Research field (3)：
Landscape science
, Environmental agriculture
, Plant genetics and breeding
Research theme for competitive and other funds (4)：
2019 - 2021 イネ種子細胞におけるプロライン集積に関与する因子の単離と機能解析
2003 - 2004 イネ種子貯蔵タンパク質の翻訳後装飾と集積に関する遺伝子の単離と構造解析
イネ種子貯蔵タンパク質の輸送・蓄積を制御する遺伝的機構の解明
Study on mutants for the storage protein in rice endosperm
Papers (66)：
Shiro Nagamatsu, Takuya Wada, Ryo Matsushima, Naoko Fujita, Satoko Miura, Naoko Crofts, Yuko Hosaka, Osamu Yamaguchi, Toshihiro Kumamaru. Mutation in BEIIb mitigates the negative effect of the mutation in ISA1 on grain filling and amyloplast formation in rice. Plant molecular biology. 2022. 108. 4-5. 497-512
Xingyu Yuan, Yutaro Minobe, Yasutake Tanaka, Yumi Fukuda, Yumiko Furukawa, Motonori Miyago, Takuya Mizokami, Wei Ting Tsai, Zhe Jiang, Li Tao Tong, et al. α-globulin-rich rice cultivar, low glutelin content-1 (LGC-1), decreases serum cholesterol concentration in exogenously hypercholesterolemic rats. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture. 2021. 101. 15. 6417-6423
Ammar Elakhdar, Tomokazu Ushijima, Masako Fukuda, Noriko Yamashiro, Yasushi Kawagoe, Toshihiro Kumamaru. Eukaryotic peptide chain release factor 1 participates in translation termination of specific cysteine-poor prolamines in rice endosperm. PLANT SCIENCE. 2019. 281. 223-231
Ahmed Sallam, Ahmed Amro, Ammar EL-Akhdar, Mona F.A. Dawood, Toshihiro Kumamaru, P. Stephen Baenziger. Genetic diversity and genetic variation in morpho-physiological traits to improve heat tolerance in Spring barley. Molecular Biology Reports. 2018. 45. 6. 2441-2453
Elakhdar Ammar, Kumamaru Toshihiro, Qualset Calvin O, Brueggeman Robert S, Amer Khairy, Capo-chichi Ludovic. Assessment of genetic diversity in Egyptian barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) genotypes using SSR and SNP markers. GENETIC RESOURCES AND CROP EVOLUTION. 2018. 65. 7. 1937-1951
Hong-Li Chou, Toshihiro Kumamaru, Thomas Okita. The Role of Multifunctional RNA Binding Protein OsTudor-SN in Affecting Storage Protein RNA Transport and Seed Morphology in Rice. FASEB JOURNAL. 2015. 29
Characterization of a new gene involved in starch metabolism of rice
(日本育種学会第136回講演会 2019)
糊粉層の肥厚化による高脂質含量イネ系統の開発と評価
(日本育種学会 2017)
The relationship between Rab5a GTPase and guanine nucleotide exchange factor in the intracellular transport of glutelin in rice seed
(American society of Cell Biology 2011)
Guanine nucleotide exchange factor is required for the intracellular transport of proglutelins to protein storage vacuole in rice endosperm
(American society of Cell Biology 2011)
