Updated on 2023/11/30

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TOYOMASU Tomonobu
 
Title
Professor
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Research Areas

  • Life Science / Bioorganic chemistry

Graduating School

  • The University of Tokyo, Faculty of Agriculture

    1989.03, Graduated

Graduate School

  • The University of Tokyo, Graduate School, Division of Agricultural Science

    Doctor's Course, 1994.03, Completed

External Career

  • , Researcher, 1994.04 - 1995.01

  • , Researcher, 1995.02 - 1995.04

 

Research Career

  • Studies on photogermination of lettuce seeds, 1995.05 - 2008.12

  • Studies on gibberellin biosynthetic genes in rice, 1995.02 - 1996.03

Papers

  • Control by light of hypocotyl elongation and levels of endogenous gibberellins in seedlings of Lactuca sativa L., Plant and Cell Physiology, 33(6) 695-701, 1992.06

    Tomonobu Toyomasu et al.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Light effects on endogenous levels of gibberellins in photoblastic lettuce seeds., Journal of Plant Growth Regulation, 12(2) 85-90, 1993.12

    Tomonobu Toyomasu et al.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Identification of gibberellins and abscisic acid in bulbs of Lilium elegans Thunb. and their quantitative changes during cold treatment and the subsequent Cultivation., Journal of Japanese Society of Horticultual Science, 62(1) 189-196, 1993.01

    Tomoko Takayama, Tomonobu Toyomasu et al.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Qualitative and quantitative analysis of endogenous gibberellins in onion plants and their effects on bulb formation., Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry, 57(12) 2031-2035, 1993.12

    Hideaki Nojiri, Tomonobu Toyomasu et al.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Effects of exogenously applied gibberellin and red light on the endogenous levels of abscisic acid in photoblastic lettuce seeds., Plant and Cell Physiology, 35(1) 127-129, 1994.01

    Tomonobu Toyomasu et al.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Phytochrome inhibits the effectiveness of gibberellins to induce cell elongation in rice., Planta, 194(2) 256-263, 1994.02

    Tomonobu Toyomasu et al.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • cDNA cloning and characterization of gibberellin-responsive genes in photoblastic lettuce seeds., Bioscience Biotechnology and Biochemistry, 59(10) 1846-1849, 1995.10

    Tomonobu Toyomasu, Tadayuki Yamauchi, Hisakazu Yamane, Noboru Murofushi and Yasunori Inoue

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • A step in the biosynthesis of gibberellins that is controlled by the mutation in the semi-dwarf rice cultivar Tan-ginbozu., Plant and Cell Physiology, 37(3) 363-368, 1996.03

    Shoko Ogawa, Tomonobu Toyomasu et al.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Cloning and characterization of a cDNA encoding gibberellins 20-oxidase from rice（Oryza sativa）seedlings., Physiologia Plantarum, 99(1) 111-118, 1997.01

    Tomonobu Toyomasu, Hiroshi Kawaide, Hiroyuki Sekimoto, Camila von Numers, Andrew L. Phyllips, Peter Hedden and Yuji Kamiya

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Bioactive gibberellin and its metabolism in shoots of Phaseolus vulgaris., Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry, 61(3) 556-557, 1997.03

    Tomonobu Toyomasu, Hisakazu Yamane, Noboru Murofushi, Masayuki Katsumi and Nobutaka Takahashi

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Phytochrome regulates gibberellin biosynthesis during germination of photoblastic lettuce seeds., Plant Physiology, 118 1517-1523, 1998.12

    Tomonobu Toyomasu, Hiroshi Kawaide, Wataru Mitsuhashi, Yasunori Inoue and Yuji Kamiya

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Cloning of a full-length cDNA encoding ent-kaurene synthase from Gibberella fujikuroi: functional analysis of a bifunctional diterpene cyclase., Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochmistry, 64(3) 660-664, 2000.03

    Toyomasu, T., Kawaide, H., Ishizaki, A., Shinoda, S., Otsuka, M., Mitsuhashi, W. and Sassa, T.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Total synthesis of both enantiomers of copalol via optical resolution of a general synthetic intermediate for drimane sesquiterpenes and labdane diterpenes., Tetrahedron, 56 8443-8450, 2000.06

