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写真a

 
Hojo Yuko
 
Organization
Department of Comprehensive Technical Solutions Technical Expert staff
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Technical Expert staff
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  • 植物-昆虫間相互作用

Education

  • Okayama University   農学部   総合農業科学科

    2005.4 - 2009.3

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Papers

  • Flower jasmonates control fertility but largely disconnect from defense metabolites in reproductive tissues of rice (Oryza sativa L.) Reviewed

    Kaori Fukumoto, Yuko Hojo, Hiroko Nakatani, David Wari, Tomonori Shinya, Ivan Galis

    Journal of Experimental Botany   2025.2

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  • Comprehensive analysis of silicon impact on defense and metabolic responses in rice exposed to herbivory stress Reviewed

    Osibe, D. A., Hojo, Y., Shinya, T., Mitani-Ueno, N., Galis, I.

    Frontiers in Plant Science   2024.5

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  • Chitin-signaling-dependent responses to insect oral secretions in rice cells propose the involvement of chitooligosaccharides in plant defense against herbivores

    Yasukazu Kanda, Tomonori Shinya, David Wari, Yuko Hojo, Yuka Fujiwara, Wataru Tsuchiya, Zui Fujimoto, Bart P.H.J. Thomma, Yoko Nishizawa, Takashi Kamakura, Ivan Galis, Masaki Mori

    Plant Journal   2024

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    Plants recognize molecules related to a variety of biotic stresses through pattern recognition receptors to activate plant immunity. In the interactions between plants and chewing herbivores, such as lepidopteran larvae, oral secretions (OS) are deposited on wounded sites, which results in the elicitation of plant immune responses. The widely conserved receptor-like kinase CHITIN ELICITOR RECEPTOR KINASE 1 (CERK1) has been broadly associated with the recognition of microbial components, such as fungal chitin, but its relevance to herbivory remained unclear. In this study, we used receptor-knockout rice (Oryza sativa) and larvae of the lepidopteran pest Mythimna loreyi to demonstrate that the induction of immune responses triggered by larval OS in rice cells largely depends on CERK1 (OsCERK1). CHITIN ELICITOR-BINDING PROTEIN (CEBiP), an OsCERK1-interacting receptor-like protein that was proposed as the main chitin receptor, also contributed to the responses of rice cells to OS collected from three different lepidopteran species. Furthermore, CEBiP knockout rice seedlings showed lower OS-triggered accumulation of jasmonic acid. These results strongly suggest that the OsCERK1 and CEBiP recognize a particular OS component in chewing lepidopteran herbivores, and point toward the presence of chitooligosaccharides in the OS. Targeted perturbation to chitin recognition, through the use of fungal effector proteins, confirmed the presence of chitooligosaccharides in the OS. Treatments of wounds on rice plants with chitooligosaccharides enhanced a set of immune responses, leading to resistance against an herbivorous insect. Our data show that rice recognizes chitooligosaccharides during larval herbivory to activate resistance, and identifies chitin as a novel herbivore-associated molecular pattern.

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  • Comparative analysis of sorghum (C4) and rice (C3) plant headspace volatiles induced by artificial herbivory

    Osinde, C., Sobhy, I. S., Wari, D., Dinh, S. T., Hojo, Y., Osibe, D. A., Shinya, T., Tugume, A. K., Nsubuga, M. A., Galis, I.

    Plant Signaling and Behavior   2023.8

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  • BSR1, a Rice Receptor-like Cytoplasmic Kinase, Positively Regulates Defense Responses to Herbivory Reviewed

    Kanda, Y., Shinya, T., Maeda, S., Mujiono, K., Hojo, Y., Tomita, K., Okada, K., Kamakura, T., Galis, I., Mori, M.

    International Journal of Molecular Sciences   2023.6

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  • Chitooligosaccharide elicitor and oxylipins synergistically elevate phytoalexin production in rice Reviewed

    Shinya, T., Miyamoto, K., Uchida, K., Hojo, Y., Yumoto, E., Okada, K., Yamane, H., Galis, I.

