Identification of the gene for fruit development without pollination, for seedless egg plants, tomatoes and bell peppers! pnas.org/content/early/…

Lovely tomato-bumble bee interactions.

Fungal disease resistance gene, uncharacterized for long time, is finally identified as non-plant type glutathione S-transferase, which originated from endophytic fungi!! science.sciencemag.org/content/368/64…

metabolome of upland and lowland switchgrasses, which may impact on biotic and abiotic stress tolerance! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Genome wide effects of transposable elements on tomato metabolisms are analyzed here. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Fungi derived metabolite interfare plant defense induction. Is a new compounds for plant-pathgen communications? Looking forward further studies! academic.oup.com/jxb/article/71…

Calabash flower volatile, (3S,6E)-nerolidol, is a que of gathering&mating of Cyclocephalini beetles:) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Identification of gland specific transcription factor for specialized metabolisms in cotton. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

New in in silico Plants 🍃 Within and cross species predictions of plant specialized metabolism genes using transfer learning @MSU_NatSci Specialized Metabolisms MSU #MachineLearning Read the #OpenAccess article: doi.org/10.1093/insili…

Congratulations, Fan and colleagues the excellent work! elifesciences.org/articles/56717

Molecular mechanisms of post-harvest ripening by epigenetic regulation in tomato fruits. In practical, post-harvested matured tomato has less flavor than on tree ripen tomato. So I'm interested in the difference between primary and secondary metabolisms. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Novel lipase gene for tomato greenish flavor compounds! GWAS and genome editing techniques elucidate it. Identification of a lipase gene with a role in tomato fruit short‐chain fatty acid‐derived flavor volatiles by genome‐wide association onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Structural report of acyl-sugars, a natural fly trap in wild tomato, containing benzyl groups. Pennelliisides A–C, 2,3,4-Trisubstituted Acyl Glucoses Isolated from Solanum pennellii pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Our colleague, Koichi Sugimoto Koichi, contributes to tomato bioresource development and management in Japan. You can see his on-line (on-twitter) posters and visit to his website.

Glad to share new accepted article! Flavonoid Deficiency Disrupts Redox Homeostasis and Terpenoid Biosynthesis in Glandular Trichomes of Tomato academic.oup.com/plphys/advance…

Recognizing Plant Physiology author Koichi Sugimoto plantae.org/koichi-sugimot… Sugimoto Koichi Specialized Metabolisms first author of Flavonoid Deficiency Disrupts Redox Homeostasis and Terpenoid Biosynthesis in Glandular Trichomes of Tomato #WeAreASPB

Congratulations Yann-Ru and Paul! It happened again: Convergent evolution of acylglucose specialized metabolism in black nightshade and wild tomato science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Redirecting tropane alkaloid metabolism reveals pyrrolidine alkaloid diversity in Atropa belladonna nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

New preprint for functional terpenoids🤓 Identification of anti-fungal bioactive terpenoids from the bioenergy crop switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New preprint of acylsugar biochemistry in the glandular trichomes for metabolic engineering. Good job, Paul! Trading acyls and swapping sugars: metabolic innovations in Solanum trichomes biorxiv.org/content/10.110…