2012/07 - * Associate Professor, Faculty of Bioresources Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Saga University
Field of Specialization
Science in genetics and breeding, Crop production science, Genetics/Chromosome dynamics, Plant molecular biology/Plant physiology, Genome biology
Membership in Academic Societies
Japanese society of breeding
Themes for Ongoing Research
Isolation of genes related to flowering time traits in soybean and nd application for plant breeding
Identification and isolation of genes related to flowering time in soybean
Functional analysis of soybean flolwering genes
Identification and isolation of genes related to important agronomic traits in soybean
Research Themes in the Past
Identification and isolation of genes related to flowering time in soybean
Identification and isolation of genes related to important agronomic traits in soybean
Research Topics and Results
Identification of Genes Responsible for the Synthesis of Glycitein Isoflavones in Soybean Seeds 2024/01
Mutations in the genes responsible for the synthesis of furan fatty acids resolve the light-induced off-odor in soybean oil 2023/11
Single-base deletion in GmCHR5 increases the genistein-to-daidzein ratio in soybean seed. 2020/05
Identification and characterization of a major QTL underlying soybean isoflavone malonylglycitin content. 2019/00
Selection criteria for SNP loci to maximize robustness of high-resolution melting analysis for plant breeding. 2018/09
Development of a high-density linkage map and chromosome segment substitution lines for Japanese soybean cultivar Enrei. 2018/04
Identification of quantitative trait loci for flowering time by a combination of restriction site–associated DNA sequencing and bulked segregant analysis in soybean 2017
Natural variation in the genes responsible for maturity loci E1, E2, E3 and E4 in soybean 2014
Positional cloning and characterization reveal the molecular basis for soybean maturity locus E1 that regulates photoperiodic flowering 2012
The soybean stem growth habit gene Dt1 is an ortholog of Arabidopsis TERMINAL FLOWER1. 2010
Map-based cloning of the gene associated with soybean maturity locus E3. 2009
Books
Modified High-Resolution Melting (HRM) Marker SystemsIncreasing Discriminability Between Homozygous Alleles; 2302/28 ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.; Plant Genotyping: Methods and Protocols, Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 2638 AUTHOR; Satoshi Watanabe, Yoshiyuki Yamagata, and Nobuhiro Kotoda
Positional cloning of the responsible genes for maturity Loci E1, E2 and E3 in soybean.; 2011 ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.; Ed. D. Krezhova, Soybean – Genetics and novel techniques for yield enhancement, Rijeka, Croatia, InTech, 51-76 AUTHOR; K. Harada, S. Watanabe, Z. Xia, Y. Tsubokura, N. Yamanaka, T. Anai
Original Articles
Identification of Genes Responsible for the Synthesis of Glycitein Isoflavones in Soybean Seeds; 2024/01 ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.; Plants AUTHOR; Masaki Horitani, Risa Yamada, Kanami Taroura, Akari Maeda, Toyoaki Anai, Satoshi Watanabe
Mutations in the genes responsible for the synthesis of furan fatty acids resolve the light-induced off-odor in soybean oil; 2023/11 ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.; the plant journal AUTHOR; Satoshi Watanabe, Ayako Omagari, Risa Yamada, Akane Matsumoto, Yuta Kimura, Naruto Makita, Erina Hiyama, Yuki Okamoto, Ryo Okabe, Takashi Sano, Toshiro Sato, Mototaka Suzuki, Sanshiro Saito, Toyoaki Anai
