Toshihiko Komari

8.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
51 papers, 6.9k citations indexed

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Toshihiko Komari is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Biotechnology. According to data from OpenAlex, Toshihiko Komari has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 6.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Molecular Biology, 38 papers in Plant Science and 23 papers in Biotechnology. Recurrent topics in Toshihiko Komari's work include Plant tissue culture and regeneration (37 papers), Transgenic Plants and Applications (22 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (12 papers). Toshihiko Komari is often cited by papers focused on Plant tissue culture and regeneration (37 papers), Transgenic Plants and Applications (22 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (12 papers). Toshihiko Komari collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Australia. Toshihiko Komari's co-authors include Yukoh Hiei, Takashi Kumashiro, Shozo Ohta, Yuji Ishida, Tomoaki Kubo, Hideaki Saito, Nobuhiko Murai, Eugene W. Nester, Masako Tsunashima and Jun Ueki and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Biotechnology, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY and FEBS Letters.

In The Last Decade

Toshihiko Komari

48 papers receiving 6.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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 transformation of rice (Oryza sativa L.) mediated by Agrobacterium and sequence analysis of the boundaries of the T‐DNA

1994 3.0k citations Yukoh Hiei, Shozo Ohta et al. The Plant Journal profile →
High efficiency transformation of maize (Zea mays L.) mediated by Agrobacterium tumefaciens

1996 626 citations Yuji Ishida, Hideaki Saito et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Toshihiko Komari Japan	26	5.5k	5.3k	2.2k	439	142	51	6.9k
Yukoh Hiei Japan	16	4.9k 0.9×	4.9k 0.9×	1.9k 0.9×	464 1.1×	130 0.9×	25	6.2k
Takashi Kumashiro Japan	15	3.4k 0.6×	3.5k 0.7×	1.4k 0.6×	294 0.7×	106 0.7×	29	4.4k
John J. Finer United States	34	4.1k 0.8×	4.1k 0.8×	1.4k 0.6×	158 0.4×	83 0.6×	92	5.1k
Horst Lörz Germany	49	5.0k 0.9×	4.8k 0.9×	1.5k 0.7×	359 0.8×	78 0.5×	133	5.9k
Johan Botterman Belgium	29	3.4k 0.6×	3.0k 0.6×	1.4k 0.6×	185 0.4×	151 1.1×	47	4.6k
Brian Miki Canada	44	4.3k 0.8×	4.5k 0.8×	800 0.4×	188 0.4×	153 1.1×	105	5.7k
Tsukaho Hattori Japan	37	3.8k 0.7×	5.5k 1.0×	537 0.2×	291 0.7×	123 0.9×	78	6.3k
André Hoekema United States	17	4.1k 0.7×	3.7k 0.7×	1.9k 0.9×	139 0.3×	118 0.8×	20	5.2k
David A. Somers United States	41	2.9k 0.5×	3.8k 0.7×	1.0k 0.5×	202 0.5×	154 1.1×	119	4.8k
Marc De Block Belgium	29	3.5k 0.6×	3.2k 0.6×	1.3k 0.6×	214 0.5×	39 0.3×	41	4.3k

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Hernández‐Pinzón, Inmaculada, Noriko Ishikawa, Toshiyuki Komori, et al.. (2025). Discovery of functional NLRs using expression level, high-throughput transformation and large-scale phenotyping. Nature Plants. 11(10). 2100–2114.

Ichikawa, Masako, Norio Kato, Erika Toda, et al.. (2023). Whole-genome sequence analysis of mutations in rice plants regenerated from zygotes, mature embryos, and immature embryos. Breeding Science. 73(3). 349–353. 3 indexed citations

Maekawa, Masahiko, Eiko Himi, Noriko Ishikawa, et al.. (2021). Vigorous growth and high yielding of rice (Oryza sativa) introgression lines and transformants carrying a PRR37 allele from wild rice O. longistaminata. Plant Breeding. 140(3). 409–418. 1 indexed citations

Komori, Toshiyuki, Yuejin Sun, Norio Kato, et al.. (2020). High-throughput phenotypic screening of random genomic fragments in transgenic rice identified novel drought tolerance genes. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 133(4). 1291–1301. 2 indexed citations

