Y. Toda

Revealing the spatial characteristics of rice heat exposure in Japan through panicle temperature analysis

This study analyzes panicle temperature trends in Japan over 45 years to assess rice heat exposure and its implications for breeding and crop management.

Latent taste diversity revealed by a vertebrate-wide catalogue of T1R receptors

The paper identifies five new TAS1R receptors in vertebrates, revealing greater taste receptor diversity than previously thought and their functional roles in ligand recognition.

AtDREB2G is a novel regulator of riboflavin biosynthesis under low-temperature stress and abscisic acid treatment in Arabidopsis thaliana

Image-based quantification of Arabidopsis thaliana stomatal aperture from leaf images

This paper presents an automated image analysis pipeline for quantifying stomatal aperture in Arabidopsis thaliana leaves using brightfield microscopy images.

QTL mapping for seed morphology using the instance segmentation neural network in Lactuca spp.

This study uses an instance segmentation neural network to quantify seed morphology in lettuce and identifies QTLs associated with seed shape traits linked to domestication.

Time-series Multi-spectral Imaging in Soybean for Improving Biomass and Genomic Prediction Accuracy

This study uses multi-spectral imaging to predict soybean biomass by analyzing growth stages and irrigation effects on genomic and phenotypic accuracy.

Simple amplicon sequencing library preparation for plant root microbial community profiling

The paper develops a simplified high-throughput method for 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing of plant root microbiota, showing improved microbial diversity capture compared to standard methods.