理・生態・分子機構、種生物学研究　第32号　259-277　文一総合出版　2009年3月31日
     

  9. 吉岡俊人、藤茂雄、川上直人「発芽と温度：巡りくる季節を感じ取る」発芽生物学　種子発芽の生理・生態・分子機構、種生物学研究　第32号　49-63　文一総合出版　2009年3月31日
     

  10. 川上直人「種子の休眠・発芽と温度−発芽調節メカニズムの解明をめざして−」日本緑化工学会誌　30(3)　514-517　2005年2月28日
     

  11. 作田正明・芦原坦・児玉浩明・川上直人・中野雄治・荻田信二郎共著「図解植物分子細胞生物学」芦原坦・作田正明編、オーム社　2004年5月20日
     

  12. 川上直人「二次元電気泳動法」タンパク質実験ノート、下巻　pp. 33-46　羊土社　1996年
     

  13. 川上直人「ポリA+RNAの単離精製」植物バイオテクノロジー実験マニュアル　クローニングとシークエンス（共著）　監修　渡辺格、編集　杉浦昌弘、農村文化社　1989年
     

  14. 川上直人、渡辺　昭「枯れてゆく葉で働くグルタミン合成酵素」化学と生物　26: 804-805, 1988年

  1. Sarah Regnard, Masahiko Otani, Marc Keruzore, Alizée Teinturier, Marc Blondel, Naoto Kawakami, Anne Krapp, Jean Colcombet (2024) The MKK3 module integrates nitrate and light signals to modulate secondary dormancy in Arabidopsis thaliana. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 121 (40): e2403646121. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2403646121
     

  2. Saori Takei, Masahiko Otani, Toyama Ishikawa, Taiki Suzuki, Shoma Okabe, Kotaro Nishiyama, Naoto Kawakami, Yoshiya Seto (2024) Highly sensitive strigolactone perception by a divergent clade KAI2 receptor in a facultative root parasitic plant, Phtheirospermum japonicum. Plant & Cell Physiology: doi: 10.1093/pcp/pcae105.
     

  3. Otani M, Tojo R, Regnard S, Zheng L, Hoshi T, Ohmori S, Tachibana N, Sano T, Koshimizu S, Ichimura K, Colcombet J, Kawakami N (2024) The MKK3 MAPK cascade integrates temperature and after-ripening signals to modulate seed germination. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 121: e2404887121, doi: 10.1073/pnas.2404887121
     

  4. Daiki Shinozaki, Erina Takayama, Naoto Kawakami, Kohki Yoshimoto (2024) Autophagy maintains endosperm quality during seed storage to preserve germination ability in Arabidopsis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) 121: e2321612121 doi: 10.1073/pnas.2321612121
     

  5. Yangdan Li, Fuko Minegishi, Yuki Tamura, Yoshiaki Kamiyama, Kota Yamashita, Sotaro Katagiri, Hinano Takase, Masahiko Otani, Ryo Tojo, Gabbrielle Rupp, Takamas a Suzuki, Naoto Kawakami, Scott Peck, Taishi Umezawa (2024). Group C MAP kinases phosphorylate MBD10 to regulate ABA-induced leaf senescence in Arabidopsis. The Plant Journal https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.16706
     

  6. Monir Idres Yahya Ahmed, Yasir Serag Alnor Gorafi, Nasrein Mohamed Kamal, Mohammed Yousif Balla, Izzat Sidahmed Ali Tahir, Lipeng Zheng, Naoto Kawakami and Hisashi Tsujimoto (2023) Mining Aegilops tauschii genetic diversity in the background of bread wheat revealed a novel QTL for seed dormancy. Frontiers in Plant Science. 10.3389/fpls.2023.1270925
     

  7. Lipeng Zheng, Fumitaka Abe, Mariko Nonogaki, Yuri Kanno, Mitsunori Seo, Hiroyuki Nonogaki and Naoto Kawakami (2023) Modulation of wheat grain dormancy by introducing the recombinant abscisic acid-stimulated abscisic acid biosynthesis gene. Plant Biotechnology 10.5511/plantbiotechnology.22.1219b
     

  8. Lipeng Zheng, Masahiko Otani, Yuri Kanno, Mitsunori Seo, Yushi Yoshitake, Kohki Yoshimoto, Kazuhiko Sugimoto, Naoto Kawakami (2022) Seed dormancy 4 like1 of Arabidopsis is a key regulator of phase transition from embryo to vegetative development. The Plant Journal https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.16706.
     

