publications

Publications from Fukushima lab in reversed chronological order.

2024

  1. Construction costs and tradeoffs in carnivorous pitcher plant leaves: towards a pitcher leaf economic spectrum
    Kadeem Jamal Gilbert, David W. Armitage, Ulrike Bauer, Kenji Fukushima, Laurence Gaume, Rachel Love, Qianxi Lin, Sukuan Liu, Sylvie Martin-Eberhardt, Jonathan Millett, Tanya Renner, Mathias Scharmann,  and  Chris Thorogood
    EcoEvoRxiv : . 2024
  2. Convergent emergence of glucomannan β-galactosyltransferase activity in asterids and rosids
    Konan Ishida, Matthew Penner, Kenji Fukushima, Yoshihisa Yoshimi, Louis F.L. Wilson, Alberto Echevarrı́a-Poza, Li Yu,  and  Paul Dupree*
    Plant & Cell Physiology 65: 2030–2039. Oct 2024

2023

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    Subgenome dominance shapes novel gene evolution in the decaploid pitcher plant Nepenthes gracilis
    Franziska Saul, Mathias Scharmann, Takanori Wakatake, Sitaram Rajaraman, André Marques, Matthias Freund, Gerhard Bringmann, Louisa Channon, Dirk Becker, Emily Carroll, Yee Wen Low, Charlotte Lindqvist, Kadeem J. Gilbert, Tanya Renner, Sachiko Masuda, Michaela Richter, Gerd Vogg, Ken Shirasu, Todd P. Michael, Rainer Hedrich, Victor A. Albert*,  and  Kenji Fukushima*
    Nature Plants 9: 2000–2015. Dec 2023
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    Carnivorous plants: Unlocking the secrets of peristome geometry in pitcher plants
    Kenji Fukushima*
    Current Biology 33: R1155–R1157. Nov 2023
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    Non-prey biotic interactions in carnivorous plants
    Héctor Montero,  and  Kenji Fukushima*
    Current Biology 33: R497–R500. Jun 2023
  4. fukushimaDetectingMacroevolutionaryGenotype2023.png
    Detecting macroevolutionary genotype–phenotype associations using error-corrected rates of protein convergence
    Kenji Fukushima*,  and  David D. Pollock
    Nature Ecology & Evolution 7: 155–170. Jan 2023
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    Transcriptomic heterochrony and completely cleistogamous flower development in the mycoheterotrophic orchid Gastrodia
    Kenji Suetsugu†*, Kenji Fukushima, Takashi Makino, Shuka Ikematsu, Tomoaki Sakamoto,  and  Seisuke Kimura*
    New Phytologist 237: 323–338. Jan 2023

2022

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    The digestive systems of carnivorous plants
    Matthias Freund, Dorothea Graus, Andreas Fleischmann, Kadeem J. Gilbert, Qianshi Lin, Tanya Renner, Christian Stigloher, Victor A Albert, Rainer Hedrich,  and  Kenji Fukushima*
    Plant Physiology 190: 44–59. Sep 2022
  2. Genome sequence of 12 Vigna species as a knowledge base of stress tolerance and resistance
    Ken Naito*, Takanori Wakatake, Tomoko F. Shibata, Kohtaro Iseki, Shuji Shigenobu, Yu Takahashi, Eri Ogiso-Tanaka, Chiaki Muto, Kuniko Teruya, Akino Shiroma, Makiko Shimoji, Kazuhito Satou, Takashi Hirano, Atsushi J. Nagano, Norihiko Tomooka, Mitsuyasu Hasebe, Kenji Fukushima,  and  Hiroaki Sakai
    bioRxiv : 2022.03.28.486085. Mar 2022