    Plant Molecular Biology   2022.7

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  • Cytokinin increases vegetative growth period by suppressing florigen expression in rice and maize Reviewed

    Cho, L. H., Yoon, J., Tun, W., Baek, G., Peng, X., Hong, W. J., Mori, I. C., Hojo, Y., Matsuura, T., Kim, S. R., Kim, S. T., Kwon, S. W., Jung, K. H., Jeon, J. S., An, G.

    The Plant Journal   2022.6

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  • Abscisic acid is required for exodermal suberization to form a barrier to radial oxygen loss in the adventitious roots of rice (Oryza sativa) Reviewed

    Shiono, K., Yoshikawa, M., Kreszies, T., Yamada, S., Hojo, Y., Matsuura, T., Mori, I. C., Schreiber, L., Yoshioka, T.

    New Phytologist   2022.1

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  • Herbivore-induced and constitutive volatiles are controlled by different oxylipin-dependent mechanisms in rice Reviewed

    Mujiono, K., Tohi, T., Sobhy, I. S., Hojo, Y., Shinya, T., Galis, I.

    Plant, Cell & Environment   2021.8

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  • Deciphering OPDA Signaling Components in the Momilactone-Producing Moss Calohypnum plumiforme Reviewed

    Inagaki, H., Miyamoto, K., Ando, N., Murakami, K., Sugisawa, K., Morita, S., Yumoto, E., Teruya, M., Uchida, K., Kato, N., Kaji, T., Takaoka, Y., Hojo, Y., Shinya, T., Galis, I., Nozawa, A., Sawasaki, T., Nojiri, H., Ueda, U., Okada, K.

    Frontiers in Plant Science   2021.5

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  • Ethylene functions as a suppressor of volatile production in rice Reviewed

    Mujiono, K., Tohi, T., Sobhy, S. I., Hojo, Y., Ho, T. N., Shinya, T. Galis, I.

    Journal of Experimental Botany   2020.10

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  • Silencing of phosphoinositide dependent protein kinase orthologs reduces hypersensitive cell death in Nicotiana benthamiana Reviewed

    Kiba, A., Fukui, K., Mitani, M., Galis, I., Hojo, Y., Shinya, T., Ohnishi, K., Hikichi, Y.

    Plant Biotechnology   2020.9

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  • Nonglandular silicified trichomes are essential for rice defense against chewing herbivores Reviewed

    Andama, J.B., Mujiono, K., Hojo, Y., Shinya, T., Galis, I.

    Plant, Cell & Environment   2020.9

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  • Low temperature modulates natural peel degreening in lemon fruit independently of endogenous ethylene Reviewed

    Oscar W Mitalo, Takumi Otsuki, Rui Okada, Saeka Obitsu, Kanae Masuda, Yuko Hojo, Takakazu Matsuura, Izumi C Mori, Daigo Abe, William O Asiche, Takashi Akagi, Yasutaka Kubo, Koichiro Ushijima

    Journal of Experimental Botany   2020.5

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  • 'Passe Crassane' pear fruit (Pyrus communis L.) ripening: Revisiting the role of low temperature via integrated physiological and transcriptome analysis Reviewed

    Mitalo, OW, Tosab, Y., Tokiwa, S., Kondo, Y., Azimi, A., Hojo, Y., Matsuura, T., Mori, IC, Nakano, R., Akagi, T., Ushijima, K., Kubo, Y.

    Postharvest Biology and Technology   2019.12

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  • Brown planthopper honeydew-associated symbiotic microbes elicit momilactones in rice Reviewed

    Wari, D., Alamgir, KMd, Mujiono, K., Hojo, Y., Tani, A., Shinya, T., Nakatani, H., Galis, I.

