Toriba, T. and Hirano, H.Y. (2018). Two-color in situ hybridization: a technique for simultaneous detection of each transcript from different loci. In “Plant transcription factor”, N. Yamaguchi, ed. (New York: Springer). (in press)

Matsumoto, H., Yasui, Y., Kumamaru, T., and Hirano, H.-Y. (2018) Characterization of a half-pipe-like leaf1 mutant that exhibits a curled leaf phenotype. Genes Genet. Syst. (in press).

Yasui, Y., Ohmori, Y., Takebayashi, Y., Sakakibara, H., and Hirano, H.-Y. (2018). WUSCHEL-RELATED HOMEOBOX4 acts as a key regulator in early leaf development in rice. PLOS Genet. 14, e1007365.

Tanaka, W., Toriba, T., and Hirano, H.Y. (2017). Three TOB1-related YABBY genes are required to maintain proper function of the spikelet and branch meristems in rice. New Phytol. 215, 825-839.

Yasui, Y., Tanaka, W., Sakamoto, T., Kurata, T., and Hirano, H.-Y. (2017)Genetic enhancer analysis reveals that FLORAL ORGAN NUMBER2 and OsMADS3 cooperatively regulate maintenance and determinacy of the flower meristem in rice. Plant Cell Physiol. 58, 893-903.

Sugiyama, S.-H., Tanaka, W., and Hirano, H.-Y. (2016). Polar patterning of the spikelet is disrupted in the two opposite lemma mutant in rice. Genes Genet. Syst. 91, 193-200.

Kubo, F.C., Yasui, Y., Kumamaru, T., Sato, Y., and Hirano, H.-Y. (2016). Genetic analysis of mutants responsible for narrow leaf phenotype and reduced vein number. Genes Genet. Syst. 91, 235-240.

Tanaka, W., Ohmori, Y., Ushijima, T., Matsusaka, H., Matsushita, T., Kumamaru, T., Kawano, S., and Hirano, H.-Y. (2015). Axillary meristem formation in rice requires the WUSCHEL ortholog TILLERS ABSENT1. Plant Cell 27, 1173-1184.

Ikeda, T., Tanaka, W., Mikami, M., Endo, M., and Hirano, H.-Y. (2015). Generation of artificial drooping leaf mutants by CRISPR-Cas9 technology in rice. Genes Genet. Syst. 90, 231-235.

Suzuki, C., Tanaka, W., and Hirano, H.-Y. (2015). Analysis of rice fickle spikelet1 mutant that displays an increase in flower and spikelet organ number with inconstant expressivity. Genes Genet. Syst. 90, 181-185.

Tanaka, W. Toriba, T. , and Hirano, H.-Y., (2014). Flower development in rice. " The molecular genetics of floral transition and flower development ", F. Fornara, ed. pp. 221-262 (Elsevier: Amsterdam). Advances in Botanical Research vol. 72.

Hirano, H.-Y., Tanaka, W., and Toriba, T. (2014). Flower development in grasses. In Methods in Molecular Biology "Flower Development" (vol. 1110), F. Wellmer and J.L. Riechmann, eds pp. 57-84 (Springer: New York).

Sato, D.-S., Ohmori, Y., Nagashima, H., Toriba, T., and Hirano, H.-Y. (2014). A role for TRIANGULAR HULL1 in fine-tuning spikelet morphogenesis in rice. Genes Genet. Syst. 89, 61-69. 

Ohmori, Y., Yasui, Y., and Hirano, H.-Y. (2014). Overexpression analysis suggests that FON2-LIKE CLE PROTEIN1 is involved in rice leaf development. Genes Genet. Syst. 89, 87-91.

Toriba, T., and Hirano, H.-Y. (2014). The DROOPING LEAF and OsETTIN2 genes promote awn development in rice. Plant J. 77, 616-626.