  9. Wakana Tanaka, Suzuha Ohmori, Naoto Kawakami, and Hiro-Yuki Hirano (2021) Flower meristem maintenance by TILLERS ABSENT1 is essential for ovule development in rice. Development 148, dev199932. (doi:10.1242/dev.199932)
     

  10. Yusuke Saga, Moeka Kawashima, Shiho Sakai, Kaori Yamazaki, Misato Kaneko, Moeka Takahashi, Natsuko Sato, Yohei Toyoda, Shohei Takase, Takeshi Nakano, Naoto Kawakami  and Tetsuo Kushiro (2020) Plant-Specific Domains and Fragmented Sequences Imply Non-Canonical Functions in Plant Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases. Genes 11 (doi: 10.3390/genes11091056)
     

  11. Takuma Shigeyama, Asuka Watanabe, Konatsu Tokuchi, Shigeo Toh, Naoki Sakurai, Naoto Shibuya and Naoto Kawakami (2016) α-Xylosidase plays essential roles in xyloglucan remodelling, maintenance of cell wall integrity, and seed germination in Arabidopsis thaliana. Journal of Experimental Botany 67: 5615-5629. (doi:10.1093/jxb/erw321)                                                                         

  12. Yu-ichi Kashiwakura, Daisuke Kobayashi, Yusuke Jikumaru, Yumiko Takebayashi, Eiji Nambara, Mitsunori Seo, Yuji Kamiya, Tetsuo Kushiro and Naoto Kawakami (2016) Highly sprouting-tolerant wheat grain exhibits extreme dormancy and cold imbibition-resistant accumulation of abscisic acid. Pant & Cell Physiology 57 (4): 715-732. (doi/ 10.1093/pcp/pcw051)
                                                         

  13. Soohwan Lim, Jeongmoo Park, Nayoung Lee, Jinkil Jeong, Shigeo Toh, Asuka Watanabe, Junghyun Kim, Hyojin Kang, Dong Hwan Kim, Naoto Kawakami, and Giltsu Choi (2013) ABA-INSENSITIVE3, ABA-INSENSITIVE5, and DELLAs interact to activate the expression of SOMNUS
and other high-temperature-inducible genes in imbibed seeds in Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell 25: 4863-4878. (doi/10.1105/tpc.113.118604)
     

  14. Makiko Chono, Matsunaka, H., Seki, M., Fujita, M., Kiribuchi-Otobe, C., Oda, S., Kojima, H., Daisuke Kobayashi and Naoto Kawakami (2013) Isolation of a wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) mutant in ABA 8’-hydroxylase gene: effect of reduced ABA catabolism on germination inhibition under field condition.  Breeding Science, 63: 104-115.                                                                                                                                                           

  15. Shigeo Toh, Yuji Kamiya, Naoto Kawakami, Eiji Nambara, Peter McCourt and Yuichiro Tsuchiya (2012) Thermoinhibition uncovers a role of strigolactones in Arabidopsis seed germination. Plant & Cell Physiology 53: 107-117. 
     

