Research Topics
Sex determination in horticultural crops
Fruit shape diversity
Deeplearning for prediction of crop disorders/internal-traits
Publications
Akagi, T., et al.: A Y-chromosome–encoded small RNA acts as a sex determinant in persimmons. Science 346, 646-650 (2014).
Akagi, T., et al.: Epigenetic regulation of the sex determination gene MeGI in polyploid persimmon. Plant Cell 28, 2905-2915 (2016).
Akagi, T., et al.: A Y-encoded suppressor of feminization arose via lineage-specific duplication of a cytokinin response regulator in kiwifruit. Plant Cell 30, 780-795 (2018).
Yang, H-W., et al.: Gene networks orchestrated by MeGI: a single‐factor mechanism underlying sex determination in persimmon. Plant J. 98:97-111 (2019)
Akagi, T., et al; Two Y-chromosome-encoded genes determine sex in kiwifruit. Nature Plants 5, 801-809 (2019)
Akagi, T. & Charlesworth, D.; Pleiotropic effects of sex-determining genes in the evolution of dioecy in two plant species. Proc Royal Soc B. rspb.2019.1805 (2019)
Akagi, T., et al; The persimmon genome reveals clues to the evolution of a lineage-specific sex determination system in plants. PLoS Genet. 16, e1008566 (2020)
Akagi, T., et al; Explainable deep learning reproduce a “professional eye” on the diagnosis of internal disorders in persimmon fruit. Plant Cell Physiol. 61, 1967-1973 (2020)
Numaguchi, K., et al; Interspecific introgression and natural selection in the evolution of Japanese apricot (Prunus mume). Plant J. 104, 1551-1567 (2020)
Masuda, K., et al; Reinvention of hermaphroditism via activation of a RADIALIS-like gene in hexaploid persimmon. Nature Plants 8, 217-224 (2022)
Akagi, T., et al; Genome-wide cis-decoding for expression design in tomato using cistrome data and explainable deep learning. Plant Cell 34, 2174–2187 (2022)
Henry, I.M., Akagi, T., Tao, R., and Comai, L.: One hundred ways to invent the sexes: theoretical and observed paths to dioecy in plants. Ann. Rev. Plant Biol. 69, 553-575 (2018).
Research Professor
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