2019 - 2024 Dissecting the mechanisms underlying natural variation in abiotic stress tolerance of plants to adapt climate change
2019 - 2022 Development of a high efficient breeding system for improving functional ingredient of local varieties in orphan crops
2015 - 2017 Development of exome mutation database in the micro-tom mutant population
Papers (22):
Hideki Nagasaki, Kenta Shirasawa, Ken Hoshikawa, Sachiko Isobe, Hiroshi Ezura, Koh Aoki, Hideki Hirakawa. Genomic variation across distribution of Micro-Tom, a model cultivar of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum). DNA research : an international journal for rapid publication of reports on genes and genomes. 2024
Ken Hoshikawa, Ya-Ping Lin, Roland Schafleitner, Kenta Shirasawa, Sachiko Isobe, Duc Chinh Nguyen, Ryo Ohsawa, Yosuke Yoshioka. Genetic diversity analysis and core collection construction for Amaranthus tricolor germplasm based on genome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphisms. SCIENTIA HORTICULTURAE. 2023. 307
Umakanta Sarker, Ya-Ping Lin, Shinya Oba, Yosuke Yoshioka, Ken Hoshikawa. Prospects and potentials of underutilized leafy Amaranths as vegetable use for health-promotion. Plant physiology and biochemistry : PPB. 2022. 182. 104-123
Yeeun Kang, Kwanuk Lee, Ken Hoshikawa, Myeongyong Kang, Seonghoe Jang. Molecular Bases of Heat Stress Responses in Vegetable Crops With Focusing on Heat Shock Factors and Heat Shock Proteins. Frontiers in plant science. 2022. 13. 837152-837152
Shohei Nosaki, Ken Hoshikawa, Hiroshi Ezura, Kenji Miura. Transient protein expression systems in plants and their applications. Plant Biotechnnology. 2021. 38. 3. 297-304
星川健, LIN Ya-ping, 吉岡洋輔, 大久保日奈, SCHAFLEITNER Roland, 白澤健太, 磯部祥子. Genome-wide association study for plant architecture of Amaranthus tricolor genetic resource. 育種学研究. 2023. 25