Job title：
Assistant Professor.
Research theme for competitive and other funds (4)：
2022 - 2027 Analyses of reproduction traits in wild wheat Aegilops tauschii
2022 - 2025 Elucidation of genomic stability mechanism involved in the establishment of allopolyploid species.
2022 - 2024 Generation of wheat acquires apomixis and clonal embryo formation and identification of related genes.
2020 - 2022 コムギ近縁ゲノム種における新規種間雑種生育不全遺伝子の同定と機能解析
Papers (10)：
In Son, Nozomi Kasazumi, Moeko Okada, Shigeo Takumi, Kentaro Yoshida. Discrepancy of flowering time between genetically close sublineages of Aegilops umbellulata Zhuk. Scientific Reports. 2024. 14. 1
Jianqiang Sun, Moeko Okada, Toshiaki Tameshige, Rie Shimizu-Inatsugi, Reiko Akiyama, Atsushi J Nagano, Jun Sese, Kentaro K Shimizu. A low-coverage 3' RNA-seq to detect homeolog expression in polyploid wheat. NAR genomics and bioinformatics. 2023. 5. 3. lqad067
Asami Michikawa, Moeko Okada, Tatsuya M. Ikeda, Kiyotaka Nagaki, Kentaro Yoshida, Shigeo Takumi. Phenotypic effects of Am genomes in nascent synthetic hexaploids derived from interspecific crosses between durum and wild einkorn wheat. PLOS ONE. 2023. 18. 4. e0284408-e0284408
Kentaro K Shimizu, Dario Copetti, Moeko Okada, Thomas Wicker, Toshiaki Tameshige, Masaomi Hatakeyama, Rie Shimizu-Inatsugi, Catharine Aquino, Kazusa Nishimura, Fuminori Kobayashi, et al. <i>De Novo</i> Genome Assembly of the Japanese Wheat Cultivar Norin 61 Highlights Functional Variation in Flowering Time and <i>Fusarium</i>-Resistant Genes in East Asian Genotypes. Plant & cell physiology. 2021. 62. 1. 8-27
Moeko Okada, Asami Michikawa, Kentaro Yoshida, Kiyotaka Nagaki, Tatsuya M. Ikeda, Shigeo Takumi. Phenotypic effects of the U-genome variation in nascent synthetic hexaploids derived from interspecific crosses between durum wheat and its diploid relative Aegilops umbellulata. PLoS ONE. 2020. 15. e0231129
Akito Nashiki, Koichi Yamamori, Shoya Komura, Aoi Kudoh, Rieko Kuwada, Ami Takeuchi, Hiroaki Shimizu, Taiki Ogawa, Moeko Okada. Discovery of new interests by young scientists ~What is the future of agricultural science~. Breeding Research. 2024
Hiroyuki Kakui, Mai Minamikawa, Moeko Okada, Shun Sakuma, Mashiro Okada, Kanae Masuda, Takao Komatsuda. The latest on study and research abroad during mid- and post-COVID-19 periods. Breeding Research. 2024
Yoshiki Tokuyama, Moeko Okada, Ken Kuroki, Shoya Komura, Moeko Sato, Akito Nashiki, Kanae Masuda, Hiroki Matsuo, Koichi Yamamori, Xiaotong Ji. Discovery of new interests by young scientists ~application of phenotyping techniques for plant breeding~. Breeding Research. 2023. 25. 1. 73-77
與田悠人, 野口微風子, 古村翔也, 村田和樹, 岡田萌子, 岡田萌子, 岡田萌子, 水野信之, 小林史典, 西村和紗, et al. Identifying causal loci of the hybrid necrosis between the AuAuBBAmAm synthetic hexaploids and common wheat. 育種学研究. 2023. 25
田渕雅啓, 岡田萌子, 岡田萌子, 岡田萌子, 道川麻美, 井上喜博, 西村和紗, 水野信之, 清水健太郎, 清水健太郎, et al. Alien chromosome fragment introgression to Triticum aestivum L. using Pairing homoeologous 2 deletion lines. 育種学研究. 2023. 25
Identify a post-invasive resistance locus against powdery mildew in the wild relative Aegilops umbellulata Zhuk.
(The 144th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Breeding 2023)
A high-throughput phenotyping of the hexaploid wheat NAM population during tillering stage by UAVs and their correlation with yield-related traits.
(The 144th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Breeding 2023)
Effects of allopolyploidization on homoeologous gene expression in synthetic hexaploids
(Polyploid evolutionary genomics: challenges and opportunities 2023)
Evolution of male gamete number in bread wheat (_Triticum aestivum_ L.)
(International Conference of URPP EVolutino in Action, Monté Verita, Switzerland。 2023)
2018 - 2021 Kobe University Graduate School of Agricultural Science Department of Agrobioscience
2019 - 2020 University of Zurich Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies (IEU)
2016 - 2018 Kobe University Graduate School of Agricultural Science Department of Agrobioscience
2012 - 2016 Kobe University Faculty of Agriculture Department of Agrobioscience
Work history (5)：
2023/04 - 現在 Niigata University Faculty of Agriculture Assistant Professor
2022/07 - 2023/09 University of Zurich Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies Postdoc researcher
2022/04 - 2023/03 Yokohama City University Kihara Institute for Biological Research Project Assistant Professor.
2021/04 - 2022/03 Kobe University Graduate School of Agricultural Science
2020/04 - 2021/03 Kobe University Graduate School of Agricultural Science JSPS research fellow
Awards (2)：
2019/09 - Japanese Society of Breeding Award for exellent presentation Genetic analysis of the grass-clump dwarf-causal gene in wheat relative <i>Aegilops umbellulata</i> revealed in interspecific hybrids with tetraploid wheat
2019/07 - L'Oréal Fundation The 14th L’Oréal-Unesco for women in Science Japan Encouragement Award in Life Science
Association Membership(s) (3)：
International Association of Sexual Plant Reproduction
, Genetics Society of Japan
, Japanese Society of Breeding
