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Naito Ken

ナイトウ ケン | Naito Ken
Affiliation and department:
Job title: Senior Principal Investigator
Other affiliations (1):
  • The University of Tokyo  Associate Professor
Homepage URL  (1): https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NyZW6gMAAAAJ&hl=ja
Research field  (2): Genetics ,  Plant genetics and breeding
Research keywords  (3): Genus Vigna ,  Genomics and Transcriptomics ,  Genetic Resources
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (13):
  • 2025 - 2029 サトウキビ国内野生種が有する黒穂病抵抗性遺伝子の同定
  • 2023 - 2028 先史人類による人為的環境形成(植物相)に関する研究
  • 2023 - 2026 Single-cell analysis to understand gene regulatory system in crops
  • 2020 - 2024 Developing Environmentally Robust Crops based on Crop Design Technology
  • 2021 - 2023 Genomics on domestication origins in soybean and azuki bean
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Papers (63):
  • Takashi Seiko, Koki Nagasawa, Ken Naito. CUSCO: A Tool for Curating Single-Copy Orthologs and Extracting Marker Genes for Phylogenetic Tree Construction With Extra Samples. Ecological Research. 2025
  • Yuko Ogo, Takumi Kawauchi, Manaki Mimura, Ken Naito, Hironori Itoh, Takeshi Izawa. A 65-kb deletion survey identifies a distal cis- regulatory region for red-light induction of Ghd7 , a key rice floral repressor. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2025
  • Ryoma Takeshima, Yu Takahashi, Akito Kaga, Ryu Nakata, Ken Naito, Masao Ishimoto. New strategy to enhance soybean pod shattering resistance with quadruple GmMYB26 mutations. New Phytologist. 2025
  • Hiroaki Sakai, Ken Naito, Cheng-Ruei Lee, Chih-Cheng Chien, Chiaki Muto, Takashi Seiko, Yen-Chiao Wang, Chuan-Hsin Chang, Hirotaka Ariga. A single domestication origin of adzuki bean in Japan and the evolution of domestication genes. Science. 2025
  • Yurie Iki, Fanmiao Wang, Kosuke Ito, Takanori Wakatake, Keitaro Tanoi, Ken Naito. Comparative genomics and transcriptomics on salt tolerance of Vigna luteola. 2025
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MISC (25):
Lectures and oral presentations  (49):
  • Starch-dependent sodium accumulation in the leaves of Vigna riukiuensis
    (Journal of Plant Research 2023)
  • Domesticating Vigna stipulacea: Chromosome-Level genome assembly reveals VsPSAT1 as a candidate gene decreasing hard-seededness
    (Frontiers in Plant Science 2023)
  • First report of viruses infecting Vigna marina and Vigna riukiuensis in Japan
    (Journal of General Plant Pathology 2022)
  • Genome sequence of 12 <i>Vigna</i> species as a knowledge base of stress tolerance and resistance
    (bioRxiv 2022)
  • Diversity of Na+ allocation in salt-tolerant species of the genus Vigna
    (Breeding Science 2022)
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Education (3):
  • 2004 - 2008 Kyoto University Graduate School of Agriculture
  • 2002 - 2004 Kyoto University Graduate School of Agriculture
  • 1998 - 2002 Kyoto University Faculty of Agriculture
Professional career (1):
  • Doctor (Agriculture)
Work history (7):
  • 2025/05 - 現在 The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Frontier Sciences
  • 2020/10 - 現在 National Agriculture and Food Research Organization Research Center of Genitic Resources, NARO
  • 2015/04 - 2025/04 University of Tokyo Department of Integrated Biosciences Associate Professor
  • 2015/04 - 2020/09 National Agriculture and Food Research Organization Genetic Resource Center Principal Investigator
  • 2012/12 - 2018/03 Japan Science and Technology Agent
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Awards (1):
  • 2013/03 - Japanese Society of Plant Breeding Young Scientist Award
Association Membership(s) (5):
日本進化学会 ,  THE BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN ,  THE JAPANESE SOCIETY OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGISTS ,  THE GENETICS SOCIETY OF JAPAN ,  JAPANESE SOCIETY OF BREEDING
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