Koichiro Ushijima

The paper compares physiological and transcriptomic differences between a persimmon cultivar and its somaclonal mutant to identify genes influencing fruit shape.

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 describes the discovery of genes underlying male-female flower differences in Silene latifolia and relates findings to the evolution of the Y chromosome's non-recombining regions.

The paper introduces dpMIG-seq, a PCR-based method for high-throughput genotyping that improves polymorphism discovery in crop species compared to MIG-seq.