    Plant Signaling and Behavior   2019.8

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  • Transcriptome Analysis and Identification of a Transcriptional Regulatory Network in the Response to H2O2 Reviewed

    Ayaka Hieno, Hushna Ara Naznin, Keiko Inaba-Hasegawa, Tomoko Yokogawa, Natsuki Hayami, Mika Nomoto, Yasuomi Tada, Takashi Yokogawa, Mieko Higuchi-Takeuchi, Kosuke Hanada, Minami Matsui, Yoko Ikeda, Yuko Hojo, Takashi Hirayama, Kazutaka Kusunoki, Hiroyuki Koyama, Nobutaka Mitsuda, Yoshiharu Y. Yamamoto

    Plant Physiology   2019.7

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  • Honeydew-associated microbes elicit defense responses against brown planthopper in rice Reviewed

    Wari, D., Alamgir, KMd, Mujiono, K., Hojo, Y., Shinya, T., Tani, A., Nakatani, H., Galis, I.

    Journal of Experimental Botany   2019.2

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  • Integration of danger peptide signals with herbivore-associated molecular pattern signaling amplifies anti-herbivore defense responses in rice Reviewed

    Shinya T., Yasuda S., Hyodo K., Tani R., Hojo Y., Fujiwara Y., Hiruma K., Ishizaki T., Fujita Y., Saijo Y., Galis I.

    The Plant Journal   2018.3

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  • Rapid defense responses in maize leaves induced by Spodoptera exigua caterpillar feeding Reviewed

    Tzin, V., Hojo, Y., Strickler, S. R., Bartsch, L. J., Archer, C. M., Ahern, K. R., Zhou, S., Christensen, S. A., Galis, I., Mueller, L. A., Jander, G.

    Journal of Experimental Botany   2017.8

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  • Global profiling of phytohormone dynamics during combined drought and pathogen stress in Arabidopsis thaliana reveals ABA and JA as major regulators Reviewed

    Aarti Gupta, Hiroshi Hisano, Yuko Hojo, Takakazu Matsuura, Yoko Ikeda, Izumi C. Mori, Muthappa Senthil-Kumar

    Scientific Reports   2017.6

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  • Ectopic accumulation of linalool confers resistance to Xanthomonas citri subsp citri in transgenic sweet orange plants Reviewed

    Takehiko Shimada, Tomoko Endo, Ana Rodríguez, Hiroshi Fujii, Shingo Goto, Takakazu Matsuura, Yuko Hojo, Yoko Ikeda, Izumi C. Mori, Takashi Fujikawa, Leandro Peña, Mitsuo Omura

    Tree Physiology   2017.5

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  • Effect of phytohormones on seedling vigor of rice under cold conditions

    Yoshiyuki Sagehashi, Hiroshi Yasuda, Yuko Hojo, Takakazu Matsuura, Izumi C. Mori, Yutaka Sato

    Japanese Journal of Crop Science   86 ( 4 )   367 - 374   2017

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    We analyzed the relationship between seedling vigor and phytohormones at the seedling stage in foreign rice “Dunghan Shali” and “Italica Livorno” with vigorous initial growth under low temperature conditions, and Japanese rice “Oboroduki” and “Nipponbare”. The initial growth of “Dunghan Shali” and “Italica Livorno” was superior to that of “Oboroduki” and “Nipponbare” at both 27°C and 12°C. The phytohormone gibberellin supports vigorous initial growth of “Dunghan Shali”. The vigorous initial growth of “Italica Livorno” at 27°C could be induced by the effects of gibberellin since we noted increased expression of OsGA20ox1, a gene that promotes gibberellin biosynthesis. Both “Dunghan Shali” and “Italica Livorno” harbor common mutations in the promoter region of OsGA20ox1. At 12°C, the vigorous initial growth of “Italica Livorno” was because of the increased expression of OsGA20ox1. In “Dunghan Shali”, although the expression of OsGA20ox1 was not high, the level of abscisic acid, which suppresses plant growth, was lower than that in the three other varieties. We conclude that the effect of gibberellin was important for the vigorous initial growth of rice seedlings at 27°C, but a balance of multiple phytohormones may be important for the seedling vigor in rice at 12°C.