2021

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    On the origin of carnivory: Molecular physiology and evolution of plants on an animal diet
    Rainer Hedrich*,  and  Kenji Fukushima*
    Annual Review of Plant Biology 72: 133–153. Jun 2021
  2. Gene expression evolution in pattern-triggered immunity within Arabidopsis thaliana and across Brassicaceae species
    Thomas M Winkelmüller, Frederickson Entila, Shajahan Anver, Anna Piasecka, Baoxing Song, Eik Dahms, Hitoshi Sakakibara, Xiangchao Gan, Karolina Kułak, Aneta Sawikowska, Paweł Krajewski, Miltos Tsiantis, Ruben Garrido-Oter, Kenji Fukushima, Paul Schulze-Lefert, Stefan Laurent, Paweł Bednarek,  and  Kenichi Tsuda*
    The Plant Cell 33: 1863–1887. Jun 2021
  3. fukushimaDiscordanceSeasonallyCovarying2021.png
    A discordance of seasonally covarying cues uncovers misregulated phenotypes in the heterophyllous pitcher plant Cephalotus follicularis
    Kenji Fukushima*, Hideki Narukawa, Gergo Palfalvi,  and  Mitsuyasu Hasebe*
    Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 288: 20202568. Jan 2021
  4. How to grow a tree: Plant voltage-dependent cation channels in the spotlight of evolution
    Ingo Dreyer*, Frances C. Sussmilch, Kenji Fukushima, Gonzalo Riadi, Dirk Becker, Jörg Schultz,  and  Rainer Hedrich*
    Trends in Plant Science 26: 41–52. Jan 2021

2020

  1. Calcium dynamics during trap closure visualized in transgenic Venus flytrap
    Hiraku Suda, Hiroaki Mano, Masatsugu Toyota, Kenji Fukushima, Tetsuro Mimura, Izuo Tsutsui, Rainer Hedrich, Yosuke Tamada,  and  Mitsuyasu Hasebe*
    Nature Plants 6: 1219–1224. Oct 2020
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    Amalgamated cross-species transcriptomes reveal organ-specific propensity in gene expression evolution
    Kenji Fukushima*,  and  David D. Pollock*
    Nature Communications 11: 4459. Sep 2020
  3. Genomes of the Venus flytrap and close relatives unveil the roots of plant carnivory
    Gergo Palfalvi, Thomas Hackl, Niklas Terhoeven, Tomoko F. Shibata, Tomoaki Nishiyama, Markus Ankenbrand, Dirk Becker, Frank Förster, Matthias Freund, Anda Iosip, Ines Kreuzer, Franziska Saul, Chiharu Kamida, Kenji Fukushima, Shuji Shigenobu, Yosuke Tamada, Lubomir Adamec, Yoshikazu Hoshi, Kunihiko Ueda, Traud Winkelmann, Jörg Fuchs, Ingo Schubert, Rainer Schwacke, Khaled Al-Rasheid, Jörg Schultz*, Mitsuyasu Hasebe*,  and  Rainer Hedrich*
    Current Biology 30: 2312–2320.e5. May 2020

2019

  1. Assembly and annotation of a draft genome of the medicinal plant Polygonum cuspidatum
    Yonghong Zhang, Lanlan Zheng, Yan Zheng, Chao Zhou, Ping Huang, Xiao Xiao, Yongheng Zhao, Xincai Hao, Zhubing Hu, Qinhua Chen, Hongliang Li, Xuanbin Wang, Kenji Fukushima, Guodong Wang,  and  Chen Li*
    Frontiers in Plant Science 10: 1274. Oct 2019

2018

  1. Carnivorous plant genomes
    Tanya Renner, Tianying Lan, Kimberly M. Farr, Enrique Ibarra-Laclette, Luis Herrera-Esrella, Stephan C. Schuster, Mitsuyasu Hasebe, Kenji Fukushima,  and  Victor A. Albert
    Carnivorous plants: Physiology, ecology, and evolution : 135–152. Dec 2018
  2. Markov katana: A novel method for Bayesian resampling of parameter space applied to phylogenetic trees
    Stephen T. Pollard, Kenji Fukushima, Zhengyuan O. Wang, Todd A. Castoe,  and  David D. Pollock*
    bioRxiv : 250951. Jan 2018

