論文・著書

Research Papers (2000年以降)

Sato, Y., Antonio, B., Namiki, N., Motoyama, R., Sugimoto, K., Takehisa, H., Minami, H.,　Kamatsuki, K.,Kusaba, M., Hirochika, H. and Nagamura, Y. (2011) Field transcriptome revealed critical developmental and physiological transitions involved in the expression of growth potential in japonica rice. BMC Plant Biol. 2011, 11:10-24 [IF=3.774]

Kurata, N., Satoh, H., Kitano, H., Nagato, Y., Endo, T., Sato, K., Akashi, R., Ezura, H., Kusaba, M., Kobayashi, M., Nitasaka, E., Kasai, F., Yamazaki, Y., and Yoshimura, A. （2010）NBRP, National Bioresource Project of Japan and plant bioresource management. Breed. Sci. 60: 461-468

Yamazaki, Y., Akashi, R., Banno, Y., Endo, T., Ezura, H., Fukami-Kobayashi, K., Inaba, K., Isa, T., Kamei, K., Kasai, F., Kobayashi, M., Kurata, N.,Kusaba, M. , Matuzawa, T., Mitani, S., Nakamura, T., Nakamura, Y., Nakatsuji, N., Naruse, K., Niki, H., Nitasaka, E., Obata, Y., Okamoto, H., Okuma, M., Sato, K., Serikawa, T., Shiroishi, T., Sugawara, H., Urushibara, H., Yamamoto, M., Yaoita, Y., Yoshiki, A., Kohara, Y. (2010) NBRP databases: databases of biological resources in Japan. Nucl. Acid Res. D26-32 [IF=7.479]

Kusaba, M., Maoka, T. Morita, R. and Takaichi, S. (2009) A novel carotenoid derivative, lutein 3-acetate, accumulates in senescent leaves of rice. Plant Cell Physiol. 50: 1573-1577 [IF=3.542]

Morita, R., Sato, Y., Masuda, Y., Nishimura, M., and Kusaba, M.(2009) Defect in NON YELLOW COLORING 3, an α/β hydrolase-fold family protein, causes a stay green phenotype during leaf senescence in rice. Plant J. 59: 940-952 [IF=6.571]

Horie, Y., Ito, H., Kusaba, M., Tanaka, R., and Tanaka, A. (2009) Participation of chlorophyll b reductase in the initial step of the degradation of light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b-protein complexes in Arabidopsis. J. Biol. Chem.284(26):17449-56 [IF=5.581]

Kawakatsu, T., Taramino, G., Itoh, J.I., Allen, J., Sato, Y., Hong, S.K., Yule, R., Nagasawa, N., Kojima, M., Kusaba, M. , Sakakibara, H., Sakai, H., Nagato, Y. (2009) PLASTOCHRON3/GOLIATH encodes a glutamate carboxypeptidase required for proper development in rice. Plant J. 58: 1028-1040 [IF=6.571]

Morita, R., Kusaba, M. , Iida, S., and Nishimura, M. (2009) Development of PCR markers to detect the glb1 and Lgc1 mutations for the production of low easy-to-digest protein rice varieties. Theor. Appl. Genet. 119:125-30 [IF=3.137]

Nishimura, M., Morita, R., and Kusaba, M. (2009) Utilization and molecular characterization of seed protein composition mutants in rice plants. JARQ 43: 1-5

Sato, Y. Morita, R., Katsuma, S., Nishimura, M., Tanaka, A., and Kusaba, M. (2009) Two short-chain dehydrogenase/reductases, NON-YELLOW COLORING 1 and NYC1-LIKE, are required for chlorophyll b and light-Harvesting complex II degradation during senescence in Rice. Plant J. 57: 120-131 [IF=6.571]

Toguri, T., Umemoto, N., Yoshioka, M., Nawata, O., Okamura, M. and Taniguchi, K. (2008) Assessment of fertility of virus-tolerant transgenic Chrysanthemum and survey on viruses in wild Chrysanthemum populations in western Japan. In "Floriculture, Ornamental and Plant Biotechnology: advances and topical issues", Global Science Books, UK 490-495

Fujishige, I. and Taniguchi,K. (2007) In vitro production of stable new karyotype strains in culture lines of Crepis capillaris.  Chromosome Science 10: 29-35

