Ken‐ichi Kucho

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Ken‐ichi Kucho is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Agronomy and Crop Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Ken‐ichi Kucho has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Plant Science, 10 papers in Molecular Biology and 8 papers in Agronomy and Crop Science. Recurrent topics in Ken‐ichi Kucho's work include Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (26 papers), Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (17 papers) and Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems (8 papers). Ken‐ichi Kucho is often cited by papers focused on Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (26 papers), Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (17 papers) and Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems (8 papers). Ken‐ichi Kucho collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and France. Ken‐ichi Kucho's co-authors include Toshiki Uchiumi, Hideya Fukuzawa, Mikiko Abe, Masahiro Ishiura, Kanji Ohyama, Minoru Kanehisa, Shiro Higashi, Kenji Miura, Maki Nagata and Akihiro Suzuki and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Ken‐ichi Kucho

38 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Plant Peptides Govern Terminal Differentiation of Bacteria in Symbiosis

2010 417 citations Willem Van de Velde, Grigor Zehirov et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ken‐ichi Kucho Japan	18	1.2k	650	325	221	202	40	1.7k
Tao Zhao China	21	1.0k 0.9×	743 1.1×	112 0.3×	79 0.4×	76 0.4×	36	1.4k
Tatsuya Wakasugi Japan	24	759 0.6×	1.8k 2.8×	149 0.5×	10 0.0×	89 0.4×	50	2.3k
Stéphane Bellafiore France	17	1.3k 1.1×	1.2k 1.9×	261 0.8×	37 0.2×	384 1.9×	35	2.0k
Tomoko Shinomura Japan	22	2.1k 1.8×	1.4k 2.2×	154 0.5×	25 0.1×	89 0.4×	44	2.3k
S. Vinod Kumar United Kingdom	17	2.3k 2.0×	1.9k 2.9×	147 0.5×	30 0.1×	22 0.1×	23	2.8k
Emmanuel Liscum United States	38	5.6k 4.8×	4.5k 7.0×	92 0.3×	31 0.1×	520 2.6×	58	6.0k
Susan I. Fuerstenberg United States	8	538 0.5×	684 1.1×	360 1.1×	18 0.1×	19 0.1×	11	1.2k
Andrew C. Cuming United Kingdom	28	2.3k 2.0×	1.4k 2.1×	58 0.2×	90 0.4×	21 0.1×	60	2.7k
Kathleen Greenham United States	17	1.3k 1.1×	1.0k 1.6×	98 0.3×	24 0.1×	12 0.1×	27	1.6k
Marcel Quint Germany	31	2.7k 2.3×	2.0k 3.0×	26 0.1×	48 0.2×	24 0.1×	56	3.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ken‐ichi Kucho

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kucho, Ken‐ichi, et al.. (2023). NAD+ Synthetase is Required for Free-living and Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation in the Actinobacterium Frankia casuarinae. Microbes and Environments. 38(1). n/a–n/a. 2 indexed citations

Kucho, Ken‐ichi, Hiroyuki Tobita, Mitsue Shibata, et al.. (2018). Frankia communities at revegetating sites in Mt. Ontake, Japan. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 112(1). 91–99.

Hashimoto, Shun, Akihiro Suzuki, Ken‐ichi Kucho, et al.. (2016). Gene expression and localization of a β-1,3-glucanase of Lotus japonicus. Journal of Plant Research. 129(4). 749–758. 2 indexed citations

Kucho, Ken‐ichi, Takashi Yamanaka, Hideo Sasakawa, Samira Mansour, & Toshiki Uchiumi. (2014). Different dynamics of genome content shuffling among host-specificity groups of the symbiotic actinobacterium Frankia. BMC Genomics. 15(1). 609–609. 5 indexed citations

Kucho, Ken‐ichi, et al.. (2013). Codon-optimized antibiotic resistance gene improves efficiency of transient transformation in Frankia. Journal of Biosciences. 38(4). 713–717. 10 indexed citations