2017

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    Genome of the pitcher plant Cephalotus reveals genetic changes associated with carnivory
    Kenji Fukushima†*, Xiaodong Fang, David Alvarez-Ponce, Huimin Cai, Lorenzo Carretero-Paulet, Cui Chen, Tien-Hao Chang, Kimberly M. Farr, Tomomichi Fujita, Yuji Hiwatashi, Yoshikazu Hoshi, Takamasa Imai, Masahiro Kasahara, Pablo Librado, Likai Mao, Hitoshi Mori, Tomoaki Nishiyama, Masafumi Nozawa, Gergő Pálfalvi, Stephen T. Pollard, Julio Rozas, Alejandro Sánchez-Gracia, David Sankoff, Tomoko F. Shibata, Shuji Shigenobu, Naomi Sumikawa, Taketoshi Uzawa, Meiying Xie, Chunfang Zheng, David D. Pollock, Victor A. Albert*, Shuaicheng Li*,  and  Mitsuyasu Hasebe*
    Nature Ecology & Evolution 1: 0059. Feb 2017

2015

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    Oriented cell division shapes carnivorous pitcher leaves of Sarracenia purpurea
    Kenji Fukushima, Hironori Fujita, Takahiro Yamaguchi, Masayoshi Kawaguchi, Hirokazu Tsukaya,  and  Mitsuyasu Hasebe*
    Nature Communications 6: 6450. Dec 2015

2014

  1. fukushimaAdaxialAbaxialPolarity2014.png
    Adaxial–abaxial polarity: The developmental basis of leaf shape diversity
    Kenji Fukushima*,  and  Mitsuyasu Hasebe*
    Genesis 52: 1–18. Jan 2014
  2. Molecular phylogeny determined using chloroplast DNA inferred a new phylogenetic relationship of Rorippa aquatica (Eaton) EJ Palmer & Steyermark (Brassicaceae)—lake cress
    Hokuto Nakayama, Kenji Fukushima, Tatsuya Fukuda, Jun Yokoyama,  and  Seisuke Kimura*
    American Journal of Plant Sciences 5: 48–54. Jan 2014

2011

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    Contrasting patterns of the 5S and 45S rDNA evolutions in the Byblis liniflora complex (Byblidaceae)
    Kenji Fukushima, Kaori Imamura, Katsuya Nagano,  and  Yoshikazu Hoshi*
    Journal of Plant Research 124: 231–244. Mar 2011

2009

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    Drosera rotundifolia and Drosera tokaiensis suppress the activation of HMC-1 human mast cells
    Kenji Fukushima, Kanji Nagai, Yoshikazu Hoshi, Saeko Masumoto, Ichiho Mikami, Yumiko Takahashi, Hideaki Oike,  and  Masuko Kobori*
    Journal of Ethnopharmacology 125: 90–96. Aug 2009

2008

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    Somatic chromosome differentiation in three species of the Byblis liniflora complex (Byblidaceae)
    Kenji Fukushima, Katsuya Nagano,  and  Yoshikazu Hoshi*
    Chromosome Botany 3: 95–99. Dec 2008
  2. Tandem repeat rDNA sequences derived from parents were stably maintained in hexaploids of Drosera spathulata complex (Droseraceae)
    Yoshikazu Hoshi*, Junichi Shirakawa, Mitsuyasu Hasebe, Kenji Fukushima,  and  Katsuhiko Kondo
    Cytologia 73: 313–325. Sep 2008
  3. Bitter gourd suppresses lipopolysaccharide-induced inflammatory responses
    Masuko Kobori*, Hirosuke Nakayama, Kenji Fukushima, Mayumi Ohnishi-Kameyama, Hiroshi Ono, Tatsunobu Fukushima, Yukari Akimoto, Saeko Masumoto, Chizuko Yukizaki, Yoshikazu Hoshi, Tomoaki Deguchi,  and  Mitsuru Yoshida
    Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 56: 4004–4011. Jun 2008

2007

  1. A comparative study of karyotypes in two species of Byblis (Byblidaceae)
    Yoshikazu Hoshi*, Kenji Fukushima,  and  Katsuya Nagano
    Chromosome Botany 2: 39–43. Jun 2007