Toshihiro Obata

The paper identifies genetic variants in the shikimate dehydrogenase gene Sad1 that affect enzyme activity and homoserine accumulation in maize kernels through integrated metabolite profiling and genome-scale modeling.

This study shows that the MDH1-CIT1 metabolon dynamically assembles and disassembles in yeast mitochondria in response to respiratory activity and metabolic conditions.

This study identifies dihydrouridine (DHU) modification as a regulator of transcript turnover and photosynthetic capacity in plants under abiotic stress.

The paper identifies genomic intervals and transcripts associated with metabolite abundance variation in maize under field conditions using GWAS and transcriptome-wide association studies.

This study evaluates genomic prediction of metabolic content in rice grains under control and high night temperature conditions, finding moderate heritability and improved accuracy with non-additive models.

This study uses metabolites and genomics to predict grain traits under high night temperature stress in rice, finding genomic prediction outperforms metabolic prediction.

The paper identifies a historically balanced locus under recent directional selection in maize linked to nitrogen response traits, revealing genetic changes associated with modern breeding practices.

The paper applies genome-wide mediation analysis to maize data, identifying 736 mediating genes that explain 12.7% of phenotypic variance, with pleiotropic effects observed in 11% of genes.

This study identifies rapidly evolving chloroplast genes that control lipid biosynthesis and influence plastid competitiveness in evening primroses, leading to uniparental or biparental inheritance.