Ishida, Yuji, Masako Tsunashima, Yukoh Hiei, & Toshihiko Komari. (2014). Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Transformation Using Immature Embryos. Methods in molecular biology. 1223. 189–198. 220 indexed citations

Hiei, Yukoh & Toshihiko Komari. (2008). Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of rice using immature embryos or calli induced from mature seed. Nature Protocols. 3(5). 824–834. 374 indexed citations

Nomura, Mika, Tomonori Higuchi, Yuji Ishida, et al.. (2005). Differential Expression Pattern of C4 Bundle Sheath Expression Genes in Rice, a C3 Plant. Plant and Cell Physiology. 46(5). 754–761. 47 indexed citations

Ishida, Yuji, Nobuhiko Murai, Shozo Ohta, et al.. (2004). Improved Co-transformation of Maize with Vectors Carrying Two Separate T-DNAs Mediated by Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Plant Biotechnology. 21(1). 57–63. 8 indexed citations

Deji, Atsushi, Hitoshi Sakakibara, Shinya Okumura, et al.. (2002). Accumulation of Maize Response Regulator Proteins in Mesophyll Cells after Cytokinin Treatment. Bioscience Biotechnology and Biochemistry. 66(9). 1853–1858. 7 indexed citations

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Nomura, Mika, Naoki Sentoku, Yuji Ishida, et al.. (2001). THE PROMOTER OF rbcS IN A C3 PLANT (RICE) DIRECTS ORGAN-SPECIFIC, LIGHT-DEPENDENT EXPRESSION IN A C4 PLANT (MAIZE), BUT DOES NOT CONFER THE BUNDLE SHEATH CELL-SPECIFIC EXPRESSION. Plant and Cell Physiology. 42.

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Nomura, Mika, Asuka Nishimura, Yuji Ishida, et al.. (2000). The promoter of rbcS in a C3 plant (rice) directs organ-specific, light-dependent expression in a C4 plant (maize), but does not confer bundle sheath cell-specific expression. Plant Molecular Biology. 44(1). 99–106. 36 indexed citations

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Nomura, Mika, Naoki Sentoku, Asuka Nishimura, et al.. (2000). The evolution of C4 plants: acquisition of cis‐regulatory sequences in the promoter of C4‐type pyruvate, orthophosphate dikinase gene. The Plant Journal. 22(3). 211–221. 41 indexed citations

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Komari, Toshihiko, Yukoh Hiei, Yuji Ishida, Takashi Kumashiro, & Tomoaki Kubo. (1998). Advances in cereal gene transfer. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 1(2). 161–165. 49 indexed citations

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Hiei, Yukoh, Toshihiko Komari, & Tomoaki Kubo. (1997). Transformation of rice mediated by Agrobacterium tumefaciens. PubMed. 35(1-2). 205–217. 381 indexed citations

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Ohta, Shozo, et al.. (1996). Identification of the amino acid residues responsible for cold tolerance in Flaveria brownii pyruvate,orthophosphate dikinase. FEBS Letters. 396(2-3). 152–156. 11 indexed citations

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Komari, Toshihiko, et al.. (1995). Cold stability of pyruvate, orthophosphate dikinase of Flaveria brownii. Plant Molecular Biology. 27(5). 969–980. 25 indexed citations

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Ueki, Jun, S Morioka, Toshihiko Komari, & Takashi Kumashiro. (1995). Purification and Characterization of Phospholipase D (PLD) from Rice (Oryza sativa L.) and Cloning of cDNA for PLD from Rice and Maize (Zea mays L.). Plant and Cell Physiology. 36(5). 903–914. 83 indexed citations

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Hiei, Yukoh, Shozo Ohta, Toshihiko Komari, & Takashi Kumashiro. (1994). Efficient transformation of rice (Oryza sativa L.) mediated by Agrobacterium and sequence analysis of the boundaries of the T‐DNA. The Plant Journal. 6(2). 271–282. 2950 indexed citations breakdown →

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Komari, Toshihiko. (1990). Transformation of cultured cells of Chenopodium quinoa by binary vectors that carry a fragment of DNA from the virulence region of pTiBo542. Plant Cell Reports. 9(6). 303–6. 81 indexed citations

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Komari, Toshihiko, et al.. (1989). Efficient selection of somatic hybrids in Nicotiana tabacum L. using a combination of drug-resistance markers introduced by transformation. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 77(4). 547–552. 28 indexed citations

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