Ohmori, Y., Tanaka, W., Kojima, M., Sakakibara, H., and Hirano, H.Y. (2013). WUSCHEL-RELATED HOMEOBOX4 is involved in meristem maintenance and is negatively regulated by the CLE gene FCP1 in rice. Plant Cell 25, 229-241. 

Tanaka, W., Pautler, M., Jackson, D., and Hirano, H.Y. (2013). Grass meristems II: inflorescence architecture, flower development and meristem gate. Plant Cell Physiol. 54, 313-324.

Pautler, M., Tanaka, W., Hirano, H.Y., and Jackson, D. (2013). Grass meristems I: shoot apical meristem maintenance, axillary meristem determinacy and the floral transition. Plant Cell Physiol. 54, 302-312.

Ishiwata, A., Ozawa, M., Nagasaki, H., Kato, M., Noda, Y., Yamaguchi, T., Nosaka, M., Shimizu-Sato, S., Nagasaki, A., Maekawa, M., Hirano, H.-Y., and Sato, Y. (2013). Two WUSCHEL-related homeobox genes, narrow leaf2 and narrow leaf3, control leaf width in rice. Plant Cell Physiol. 54, 779-792.

Tanaka, W., Toriba, T., Ohmori, Y., and Hirano, H.-Y. (2012). Formation of two florets within a single spikelet in the rice tongari-boushi1 mutant. Plant Signal. Behav. 7, 793-795.

Tanaka, W., Toriba, T., Ohmori, Y., Yoshida, A., Kawai, A., Mayama-Tsuchida, T., Ichikawa, H., Mitsuda, N., Ohme-Takagi, M., and Hirano, H.-Y. (2012). The YABBY gene TONGARI-BOUSHI1 is involved in lateral organ development and maintenance of meristem organization in the rice spikelet. Plant Cell 24, 80-95. [Faculty of 1000]

Yoshida, A., Ohmori, Y., Kitano, H., Taguchi-Shiobara, F., and Hirano, H.-Y. (2012). ABERRANT SPIKELET AND PANICLE1 encoding a TOPLESS-related transcriptional corepressor is involved in regulation of meristem fate in rice.    Plant J. 70, 327-337.

Toriba, T., Ohmori, Y., and Hirano, H.-Y. (2011). Common and distinct mechanisms  underlying the establishment of adaxial and abaxial polarity in stamen and leaf development. Plant Signal. Behav. 6, 430-433.

Ohmori, Y., Toriba, T., Nakamura, H., Ichikawa, H., and Hirano, H.-Y. (2011). Temporal and spatial regulation of DROOPING LEAF gene expression that promotes midrib formation in rice. Plant J. 65, 77-86.

Toriba, T., Suzaki, T., Yamaguchi, T., Ohmori, Y., Tsukaya, H., and Hirano, H.-Y.(2010). Distinct regulation of adaxial-abaxial polarity in anther patterning in rice. Plant Cell 22:1452-1462.

Yoshida, A., Suzaki, T., Tanaka, W., and Hirano, H.-Y. (2009). The homeotic gene LONG STERILE LEMMA (G1) specifies sterile lemma identity in the rice spikelet.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 106, 20103-20108.

Suzaki, T., Ohneda, M., Toriba, T., Yoshida, A., and Hirano, H.-Y. (2009).  FON2 SPARE1 redundantly regulates floral meristem maintenance with FLORAL ORGAN NUMBER2 in rice.  PLoS Genet. 5, 1-9.

Ishikawa, M., Ohmori, Y., Tanaka, W., Hirabayashi, C., Murai, K., Ogihara, Y., Yamaguchi, T., and Hirano, H.Y. (2009). The spatial expression patterns of DROOPING LEAF orthologs suggest a conserved function in grasses.            Genes Genet. Syst. 84, 137-146.  [GGS Prize 2010]

Suzaki, T., Yoshida, A., and Hirano, H.-Y. (2008). Functional diversification of CLAVATA3-related CLE proteins in meristem maintenance in rice.  Plant Cell 20, 2049-2058.  [Faculty of 1000]

Ohmori, Y., Abiko, M., Horibata, A., and Hirano, H.-Y. (2008). A transposon, Ping, is integrated into intron 4 of the DROOPING LEAF gene of rice, weakly reducing its expression, and causing a mild drooping leaf phenotype. Plant Cell Physiol. 49, 1176-1184.