Single-base deletion in GmCHR5 increases the genistein-to-daidzein ratio in soybean seed.; 2020/05 ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.; Breeding Science, 70, 3, 265-276 AUTHOR; Sarkar, M. A. R., W. Otsu, A. Suzuki, F. Hashimoto, T. Anai, S. Watanabe
Identification and characterization of a major QTL underlying soybean isoflavone malonylglycitin content.; 2019/00 ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.; Breeding Science, 69, 564-572 AUTHOR; Watanabe, S., R. Yamada, H. Kanetake, A. Kaga, and T. Anai
SEN1 gene from Lotus japonicus MG20 improves nitrogen fixation and plant growth.; 2020/10 ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.; Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 66, 864-869 AUTHOR; Y. Nishida, R. Hiraoka, S. Kawano, N. Suganuma, S. Sato, S. Watanabe, T. Anai, S. Arima, A. Tominaga, A. Suzuki
Identification of novel MYB transcription factors involved in the isoflavone biosynthetic pathway by using the combination screening system with agroinfiltration and hairy root transformation.; 2019/12 ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.; Plant Biotechnology, 36, 4, 241-251 AUTHOR; Md. Abdur Rauf Sarkar, Satoshi Watanabe, Akihiro Suzuki, Fumio Hashimoto, Toyoaki Anai
Characterization and quantitative trait locus mapping of late-flowering from a Thai soybean cultivar introduced into a photoperiod-insensitive genetic background; 2019/12 ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.; PLOS ONE, 14, e0226116 AUTHOR; Fei Sun,
Meilan Xu,
Cheolwoo Park,
Maria Stefanie Dwiyanti,
Atsushi J. Nagano,
Jianghui Zhu,
Satoshi Watanabe,
Fanjiang Kong,
Baohui Liu,
Tetsuya Yamada,
Jun Abe
Variation in photosensitivity of flowering in the world soybean mini-core collections (GmWMC).; 2019/01 ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.; Plant Production Science, 22, 220–226 AUTHOR; Islam, M. R., D. Fujita, S. Watanabe, S.-H. Zheng
Selection criteria for SNP loci to maximize robustness of high-resolution melting analysis for plant breeding.; 2018/09 ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.; Breed. Sci., 68, 488–498 AUTHOR; Yamagata, Y., A. Yoshimura, T. Anai, and S. Watanabe
Development of a high-density linkage map and chromosome segment substitution lines for Japanese soybean cultivar Enrei.; 2018/04 ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.; DNA Res., 25, 2, 123–136. AUTHOR; Watanabe, S., T. Shimizu, K. Machita, Y. Tsubokura, Z. Xia, T. Yamada, M. Hajika, M. Ishimoto, Y. Katayose, K. Harada, et al. (2018)
Identification of quantitative trait loci for flowering time by a combination of restriction site–associated DNA sequencing and bulked segregant analysis in soybean; 2017 ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.; Breeding Science, 67, 277–285 AUTHOR; Watanabe Satoshi;Tsukamoto Chikaharu;Oshita Tatsuki;Yamada Tetsuya;Anai Toyoaki;Kaga Akito
A recessive allele for delayed flowering at the soybean maturity locus E9 is a leaky allele of FT2a, a FLOWERING LOCUS T ortholog; 2016/01 ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.; BMC plant biology, 16, 20 AUTHOR; Zhao Chen;Takeshima Ryoma;Zhu Jianghui;Xu Meilan;Sato Masako;Watanabe Satoshi;Kanazawa Akira;Liu Baohui;Kong Fanjiang;Yamada Tetsuya;Abe Jun
