Yasuhiro (Yasu) Sato

Neurogenomic and behavioral principles shape freezing dynamics and synergistic performance in Drosophila melanogaster - Nature Communications Collective behavior plays an important role in predator evasion, but its neurogenetic basis is poorly understood. Here, Sato and Takahashi show that genetic diversity within groups of fruit flies enha...

Excellent work on a fruit fly, done by Daiki Sato and Yuma Takahashi. #GWAS of higher-order phenotypes reveals positive effects of genetic diversity on group-level performance. @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢 Don't miss this special issue of ‪@plantcellphysiol.bsky.social‬ 🌱 containing a diverse array of exciting studies in Ecology and Evolution.
Shout-out to all contributing authors and my fellow co-editors @yassato.bsky.social, E. Sasaki and T. Tsuchimatsu !

Volume 66 Issue 4 | Plant and Cell Physiology | Oxford Academic The official journal of the Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists. Publishes original articles reporting significant findings in broad aspects of plant biology.

Special Issue: #Ecology & #Evolution out now!

16 Research & Review papers exploring the molecular-genetic strategies used by plants to survive & thrive in nature

🔗 academic.oup.com/pcp/issue/66/4

Organisers:
V.Castric @vincentcastric.bsky.social
Y.Sato @yassato.bsky.social
E.Sasaki
T.Tsuchimatsu

I’m honored to organize this special issue with Vincent Castric @vincentcastric.bsky.social, Takashi Tsuchimatsu, and Eriko Sasaki. We’ve expanded #ecology and #evolution to #plant #physiology and #genetics🌱🧬. I look forward to seeing how #PCP goes toward this perspective👀

Another week to apply. Please RT!

Our article on agroecological genomics and participatory science to optimise crop mixtures is now available online.
Thanks again to Chiara and Roberto for involving me in the discussions and writing this paper. I am glad to have contributed.
To read the article:
www.cell.com/trends/plant...

New paper out in @jxbotany.bsky.social! 🌱🌾

We found that mixing different wheat varieties can decrease belowground competition at early growth stages, especially under resource limited conditions.

Awesome work including natural history, chemical ecology, plant-pollinator interactions, and many other aspects. Must-read!

As a guest editor, I’m especially interested in how to apply molecular and genetic tools to biotic interactions in nature. Thank Mie Honjo, Matt Barbour, Simon Groen @simoncgroen.bsky.social, & Samuel Wuest @samwuest.bsky.social for their contributions to this perspective.

Ecology and evolution: genetic and molecular dynamics of plants in nature The field of ecology and evolution covers the origins, maintenance, and functions of biodiversity through the investigation of interactions between organis

Eco-Evo special issue is now out in Plant and Cell Physiology @plantcellphysiol.bsky.social, with a flourish cover photo of Arabidopsis halleri. Please check it out!
doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...
#PlantEvolution #PlantEcology

Detecting frequency-dependent selection through the effects of genotype similarity on fitness components Abstract. Frequency-dependent selection (FDS) is an evolutionary regime that can maintain or reduce polymorphisms. Despite the increasing availability of p

Here is a paper about #GWAS of frequency-dependent selection (Sato et al. 2023 Evolution). I applied this method for Arabidopsis growth data. doi.org/10.1093/evol...

New preprint of mine. Application of Neighbor #GWAS to #Arabidopsis thaliana biomass data uncovered the genetic architecture of negative frequency-dependent selection and overyielding. Now under review. Stay tuned!

short summary text of the paper by Nomura et al. accompanied by an icon image illustrating the molecular mechanisms and expressions associated with cis- and trans-regulation, and a photo of the first author, Yasuyuki Nomura, and his biography.

A triple threat...🍞

Nomura et al. used 3’ RNA ‘Lasy-Seq’ to clarify the #transcriptome architecture of 25 #wheat accessions to reveal homoeolog triads under cis- and trans-regulation, & a potential trans-factor via co-trans regulation network analysis 🧬

🆓🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...
#PlantScience

Amazing work on #plant - #insect interactions. Posted to keep a memo for own.

Flowers with bad breath How an old gene acquired a new function to exploit an insect’s sense of smell

Flowers with bad breath | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Convergent acquisition of disulfide-forming enzymes in malodorous flowers Identifying the metabolic and genetic changes that confer evolutionary novelty is essential for understanding the factors facilitating or constraining the occurrence of traits. We show that dimethyl d...

Convergent acquisition of disulfide-forming enzymes in malodorous flowers | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The first application of Neighbor GWAS to crop data, led by two graduate students. We analyzed open data on barley diseases. #crop #GWAS #preprint

A novel genome-wide association study method for detecting quantitative trait loci interacting with complex population structures in plant genetics Abstract. In plant genetics, most modern association analyses are performed on panels that bring together individuals from several populations, including a

Keep #GWAS method memo. This may be applicable to wild plants as well as crops. "A novel genome-wide association study method for detecting quantitative trait loci interacting with complex population structures in plant genetics" by Hamazaki et al. @genetics-gsa.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/gene...

Publications 2022

We’ve hosted Dr. Zhenyu (Arthur) Jia in Hokkaido University for his sabbatical visit. His seminar about GWAS2 was striking. I'm looking forward to its official publication from this list soon, jialab.ucr.edu/publications

Arabidopsis thaliana and Cardamine hirsuta in Sapporo!

Special issue of "Development and regulation: Evo-Devo and extended perspectives" in Current Opinion in Insect Science🪰📚. Co-edited by Koshikawa Shigeyuki, a professor from our course. Editorial overview at doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

Butterbur tells us spring in Hokkaido!

Snow is melting, and spring is coming to Sapporo. I just updated our lab website as it is shaping up a small team. yassato.github.io

"Ecologists with kids", one of the #ESJ72 workshops. My son and I really enjoyed this format. Their talks about species interaction were so exciting that I asked a research question while holding my son👍
Many thanks to the organizers!!

Two of the speakers, Dan and Al, visited my lab at Hokkaido Univ after #ESJ72. Thank Genki and Naofumi for the arrangement!

Here's our forum at #ESJ72
18th-Mar 12:15-13:45 (RoomA + On-demand🎦)
U08
What is the purpose of Plant Species Biology becoming an open access journal?

Takashi Miyake (EiC, PSB),
John MORRIS (Wiley APAC),
Atsushi KUME ( @atsushiku.bsky.social Director of Publication, ESJ)
esj.ne.jp/meeting/abst...

Left to right: AI P. KOVALESKI, Ko NOGUCHI, Hiroshi KUDOH (President, the Society for the Study of Species Biology), Genki YUMOTO, Daniel E. RUNCIE, and Naofumi YOSHIDA

#ESJ72 S08
冬の植物生態学
Before the arrival of spring: do plants simply endure the winter?

Organizer: Naofumi YOSHIDA & Genki YUMOTO

The symposium was successfully closed. On-demand video is now available for #ESJ72 attendees! Catch up at your convenience.
esj.ne.jp/meeting/abst...

PCP Poster Award Winners receiving their certificates from Tetsuya Higashiyama, EIC, at the conference reception.
Well done to these amazingly talented students - the future’s looking bright for #PlantScience!

#EarlyCareer
#JSPPKanazawa2025
#JSPP

#ESJ72 begins today!

#ESJ72
The Opening Ceremony and Award Ceremony has started now 🎦

You can check out the details of the Awards🏆 here:
esj.ne.jp/esj/English/...