PUBLICATIONS

Pre-print

  • Yuta B AoyagiRiki ShimadaHideki Hirakawa, Atsushi ToyodaHidehiro TohSachiko IsobeNaoyuki TajimaKenta ShirasawaTokumasa HoriikeHiroshi FujiiTao FujiwaraMasaru BambaTakashi NakatsukaAkiyoshi Tominaga. (2025) Chromosome-level genome assembly of the gerbera (Gerbera hybrida) using HiFi long-read and Hi-C technologies [Link]
  • Takashi Goto, Kasper R Andersen, Masaru Bamba, Shusei Sato, Masayuki Sugawara, Kiwamu Minamisawa, Masayoshi Kawaguchi, Jens Stougaard, Yasuyuki Kawaharada. (2025) Cyclophilin A-mediated cis/trans isomerization modulates RIN4 to control intracellular rhizobial infection in legumes [Link]
  • Masaru Bamba and Shusei Sato. (2025) Expanding plant trait databases using large language model: A case study on flower color extraction [Link]
  • Johan Quilbé, Troels W. Mouritzen, Turgut Y. Akyol, Yusdar Mustamin, Masaru Bamba, Mikkel H. Schierup, Shusei Sato and Stig Uggerhøj Andersen. (2024) Microbiome interactions increase plant haplotype richness [Link]

Peer-reviwed Paper

  • Shintaro Hara,Kaori Kakizaki,Masaru Bamba,Manabu Itakura,Masayuki Sugawara,Atsuo Suzuki,Yuma Sasaki,Masanori Takeda,Kanako Tago,Tsubasa Ohbayashi,Toshihiro Aono,Luciano Nobuhiro Aoyagi,Hiroaki Shimada,Ryo Shingubara,Sachiko Masuda,Arisa Shibata,Ken Shirasu,Rota Wagai,Hiroko Akiyama,Shusei Sato,and Kiwamu Minamisawa (2024) Does Rhizobial Inoculation Change the Microbial Community in Field Soils? A Comparison with Agricultural Land-use Changes. Microbes and Environments [Link]
  • Masaru Bamba, Turgut Yigit Akyol, Yusuke Azuma, Johan Quilbe, Stig Uggerhøj Andersen, Shusei Sato. (2024) Synergistic effects of plant genotype and soil microbiome on growth in Lotus japonicusFEMS Microbiology Ecology [Link][プレスリリース][報道1][報道2][報道3]
  • Maria Isabel Fuentes-Merlos, Masaru Bamba, Shusei Sato, Atsushi Higashitani. (2023) Self-grafting induced epigenetic changes leading to drought stress tolerance in tomato plants. DNA Res. [Link][プレスリリース][報道]
  • Yusdar Mustamin, Turgut Yigit Akyol, Max Gordon, Andi Madihah Manggabarani, Yoshiko Isomura, Yasuko Kawamura, Masaru Bamba, Cranos Williams, Stig Uggerhøj Andersen, Shusei Sato. (2022) Receptor-like kinases FER and SRK mediate Lotus japonicus freezing tolerance and climate adaptation. PlantPhysiology. [Link][プレスリリース][報道]
  • Maria Isabel Fuentes-Merlos, Masaru Bamba, Shusei Sato and Atsushi Higashitani. (2022) Comparative Transcriptome Analysis of Grafted Tomato with Drought Tolerance. Plants [Link]
  • Andi Madihah Manggabarani, Takuyu Hashiguchi, Masatsugu Hashiguchi, Atsushi Hayashi, Masataka Kikuchi, Yusdar Mustamin, Masaru Bamba, Kunihiro Kodama, Takanari Tanabata, Sachiko Isobe, Hidenori Tanaka, Ryo Akashi, Akihiro Nakaya, Shusei Sato. (2022) Construction of prediction models for growth traits of soybean cultivars based on phenotyping in diverse genotype and environment combinations. DNA Research [Link]
  • Masaru Bamba, Seishiro Aoki, Tadashi Kajita, Hiroaki Setoguchi, Yasuyuki Watano, Shusei Sato, Takashi Tsuchimatsu. (2020) Massive rhizobial genomic variations associated with partner quality in LotusMesorhizobium symbiosis. FEMS Microbiology Ecology [Link]
  • Masaru Bamba, Seishiro Aoki, Tadashi Kajita, Hiroaki Setoguchi, Yasuyuki Watano, Shusei Sato, Takashi Tsuchimatsu. (2019) Exploring Genetic Diversity and Signatures of Horizontal Gene Transfer in Nodule Bacteria Associated with Lotus japonicus in Natural Environments. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions [Link]
  • Masaru Bamba, Yawako W. Kawaguchi, Takashi Tsuchimatsu. (2018) Plant adaptation and speciation studied by population genomic approaches. Development, Growth & Differentiation [Link]
  • Masaru Bamba, Sayuri Nakata, Seishiro Aoki, Koji Takayama, Juan Núñez-Farfán, Motomi Ito, Masaki Miya, Tadashi Kajita. (2016) Wide distribution range of rhizobial symbionts associated with pantropical sea-dispersed legumes. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek [Link]

Other literature

  • Masaru Bamba, Kenta Shirasawa, Sachiko Isobe, Nadia Kamal, Klaus Mayer, and Shusei Sato (2022) Plant Genomics. in “Plant Omics: Advances in Big Data Biology” (Edited by Drs. Hajime Ohyanagi, Eiji Yamamoto, Kentaro Yano). CABI, Nosworthy Way, Wallingford OX10 8DE, UK.[Link]
  • 番場大, 佐藤修正, 土松隆志 (2022) マメ科植物の生育を促す根粒菌の多様性解明. バイオスティミュラントハンドブック ~植物の生理活性プロセスから資材開発,適用事例まで~ エヌ・ティー・エス pp. 179-184 [Link]