Construction of a high-density mutant library in soybean and development of a mutant retrieval method using amplicon sequencing; 2015/11 ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.; BMC Genomics, 16, 1014 AUTHOR; Mai Tsuda, Akito KagaEmail author, Toyoaki Anai, Takehiko Shimizu, Takashi Sayama, Kyoko Takagi, Kayo Machita, Satoshi Watanabe, Minoru Nishimura, Naohiro Yamada, Satomi Mori, Harumi Sasaki, Hiroyuki Kanamori, Yuichi Katayose and Masao Ishimoto
Analysis of QTLs for the micromorphology on the seed coat surface of soybean using recombinant inbred lines.; 2015/09 ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.; Seed Science Research, 25, 409-415 AUTHOR; Kazunori Otobea, Satoshi Watanabe, Kyuya Harada
QTL mapping for flowering time in different latitude in soybean.; 2015/09 ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.; Euphytica, 206, 725–736 AUTHOR; Sijia Lu, Ying Li , Jialin Wang , Peerasak Srinives, Haiyang Nan, Dong Cao, Yanping Wang, Jinliang Li, Xiaoming Li, Chao Fang, Xinyi Shi, Xiaohui Yuan, Satoshi Watanabe, Xianzhong Feng, Baohui Liu , Jun Abe , Fanjiang Kong
The Soybean-Specific Maturity Gene E1 Family of Floral Repressors Controls Night-Break Responses through Down-Regulation of FLOWERING LOCUS T Orthologs1; 2015/06 ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.; Plant Physiology, 168, 4, 1735-1746 AUTHOR; Meilan Xu, Noriko Yamagishi, Chen Zhao, Ryoma Takeshima, Megumi Kasai, Satoshi Watanabe, Akira Kanazawa, Nobuyuki Yoshikawa, Baohui Liu*, Tetsuya Yamada, Jun Abe
Natural variation in the genes responsible for maturity loci E1, E2, E3 and E4 in soybean; 2014 ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.; Annals of Botany, 113, 3, 429-441 AUTHOR;
Yasutaka Tsubokura1,2,
Satoshi Watanabe1,3,
Zhengjun Xia1,4,
Hiroyuki Kanamori1,5,
Harumi Yamagata1,5,
Akito Kaga1,
Yuichi Katayose1,
Jun Abe6,
Masao Ishimoto1 and
Kyuya Harada1,*
Construction and targeted retrieval of specific clone from a non-gridded soybean bacterial artificial chromosome library.; 2014 ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.; Analytical Biochemistry, 444, 38-40 AUTHOR; Xia Z, Wu H, Watanabe S, Harada K.
A novel GmFAD3-2a mutant allele developed through TILLING reduces α-linolenic acid content in soybean seed oil; 2014 ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.; Japanese Journal of Breeding, 64, 4, 371-377 AUTHOR; Hoshino Tomoki;Watanabe Satoshi;Takagi Yutaka;Anai Toyoaki
Genetic variation in four maturity genes affects photoperiod insensitivity and PHYA-regulated post-flowering responses of soybean; 2013/06 ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.; BMC Plant Biology, 13, 91 AUTHOR; Xu Meilan;Xu Zeheng;Liu Baohui;Kong Fanjiang;Tsubokura Yasutaka;Watanabe Satoshi;Xia Zhengjun;Harada Kyuya;Kanazawa Akira;Yamada Testuya;Abe Jun
Genetic and molecular bases of photoperiod responses of flowering in soybean; 2012/01 ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.; Breeding science, 61, 5, 531-543 AUTHOR; WATANABE Satoshi;HARADA Kyuya;ABE Jun
Evaluation of soybean germplasm conserved in NIAS genebank and development of mini core collections; 2012/01 ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.; Breeding science, 61, 5, 566-592 AUTHOR; KAGA Akito;SHIMIZU Takehiko;WATANABE Satoshi;TSUBOKURA Yasutaka;KATAYOSE Yuichi;HARADA Kyuya;VAUGHAN Duncan A.;TOMOOKA Norihiko