    Hiroaki Toshima, Hideaki Oikawa, Tomonobu Toyomasu and Takeshi Sassa

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Cloning and functional expression of cDNA encoding aphidicolan-16b-ol synthase: A key enzyme responsible for formation of an unusual diterpene skelton in biosynthesis of aphidicolin., Journal of American Chemical Society, 123(21) 5154-5155, 2001.07

    Oikawa, H., Toyomasu, T., Toshima, H., Ohashi, S., Kawaide, H., Kamiya, Y., Ohtsuka, M., Shinoda, S., Mitsuhashi, W. and Sassa, T.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Total synthesis of (+)-albicanol and (+)-albicanyl acetate, Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochmistry, 65(5) 1244-1247, 2001.05

    Toshima, H., Oikawa, H., Toyomasu, T. and Sassa, T.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Erinacine Q, a new erinacine from Hericium erinaceum, and its biosynthetic route to erinacine C in the basidiomycete., Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochmistry, 66(3) 571-575, 2002.03

    Kenmoku, H., Shimai, T., Toyomasu, T., Kato, N. and Sassa, T.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • A cold-regulated nucleic acid-binding protein of winter wheat shares a domain with bacterial cold shock proteins., The Jounal of Biological Chemistry, 277(38) 35248-35256, 2002.09

    Karlson, D., Nakaminami, K., Toyomasu, T. and Imai, R.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Total synthesis of (Å})-syn-copalol., Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry, 66(11) 2504-2510, 2002.11

    Toshima, H., Oikawa, H., Yada, H., Ono, H., Toyomasu, T. and Sassa, T.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Proposed mechanism for the reaction catalyzed by a diterpene cyclase, aphidicolan-16b-ol synthase: experimental results on biomimetic cyclization and examination of the cyclization pathway by ab initio calculations., Jounal of the American Chemical Society, 124(31) 9145-9153, 2002.07

    Oikawa, H., Nakamura, K., Toshima, H., Toyomasu, T. and Sassa, T.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Deactivation of gibberellin by 2-oxidation during germination of photoblastic lettuce seeds., Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry, 67(7) 1551-1558, 2003.07

    Nakaminami, K., Sawada, Y., Suzuki, M., Kenmoku, H., Kawaide, H., Mitsuhashi, W., Sassa, T., Inoue, Y., Kamiya, Y. and Toyomasu, T.

    Single Author

  • Gibberellin is essentially required for carrot (Daucus carota L.) somatic embryogenesis: Dynamic regulation of gibberellin 3-oxidase gene expressions., Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry, 67(11) 2438-2447, 2003.11

    Mitsuhashi, W., Toyomasu, T., Masui, H., Katho T., Nakaminami, K., Kashiwagi, Y., Akutsu, M., Kenmoku, H., Sassa, T., Yamaguchi, S., Kamiya, Y. and Kamadal, H.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Molecular cloning and characterization of a cDNA encoding ent-cassa-12,15-diene synthase, a putative diterpenoid phytoalexin biosynthetic enzyme, from suspension-cultured rice cells treated with a chitin elicitor., The Plant Journal, 37(1) 1-8, 2004.01

    Cho, E.M., Okada, A., Kenmoku, H., Otomo, K., Toyomasu, T., Mitsuhashi, W., Sassa, T., Yajima, A., Yabuta, G., Mori, K., Oikawa, H., Toshima, H., Shibuya, N., Nojiri, H., Omori, T., Nishiyama, M. and ...

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Cloning of a gene cluster responsible for the biosynthesis of diterpene aphidicolin, a specific inhibitor of DNA poloymerase a. , Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry, 68(1) 146-152, 2004.01

    Toyomasu, T., Nakaminami, K., Toshima, H., Mie, T., Watanabe, K., Ito, H., Matsui, H., Mitsuhashi, W., Sassa, T. and Oikawa, H.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Sequential development of cystein proteinase activities and gene expression during somatic embryogenesis in carrot., Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry, 68(3) 705-713, 2004.03

