Tomoyuki Furuta

This study shows that the rice RALF peptide OsRALF7 is hijacked by the rice blast fungus to trigger appressorium formation, aiding infection, while retaining antifungal activity against other fungi.

GBScleanR improves genotype accuracy by incorporating marker-specific error rates into a hidden Markov model for reduced-representation sequencing data.

This paper develops a customized GBS pipeline for genotyping a highly heterozygous rice F2 population, generating SNP markers and a genetic map to identify QTLs for tiller number.