Hirano, H.-Y. (2008). Genetic regulation of meristem maintenance and organ specification in rice flower development. In Rice Biology in the Genomics Era., H.-Y. Hirano, A. Hirai, Y. Sano, and T. Sasaki, eds (Heidelberg: Springer), pp. 177-189.

Abiko, M., Ohmori, Y., and Hirano, H.-Y. (2008). Genome-wide expression profiling and identification of genes under the control of the DROOPING LEAF gene during midrib development in rice. Genes Genet. Syst. 83, 237-244.

Toriba, T., Harada, K., Takamura, A., Nakamura, H., Ichikawa, H., Suzaki, T., and Hirano, H.-Y. (2007). Molecular characterization the YABBY gene family in Oryza sativa and expression analysis of OsYABBY1. Mol. Genet. Genomics 277, 457-468.

Yamaguchi, T., Lee, Y.D., Miyao, A., Hirochika, H., An, G., and Hirano, H.-Y. (2006). Functional diversification of the two C-class genes, OsMADS3 and OsMADS58, in Oryza sativa. Plant Cell 18, 15-28.

Yamaguchi, T., and Hirano, H.Y. (2006). Function and diversification of MADS-box genes in rice.  TSW Dev. Embryol. 1, 99-108.

Suzaki, T., Toriba, T., Fujimoto, M., Tsutsumi, N., Kitano, H., and Hirano, H.-Y. (2006). Conservation and diversification of meristem maintenance mechanism in Oryza sativa: function of the FLORAL ORGAN NUMBER2 gene.   Plant Cell Physiol. 47, 1591-1602.

Ohtsu, K., Hirano, H.-Y., Tsutsumi, N., Hirai, A., and Nakazono, M. (2005). Anaconda, a new class of transposon belonging to the Mu superfamily, has diversified by acquiring host genes during rice evolution.  Mol. Genet. Genomics 274, 606-615.

Ohnishi, T., Sugahara, S., Yamada, T., Kikuchi, K., Yoshiba, Y., Hirano, H.-Y., and Tsutsumi, N. (2005). OsNAC6, a member of the NAC gene family, is induced by various stresses in rice. Genes Genet. Syst. 80, 135-139.

Bommert, P., Satoh-Nagasawa, N., Jackson, D., and Hirano, H.-Y. (2005). Genetics and evolution of inflorescence and flower development in grasses. Plant Cell Physiol. 46, 69-78.

Yamaguchi, T., Nagasawa, N., Kawasaki, S., Matsuoka, M., Nagato, Y., and Hirano, H.-Y. (2004). The YABBY gene DROOPING LEAF regulates carpel specification and midrib development in Oryza sativa.  Plant Cell 16, 500-509. [Faculty of 1000]

Suzaki, T., Sato, M., Ashikari, M., Miyoshi, M., Nagato, Y., and Hirano, H.-Y. (2004). The gene FLORAL ORGAN NUMBER1 regulates floral meristem size in rice and encodes a leucine-rich repeat receptor kinase orthologous to Arabidopsis CLAVATA1. Development 131, 5649-5657.

Nagasawa, N., Miyoshi, M., Sano, Y., Satoh, H., Hirano, H.-Y., Sakai, H., and Nagato, Y. (2003).  SUPERWOMAN1 and DROOPING LEAF genes control floral organ identity in rice. Development 130, 705-718.

Kikuchi, K., Terauchi, K., Wada, M., and Hirano, H.-Y. (2003). The plant MITE mPing is mobilized in anther culture.  Nature 421, 167-170. [Faculty of 1000]