    Mitsuhashi, W., Yamashita, T., Toyomasu, T., Kashiwagi, Y. and Konnai, T.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Differential expression of acid invertase genes during seed germination in Arabidopsis thaliana., Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry, 68(3) 602-608, 2004.03

    Mitsuhashi, W., Sasaki, S., Kanazawa, A., Yang Y.-Y., Kamiya, Y. and Toyomasu, T.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Tissue-specific localization of an abscisic acid biosynthetic enzyme, AAO3, in Arabidopsis., Plant Physiology, 134 1697-1707, 2004.04

    Koiwai, H., Nakaminami, K., Seo, M., Mitsuhashi, W., Toyomasu, T. and Koshiba, T.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • A rice semi-dwarf gene, Tan-Ginbozu (D35), encodes the gibberellin biosynthesis enzyme, ent-kaurene oxidase., Plant Molecular Biology, 54 533-547, 2004.08

    Itoh, H., Tatsumi, T., Sakamoto, T., Otomo, K., Toyomasu, T., Kitano, H., Ashikari, M., Ichihara, S. and Matsuoka, M.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Biological functions of ent- and syn-copalyl diphosphate synthases in rice: key enzymes for the branch point of gibberellin and phytoalexin biosynthesis., The Plant Journal, 39 886-893, 2004.09

    Otomo, K., Kenmoku, H., Oikawa, H., Konig, W. A., Toshima, H., Mitsuhashi, W., Yamane, H., Sassa, T. and Toyomasu, T.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Stemar-13-ene synthase, a diterpene cyclase involved in the biosynthesis of the phytoalexin oryzalexin S in rice., FEBS Letters, 571 182-186, 2004.07

    Nemoto, T., Cho, E. M., Okada, A., Okada, K., Otomo, K., Kanno, Y., Toyomasu, T., Mitsuhashi, W., Sassa T., Minami E., Shibuya, N., Nishiyama, M., Nojiri, H. and Yamane, H.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Diterpene cyclases responsible for the biosynthesis of phytoalexins, momilactones A, B, and oryzalexins A-F in rice., Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry, 68(9) 2001-2006, 2004.09

    Otomo, K., Kanno, Y., Motegi, A., Kenmoku, H., Yamane, H., Mitsuhashi, W., Oikawa, H,. Toshima, H., Itoh, H., Matsuoka, M., Sassa, T. and Toyomasu, T.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Emission of ent-kaurene, a diterpenoid hydrocarbon precursor for gibberellins, into the headspace from plants, Plant and Cell Physiology, 45(9) 1129-1138, 2004.09

    Otsuka, M., Kenmoku, H., Ogawa, M., Okada, K., Mitsuhashi, W., Sassa, T., Kamiya, Y., Toyomasu, T. and Yamaguchi, S.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Cloning of cDNAs encoding cell-wall hydrolases from pear (Pyrus communis) fruit and their involvement in fruit softening and development of melting texture., Physiologia Plantarum, 126 163-174, 2006.01

    Sekine, D., Munemura, I., Gao, M., Mitsuhashi, W., Toyomasu, T. and Murayama, H.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Characterization of a rice gene family encoding type-A diterpene cyclases., Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry, 70(7) 1702-1710, 2006.07

    Kanno, Y., Otomo, K., Kenmoku, H., Mitsuhashi, W., Yamane, H., Oikawa, H., Toshima, H., Matsuoka, M., Sassa, T. and Toyomasu, T.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Effect of girdling above the abscission zone of fruit on 'Bartlett' pear ripening on the tree., Journal of Experimental Botany, 57(14) 3679-3686, 2006.09

    Murayama, H., Sekine, D., Yamauchi, Y., Gao, M., Mitsuhashi, W., and Toyomasu, T.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Fusicoccins are biosynthesized by an unusual chimera diterpene synthase in fungi., Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 104(9) 3084-3088, 2007.02

    Toyomasu, T., Tsukahara, M., Kaneko, A., Niida, R., Mitsuhashi, W., Dairi, T., Kato, N. and Sassa, T.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Gene expression and ethylene production in transgenic pear (Pyrus communis cv. 'La France') with sense and antisense cDNA encoding ACC oxidase., Plant Science, 173(1) 32-42, 2007.04

