2026年
・Saki Toshima, Kodai Egashira, Makiko Mimura, Yuichi Saeki, Tomonari Hirano, and Hisato Kunitake (2026) Unexpected Occurrence of Triploids and Preliminary Assessment of Genetic Relationships Using SSR Markers in Rubus parvifolius on Amami Oshima and Kakeroma, Japan. Plant Molecular Biology Reporter, 44:56
2025年
・Y. Narasako, Y. Setoguchi, H. Fukutome,T. Hirano, M. Otani, M. Takeshita, H. Kunitake (2025) Evaluation of Stem Polyphenol Content as a Potential Marker for Selecting Foot-Rot-Resistant Sweet Potato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.) Hybrids. Horticulturae 2025, 11,1439.
・Y. Setoguchi, H. Fukutome, Y. Narasako, T. Hirano, M. Otani, M. Takeshita, H. Kunitake (2025) Effect of Stem Polyphenol Content on the Susceptibility to Foot Rot Disease in Sweetpotato [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.]. Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science 150 (3): 159-167.
2024年
・Koga Y, Setoguchi Y, Sugamoto K, Goto Y, Hirano T and Kunitake H (2024) Seasonal variation and mean degree of polymerization of proanthocyanidin in leaves and branches of rabbiteye blueberry (Vaccinium virgatum Aiton). Plants 2024, 13, 1864.
・Shii M, Kajiya Y, Murata M, Abe T, Kunitake K, Hirano T (2024) Effects of fertilization of male gametes with heavy-ion beam irradiation on embryo and endosperm development in Cyrtanthus mackenii, CYTOLOGIA, 89: 133-139.
・Setoguchi Y, Narasako Y, Hirano T, Otani M, Kunitake H (2024) Changes in Carotenoids and Polyphenols during the Growth Stages of Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.). Horticulturae 10(6): 629.
・Fujiwara MT, Yoshioka Y, Kazama Y, Hirano T, Niwa Y, Moriyama T, Sato N, Abe T, Yoshida S, Itoh RD (2024) Principles of amyloplast replication in the ovule integuments of Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Physiology 196: 137 – 152.
・Ishii K, Kazama Y, Hirano T, Fawcett JA, Sato M, Hirai MY, Sakai F, Shirakawa Y, Ohbu S and Abe T (2024) Genomic view of heavy-ion-induced deletions associated with distribution of essential genes in Arabidopsis thaliana. Frontiers in Plant Science 15:1352564.
・Hirano T, Murata M, Watarikawa, Y. Hoshino Y, Abe T, Kunitake H (2024) Distinctive development of embryo and endosperm caused by male gametes irradiated with carbon-ion beam. Plant Reproduction, 37: 355–363.
2023年
・Park H, Abe T, Kunitake H, Hirano T (2023) Characterization of a novel mutant with inhibition of storage root formation in sweet potato. Breeding Science 73: 212-218.
・Setoguchi Y, Nakagawa S, Ohmura R, Toshima S, Park H, Narasako Y, Hirano T, Otani M, Kunitake H (2023) Effect of growth stages on anthocyanins and polyphenols in the root system of sweet potato. Plants, 12:1907 .
・Toshima S, Katsumi I, Kai A, Yahata M, Hirano T, Kunitake H (2023) Amphidiploid production of hybrid between black raspberry and Rubus parvifolius L., a wild Asian species, using colchicine treatment. Scientia Horticulturae, 312: 111863.
・Toyama Y, Fujita Y, Toshima S, Hirano T, Yamasaki M, Kunitake H (2023) Comparison of Proanthocyanidin Content in Rabbiteye Blueberry (Vaccinium virgatum Aiton) Leaves and the Promotion of Apoptosis against HL-60 Promyelocytic Leukemia Cells Using ‘Kunisato 35 Gou’ Leaf Extract. Plants. 12(4):948.
2022年
・H. Park, Y. Narasako, T. Abe, H. Kunitake, T. Hirano (2022) Comprehensive effects of heavy-ion beam irradiation on sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas [L.] Lam.). Plant Biotechnology 39: 311-316.
・K. Sugamoto, Y. L Tanaka, A. Saito, Y. Goto, T. Nakayama, T. Okabayashi, H. Kunitake, K. Morishita (2022) Highly polymerized proanthocyanidins (PAC) components from blueberry leaf and stem significantly inhibit SARS-CoV-2 infection via inhibition of ACE2 and viral 3CLpro enzymes. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 615:56-62.
・K. Hisahiro, Y. Okada, Y. Goto, T. Nakayama, K. Sugamoto, K. Ogawa, M. Yamasaki, K. Morishita, K. Matsuno, H. Kunitake (2022) Prediction of the Adult T-Cell Leukemia Inhibitory Activity of Blueberry Leaves/Stems Using Direct-Injection Electron Ionization-Mass Spectrometry Metabolomics. Plants 11, 1343.
・S. Nakagawa, Y. Setoguchi, R. Ohmura, S. Toshima, H. Park, Y. Narasako, T. Hirano, M. Otani, H. Kunitake (2022) Effects of cross combination on the total content and its composition of anthocyanins in sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas L.). Scientia Horticulturae, 299(1) 110999.
・H. Kai, K. Sugamoto, S. Toshima, Y. Goto, T. Nakayama, K. Morishita, H. Kunitake (2022) Effective utilization of Vaccinium virgatum Aiton stems as functional materials: major constituent analysis and bioactivity evaluation. Plants, 11: 568.
・T. Ichikawa, K. Sugamoto, Y. Matsuura, H. Kunitake, K. Shimoda, K. Morishita (2022) Inhibition of ATL cell proliferation by polymerized proanthocyanidin from blueberry leaves through JAK proteolysis. Cancer Science, online first.