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Herrmann, A., Seuru, K.M., Endo, H., Nakagawa, A., Kusano, S., Bai, P., Ziadi, A., Sato, A., Liu J., Shan L., Kimura, S., Itami K., Uchida N., Hagihara, S., *Torii, K. U. (2025) Chemical genetics reveals cross-regulation of plant developmental signaling by the immune peptide-receptor pathway. Science Advances 11: ads3718
Chen, L., Maes, M., Cochran, A.M., Avila, J.R., Derbyshire, P., Sklenar, J., Haas, K.M., Villen, J. Menke, F.L.H., *Torii, K. U. (2025) Preventing inappropriate signals pre- and post-ligand perception by a toggle-switch machanism of ERECTA. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 122: e2420196122
Nakagawa, A., Sepuru, K. M., Yip, S. J., Seo, H., Coffin, C. M., Segawa, Y., Iwasaki, R., Kato, H., Kurihara, D., Kim, S., Aihara, Y., Kinoshita, T., Itami, K., Han, S.-K., *Murakami, K. and *Torii, K. U. (2024) Chemical inhibition of stomatal differentiation by perturbation of the master-regulatory bHLH heterodimers via an ACT-Like domain. Nature Communications 15: 8996
Zuch, D.T., Herrmann, A., Kim, E.D., and *Torii, K.U. (2023). Cell cycle dynamics during stomatal development: Window of MUTE action and ramification of its loss-of-function on an uncommitted precursor. Plant Cell Physiol 64: 325-335
Chen, L. and *Torii, K. U. (2023) Signaling in plant development and immunity through the lens of the stomata. Current Biology 33: R733-R742
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
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