    Gao, M., Matsuta, N., Toyomasu, T., Mitsuhashi, W., Dandekar, A. M., Tao, R., and Nishimura, K.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Identification of a biosynthetic gene cluster in rice for momilactones., The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 282(47) 34013-34018, 2007.09

    Shimura, K., Okada, A., Okada, K., Jikumaru, Y., Ko, K.-W., Toyomasu, T., Sassa, T., Hasegawa, M., Kodama, O., Shibuya, N., Koga, J., Nojiri, H., and Yamane, H.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Promoter analysis of the rice stemar-13-ene synthase gene OsDTC2, which is involved in the biosynthesis of the phytoalexin oryzalexin S., Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, 1769(11-12) 678-683, 2007.09

    Nemoto, T., Okada, A., Okada, K., Shibuya, N., Toyomasu, T., Nojiri, H., and Yamane, H.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Comparison of the enzymatic properties of ent-copalyl diphosphate synthases in the biosynthesis of phytoalexins and gibberellins in rice., Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry, 72(2) 523-530, 2008.02

    Hayashi, Y., Toyomasu, T., Hirose, Y., Onodera, Y., Mitsuhashi, W., Yamane, H., Sassa, T., and Dairi, T.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Diterpene phytoalexins are biosynthesized in and exuded from roots of rice seedlings. , Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry, 72(2) 562-567, 2008.02

    Toyomasu, T., Kagahara, T., Okada, K., Koga, J., Hasegawa, M., Mitsuhashi, W., Sassa, T., and Yamane, H.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Phytochrome- and gibberellin-mediated regulation of abscisic acid metabolism during germination of photoblastic lettuce seeds., Plant Physiology, 146(3) 1386-1396, 2008.03

    Sawada, Y., Aoki, M., Nakaminami, K., Mitsuhashi, W., Tatematsu, K., Kushiro, T., Koshiba, T., Kamiya, Y., Inoue, Y., Nambara, E., and Toyomasu, T.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Identification of diterpene biosynthetic gene clusters and functional analysis of labdane-related diterpene cyclases in Phomopsis amygdali., Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry, 72(4) 1038-1047, 2008.04

    Toyomasu, T., Niida, R., Kenmoku, H., Kanno, Y., Miura, S., Nakano, C., Shiono, Y., Mitsuhashi, W., Toshima, H., Oikawa, H., Hoshino, T., Dairi, T., Kato, N., and Sassa, T.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Germination of photoblastic lettuce seeds is regulated via the control of endogenous physiologically active gibberellin contents, rather than of gibberellin responsiveness., Journal of Experimental Botany, 59(12) 3383-3393, 2008.07

    Sawada, Y., Katsumata, T., Kitamura, J., Kawaide, H., Nakajima, M., Asami, T., Nakaminami, K., Kurahashi, T., Mitsuhashi, W., Inoue, Y., and Toyomasu, T.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Drought induction of Arabidopsis 9-cis-epoxycarotenoid dioxygenase occurs in vascular parenchyma cells., Plant Physiology, 147(8) 1984-1993, 2008.08

    Endo, A., Sawada, Y., Takahashi, H., Okamoto, M., Ikegami, K., Koiwai, H., Seo. M., Toyomasu, T., Mitsuhashi, W., Shinozaki, K., Nakazono, M., Kamiya, Y., Koshiba, T., and Nambara, E.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Identification and functional analysis of brassicicene C biosynthetic gene cluster in Alternaria brassicicola., Bioorganic & Medical Chemisrtry Letters, 19(3) 870-874, 2009.02

    Minami, A., Tajima, N., Higuchi, Y., Toyomasu, T., Sassa, T., Kato, N., and Dairi, T.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Biosynthetic gene-based secondary metabolite screening: a new diterpene, methyl phomopsenonate, from the fungus Phomopsis amygdali., The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 74(4) 1541-1548, 2009.02

    Toyomasu, T., Kaneko, A., Tokiwano, T., Kanno, Y., Kanno, Y., Niida, R., Miura, S., Nishioka, T., Ikeda, C., Mitsuhashi, W., Dairi, T., Kawano, T., Oikawa, H., Kato, N., and Sassa, T.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Cloning and characterization of cDNAs encoding ent-copalyl diphosphate synthases in wheat: insight into the evolution of rice phytoalexin biosynthetic genes., Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochmistry, 73(3) 772-775, 2009.03

