Okada Kazunori

オカダカズノリ | Okada Kazunori

Affiliation and department：
Job title： Associate professor

Research field (2)： Applied biochemistry , Plants: molecular biology and physiology

Research keywords (4)：植物天然物生理 , 応用微生物学・生物有機化学 , Plant Physiology , Applied Microbiology

Research theme for competitive and other funds (26)：

2024 - 2027 リンゴ・カラムナー樹形発現の機構解明
2024 - 2027 イネ地下部におけるモミラクトン生産・輸送制御と根圏バイオームに対する生物活性
2023 - 2026 Identification of novel diterpenoid phytoalexins by using information of the biosynthetic genes in rice species.
2020 - 2024 Evolutionary dynamics of cis-trans factors on the regulation of plant gene cluster for diterpenoid momilactone.
2021 - 2024 リンゴ柱状樹形誘導機構の解明と応用研究

2019 - 2023 Plant olfaction: the process of recognizing volatile compounds and converting them into biological signals

2019 - 2022 Regulation of plant hormone receptor using stereochemical isomers of a natural product

2017 - 2020 Regulation mechanisms of the momilactone gene cluster and its evolution in momilactone producing plantss

2016 - 2019 Involvement of cytokinine and jasmonate in production of phytoalexins in rice

2015 - 2018 cDNA cloning and characterization of momilactone transporter

2015 - 2018 Imaging analysis of plant growth regulator using radioisotope imaging technique

2014 - 2017 Regulatory mechanisms on an inductive production of flavonoid-type phytoalexin in rice

2013 - 2016 Evolution of chemical defense using momilactones in land plant

2012 - 2015 Studies on evolution and functional differentiation of diterpene cyclase genes in rice.

2011 - 2013 Function and transcriptional regulation of key factors in jasmonic acid signaling pathway in rice

2010 - 2012 Functional analysis of key transcription factors regulating basic disease resistance in rice

2010 - 2011 Live-imaging analysis of mitochondrial movement in rice cells during rice. Magnaporthe oryzae interactions

2008 - 2010 Elucidation of molecular mechanisms of jasmonate signaling in rice

2003 - 2004 植物テルペン合成系遺伝子のオルガネラ特異的発現による物質生産と生理機能の改変

2001 - 2002 シロイヌナズナのユビキノン生合成経路解明とその生合成変異体の解析

植物におけるユビキノン合成経路とその役割

植物のゲラニルゲラニルマリン酸合成酵素の多様性について

非メバロン酸経路の植物における研究

Biosynthetic Pathway of Ubiquinone in plant

Biological significance of geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthases in Plant.

Study on non-mevalonate pathway in Plant.

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Papers (80)：

Kazuki Ishikawa, Chihiro Yamamura, Koji Miyamoto, Yasukazu Kanda, Haruhiko Inoue, Kazunori Okada, Takashi Kamakura, Masaki Mori. Rice transcription factor DPF regulates stress-induced biosynthesis of diterpenoid phytoalexins. Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry. 2024. 88. 11. 1344-1348
Keisuke Okamoto, Taiki Inoue, Tsunesato Nagano, Sho Miyazaki, Ikuo Takahashi, Tadao Asami, Kazunori Okada, Kazuma Okada, Masatoshi Nakajima. Chemical screening of inhibitors specific for MdDOX-Co that cause an apple columnar tree-shape. Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry. 2023. 88. 1. 63-69
Takeru Shimada, Shiho Minato, Yuto Hasegawa, Koji Miyamoto, Yasumasa Minato, Matthew R Shenton, Kazunori Okada, Hiroshi Kawaide, Tomonobu Toyomasu. Characterization of diterpene synthase genes in Brachypodium distachyon, a monocotyledonous model plant, provides evolutionary insight into their multiple homologs in cereals. Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry. 2023. 88. 1. 8-15
Danhua Zhang, Zhaoyilin Wang, Naoki Yamamoto, Mingyue Wang, Xiaoqun Yi, Ping Li, Runmao Lin, Zohreh Nasimi, Kazunori Okada, Keiichi Mochida, et al. Secreted Glycosyltransferase RsIA_GT of Rhizoctonia solani AG-1 IA Inhibits Defense Responses in Nicotiana benthamiana. Pathogens. 2022
Dongya Wu, Yiyu Hu, Shota Akashi, Hideaki Nojiri, Longbiao Guo, Chu-Yu Ye, Qian-Hao Zhu, Kazunori Okada, Longjiang Fan. Lateral transfers lead to the birth of momilactone biosynthetic gene clusters in grass. The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology. 2022. 111. 5. 1354-1367

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MISC (20)：

Sugihiro Ando, Shigeru Tanabe, Hideyuki Shigemori, Kosumi Yamada, Takafumi Shimizu, Kazunori Okada, Hisakazu Yamane, Chiharu Akimoto-Tomiyama, Yoko Nishizawa, Eiichi Minami. Magnaporthe oryzae: A tool for the molecular analysis of compatibility. JOURNAL OF PESTICIDE SCIENCE. 2009. 34. 4. 335-338
Tetsuya Chujo, Kouichi Kawamoto, Kazunari Yamada, Takafumi Shimizu, Ken Haga, Moritoshi Iino, Eiichi Minami, Naoto Shibuya, Kazunori Okada, Hideaki Nojiri, et al. Characterization of the elicitor-responsive transcription factor OsWRKY53 in rice and identification of an elicitor/jasmonate-responsive region of the OsWRKY53 promoter. PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY. 2007. 48. S246-S246
Kazunari Yamada, Tetsuya Chujo, Sugihiro Andoh, Eiichi Minami, Naoto Shibuya, Kazunori Okada, Hideaki Nojiri, Hisakazu Yamane. Characterization of elicitor-responsive WRKY transcription factors involved in regulation of expressions of defense-response genes in Rice. PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY. 2007. 48. S247-S247
H Sakakibara, H Kasahara, N Ueda, M Kojima, K Takei, S Hishiyama, T Asami, K Okada, Y Kamiya, T Yamaya, et al. Agrobacterium tumefaciens increases cytokinin production in plastids by modifying the biosynthetic pathway in the host plant. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 2005. 102. 28. 9972-9977
Kyoko Kiribuchi, Miho Sugimori, Masayoshi Takeda, Takashi Otani, Kazunori Okada, Haruko Onodera, Masashi Ugaki, Yuji Tanaka, Chiharu Tomiyama-Akimoto, Takeshi Yamaguchi, et al. RERJ1, a jasmonic acid-responsive gene from rice, encodes a basic helix-loop-helix protein. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2004. 325. 857-863

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Education (2)：

- 1998 Tottori University
- 1998 Tottori University Graduate School, Division of Agricltural Sciences

Professional career (1)：

(BLANK) (Tottori University)

Work history (8)：

2021/04 - 現在 Agro-Biotechnology Research Center, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo Associate professor
2013/11 - 2021/03 Biotechnology Research Center, The Universituy of Tokyo Associate professor
2012/09 - 2015/03 Shibaura Institute of Technology
2007/04 - 2013/10 Biotechnology Research Center, The University of Tokyo Assistant professor
2007/04 - 2012/03 文京学院大学人間学部非常勤講師 (兼任)

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Awards (2)：

2017/10 - 植物化学調節学会植物化学調節学会賞
2013/03 - JSBBA JSBBA Award for Young Scientists

Association Membership(s) (3)：

植物化学調節学会 , 日本分子生物学会 , 日本農芸化学会

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