Motoyasu Otani

Improvement of environmental stress tolerance of sweet potato by introduction of genes for spermidine synthase

Yoshihisa Kasukabe, Lixiong He, Yuriko Watakabe et al. · Plant Biotechnology · 2006 · 131 citations · Full text

Biology, Biosynthesis, Engineering +15

Transgenic sweet potato expressing thionin from barley gives resistance to black rot disease caused by Ceratocystis fimbriata in leaves and storage roots

Nobuhiko Muramoto, Tomoko Tanaka, Takashi Shimamura et al. · Plant Cell Reports · 2012 · 82 citations

Biology, Black Rot Disease, Engineering +10

Increase of amylose content of sweetpotato starch by RNA interference of the starch branching enzyme II gene (IbSBEII)

Takiko Shimada, Motoyasu Otani, Tatsuro Hamada et al. · Plant Biotechnology · 2006 · 78 citations · Full text

Engineering, Genetics, Plant Biochemistry +20

Inhibition of the gene expression for granule-bound starch synthase I by RNA interference in sweet potato plants

Motoyasu Otani, Tatsuro Hamada, ‍Kenji Katayama et al. · Plant Cell Reports · 2007 · 74 citations

Biology, Plant Molecular Biology, Biosynthesis +9

Transformation of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.) plants by Agrobacterium rhizogenes

Motoyasu Otani, Masahiro Mii, Takashi Handa et al. · Plant Science · 1993 · 68 citations

Biology, Plant Biology, Agrobacterium Rhizogenes +11