Sato, Y., Morita, R., Nishimura, M., Yamaguchi, H., and Kusaba, M. (2007) Mendel’s green cotyledon gene encodes a positive regulator of the chlorophyll -degrading pathway. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 104:14169-14174 [IF=9.598]

Kusaba, M. Ito, H., Morita, R., Iida, S., Sato, Y., Fujimoto, M., Kawasaki, S., Tanaka, R., Hirochika, H., Nishimura, M., and Tanaka, A. (2007) Rice NON-YELLOW COLORING1 is involved in Light Harvesting Complex II and grana degradation during leaf senescence. Plant Cell 19: 1362-1375[IF=9.653]

Yoshida, H., Itoh, J.I., Ohmori, S., Miyoshi, K., Horigome, A., Uchida, E., Kimizu, M., Matsumura, Y., Kusaba, M., Satoh, H., and Nagato, Y. (2007) superwoman1-cleistogamy, a hopeful allele for gene containment in GM rice. Plant Biotech. J. 5: 835-846. [IF=3.392]

Morita, R., Kusaba, M., Iida, S., Nishio, T., and Nishimura, M. (2007) Knockout of glutelin genes which form a tandem array with a high level of homology in rice by gamma irradiation. Genes Genet. Syst. 82:321-327

Sassa, H., Kakui, H., Miyamoto, M., Suzuki, Y., Hanada, T., Ushijima, K., Kusaba, M., Hirano H., and Koba, T. (2007) S locus F-box brothers: Multiple and pollen-specific F-box genes with S haplotype-specific polymorphisms in apple and Japanese pear. Genetics 175: 1869-1881 [IF=4.001]

Fujimoto, R., Okazaki, K., Fukai, E., Kusaba M., Nishio, T. (2006) Comparison of the genome structure of the self-incompatibility (S) locus in interspecific pairs of S haplotypes. Genetics 173:1157-1167 [IF=4.001]

Watanabe, K., Kosuge, K., Shimamura, R., Konishi, N., Taniguchi, K. (2006)Molecular systematic of Australian Calotis (Asteraceae: Astereae).  Australian Systematic Botany 19, 155-168.

Morita, R., Kusaba, M., Yamaguchi, H., Amano, E., Miyao, A., Hirochika, H., and Nishimura, M. (2005) Characterization of chlorophyllie a oxygenase (CAO) in rice. Breeding Sci. 55: 361-364

Naito, K., Kusaba, M., Shikazono, N., Takano, T., Tanaka, A., Tanisaka, T., and Nishimura, M. (2005)Transmissible and nontransmissible mutations induced by irradiating Arabidopsis thaliana pollen with γ-rays and carbon ions. Genetics 169: 881-889 [IF=4.001]

Nishimura, M., Kusaba, M., Miyahara, K., Nishio, T., Iida, S., Imbe, T., and Sato, H. (2005) New Rice Varieties with Low Levels of Easy-to-digest Protein,‘LGC-Katsu’and ‘LGC-Jun’. Breed. Sci. 55: 103-105

Kusaba, M. (2004) RNA interference in crop plants. Curr. Opin. Biotech. 15, 139-143[IF=7.370]

Kusaba, M., Iida, S., Morita, R. and Nishimura, M. (2004) Mapping of the EARLY YELLOWING 1 gene, EYE1 in rice. Rice Genet. Newslett. 21: 9

Kusaba, M., Miyahara K., Iida, S., Fukuoka, H., Takano, T., Sassa, H., Nishimura, M., and Nishio, T. (2003) Low glutelin content 1: a dominant mutation that suppresses the glutelin multigene family via RNA silencing in rice. Plant Cell 15: 1455-1467 [IF=9.653]

Goto, K., Kanazawa, A., Kusaba, M., and Masuta, C. (2003) A simple and rapid method to detect plant siRNAs using nonradioactive probes. Plant Mol. Biol. Rep. 21: 51-58

Sato, K., Nishio, T., Kimura, R., Kusaba, M., Suzuki, T., Hatakeyama, K., Ockendon, D. J., and Satta, Y. (2002) Coevolution of the S-locus genes SRK, SLG and SP11/SCR in Brassica oleracea and B. rapa. Genetics 162: 931-940 [IF=4.001]

Kusaba, M., Tung, C.-W., Nasrallah, M. E., and Nasrallah, J. B. (2002) Monoallelic expression and dominance interactions in anthers of self-incompatible Arabidopsis lyrata. Plant Physiol. 128: 17-20 [IF=6.367]

Taniguchi, K., Hara, K., Fujishige I., Hiraoka, T., Nakata, M., Sera, T., Inoue, N., Chen, R., Hong, D.-Y. and Tanaka, R. (2002) Origin of the cultivated Dendranthema. Advances in Chromosome Sciences 1, 496-499.

