Sota Fujii

The paper shows that self-pollen recognition in Arabidopsis temporarily delays nonself pollen hydration and germination in papilla cells, with actin reorganization playing a role.

This study shows that transposases can act as transcriptional regulators and evolved into transcription factors through loss of catalytic activity.

This paper evaluates Evo 2's ability to predict variant effects in plant genes using Arabidopsis thaliana data, showing it can identify functionally impactful variants.

The paper identifies a toxin-antidote system in Arabidopsis thaliana where a pistil peptide inhibits pollen tube growth and a pollen protein counteracts this effect, contributing to reproductive barriers.

This study presents a chromosome-scale genome assembly of Malcolmia littorea using long-read sequencing and single-pollen genotyping, revealing a genome twice the size of Arabidopsis thaliana.