Satoshi Natsume

The paper identifies the sex chromosome in white Guinea yam and describes a miRNA-mediated sex determination system involving a 1.2-Mb inversion and a W-specific microRNA gene.

The paper presents a genomic breeding strategy using large-scale recombinant populations and prediction models to rapidly develop rice cultivars with desired traits.

The paper shows that GBP and thaumatin-domain proteins engage in coevolutionary dynamics in rice apoplast to defend against Magnaporthe oryzae.

The paper studies the evolution of an X-A balance sex determination system in hops by analyzing genome sequences of two hop species and identifies a candidate gene involved in the system.

The paper identifies two candidate genes involved in sex determination in the dioecious wild yam Dioscorea tokoro using whole-genome sequencing and genetic analysis.

The paper introduces updated pipelines for MutMap and QTL-seq that are faster, easier to use, and more accessible via bioconda.