    Toyomasu, T., Kagahara, T., Hirose, Y. Usui, M., Abe, S., Okada, K., Koga, J., Mitsuhashi, W., and Yamane, H.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Effect of ethylene treatment on expression of polyuronide-modifying genes and solubilization of polyuronides during ripening in two peach cultivars having different softening characteristics., Postharvest Biology and Technology, 52(2) 196-201, 2009.05

    Murayama, H., Arikawa, M., Sasaki, Y., Dal Cin, V., Mitusuhashi, W., and Toyomasu, T.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Transannular proton transfer in the cyclization of geranylgeranyl diphosphate to fusicoccadiene, a biosynthetic intermediate of fusicoccins., Organic Letters, 11(14) 3044-3047, 2009.07

    Toyomasu, T., Tsukahara, M., Kenmoku, H., Anada, M., Nitta, H., Mitsuhashi, W., Sassa, T., and Kato, N.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Functional analyses of cytochrome P450 genes responsible for the early steps of brassicicene C biosynthesis., Bioorganic & Medical Chemisrtry Letters, 19(19) 5640-5643, 2009.10

    Hashimoto, M., Higuchi, Y., Takahashi, S., Osada, H., Sakaki, T., Toyomasu, T., Sassa, T., Kato, N., and Dairi, T.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Up-regulation of endogenous level of a bioactive gibberellin through LsGA3ox1 expression during stem elongation stimulated by higher temperature in lettuce., Journal of Plant Physiology, 166(18) 2077-2084, 2009.12

    Fukuda, M., Matsuo, S., Kikuchi, K., Mituhashi, W., Toyomasu, T., and Honda, I.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Substrate specificity of the CYC2 enzyme from Kitasatospora griseola: production of sclarene, biformene and novel bicyclic diterpenes by the enzymatic reactions of labdane- and halimane-type diterpene diphosphate., Tetrahedron Letters, 51(1) 125-128, 2010.01

    Nakano, C., Hoshino, T., Sato, T., Toyomasu, T., Dairi, T., and Sassa, T.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Dioxygenases, key enzymes to determine the aglycon structures of fusicoccin and brassicicene, diterpene compounds produced by fungi., Journal of American Chemical Society, 133(8) 2548-2555, 2010.03

    Ono, Y., Minami, A., Noike, A., Higuchi, Y., Toyomasu, T., Sassa, T., Kato, N., and Dairi, T.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Domain loss has independently occurred multiple times in plant terpene synthase evolution., The Plant Journal, 68(6) 1051-1060, 2011.12

    Hillwig, M. L., Xu, M., Toyomasu, T., Tiernan, M. S., Wei, G., Cui, G., Huang, L., and Peters, R. J.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Enzymatic 13C labeling and multidimensional NMR analysis of miltiradiene synthesized by bifunctional diterpene cyclase in Selaginella moellendorffii., The Jounal of Biological Chemistry, 286(50) 42840-42847, 2011.12

    Sugai, Y., Ueno, Y., Hayashi, K., Oogami, S., Toyomasu, T., Matsumoto, S., Natsume, M., Nozaki, H., and Kawaide, H.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Characterization of a loss-of-function mutant of gibberellin biosynthetic gene LsGA3ox1 in lettuce. , Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry, 75(12) 2398-2400, 2011.12

    Umetsu, A., Sawada Y., Mitsuhashi, W., Mazier, M., and Toyomasu, T.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • An unusual spliced variant of DELLA protein, a negative regulator of gibberellin signaling, in lettuce., Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry, 76(3) 544-550, 2012.03

    Sawada, Y., Umetsu, A., Komatsu, Y., Kitamura, J., Suzuki, H., Asami, T., Fukuda, M., Honda, I., Mitsuhashi, W., Nakajima, M., and Toyomasu, T.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • An enzyme catalyzing O-prenylation of the glucose moiety of fusicoccin A, a diterpene glucoside produced by fungus Phomopsis amygdali., ChemBioChem, 13(4) 566-573, 2012.03

