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Akira Kanazawa
Researcher at Hokkaido University
Publications - 88
Citations - 3372
Akira Kanazawa is an academic researcher from Hokkaido University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gene & Gene silencing. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 88 publications receiving 2953 citations. Previous affiliations of Akira Kanazawa include Okayama Prefectural University.
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Two Coordinately Regulated Homologs of FLOWERING LOCUS T Are Involved in the Control of Photoperiodic Flowering in Soybean
Fanjiang Kong,Baohui Liu,Zhengjun Xia,Shusei Sato,Bo Min Kim,Satoshi Watanabe,Tetsuya Yamada,Satoshi Tabata,Akira Kanazawa,Kyuya Harada,Jun Abe +10 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that GmFT2a and Gm FT5a coordinately control flowering and enable the adaptation of soybean to a wide range of photoperiodic environments.
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Genetic redundancy in soybean photoresponses associated with duplication of the phytochrome A gene.
TL;DR: The genetic redundancy suggests that the presence of duplicated copies of phyA genes accounts for the generation of photoperiod insensitivity, while protecting against the deleterious effects of mutation.
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The Soybean Stem Growth Habit Gene Dt1 Is an Ortholog of Arabidopsis TERMINAL FLOWER1
Baohui Liu,Satoshi Watanabe,Tomoo Uchiyama,Fanjiang Kong,Akira Kanazawa,Zhengjun Xia,Atsushi Nagamatsu,Maiko Arai,Tetsuya Yamada,Keisuke Kitamura,Chikara Masuta,Kyuya Harada,Jun Abe +12 more
TL;DR: The data suggest that Dt1 encodes the GmTFL1b protein and that the stem growth habit is determined by the variation of this gene.
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Transgenic perennial ryegrass plants expressing wheat fructosyltransferase genes accumulate increased amounts of fructan and acquire increased tolerance on a cellular level to freezing
Hiroshi Hisano,Akira Kanazawa,Akira Kawakami,Midori Yoshida,Yoshiya Shimamoto,Toshihiko Yamada +5 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that the overexpression of the genes involved in fructan synthesis serves as a novel strategy to produce freezing-tolerant grasses.
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Genetic variation in four maturity genes affects photoperiod insensitivity and PHYA-regulated post-flowering responses of soybean
Meilan Xu,Zeheng Xu,Baohui Liu,Fanjiang Kong,Yasutaka Tsubokura,Satoshi Watanabe,Zhengjun Xia,Kyuya Harada,Akira Kanazawa,Testuya Yamada,Jun Abe +10 more
TL;DR: Diverse genetic mechanisms underlie photoperiod insensitivity in soybean are elucidated, including the phyA genes E3 and E4, which are major controllers underlying not only pre-flowering but also post- floweringPhotoperiod responses.