R. Honkura

830 total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 713 citations indexed

About

R. Honkura is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology. According to data from OpenAlex, R. Honkura has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 713 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Plant Science, 7 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Biotechnology. Recurrent topics in R. Honkura's work include Plant Virus Research Studies (9 papers), Plant tissue culture and regeneration (5 papers) and Transgenic Plants and Applications (4 papers). R. Honkura is often cited by papers focused on Plant Virus Research Studies (9 papers), Plant tissue culture and regeneration (5 papers) and Transgenic Plants and Applications (4 papers). R. Honkura collaborates with scholars based in Japan, Egypt and United States. R. Honkura's co-authors include Shigeo Nakamura, Yuko Ohashi, Masashi Ugaki, Ichiro Mitsuhara, Yoshiaki Otsuki, Hideo Tanimoto, Taka Murakami, Yūichi Katayose, Yoko Gotoh and Keiichiro Ueno and has published in prestigious journals such as Genetics, Plant and Cell Physiology and Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions.

In The Last Decade

R. Honkura

16 papers receiving 683 citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Efficient Promoter Cassettes for Enhanced Expression of Foreign Genes in Dicotyledonous and Monocotyledonous Plants

1996 516 citations Ichiro Mitsuhara, Masashi Ugaki et al. Plant and Cell Physiology profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
R. Honkura Japan	8	549	475	178	43	29	16	713
Ganesan Sunilkumar United States	10	776 1.4×	712 1.5×	247 1.4×	29 0.7×	5 0.2×	13	977
Catherine DeLong Canada	9	1.2k 2.2×	1.0k 2.1×	289 1.6×	9 0.2×	17 0.6×	11	1.4k
Pulugurtha Bharadwaja Kirti India	18	689 1.3×	523 1.1×	87 0.5×	8 0.2×	73 2.5×	38	875
Stijn L. Delauré Belgium	10	694 1.3×	430 0.9×	142 0.8×	9 0.2×	38 1.3×	11	845
Upendra K. Singh Shekhawat India	16	970 1.8×	697 1.5×	86 0.5×	37 0.9×	38 1.3×	24	1.1k
Yunzhi Song China	15	584 1.1×	360 0.8×	55 0.3×	94 2.2×	9 0.3×	28	685
Stuart J. Harrison Australia	9	527 1.0×	284 0.6×	60 0.3×	33 0.8×	89 3.1×	10	679
Robert de Feyter Australia	9	300 0.5×	171 0.4×	33 0.2×	25 0.6×	10 0.3×	12	413
T. Franks Australia	13	577 1.1×	479 1.0×	121 0.7×	25 0.6×	3 0.1×	22	716
Hisatoshi Kaku Japan	17	1.4k 2.5×	513 1.1×	58 0.3×	22 0.5×	27 0.9×	45	1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of R. Honkura

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All Works

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16 of 16 papers shown

Nakamura, Shigeo, et al.. (2002). Ectopic Expression of an Oat Thionin Gene in Carnation Plants Confers Enhanced Resistance to Bacterial Wilt Disease.. Plant Biotechnology. 19(5). 311–317. 7 indexed citations

Iwai, Takayoshi, Hidetaka Kaku, R. Honkura, et al.. (2002). Enhanced Resistance to Seed-Transmitted Bacterial Diseases in Transgenic Rice Plants Overproducing an Oat Cell-Wall-Bound Thionin. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 15(6). 515–521. 81 indexed citations

Mitsuhara, Ichiro, et al.. (2002). Release From Post-transcriptional Gene Silencing by Cell Proliferation in Transgenic Tobacco Plants: Possible Mechanism for Noninheritance of the Silencing. Genetics. 160(1). 343–352. 35 indexed citations

Takahashi, Chiaki, Hiroshi Kanno, R. Honkura, & Takao Tsukiboshi. (1999). Nectria blight, a new disease of gerbera (Gerbera spp.) caused by Nectria haematococca complex in Japan. 1 indexed citations

Kanno, Hiroshi & R. Honkura. (1998). Grey mould of Malabar nightshade (Basella rubra L.), parsley (Petroselinum crispum Nym.), bishop's weed (Ammi majus L.) and blue lace flower (Didiscus caeruleus DC.) caused by Botrytis cinerea.. 91–95. 1 indexed citations

Nakamura, Shigeo, Takayoshi Iwai, & R. Honkura. (1998). Complete Nucleotide Sequence and Genome Organization of Broad Bean Wilt Virus 2.. Japanese Journal of Phytopathology. 64(6). 565–568. 23 indexed citations

Nakamura, Shigeo, Takayoshi Iwai, R. Honkura, et al.. (1997). Four Chitinase cDNAs from Chenopodium amaranticolor.. Plant Biotechnology. 14(1). 85–86. 2 indexed citations

Nakamura, Shigeo, R. Honkura, Takayoshi Iwai, Masashi Ugaki, & Yuko Ohashi. (1996). The Complete Nucleotide Sequence of Bean Yellow Mosaic Virus Genomic RNA.. Japanese Journal of Phytopathology. 62(5). 472–477. 11 indexed citations

Mitsuhara, Ichiro, Masashi Ugaki, Hirohiko Hirochika, et al.. (1996). Efficient Promoter Cassettes for Enhanced Expression of Foreign Genes in Dicotyledonous and Monocotyledonous Plants. Plant and Cell Physiology. 37(1). 49–59. 516 indexed citations breakdown →

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Nakamura, Shigeo, R. Honkura, Masashi Ugaki, Masahiro Ohshima, & Yuko Ohashi. (1995). Resistance to Viral Infection in Transgenic Plants Expressing Ribozymes Designed against Cucumber Mosaic Virus RNA3.. Japanese Journal of Phytopathology. 61(1). 53–55. 4 indexed citations

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Nakamura, Shigeo, R. Honkura, Masashi Ugaki, Masahiro Ohshima, & Yuko Ohashi. (1994). Nucleotide Sequence of the 3'-Terminal Region of Bean Yellow Mosaic Virus RNA and Resistance to Viral Infection in Transgenic Nicotiana benthamiana Expressing Its Coat Protein Gene.. Japanese Journal of Phytopathology. 60(3). 295–304. 12 indexed citations

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Harada, Yukio, Hiroshi Tanaka, H. Negishi, et al.. (1992). Nimbya scirpicola Causing Orange Stem Spot on Elecharis kuroguwai.. Japanese Journal of Phytopathology. 58(5). 766–768. 2 indexed citations

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Honkura, R., et al.. (1991). Occurrence of white false smut of rice [Oryza sativa] plant that shows the infection route in hill. 1 indexed citations

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Honkura, R., et al.. (1983). Two types of virus-like particles isolated from downy mildew diseased rice plants.. Japanese Journal of Phytopathology. 49(5). 653–658. 12 indexed citations

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Inoue, Takashi, et al.. (1982). Studies on Diseases of Job's Tears:II. Infection Source of Leaf Blight. 1982(33). 55–57. 2 indexed citations

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Honkura, R., et al.. (1978). . Japanese Journal of Phytopathology. 44(1). 57–58. 3 indexed citations

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