Hashimoto, Masahito, Yasuo Suda, Eiichi Murakami, et al.. (2012). Characterization of Nitric Oxide-Inducing Lipid A Derived from Mesorhizobium loti Lipopolysaccharide. Microbes and Environments. 27(4). 490–496. 4 indexed citations

Murakami, Eiichi, Maki Nagata, Yoshikazu Shimoda, et al.. (2011). Nitric Oxide Production Induced in Roots of Lotus japonicus by Lipopolysaccharide from Mesorhizobium loti. Plant and Cell Physiology. 52(4). 610–617. 22 indexed citations

Osawa, Atsushi, Grigor Zehirov, Ken‐ichi Kucho, et al.. (2011). Characteristics of Bacteroids in Indeterminate Nodules of the Leguminous Tree Leucaena glauca. Microbes and Environments. 26(2). 156–159. 6 indexed citations

Velde, Willem Van de, Grigor Zehirov, Ágnes Szatmári, et al.. (2010). Plant Peptides Govern Terminal Differentiation of Bacteria in Symbiosis. Science. 327(5969). 1122–1126. 417 indexed citations breakdown →

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Alloisio, Nicole, Clothilde Queiroux, Pascale Fournier, et al.. (2010). TheFrankia alniSymbiotic Transcriptome. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 23(5). 593–607. 75 indexed citations

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Kucho, Ken‐ichi, et al.. (2009). Transient Transformation of Frankia by Fusion Marker Genes in Liquid Culture. Microbes and Environments. 24(3). 231–240. 23 indexed citations

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Nagata, Maki, Toshiki Uchiumi, Mikiko Abe, et al.. (2009). Enhanced Nodulation and Nitrogen Fixation in the Abscisic Acid Low-Sensitive Mutant enhanced nitrogen fixation1 of Lotus japonicus. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 151(4). 1965–1976. 46 indexed citations

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Suzuki, Akihiro, Kenji Yamashita, Mami Ishihara, et al.. (2008). Enhanced symbiotic nitrogen fixation by Lotus japonicus containing an antisense .BETA.-1,3-glucanase gene. Plant Biotechnology. 25(4). 357–360. 7 indexed citations

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Shimoda, Yoshikazu, Ken‐ichi Kucho, Norihito Kanamori, et al.. (2008). Overexpression of class 1 plant hemoglobin genes enhances symbiotic nitrogen fixation activity between Mesorhizobium loti and Lotus japonicus. The Plant Journal. 57(2). 254–263. 82 indexed citations

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Kucho, Ken‐ichi, Kazuhisa Okamoto, Satoshi Nomura, et al.. (2005). Global Analysis of Circadian Expression in the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. Strain PCC 6803. Journal of Bacteriology. 187(6). 2190–2199. 114 indexed citations

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Kucho, Ken‐ichi, Kazuhisa Okamoto, Satoshi Tabata, Hideya Fukuzawa, & Masahiro Ishiura. (2005). Identification of novel clock-controlled genes by cDNA macroarray analysis in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Plant Molecular Biology. 57(6). 889–906. 37 indexed citations

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Brudler, Ronald, Kenichi Hitomi, Hiromi Daiyasu, et al.. (2003). Identification of a New Cryptochrome Class. Molecular Cell. 11(1). 59–67. 267 indexed citations

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Miura, Kenji, Ken‐ichi Kucho, Fumiya Taniguchi, et al.. (2001). The structure of a regulatory gene CCM1 and screening of its target genes by using Chlamydomonas cDNA macroarray. Plant and Cell Physiology. 42. 1 indexed citations

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Mamedov, Tarlan, Kensaku Suzuki, Kenji Miura, Ken‐ichi Kucho, & Hideya Fukuzawa. (2001). Characteristics and Sequence of Phosphoglycolate Phosphatase from a Eukaryotic Green Alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 276(49). 45573–45579. 31 indexed citations

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Fukuzawa, Hideya, Kimitsune Ishizaki, Kenji Miura, et al.. (1998). Isolation and characterization of high-CO₂ requiring mutants from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii by gene tagging. Canadian Journal of Botany. 76(6). 1092–1097. 21 indexed citations

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