Positional cloning and characterization reveal the molecular basis for soybean maturity locus E1 that regulates photoperiodic flowering; 2012 ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109, 32, E2155-E2164 AUTHOR; Zhengjun Xia, Satoshi Watanabe, Tetsuya Yamada, Yasutaka Tsubokura, Hiroko Nakashima, Hong Zhai, Toyoaki Anai, Shusei Sato, Toshimasa Yamazaki, Shixiang Lu, Hongyan Wu, Satoshi Tabata and Kyuya Harada
The β-conglycinin deficiency in wild soybean is associated with the tail-to-tail inverted repeat of the α-subunit genes.; 2012 ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.; Plant Molecular Biology, 78, 3, 301-309 AUTHOR; Tsubokura Y, Hajika M, Kanamori H, Xia Z, Watanabe S, Kaga A, Katayose Y, Ishimoto M, Harada K
A map-based cloning strategy employing a residual heterozygous line reveals that the GIGANTEA gene is involved in soybean maturity and flowering.; 2011 ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.; Genetics, 188, 395-407 AUTHOR; Watanabe, S., Z. Xia, R. Hideshima, Y. Tsubokura, S. Sato, N. Yamanaka, R. Takahashi, T. Anai, S. Tabata, K. Kitamura, K. Harada
Mapping and comparison of quantitative trait loci for soybean branching phenotype in two locations; 2010/12 ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.; Breeding science, 60, 4, 380-389 AUTHOR; SAYAMA Takashi;HWANG Tae-Young;YAMAZAKI Hiroyuki;YAMAGUCHI Naoya;KOMATSU Kunihiko;TAKAHASHI Masakazu;SUZUKI Chika;MIYOSHI Tomoaki;TANAKA Yoshinori;XIA Zhengjun;TSUBOKURA Yasutaka;WATANABE Satoshi;HARADA Kyuya;FUNATSUKI Hideyuki;ISHIMOTO Masao
Cotyledonary node pre-wounding with a micro-brush increased frequency of Agrobacterium-mediated transformation in soybean; 2010/06 ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.; Plant tissue culture letters, 27, 2, 217-220 AUTHOR; YAMADA Tetsuya;WATANABE Satoshi;ARAI Maiko;HARADA Kyuya;KITAMURA Keisuke
Genetic and molecular analysis of fasciation mutation in Japanese soybeans.; 2010 ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.; Breeding Science, 61, 1, 26-34 AUTHOR; Ryutaku Onda, Satoshi Watanabe, Takashi Sayama, Kunihiko Komatsu, Katsunori Okano, Masao Ishimoto and Kyuya Harada
Two Coordinately Regulated Homologs of FLOWERING LOCUS T Are Involved in the Control of Photoperiodic Flowering in Soybean.; 2010 ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.; Plant Physiology, 154, 1220-1231 AUTHOR; Fanjiang Kong, Baohui Liu, Zhengjun Xia, Shusei Sato, Bo Min Kim, Satoshi Watanabe, Tetsuya Yamada, Satoshi Tabata, Akira Kanazawa, Kyuya Harada and Jun Abe
The soybean stem growth habit gene Dt1 is an ortholog of Arabidopsis TERMINAL FLOWER1.; 2010 ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.; Plant Physiology, 153, 1, 198-210 AUTHOR; Liu B, Watanabe S, Uchiyama T, Kong F, Kanazawa A, Xia Z, Nagamatsu A, Arai M, Yamada T, Kitamura K, Masuta C, Harada K, Abe J
Map-based cloning of the gene associated with soybean maturity locus E3.; 2009 ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.; Genetics, 182, 4, 1251-1262 AUTHOR; Watanabe S, Hideshima R, Xia Z, Tsubokura Y, Sato S, Nakamoto Y, Yamanaka N, Takahashi R, Ishimoto M, Anai T, Tabata S, Harada K
A novel manual pooling system for preparing three-dimensional pools of a deep coverage soybean bacterial artificial chromosome library.; 2009 ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.; Molecular Ecology Resources, 9, 2, 516-524 AUTHOR; Xia Z, Watanabe S, Chen Q, Sato S, Harada K
