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Prof. Ryohei Terauchi was selected as Highly Cited Researcher 2023

> Highly Cited Researcher 2023

In the conference of “the Genomic Dynamics Underlying the Plastic Hermaphroditism in Plants” held in October 2023, Aoi Kudo (Ph. D. student) and Koki Minoji (Master course student) were awarded as the best oral presenter and the best poster presenter, respectively

Paper by Hiroaki Adachi (Project-Specific Assistant Prof.), Toshiyuki Sakai (Assistant Prof.) and colleagues published in The Plant Cell

Adachi, H., Sakai, T., Kourelis, J., Pai, H., Gonzalez Hernandez, J. L., Utsumi, Y., Seki, M., Maqbool, A., & Kamoun, S. (2023). Jurassic NLR: Conserved and dynamic evolutionary features of the atypically ancient immune receptor ZAR1. The Plant Cell, 35(10), 3662–3685. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad175

Paper by Kudoh (Ph. D. student), Assistant Prof. Sakai and colleagues published in Estuaries and Coasts

Kudoh, A., Megonigal, J. P., Langley, J. A., Noyce, G. L., Sakai, T., & Whigham, D. F. (2023). Reproductive Responses to Increased Shoot Density and Global Change Drivers in a Widespread Clonal Wetland Species, Schoenoplectus americanus. Estuaries and Coasts. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-023-01249-z

Kodai Honda (Master course student) was awarded as the best presenter in a meeting of the Phytopathological Society of Japan held in September 2023.

Prof. Terauchi recieved “the Genetic award” from Ensyu-Shoutokukai, a public interest incorporated foundation.

Latest Research

The NRC0 gene cluster of sensor and helper NLR immune receptors is functionally conserved across asterid plants

New paper was posted at bioRxiv Sakai, T., Martinez-Anaya, C., Contreras, M. P., Kamoun, S., Wu, C.-H., & Adachi, H....
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Jurassic NLR: Conserved and dynamic evolutionary features of the atypically ancient immune receptor ZAR1

New paper from our laboratory Adachi, H., Sakai, T., Kourelis, J., Pai, H., Gonzalez Hernandez, J. L., Utsumi, Y., Seki,...
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Reproductive Responses to Increased Shoot Density and Global Change Drivers in a Widespread Clonal Wetland Species, Schoenoplectus americanus

New paper from our laboratory Kudoh, A., Megonigal, J. P., Langley, J. A., Noyce, G. L., Sakai, T., & Whigham,...
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Disentangling the complex gene interaction networks between rice and the blast fungus identifies a new pathogen effector

New paper from our laboratory Sugihara, Y., Abe, Y., Takagi, H., Abe, A., Shimizu, M., Ito, K., Kanzaki, E., Oikawa,...
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An atypical NLR protein modulates the NRC immune receptor network in Nicotiana benthamiana

This paper has been published in which Dr. Adachi is the corresponding author. Adachi, H., Sakai, T., Harant, A., Pai,...
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Isolation of Pikps, an allele of Pik, from the aus rice cultivar Shoni

New paper from our laboratory Kovi, B., Sakai, T., Abe, A., Kanzaki, E., Terauchi, R., & Shimizu, M. (2023). Isolation...
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Rice apoplastic CBM1-interacting protein counters blast pathogen invasion by binding conserved carbohydrate binding module 1 motif of fungal proteins

This paper has been published in which Prof. Terauchi is the corresponding author. Takeda, T., Takahashi, M., Shimizu, M., Sugihara, Y.,...
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Activation and Regulation of NLR Immune Receptor Networks

REVIEW ARTICLE Kourelis, J., & Adachi, H. (2022). Activation and Regulation of NLR Immune Receptor Networks. Plant and Cell Physiology, pcac116. https://doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcac116 Abstract Plants...
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A genetically linked pair of NLR immune receptors shows contrasting patterns of evolution

This paper has been published in which Prof. Terauchi is the corresponding author. Shimizu, M., Hirabuchi, A., Sugihara, Y., Abe, A.,...
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Genome Analysis Revives a Forgotten Hybrid Crop Edo-dokoro in the Genus Dioscorea

This paper has been published in which Prof. Terauchi is the corresponding author. Natsume, S., Sugihara, Y., Kudoh, A., Oikawa, K.,...
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Wheat Genetic Resources

Our laboratory maintains more than 10,000 wheat genetic resources under NBRP-Wheat project.

Web portal on wheat genetic resources. You can order resources of interest.
https://shigen.nig.ac.jp/wheat/komugi/

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京都の里山を駆けぬけて – アルキニスト/民族植物学者の哲学と軌跡 –

阪本寧男(京都大学名誉教授)、物集女くらぶ 編著 / 英明企画編集株式会社 出版

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Part of the Population Genomics book series

Population Genomics of Yams: Evolution and Domestication of Dioscorea Species

Yu Sugihara, Aoi Kudo, …, Ryohei Terauchi (2021), Springer

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/13836_2021_94