    Noike, M., Liu, C., Ono, Y., Hamano, Y., Toyomasu, T., Sassa, T., Kato, N., and Dairi, T.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Molecular breeding of a fungus producing a precursor diterpene suitable for semi-synthesis by dissection of the biosynthetic machinery., PLoS One, 7(8) e42090, 2012.08

    Noike, M., Ono, Y., Araki, Y., Tanio, R., Higuchi, Y., Nitta, H., Hamano, Y., Toyomasu, T., Sassa, T., Kato, N., and Dairi, T.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Leaf herbivory by Spodoptera litura increases arbuscular mycorrhizal colonization in roots of soybean., Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 58(4) 445-449, 2012.08

    Tawaraya, K., Shiozawa, S., Ueda, K., Murayama, H., Nishizawa, T., Toyomasu, T., Murayama, T., Sato, S., Wagatsuma, T., and Yasuda, H.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Functional characterization of wheat copalyl diphosphate synthases sheds light on the early evolution of labdane-related diterpenoid metabolism in the cereals., Phytochemistry, 84 49-46, 2012.12

    Wu, Y., Zhou, K., Toyomasu, T., Sugawara C., Oku M., Abe S., Usui M., Mitsuhashi W., Chono M., Chandler P. M., and Peters, R. J.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Functional characterization of wheat ent-kaurene(-like) synthases indicates continuing evolution of labdane-related diterpenoid metabolism in the cereals., Phytochemistry, 84 47-55, 2012.12

    Zhou, K., Xu, M., Tiernan, M., Xie, Q., Toyomasu, T., Sugawara, C., Oku, M., Usui, M., Mitsuhashi, W., Chono, M., Chandler, P. M., Peters, R. J.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on the abundance of foliar-feeding insects and their natural enemy., Applied Entomology and Zoology, 48(1) 79-85, 2013.02

    Ueda, K., Tawaraya, K., Murayama, H., Sato, S., Nishizawa, T., Toyomasu, T., Murayama, T., Shiozawa, S., and Yasuda, H.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Reverse-genetic approach to verify physiological roles of rice phytoalexins: characterization of a knockdown mutant of OsCPS4 phytoalexin biosynthetic gene in rice., Physiologia Plantarum, 150(1) 55-62, 2014.01

    Toyomasu, T., Usui, M., Sugawara, C., Otomo, K., Hirose, Y., Miyao, A., Hirochika, H., Okada, K., Shimizu, T., Koga, J., Hasegawa, M., Chuba, M., Kawana, Y., Kuroda, M., Minami, E., Mitsuhashi, W., an...

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Transcripts of two ent-copalyl diphosphate synthase genes differentially localize in rice plants according to their distinct biological roles., Journal of Experimental Botany, 66(3) 369-376, 2015.03

    Toyomasu, T., Usui, M., Sugawara, C., Kanno, Y., Sakai, A., Takahashi, H., Nakazono, M., Kuroda, M., Miyamoto, K., Morimoto, Y., Mitsuhashi, W., Okada, K., Yamaguchi, S., and Yamane, H.

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Higher sterol content regulated by CYP51 with concomitant lower phospholipid content in membranes is a common strategy for aluminium tolerance in several plant species., Journal of Experimental Botany, 66(3) 907-918, 2015.03

    Wagatsuma, T., Khan, M.S.H., Watanabe, T., Maejima, E., Sekimoto, H., Yokota, T., Nakano, T., Toyomasu, T., Tawaraya, K., Koyama, H., Uemura M., Ishikawa, S., Ikka, T., Ishikawa, A., Kawamura, T., Mur...