  16. Akira Endo, Kiyoshi Tatematsu, Kousuke Hanada, Lisza Duermeyer, Masanori Okamoto, Keiko Yonekura-Sakakibara, Kazuki Saito, Tetsuro Toyoda, Naoto Kawakami, Yuji Kamiya, Motoaki Seki and Eiji Nambara (2012) Tissue-specific transcriptome analysis reveals cell wall metabolism, flavonol biosynthesis, and defense responses are activated in the endosperm of germinating Arabidopsis thaliana seeds. Plant & Cell Physiology 53: 16-27.
                                                                                                            

  17. Shigeo Toh, Akane Imamura, Asuka Watanabe, Kazumi Nakabayashi, Masanori Okamoto, Yusuke Jikumaru, Atsushi Hanada, Yukie Aso, Kanako Ishiyama, Noriko Tamura, Satoshi Iuchi, Masatomo Kobayashi, Shinjiro Yamaguchi, Yuji Kamiya, Eiji Nambara and Naoto Kawakami (2008) High temperature-induced abscisic acid biosynthesis and its role in the inhibition of gibberellin action in Arabidopsis seeds. Plant Physiology 146: 1368-1385
                                                                                                           

  18. Ayako Miya, Premkumar Albert, Tomonori Shinya, Yoshitake Desaki, Kazuya Ichimura, Ken Shirasu, Yoshihiro Narusaka, Naoto Kawakami, Hanae Kaku, and Naoto Shibuya (2007: CERK1, a LysM receptor kinase, is essential for chitin elicitor signaling in Arabidopsis. Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, USA 104: 19613-19618.
     

  19. Albert, P., Miya, A., Hiratsuka, K., Kawakami, N.and Shibuya, N.(2006) A high-throughput evaluation system for Arabidopsis mutants for defense signaling. Plant Biotechnology 23: 459-466.
     

  20. Noriko Tamura, Takahiro Yoshida, Arata Tanaka, Ryuta Sasaki, Asuka Bando, Shigeo Toh, Loic Lepiniec, and Naoto Kawakami. (2006) Isolation and characterization of high temperature resistant germination mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant and Cell Physiology 47: 1081-1094. 
     

  21. Chono, M., Honda, I., Shinoda, S., Kushiro, T., Kamiya, Y., Nambara, E., Kawakami, N., Kaneko, S., Watanabe, Y. (2006)  Field studies on the regulation of abscisic acid content and germinability during grain development of barley: molecular and chemical analysis of pre-harvest sprouting.  Journal of Experimental Botany 57: 2421-2434.
     

  22. Mochida, K., Kawaura, K., Shimosaka, E., Kawakami, N., Shin-I, T., Kohara, Y., Yamazaki, Y., Ogihara, Y. (2006) Tissue expression map of a large number of expressed sequence tags and its application to in silico screening of stress response genes in common wheat.  Molecular Genetics and Genomics 276: 304-312.
     

  23. Horiguchi, G., Fuse, T., Kawakami, N., Kodama, H., Iba, K.: Temperature-dependent translational regulation of the ER w-3 fatty acid desaturase gene in wheat root tips.  The Plant Journal  24 (6): 805-813. (2000).
     

  24. Suzuki T, Matsuura T, Kawakami N., Noda K: Accumulation and leakage of abscisic acid during embryo development and seed dormancy in wheat.  Plant Growth Regulation 30: 253-260 (2000).
     

  25. Nemoto Y, Kawakami N., Sasakuma T: Isolation of novel early salt-responding genes from wheat (Triticum aestuvumL.) by differential display. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 98: 673-678 (1999).
     

  26. Naoto Kawakami, Yoshiko Miyake, and Kazuhiko Noda. (1997) ABA insensitivity and low ABA levels during seed development of non-dormant wheat mutants. Journal of Experimental Botany 48: 1415-1421.                                                                                                          

  27. Naoto Kawakami, Chisato Kawabata, and Kazuhiko Noda. (1992) Differential changes in levels of mRNAs during maturation of wheat seeds that are susceptible and resistant to preharvest-sprouting. Plant & Cell Physiology, 33: 511-517.                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

  28. Naoto Kawakami, and Akira Watanabe. (1988) Senescence-specific increase in cytosolic glutamine synthetase and its mRNA in radish cotyledons. Plant Physiology, 88: 1430-1434.                                                                                                                                                               

  29. Naoto Kawakami, and Akira Watanabe. (1988) Change in gene expression in radish cotyledons during dark-induced senescence. Plant & Cell Physiology, 29: 33-42.

                                                                                                          

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