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  • Molecular evidence for biochemical diversification of phenolamide biosynthesis in rice plants. International journal

    Kimiaki Tanabe, Yuko Hojo, Tomonori Shinya, Ivan Galis

    Journal of integrative plant biology   58 ( 11 )   903 - 913   2016.11

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    Two phenolamides (PAs), p-coumaroylputrescine and feruloylputrescine strongly accumulate in rice (Oryza sativa cv. Nipponbare) leaves subjected to attack of chewing and sucking herbivores. Here we identified and characterized in vitro three novel rice genes that mediated coumaroyl-CoA/feruloyl-CoA conjugation to polyamines, putrescine and agmatine. Interestingly, two genes were highly specific for their polyamine substrates, encoding putrescine N-hydroxycinnamoyltransferase and agmatine N-hydroxycinnamoyltransferase, while the third enzyme could use both polyamines and it was therefore annotated as putrescine/agmatine N-hydroxycinnamoyltransferase. All genes were preferentially expressed in rice roots and developing flowers, and in addition, the putrescine/agmatine N-hydroxycinnamoyltransferase transcripts were strongly induced by wounding in the young rice leaves. Because the wound response of this gene was only partially suppressed in the jasmonoyl-L-isoleucine deficient plants (Osjar1), it suggests that its upregulation (as well as inducible PAs in rice) may be largely independent of jasmonoyl-L-isoleucine signaling pathway. The finding of three closely related genes with a similar and/or overlapping activity in PA biosynthesis provides another striking example of rapid diversification of plant metabolism in response to environmental stresses in nature.

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  • Modulation of plant defense responses to herbivores by simultaneous recognition of different herbivore-associated elicitors in rice. International journal

    Tomonori Shinya, Yuko Hojo, Yoshitake Desaki, John T Christeller, Kazunori Okada, Naoto Shibuya, Ivan Galis

    Scientific reports   6   32537 - 32537   2016.9

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    Induced plant defense responses against insect herbivores are triggered by wounding and/or perception of herbivore elicitors from their oral secretions (OS) and/or saliva. In this study, we analyzed OS isolated from two rice chewing herbivores, Mythimna loreyi and Parnara guttata. Both types of crude OS had substantial elicitor activity in rice cell system that allowed rapid detection of early and late defense responses, i.e. accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and defense secondary metabolites, respectively. While the OS from M. loreyi contained large amounts of previously reported insect elicitors, fatty acid-amino acid conjugates (FACs), the elicitor-active P. guttata's OS contained no detectable FACs. Subsequently, elicitor activity associated with the high molecular mass fraction in OS of both herbivores was identified, and shown to promote ROS and metabolite accumulations in rice cells. Notably, the application of N-linolenoyl-Gln (FAC) alone had only negligible elicitor activity in rice cells; however, the activity of isolated elicitor fraction was substantially promoted by this FAC. Our results reveal that plants integrate various independent signals associated with their insect attackers to modulate their defense responses and reach maximal fitness in nature.

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  • Systematic analysis of rice (Oryza sativa) metabolic responses to herbivory. International journal

    Kabir Md Alamgir, Yuko Hojo, John T Christeller, Kaori Fukumoto, Ryutaro Isshiki, Tomonori Shinya, Ian T Baldwin, Ivan Galis

    Plant, cell & environment   39 ( 2 )   453 - 66   2016.2

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    Plants defend against attack from herbivores by direct and indirect defence mechanisms mediated by the accumulation of phytoalexins and release of volatile signals, respectively. While the defensive arsenals of some plants, such as tobacco and Arabidopsis are well known, most of rice's (Oryza sativa) defence metabolites and their effectiveness against herbivores remain uncharacterized. Here, we used a non-biassed metabolomics approach to identify many novel herbivory-regulated metabolic signatures in rice. Most were up-regulated by herbivore attack while only a few were suppressed. Two of the most prominent up-regulated signatures were characterized as phenolamides (PAs), p-coumaroylputrescine and feruloylputrescine. PAs accumulated in response to attack by both chewing insects, i.e. feeding of the lawn armyworm (Spodoptera mauritia) and the rice skipper (Parnara guttata) larvae, and the attack of the sucking insect, the brown planthopper (Nilaparvata lugens, BPH). In bioassays, BPH insects feeding on 15% sugar solution containing p-coumaroylputrescine or feruloylputrescine, at concentrations similar to those elicited by heavy BPH attack in rice, had a higher mortality compared to those feeding on sugar diet alone. Our results highlight PAs as a rapidly expanding new group of plant defence metabolites that are elicited by herbivore attack, and deter herbivores in rice and other plants.

