1. Microbial Inventory (Index, Database, Patents)

1) Publication

1. Takao Tsukiboshi, Shigenobu Yoshida, Hirosuke Shinohara and Seiya Tsushima. Publication of bibliography of parasitic and symbiotic microbes on wild plants in Japan and the exhibition on the web, Bunrui 4(1):77-80. 2004
2. T., Tsukiboshi, M., Koitabashi, S., Yoshida, K., Tamura, H., Shinohara and S. Tsushima. Construction of a database for microorganism specimens collected mostly in Japan over 130 years and deposited in the National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences. Mippon Kingakukai Kaiho 48:7-11. 2007.

2) Patents/Others

2. Microorganisms on plants and their use

1) Publication

1. S., Yoshida, Kinkel L. L., Shinohara, H., Numajiri, M., Hiradate, S., Koitabashi, M., Suyama, K., Negishi, H., Tsushima, S. Production of quorum-sensing related signal molecu-les by epiphytic bacteria inhabiting wheat heads. Can. J. Microbiol. 51:411-418. 2006.
2. S.Yoshida, T. Tsukiboshi, T. Arie, H. Shinohara, M. Koitabashi and S. Tsushima, Inhabitancy and Colonization on Healthy Rice Plants by Glomerella cingulata. Journal of Phytopathology 155:38-44, 2007(1).
3. Motoo, Koitabshi and Seiya Tsushima. Studies on biocontrol of air-borne disease by a filamentous fungus which produces antifungal volatiles. JARQ 41(4): 261-265.2007 (4).
4. Jun-ichirou Enya , Hirosuke Shinohara, Shigenobu Yoshida, Takao Tsukiboshi, Hiromitsu Negishi, Kazuo Suyama, Seiya Tsushima. Culturable Leaf-Associated Bacteria on Tomato Plants and Their Potential as Biological Control Agent. Microbial Ecology 53:524-536, 2007(5).
5. J. ENYA, M. KOITABASHI, H. SHINOHARA, S. YOSHIDA, T. TSUKIBOSHI, H. NEGISHI, K. SUYAMA, and S. TSUSHIMA. Phylogenetic diversities of dominant culturable Bacillus, Pseudomonas, and Pantoea species on tomato leaves and their possibility as biological control agents. Journal of Phytopathology 155, 446-453 2007 (8).

2) Patents/others

1. S. Tsushima. Community of culturable leaf-associated bacteria on various plants.SCIENSE & TECHNONEWS TSUKUBA 79: 18-19, 2006(7).
2. S. Tsushima. New frontiers in the application of microbial community. In: M., Hyakumachi and S. Tsushima (Eds), New Strategies in the Application of Biocontrol Agents and New Frontiers in Biocontrol Researches. Tokyo, pp. 113-122.

3. Plant pathogen

1) Publication

1. Sugihiro Ando, Takahiro Asano, Seiya Tsushima, Shinichiro Kamachi, Takashi Hagio, Yutaka Tabei. Changes in gene expression of putative isopentenyltransferase during clubroot development in Chinese cabbage (Brassica rapa L.) Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology 67:59-67. 2005(9).
2. Sugihiro Ando, Tomohiro Yamada, Takahiro Asano, Shinichiro Kamachi, Seiya Tsushima,Takashi Hagio, Yutaka Tabei. Molecular Cloning of PbSTKL1 Gene from Plasmodiophora brassicae Expressed during Clubroot Development. Journal of Phytopathology 154,185-189. 2006(3).
3. Yukiko Maeda, Hirosuke Shinohara, Akinori Kiba1, Kouhei Ohnishi, Naruto Furuya, Yoshiaki Kawamura, Takayuki Ezaki, Peter A. R. Vandamme, Seiya Tsushima, and Yasufumi Hikichi. Phylogenetic study and multiplex PCR based detection of Burkholderia plantarii, Burkholderia glumae and Burkholderia gladioli using gyrB and rpoD sequences. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 56:1031-1038. 2006(5).
4. Sugihiro Ando, Seiya Tsushima, Akemi Tagiri, Shinichiro Kamachi, Ken-ichi, Konagaya, Takashi Hagio, Yutaka Tabei. Increase in BrAO1 gene expression and aldehyde oxidase activity during clubroot development in Chinese cabbage (Brassica rapa L.). Molecular Plant Pathology 7: 223-234. 2006 (5).
5. Seiya TSUSHIMA, Hirosuke SHINOHARA, Takumi NAKAZATO, Sugihiro ANDO, Takeshi SUGISAWA and Yutaka TABEI. Phylogenetic analysis of Xanthomonas albilineans strains from Okinawa, Japan, through a comparison of the gyrB and rpoD genes in geographically distinct strains. Journal of Phytopathology 154:683-687. 2006 (12).
6. Maeda, Y., Horita, M., Shinohara,H., Kiba, A., Ohnishi, K., Tsushima, S., and Hikichi, Y. Analysis of the infection sources of oxolinic acid resistant field strains of Burkholderia glumae based on rep-PCR analysis and nucleotide sequences of gyrB and rpoD. J. Gen. Plant Pathol. 73, 46-52. 2007(2).
7. Seisaku UMEMOTO, Katsue NAGASHIMA, Shigenobu YOSHIDA and Seiya TSUSHIMA. Screlotinia rot of blueberry caused by Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. J. Gen. Plant Pathol. 73:290-292, 2007(8).
8. Takayuki Matsuura, Hirosuke Shinoara, Yasuhiro Inoue, Koji Azegami, Seiya Tsushima, Takanori Tsukamoto, Akifumi Mizuno : Erwinia isolates from the bacterial shoot blight of pear in Japan are closely related to Erwinia pyrifoliae based on phylogenetic analyses of gyrB and rpoD genes. Journal of General Plant Pathology73(No.1) , 53-58. 2007(2).
9. S. Yoshida, T. Tsukiboshi, H. Shinohara, M. Koitabashi and S. Tsushima. Inhabitation and development of Colletotrichum acutatum on asymptomatic blueberry bushes. Plant Pathology 56:871-877. 2007(10)
10. V. Jayakumar, R. Bhaskaran, Seiya Tsushima. Potential of Plant Extracts in Combination with Antagonists Treatment as Biocontrol Agent of Red Rot of Sugarcane. Can. J. Microbiol. 53:196-206. 2007(2).
11. Motoo, Koitabshi and Seiya Tsushima. Studies on biocontrol of air-borne disease by a filamentous fungus which produces antifungal volatiles. JARQ 41(4), 261-265. 2007(10).
12. Junichiro Enya, Masayuki Togawa, Taeko Takeuchi, Shigenobu Yoshida, Seiya Tsushima, Tsutomu Arie, and Takako Sakai.Biological and Phylogenetic Characterization of Fusarium oxysporum complex, which Causes Yellows on Brassica spp., and Proposal of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. rapae, A Novel Forma Specialis Pathogenic on Brassica rapa L. in Japan. Phytopathology 98:475-483. 2008 (4).
13. Sugihiro Ando, Seiya Tsushima, Shinichiro Kamachi, Ken-ichi Konagaya, Yutaka Tabei. Alternative transcription initiation of the nitrilase gene (BrNIT2) caused by infection with Plasmodiophora brassicae Woron. in Chinese cabbage (Brassica rapa L.). Plant Mol Biol 68: 557-569. 2008.

2) Patents/Others

1. M., Koitabashi. New Strategy in the indoor application of biocotrol agents. In: M., Hyakumachi and S. Tsushima (Eds), New Strategies in the Application of Biocontrol Agents and New Frontiers in Biocontrol Researches. Tokyo, pp. 56-63.