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • The rice ent-KAURENE SYNTHASE LIKE 2 encodes a functional ent-beyerene synthase., Biochemical and biophysical research communications, 460(3) 766-771, 2015.05

    Tezuka D, Ito A, Mitsuhashi W, Toyomasu T, Imai R

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Structure and Function of Fusicoccadiene Synthase, a Hexameric Bifunctional Diterpene Synthase., ACS chemical biology, 11(4) 889-899, 2016.04

    Chen M, Chou WK, Toyomasu T, Cane DE, Christianson DW

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Evolutionary trajectory of phytoalexin biosynthetic gene clusters in rice., The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology, 87(3) 293-304, 2016.08

    Miyamoto K, Fujita M, Shenton MR, Akashi S, Sugawara C, Sakai A, Horie K, Hasegawa M, Kawaide H, Mitsuhashi W, Nojiri H, Yamane H, Kurata N, Okada K, Toyomasu T

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Characterization and evolutionary analysis of ent-kaurene synthase like genes from the wild rice species Oryza rufipogon., Biochemical and biophysical research communications, 480(3) 402-408, 2016.11

    Toyomasu T, Miyamoto K, Shenton MR, Sakai A, Sugawara C, Horie K, Kawaide H, Hasegawa M, Chuba M, Mitsuhashi W, Yamane H, Kurata N, Okada K

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Cyclization mechanism of phomopsene synthase: mass spectrometry based analysis of various site-specifically labeled terpenes., The Journal of antibiotics, 70(5) 632-638, 2017.05

    Shinde SS, Minami A, Chen Z, Tokiwano T, Toyomasu T, Kato N, Sassa T, Oikawa H

    Multiple Authorship (Including Foreigners)

  • Dark conditions enhance aluminum tolerance in several rice cultivars via multiple modulations of membrane sterols, JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY, 69(3) 567-577, 2018.01

    Wagatsuma Tadao, Maejima Eriko, Watanabe Toshihiro, Toyomasu Tomonobu, Kuroda Masaharu, Muranaka Toshiya, Ohyama Kiyoshi, Lshikawa Akifumi, Usui Masami, Khan Shahadat Hossain, Maruyama Hayato, Tawaray...

    Multiple Authorship (Only Japanese)

  • Characterization of diterpene synthase genes in the wild rice species Oryza brachyatha provides evolutionary insight into rice phytoalexin biosynthesis, BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS, 503(3) 1221-1227, 2018.09

    Toyomasu Tomonobu, Goda Chisato, Sakai Arisa, Miyamoto Koji, Shenton Matthew R., Tomiyama Shiho, Mitsuhashi Wataru, Yamane Hisakazu, Kurata Nori, Okada Kazunori

    Multiple Authorship (Only Japanese)

  • Biosynthetic study of conidiation-inducing factor conidiogenone: heterologous production and cyclization mechanism of a key bifunctional diterpene synthase, BIOSCIENCE BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY, 83(2) 192-201, 2019

    Shiina Tetsuya, Nakagawa Kazuya, Fujisaki Yukiko, Ozaki Taro, Liu Chengwei, Toyomasu Tomonobu, Hashimoto Masaru, Koshino Hiroyuki, Minami Atsushi, Kawaide Hiroshi, Oikawa Hideaki

    Multiple Authorship (Only Japanese)

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Books

  • Comprehensive Natural Products II Chemistry and Biology, Vol. 1, Elsevier Oxford, 2010.05

    Toyomasu, T. and Sassa, T.

  • Seed Germination -Physiology, Ecology and Molecular Mechanisms-, 2009.03

  • Molecular Cell Biology of Plant Hormone, Koudan-sha Scientific, 2006.09

    Tomonobu Toyomasu

Review Papers

  • Evolution of Labdane-Related Diterpene Synthases in Cereals., Plant & cell physiology, 2020.08

    Toyomasu T, Shenton MR, Okada K

  • Recent advances regarding diterpene cyclase genes in higher plants and fungi., 日本農芸化学会, Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry, 72(5) 1168-1175, 2008.05

    Toyomasu, T.

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research

  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(B)，2023.04 - 2026.03

  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(B)，2019.04 - 2021.03

  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C)，2018.04 - 2021.03

  • Grant-in-Aid for New academic field research(Research areas proposal)，2017.04 - 2019.03

  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C)，2015.04 - 2017.03

  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C)，2012.04 - 2015.03

  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas，2011.04 - 2013.03

  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(B)，2008.04 - 2011.03

  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C)，2005.04 - 2008.03

  • Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists(B)，2003.04 - 2005.03

  • Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists(B)，2001.04 - 2003.03

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