Publications
Wang, Y., A. Yamazoe, S. Suzuki, C-T. Liu, T. Aono, and H. Oyaizu. 2004. Isolation and characterization of dibenzofuran degrading Comamonas sp. strains isolated from white clover roots. Curr Microbiol 49:288-294.
Suzuki, C., T. Kunito, T. Aono, C-T. Liu, and H. Oyaizu. 2005. Microbial indices of soil fertility. J Appl Microbiol 98:1062-1074.
Lee, K.-B., C-T. Liu, Y. Anzai, H. Kim, T. Aono, and H. Oyaizu. 2005. The hierarchical system of the "Alphaproteobacteria": description of Hyphomonadaceae fam. nov., Xanthobacteraceae fam. nov. and Erythrobacteraceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 55:1907-1919.
Liu, C.-T., T. Aono, M. Kinoshita, H. Miwa, T. Iki, K. B. Lee, and H. Oyaizu. 2006. Isolation and differential expression of s-1,3-glucanase messenger RNAs, SrGLU3 and SrGLU4, following inoculation of Sesbania rostrata. Func Plant Biol 33:983-990.
Suzuki, S., T. Aono, K.-B. Lee, T. Suzuki, C.-T. Liu, H. Miwa, S. Wakao, T. Iki, and H. Oyaizu. 2007. Rhizobial factors required for stem-nodule maturation and maintenance in Sesbania rostrata - Azorhizobium caulinodans ORS571 symbiosis. Appl Environ Microbiol 73:6650-6659.
Liu, C.-T., T. Miyaki, T. Aono, and H. Oyaizu. 2008. Evaluation of methanogenic strains and their ability to endure aeration and water stress. Curr Microbiol 56:214- 218.
Ishikawa, K., K. Yokota, Y. Li, Y. Wang, C.-T. Liu, S. Suzuki, T. Aono, and H. Oyaizu. 2008. A new hypernodulation mutant rdh1 determined by root genotype of Lotus japonicus. Soil Sci Plant Nutr 54:259-263.
Suzuki, T., T. Aono, C-T. Liu, S. Suzuki, T. Iki, K. Yokota, and H. Oyaizu. 2008. An outer-membrane autotransporter, AoaA, of Azorhizobium caulinodans is required for sustaining high N2-fixing activity of stem-nodules. FEMS Microbiol Lett 285:16- 24.
Lee, K. B., P. D. Backer, T. Aono, C-T. Liu, S. Suzuki, T. Suzuki, T. Kaneko, M. Yamada, S. Tabata, D. M. Kupfer, F. Z. Najar, G. B. Wiley, B. Roe, T. Binnewies, D. Ussery, W. D'Haeze, J. Den Herder, D. Gevers, D. Vereecke, M. Holsters, and H. Oyaizu. 2008. The genome of the versatile nitrogen fixer Azorhizobium caulinodans ORS571. BMC Genomics 9:271.
Yokota, K., Li, Y.Y., Hisatomi, M., Wang, Y., Ishikawa, K., Liu, C-T., Suzuki, S., Aonuma, K., Aono, T. Nakamoto, T., Oyaizu, H. 2009. Root-Determined Hypernodulation Mutant of Lotus japonicus Shows High-Yielding Characteristics. Biosci Biotech Biochem 73:1690-1692.
Tsukada, S., Aono, T., Akiba, N., Lee, K.-B., Liu, C.-T., Toyazaki, H. and Oyaizu, H. 2009. Comparative Genome-Wide Transcriptional Profiling of Azorhizobium caulinodans ORS571 under Free-Living and Symbiotic Conditions. Appl EnvironMicrobiol 75:5037-5046.
Liu, C.-T.,*, KB Lee, YS Wang, MH Peng, KT Lee, S Suzuki, T Suzuki, H Oyaizu. 2011. Involvement of the azorhizobial chromosome partition gene (parA) in the onset of bacteroid differentiation during Sesbania rostrata stem nodule development. Appl Env Microbiol 77:4371-4382.
Conference
"in soils: air dry tolerence", Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry (JSBBA), Fukuoka, Japan, 1999.
"Molecular archaeal diversities of paddy soils and marine sediments in Japan", The Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology (JSME), Shizuoka, Japan, 2001.
"Phylogenetic analyses of methane oxidizing archaea in paddy soils and forest soils", Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry (JSBBA), Hiroshima, Japan, 2004.
"The hierarchical system of the Alphaproteobacteria using 16S rRNA sequences", The Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology, Sendai (JSME), Japan, 2004.
"Microbial production and oxidation of methane paddy soils and forest soils in Japanese", The Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology (JSME), Sendai, Japan, 2004.
"Screening for Azorhizobium caulinodans mutants in the development of stem nodules",Japanese Society of Plant Microbe Interactions (JSPMI), Takamatsu, Japan, 2005.
"Screening for the bacterial genes involved in the stem nodule maturation in Sesbania rostrata", The Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology (JSME), Fukuoka, Japan, 2005.
"Chromosome partition gene (parA) of Azorhizobium caulinodans ORS571 controls bacterial morphology, affects Sesbania rostrata stem-nodule development", The University of Tokyo International Symposium, Tokyo, Japan. 2007.
"How an azorhizobial chromosome partition gene (parA) regulates the timing of Sesbania rostrata stem-nodule maturation?", In Annual Meeting of Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry (JSBBA). Fukuoka, Japan. 2009.
"Azorhirobial parA gene regulates the timing of Sesbania rostrata stem nodule maturation", The 16th International Congress on Nitrogen Fixation. Big Sky, Montana, U.S.A. 2009
"Elucidating the mechanism of nodule maturation by Azorhizobium caulinodans- Sesbania rostrata symbiotic system", 14th Conference on bacteriology. Nan Tou, Taiwan. 2009.
"Chromosome partition proteins are required for initiation of bacteroid formation in Azorhizobium caulinodans ORS571", 9th European Nitrogen Fixation Conference (ENFC 2010), Geneva, Swiss. 2010.
"Dynamic control of the bacteroid differentiation by chromosome partition proteins",1st Asian Conference on Plant-Microbe Symbiosis and Nitrogen Fixation. Miyazaki, Japan. 2010