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  • Silencing of Nicotiana benthamiana SEC14 phospholipid transfer protein reduced jasmonic acid dependent defense against Pseudomonas syringae Reviewed

    Akinori Kiba, Yu Imanaka, Masahito Nakano, Ivan Galis, Yuko Hojo, Tomonori Shinya, Kouhei Ohnishi, Yasufumi Hikichi

    Plant Biotechnology   2016

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  • Overexpression of the PAP1 transcription factor reveals a complex regulation of flavonoid and phenylpropanoid metabolism in Nicotiana tabacum plants attacked by Spodoptera litura. International journal

    Tomoko Mitsunami, Masahiro Nishihara, Ivan Galis, Kabir Md Alamgir, Yuko Hojo, Kohei Fujita, Nobuhiro Sasaki, Keichiro Nemoto, Tatsuya Sawasaki, Gen-ichiro Arimura

    PloS one   9 ( 9 )   e108849   2014

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    Anthocyanin pigments and associated flavonoids have demonstrated antioxidant properties and benefits for human health. Consequently, current plant bioengineers have focused on how to modify flavonoid metabolism in plants. Most of that research, however, does not consider the role of natural biotic stresses (e.g., herbivore attack). To understand the influence of herbivore attack on the metabolic engineering of flavonoids, we examined tobacco plants overexpressing the Arabidopsis PAP1 gene (encoding an MYB transcription factor), which accumulated anthocyanin pigments and other flavonoids/phenylpropanoids. In comparison to wild-type and control plants, transgenic plants exhibited greater resistance to Spodoptera litura. Moreover, herbivory suppressed the PAP1-induced increase of transcripts of flavonoid/phenylpropanoid biosynthetic genes (e.g., F3H) and the subsequent accumulation of these genes' metabolites, despite the unaltered PAP1 mRNA levels after herbivory. The instances of down-regulation were independent of the signaling pathways mediated by defense-related jasmonates but were relevant to the levels of PAP1-induced and herbivory-suppressed transcription factors, An1a and An1b. Although initially F3H transcripts were suppressed by herbivory, after the S. litura feeding was interrupted, F3H transcripts increased. We hypothesize that in transgenic plants responding to herbivory, there is a complex mechanism regulating enriched flavonoid/phenylpropanoid compounds, via biotic stress signals.

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  • SEC14 phospholipid transfer protein is involved in lipid signaling-mediated plant immune responses in Nicotiana benthamiana. International journal

    Akinori Kiba, Ivan Galis, Yuko Hojo, Kouhei Ohnishi, Hirofumi Yoshioka, Yasufumi Hikichi

    PloS one   9 ( 5 )   e98150   2014

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    We previously identified a gene related to the SEC14-gene phospholipid transfer protein superfamily that is induced in Nicotiana benthamiana (NbSEC14) in response to infection with Ralstonia solanacearum. We here report that NbSEC14 plays a role in plant immune responses via phospholipid-turnover. NbSEC14-silencing compromised expression of defense-related PR-4 and accumulation of jasmonic acid (JA) and its derivative JA-Ile. Transient expression of NbSEC14 induced PR-4 gene expression. Activities of diacylglycerol kinase, phospholipase C and D, and the synthesis of diacylglycerol and phosphatidic acid elicited by avirulent R. solanacearum were reduced in NbSEC14-silenced plants. Accumulation of signaling lipids and activation of diacylglycerol kinase and phospholipases were enhanced by transient expression of NbSEC14. These results suggest that the NbSEC14 protein plays a role at the interface between lipid signaling-metabolism and plant innate immune responses.

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