Kazunori Okada

The paper investigates the regulatory mechanisms of diterpenoid phytoalexin production in wild rice, identifying DPF and N-boxes as key cis-trans regulators conserved across species.

The paper compares ecological communities in rice paddy fields under conventional and no-fertilizer farming practices, finding that microbial and plant taxa abundances influence rice growth and yield differences.

The paper reconstructs the evolution and sub-functionalization of the momilactone biosynthetic gene cluster in Oryza species using comparative genomics.