Crop Evolution Lab.

How the sheer diversity of crops has been generated by selection?

Understand crop evolution from genomics perspective.

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

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

Aoi Kudo (Master course student) was awarded as the best poster presenter in the conference of “the Genomic Dynamics Underlying the Plastic Hermaphroditism in Plants” held in October 2022

Assistant Prof. Sakai was awarded as the best presentations at the 142th annual meeting of the Japanese Society of Breeding.

Paper by Prof. Terauschi, Dr. Shimizu (IBRC) and colleagues, published in PNAS

Latest Research

Disentangling the complex gene interaction networks between rice and the blast fungus identifies a new pathogen effector

2023-01-23
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

2023-01-20
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

2023-01-19
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

2022-10-04
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

2022-08-10
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

2022-07-01
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

2022-06-16
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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NLR receptor networks in plants

2022-06-03
REVIEW ARTICLE Adachi, H., & Kamoun, S. (2022). NLR receptor networks in plants. Essays in Biochemistry, EBC20210075. https://doi.org/10.1042/EBC20210075 Abstract To...
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Recognition of pathogen-derived sphingolipids in Arabidopsis

2022-05-20
A paper by Dr. Kato and colleagues was published in Science. Kato, H., Nemoto, K., Shimizu, M., Abe, A., Asai,...
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A jacalin-like lectin domain-containing protein of Sclerospora graminicola acts as an apoplastic virulence effector in plant–oomycete interactions

2022-03-08
A paper has been published in which Prof. Terauchi is the corresponding author. Kobayashi, M., Utsushi, H., Fujisaki, K., Takeda,...
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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/

Books

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