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Ikematsu, S., Umase, T., Shinozaki, M., Nakayama, S., Noguchi, F., Sakamoto, T., Hou, H., Gohari, G., *Kimura, S., and *Torii, K.U. (2023) Rewiring of hormone and light response pathways underlies the inhibition of stomatal development in an amphibious plant Rorippa aquatica underwater. Current Biology 33: 543-556
Chen, L., Cochran, A.M., Waite, J.M., Shirasu, K., Bemis, S.M., and *Torii, K.U. (2023) Direct attenuation of Arabidopsis ERECTA signalling by a pair of U-box E3 ligases. Nature Plants 9: 112-127
Kim, E.D., Dorrity, M.W., Fitzgerald, B.A., Seo, H., Sepuru, K.M., Queitsch, C., Mitsuda, N., Han, S.K., and *Torii, K.U. (2022) Dynamic chromatin accessibility deploys heterotypic cis/trans-acting factors driving stomatal cell-fate commitment. Nature Plants 8: 1453-1466
Han, S.K., Herrmann, A., Yang, J., Iwasaki, R., Sakamoto, T., Desvoyes, B., Kimura, S., Gutierrez, C., Kim, E.D., and *Torii, K.U. (2022) Deceleration of the cell cycle underpins a switch from proliferative to terminal divisions in plant stomatal lineage. Developmental Cell 57: 569-582
Seo, H., Sepuru, K.M., Putarjunan, A., Aguirre, L., Burrows, B.A., and *Torii, K.U. (2022) Intragenic suppressors unravel the role of the SCREAM ACT-like domain for bHLH partner selectivity in stomatal development. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 119: e217774119
Zuch, D.T., Doyle, S.M., Majda, M., Smith, R.S., *Robert, S., and *Torii, K.U. (2022) Cell biology of the leaf epidermis: Fate specification, morphogenesis, and coordination. Plant Cell 34: 209-227
*Torii, K.U. (2021) Stomatal development in the context of plant epidermis. Annals Bot 128:137-148
Herrmann, A. and *Torii, K.U. (2020) Shouting out loud: Signaling modules in the regulation of stomatal development. Plant Physiology 185: 765-780
Zeng, S.M., Lo, E.K.W., Hazelton, B.J., Morales, M.F. and *Torii, K.U. (2020) Effective range of non-cell autonomous activator and inhibitor peptides specifying plant stomatal patterning. Development 192237
Qi, X., Yoshinari, A., Bai, P., Maes, M., Zeng, S.M., and *Torii, K.U. (2020) The manifold actions of signaling peptides on subcellular dynamics of a receptor specify stomatal cell fate. eLife e58097
Putarjunan, A., Ruble, J., Srivastava, A., Zhao, C., Rychel, A.L., Hofstetter, A.K., Tang, X., Zhu, J.K., Tama, F., *Zheng, N., and *Torii, K.U. (2019) Bipartite anchoring of SCREAM enforces stomatal initiation by coupling MAP Kinases to SPEECHLESS. Nature Plants 5:742-754
Han, S.K., Qi, X., K. Sugihara, Endo, T.A., Dang, J.H., Miura, T., Miller, K.A., Kim, E., and *Torii, K.U. (2018) Direct orchestration of cell-state switch and the single symmetric division to create stomata. Developmental Cell 45: 303-315
Han, S.K. and *Torii, K.U. (2019) Linking cell cycle to stomatal differentiation. Curr Opin Plant Biol 51: 66-73.
Perraki, A., DeFalco, T.A., Derbyshire, P., Avila, J., Sere, D., Sklenar, J., Qi, X., Stransfeld, L., Schwessinger, B., Kadota, Y., Macho, A.P., Jiang, S., Couto, D., Torii, K.U., Menke, F.L.H. and Zipfel, C. (2018) Phosphocode-dependent functional dichotomy of a common co-receptor in plant signalling. Nature 561: 248-252.
Yamada, R., Murai, K., Uchida, N., Iwasaki, R., Tada, Y., Kinoshita, T., Itami, K., *Torii, K.U., and *Hagihara, S. (2018) A super strong engineered auxin-TIR1 pair. Plant Cell Physiol 59: 1538-1544
Uchida, N., Takahashi, K., Iwasaki, R., Zhang, H., Endo, T.A., Kimura, S., Yamada, R., Yoshimura, M., Tada, Y., Kinoshita, T., Itami, K., *Hagihara, S., and *Torii, K.U. (2018) Chemical hijacking of auxin signaling with an engineered auxin-TIR1 pair. Nature Chemical Biology 14: 299-305
Qi, X., and *Torii, K.U. (2018) Hormonal and environmental signals guiding stomatal development. BMC Biology 16: e21
Qi, X., Han, S.K., Dang, J.H., Garrick, J.T., Ito, M., Hofstetter, A.K., and *Torii, K.U. (2017) Autocrine regulation of stomatal differentiation potential by EPF1 and ERECTA-LIKE1 ligand-receptor signaling. eLife: e24102
Ikematsu, S., Tasaka, M., *Torii, K.U. and *Uchida, N. (2017) ERECTA-family receptor genes prevent excessive progression of radial growth and premature initiation of fiber differentiation in the Arabidopsis hypocotyl vasculature. New Phytol. 213: 1697-1709
Tameshige, T., Okamoto, S., Lee, J.S., Aida, M., Tasaka, M., *Torii, K.U. and *Uchida, N. (2016) A Secreted Peptide and its Receptors Specifying the Auxin Response Pattern during Leaf Margin Morphogenesis. Current Biology 26: 2478-2485
Lee, J.S., Hnilova, M., Maes, M., Lin, Y.C.L., Putarjunan, A., Han, S.K., Avila, J., and *Torii, K.U. (2015) Competitive binding of antagonistic peptides fine-tunes stomatal patterning. Nature 522:439-443
Horst, R.J., Fujita, H., Lee, J.S., Rychel, A.L., Garrick, J. M., Kawaguchi, M., Peterson, K.M., and *Torii, K.U. (2015) Molecular framework of a regulatory circuit initiating two-dimensional spatial patterning of stomatal lineage. PLOS Genetics: e1005374
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