RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science Bioproductivity Informatics Research Team
Team Leader: Keiichi Mochida (Ph.D.)
Research Summary

Our team aims to develop plants with improvements in the quantitative and qualitative productivity of cellulosic biomass. By using model grass, we carry out gene discovery to improve biomass productivity and adaptively to environmental changes in plants. Furthermore, we are promoting applied researches for plants for biomass resources in collaboration with universities and institutes.
Main Research Fields
- Biology
Related Research Fields
- Informatics
- Agricultural Sciences
Keywords
- Genome
- Bioinformatics
- Increase plant biomass production
- Grasses
- Genome polyploidy
Selected Publications
- 1.
Yusuke Kouzai, Minami Shimizu, Komaki Inoue, Yukiko Uehara-Yamaguchi, Kotaro Takahagi, Risa Nakayama, Takakazu Matsuura, Izumi C Mori, Takashi Hirayama,Sobhy S H Abdelsalam, Yoshiteru Noutoshi, Keiichi Mochida.:
"BdWRKY38 is required for the incompatible interaction of Brachypodium distachyon with the necrotrophic fungus Rhizoctonia solani."
The Plant J.(2020) - 2.
Keiichi Mochida, Alexander E Lipka, Takashi Hirayama.:
"Exploration of Life-Course Factors Influencing Phenotypic Outcomes in Crops."
Plant Cell Physiol 61,1381.(2020) - 3.
Keiichi Mochida, Ryuei Nishii, Takashi Hirayama.:
Decoding Plant-Environment Interactions That Influence Crop Agronomic Traits.
Plant Cell Physiol 61,1408.(2020) - 4.
Toshihisa Nomura, Komaki Inoue, Yukiko Uehara-Yamaguchi, Koji Yamada, Osamu Iwata, Kengo Suzuki, Keiichi Mochida.:
"Highly efficient transgene-free targeted mutagenesis and single-stranded oligodeoxynucleotide-mediated precise knock-in in the industrial microalga Euglena gracilis using Cas9 ribonucleoproteins."
Plant Biotechnol.J 17,2032.(2019) - 5.
Onda Y, Inoue K, Sawada Y, Shimizu M, Takahagi K, Uehara-Yamaguchi Y, Hirai MY, Garvin DF, Mochida K.:
"Genetic Variation for Seed Metabolite Levels in Brachypodium distachyon."
Int. J. Mol. Sci 20,9.(2019) - 6.
Mochida K, Koda S, Inoue K, Hirayama T, Tanaka S, Nishii R, Melgani F.:
"Computer vision-based phenotyping for improvement of plant productivity: a machine learning perspective."
Gigascience 1;8(1). (2019) - 7.
Mochida K, Koda S, Inoue K, Nishii R.:
"Statistical and Machine Learning Approaches to Predict Gene Regulatory Networks From Transcriptome Datasets."
Front Plant Sci 29;9:1770.(2018) - 8.
Kouzai Y, Noutoshi Y, Inoue K, Shimizu M, Onda Y, Mochida K.:
"Benzothiadiazole, a plant defense inducer, negatively regulates sheath blight resistance in Brachypodium distachyon."
Sci Rep 26;8(1):17358.(2018) - 9.
Takahagi K, Inoue K, Mochida K.:
"Gene Co-expression Network Analysis Suggests the Existence of Transcriptional Modules Containing a High Proportion of Transcriptionally Differentiated Homoeologs in Hexaploid Wheat."
Front Plant Sci 8;9:1163.(2018) - 10.
Onda Y, Takahagi K, Shimizu M, Inoue K, Mochida K.:
"Multiplex PCR Targeted Amplicon Sequencing (MTA-Seq): Simple, Flexible, and Versatile SNP Genotyping by Highly Multiplexed PCR Amplicon Sequencing."
Front Plant Sci 23;9:201.(2018)
Recent Research Results
Sep. 5, 2014
Paving the way for life on landAug. 9, 2013
A new twist in plant development
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Lab Members
Principal investigator
- Keiichi Mochida
- Team Leader
Core members
- Toshihisa Nomura
- Research Scientist
- Yusuke Kouzai
- Research Scientist
- Minami Shimizu
- Technical Staff II
- Yukiko Uehara
- Technical Staff II
- Asaka Kanatani
- Technical Staff II
Contact Information
E804,
1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
Fax: +81-(0)45-503-9182
Email: keiichi.mochida [at] riken.jp