Kusaba, M., Dwyer, K., Hendershot, J., Vrebalov, J., Nasrallah, J. B., and Nasrallah, M. E. (2001) Self-incompatibility in the genus Arabidopsis: Characterization of the S locus in the outcrossing A. lyrata and its autogamous relative A. thaliana.(2001) Plant Cell 13: 627-643 [IF=9.653]

Golz, J. F., Oh, H.-Y., Su, V., Kusaba, M., and Newbigin, E. (2001) Genetic analysis of Nicotiana pollen-part mutants is consistent with the presence of an S-ribonuclease inhibitor at the S locus. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 98: 15372-15376 [IF=9.598]

Ushijima, K., Sassa, H., Tamura, M., Kusaba, M., Tao, R., Gradziel. T. M., Dandekar, A. M., and Hirano, H. (2001) Characterization of the S-locus region of almond (Prumus dulcis): Analysis of a somaclonal mutant and a cosmid contig for an S haplotype. Genetics 158: 379-386 [IF=4.001]

Kusaba, M., Matsushita, M., Okazaki, K., Satta, Y., and Nishio, T. (2000) Sequence and structural diversity of the S locus genes from different lines with the same self-recognition specificities in Brassica oleracea. Genetics 154: 413-420 [IF=4.001]

Sakamoto, K., Kusaba, M., and Nishio, T. (2000) Single-seed PCR-RFLP analysis for the identification of S haplotypes in commercial F1 hybrid cultivars of broccoli and cabbage. Plant Cell Rep. 19: 400-406

Suzuki, T., Kusaba, M., Matsushita, M., Okazaki, K., and Nishio, T. (2000) Characterization of Brassica S-haplotypes lacking S-locus glycoprotein. FEBS lett. 482: 102-108 [IF=3.304]

Li, J.-H., Nass, N., Kusaba, M., Dodds, P. N., Treloar, N., Clarke, A. E., and Newbigin, E. (2000) A genetic map of the Nicotiana alata S locus that includes three pollen-expressed genes. Theor.Appl. Genet. 100: 956-964 [IF=3.137]

Nishio, T., and Kusaba, M. (2000) Sequence diversity of SLG and SRK in Brassica oleracea L.Ann. Bot. 85 suppl. A, 141-146

和 文

谷口研至・中田政司・草場　信(2009) 広義キク属—ゲノム攪乱とリソースの役割—．ビオフィリア 5, 55-60

草場　信・谷口研至・増田　優 (2009) 広義キク属—東アジアで同質倍数性ゲノム進化を遂げた植物群—．細胞工学別冊
「バイオリソース＆データベース活用術」秀潤社, 東京, 205-208

草場　信・佐藤 豊 (2008) stay green突然変異とメンデル．化学と生物 46, 824-825

草場　信 (2004) An open question: なぜ自家不和合性は現存するのか．育種学研究 6, 33-39

中田政司・須藤晃延・谷口研至 (2001)キクとの雑種を含むワカサハマギク個体群の14年後の追跡調査．保全生態学研究　6巻 1号,　21-27

著 書

Taniguchi, K., Mitsueda, C., Okumura, N., Miyazaki, W. (2008) Development of a sustainable chromosome imaging database. In "Chromosome Nanoscience and Nanotechnology" eds. Fukui, K. and Ushiki, S. CRC Press, Inc., Florida, 231-243

西尾 剛・向井康比己・大澤 良・草場　信・鳥山欽哉 (2006) 『遺伝学の基礎』（西尾 剛編）. 朝倉書店, 東京, 56-84.

福井希一・向井康比己・谷口研至編 (2006)  『クロモソーム　植物染色体研究の方法』　養賢堂, 東京, 21-23.

谷口研至 (2000) キクの系統保存とデータベース．『ライフサイエンスのための系統保存とデータバンク』（中辻憲夫編）．共立出版（株）, 東京, 74-79.