Characterization of the Soybean Genome Using EST-derived Microsatellite Markers; 2007 ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.; DNA Research, 14, 271-281 AUTHOR; Hiroshi Hisano, Shusei Sato, Sachiko Isobe, Shigemi Sasamoto, Tsuyuko Wada, Ai Matsuno, Tsunakazu Fujishiro, Manabu Yamada, Shinobu Nakayama, Yasukazu Nakamura, Satoshi Watanabe, Kyuya Harada, and Satoshi Tabata
An Integrated High-density Linkage Map of Soybean with RFLP, SSR, STS, and AFLP Markers Using A Single F2 Population.; 2007 ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.; DNA Research, 14, 257-269 AUTHOR; Zhengjun Xia, Yasutaka Tsubokura, Masako Hoshi, Masayoshi Hanawa, Chizuru Yano, Kayo Okamura, Talaat A. Ahmed, Toyoaki Anai, Satoshi Watanabe, Masaki Hayashi, Takashi Kawai, Khwaja G. Hossain, Hirokazu Masaki, Kazumi Asai, Naoki Yamanaka, Nakao Kubo, Koh-ichi Kadowaki, Yoshiaki Nagamura, Masahiro Yano, Takuji Sasaki, and Kyuya Harada
Conversion of AFLP Markers Surrounding a QTL, rhg-tl, for Soybean Cyst Nematode Resistance into PCR-based Markers; 2006/06 ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.; Breeding science, 56, 2, 195-199 AUTHOR; Ferdous Shameema Akhter;Watanabe Satoshi;Suzuki-Orihara Chika;Tanaka Yoshinori;Kamiya Motokazu;Xia Zhengjun;Yamanaka Naoki;Harada Kyuya
QTL analysis of flooding tolerance in soybean at an early vegetative growth stage.; 2006 ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.; Plant Breeding, 125, 6, 613-618 AUTHOR; S. M. Githiri, S. Watanabe, K. Harada and R. Takahashi
Construction and characterization of a BAC library of soybean.; 2005 ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.; Euphytica, 141, 129-137 AUTHOR; Zhengjun Xia, Hiroko Sato, Satoshi Watanabe, Shiji Kawasaki and Kyuya Harada
Molecular linkage mapping and phylogeny of the chalcone synthase multigene family in soybean.; 2005 ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.; Theor Appl Genet., 110, 7, 1203-1209 AUTHOR; Matsumura H, Watanabe S, Harada K, Senda M, Akada S, Kawasaki S, Dubouzet EG, Minaka N, Takahashi R.
Fine mapping of the FT1 locus for soybean flowering time using a residual heterozygous line derived from a recombinant inbred line.; 2005 ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.; Theor Appl Genet., 110, 4, 634-639 AUTHOR; Yamanaka N, Watanabe S, Toda K, Hayashi M, Fuchigami H, Takahashi R, Harada K.
Analysis of QTLs for Reproductive Development and Seed Quality Traits in Soybean using Recombinant Inbred Lines; 2004/12 ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.; Breeding science, 54, 4, 399-407 AUTHOR; Watanabe Satoshi;Tajuddin Teuku;Yamanaka Naoki;Hayashi Masaki;Harada Kyuya
Analysis of Quantitative Trait Loci for Protein and Lipid Contents in Soybean Seeds Using Recombinant Inbred Lines; 2003 ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.; Japanese Journal of Breeding, 53, 2, 133-140 AUTHOR; Tajuddin Teuku;Watanabe Satoshi;Yamanaka Naoki;Harada Kyuya
Application of NIR transmittance spectroscopy to the estimation of protein and lipid contents in single seeds of soybean recombinant inbred lines for quantitative trait loci analysis.; 2002 ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.; Journal of Near Infrared Spectroscopy, 10, 315-325 AUTHOR; Teuku Tajuddin, Satoshi Watanabe, Kyuya Harada and Sumio Kawano
A single-base deletion in soybean flavonoid 3'-hydroxylase gene is associated with gray pubescence color.; 2002 ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.; Plant Molecular Biology, 50, 2, 187-196 AUTHOR; Kyoko Toda, Daijun Yang, Naoki Yamanaka, Satoshi Watanabe, Kyuya Harada and Ryoji Takahashi