2012

1. The tomato genome sequence provides insights into fleshy fruit evolution.
   The Tomato Genome Consortium (2012)
   Nature 485: 635-41


2. Positional cloning and characterization reveal the molecular basis for soybean maturity locus E1 that regulates photoperiodic flowering.
   Xia Z, Watanabe S, Yamada T, Tsubokura Y, Nakashima H, Zhai H, Anai T, Sato S, Yamazaki T, Lu S, Wu H, Tabata S, Harada K. (2012)
   Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2012 May 22. [Epub ahead of print].


3. Large-scale development of expressed sequence tag-derived simple sequence repeat markers and diversity analysis in Arachis spp.
   Koilkonda P, Sato S, Tabata S, Shirasawa K, Hirakawa H, Sakai H, Sasamoto S, Watanabe A, Wada T, Kishida Y, Tsuruoka H, Fujishiro T, Yamada M, Kohara M, Suzuki S, Hasegawa M, Kiyoshima H, Isobe S. (2012)
   Mol Breed. Jun;30(1): 125-38. Epub 2011 Jun 24.


4. Comparative Genetic Mapping and Discovery of Linkage Disequilibrium Across Linkage Groups in White Clover (Trifolium repens L.).
   Isobe SN, Hisano H, Sato S, Hirakawa H, Okumura K, Shirasawa K, Sasamoto S, Watanabe A, Wada T, Kishida Y, Tsuruoka H, Fujishiro T, Yamada M, Kohara M, Tabata S. (2012)
   G3 (Bethesda). May;2(5): 607-17. Epub 2012 May 1.


5. Complete Genome Sequence of Bradyrhizobium sp. S23321: Insights into Symbiosis Evolution in Soil Oligotrophs.
   Okubo T, Tsukui T, Maita H, Okamoto S, Oshima K, Fujisawa T, Saito A, Futamata H, Hattori R, Shimomura Y, Haruta S, Morimoto S, Wang Y, Sakai Y, Hattori M, Aizawa SI, Nagashima KV, Masuda S, Hattori T, Yamashita A, Bao Z, Hayatsu M, Kajiya-Kanegae H, Yoshinaga I, Sakamoto K, Toyota K, Nakao M, Kohara M, Anda M, Niwa R, Jung-Hwan P, Sameshima-Saito R, Tokuda SI, Yamamoto S, Yamamoto S, Yokoyama T, Akutsu T, Nakamura Y, Nakahira-Yanaka Y, Takada Hoshino Y, Hirakawa H, Mitsui H, Terasawa K, Itakura M, Sato S, Ikeda-Ohtsubo W, Sakakura N, Kaminuma E, Minamisawa K. (2012)
   Microbes Environ. Mar 28.[Epub ahead of print].


6. A Set of Lotus japonicus Gifu x Lotus burttii Recombinant Inbred Lines Facilitates Map-based Cloning and QTL Mapping.
   Sandal N, Jin H, Rodriguez-Navarro DN, Temprano F, Cvitanich C, Brachmann A, Sato S, Kawaguchi M, Tabata S, Parniske M, Ruiz-Sainz JE, Andersen SU, Stougaard J. (2012)
   DNA Research May 22. [Epub ahead of print].


7. Transcription factors of lotus: regulation of isoflavonoid biosynthesis requires coordinated changes in transcription factor activity.
   Shelton D, Stranne M, Mikkelsen L, Pakseresht N, Welham T, Hiraka H, Tabata S, Sato S, Paquette S, Wang TL, Martin C, Bailey P. (2012)
   Plant Physiol. 159(2): 531-47. Epub 2012 Apr 23.


8. LjABCB1, an ATP-binding cassette protein specifically induced in uninfected cells of Lotus japonicus nodules.
   Takanashi K, Sugiyama A, Sato S, Tabata S, Yazaki K. (2012)
   J Plant Physiol. 169(3): 322-6. Epub 2011 Dec 29.


9. The integral membrane protein SEN1 is required for symbiotic nitrogen fixation in Lotus japonicus nodules.
   Hakoyama T, Niimi K, Yamamoto T, Isobe S, Sato S, Nakamura Y, Tabata S, Kumagai H, Umehara Y, Brossuleit K, Petersen TR, Sandal N, Stougaard J, Udvardi MK, Tamaoki M, Kawaguchi M, Kouchi H, Suganuma N. (2012)
   Plant Cell Physiol. 53(1): 225-36. Epub 2011 Nov 28.


10. Establishment of a Lotus japonicus gene tagging population using the exon-targeting endogenous retrotransposon LORE1.
    Fukai E, Soyano T, Umehara Y, Nakayama S, Hirakawa H, Tabata S, Sato S, Hayashi M. (2012)
    Plant J. 69(4): 720-30. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2011.04826.x. Epub 2011 Dec 12.