2025
Genetic variation and genome-wide association analysis of nitrogen use efficiency-related traits under combined heat and nitrogen-deficient stress in an Aegilops tauschii-derived wheat population.
Emam, A.I.I.; Tahir, I.S.A.; Kamal, N.M.; Gorafi, Y.S.A.; Tsujimoto, H.; Ishii, T. Front. Plant Sci. 16:1621916. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2025.1621916
Enriched grain minerals in Aegilops tauschii-derived common wheat population under heat-stress environments.
Emam, A.I.I., Kamal, N.M., Gorafi, Y.S.A.; Tahir, I.S.A.; Balla, M.Y.; Tsujimoto H.; Ishii T. Scientific Reports, 15: 5624. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-89144-4.
A Multiple Synthetic Derivatives population for mining Aegilops tauschii traits and genes in a background of common wheat.
Gorafi, Y.S.A.; Tahir, I.S.A.; Tsujimoto, H. Journal of Plant Registrations. 19, e20424. https://doi.org/10.1002/plr2.20424
Intraspecific variation for heat stress tolerance in wild emmer-derived durum wheat populations.
Balla, M.Y.; Kamal, N.M.; Tahir, I.S.A.; Gorafi, Y.S.A.; Abdalla, M.G.A.; Tsujimoto H. Front. Plant Sci. 16:1523562. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2025.1523562
2024
Key Factors Influencing the Adoption of Improved Wheat Production Technologies in the Irrigated, Heat-Prone, Arid Environments of Sudan.
Ibrahim, A.M.M.; Hassan, A.O.; Idris, A.A.M.; Gorafi, Y.S.A.; Tsujimoto, H.; Tahir, I.S.A. Sustainability 2024, 16, 6600. https://doi.org/10.3390/su16156600
Heat Stress-Tolerant Quantitative Trait Loci Identified Using Backcrossed Recombinant Inbred Lines Derived from Intra-Specifically Diverse Aegilops tauschii Accessions
Ahmed, M.I.Y.; Kamal, N.M.; Gorafi, Y.S.A.; Abdalla, M.G.A.; Tahir, I.S.A.; Tsujimoto, H. 2024. Plants, 13, 347. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13030347
Characterization of the Energy Balance of Wheat Grown under Irrigation in the Hot, Arid Environment of Sudan
Mohammed, A.A.A.; Tsubo, M.; Kurosaki, Y.; Ibaraki, Y. Atmosphere 2024, 15, 18. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos15010018
2023
Ahmed MIY, Gorafi YSA, Kamal NM, Balla MY, Tahir ISA, Zheng L, Kawakami N and Tsujimoto H. Front. Plant Sci. 14:1270925. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1270925
Micrometeorological Comparison of Canopy Temperature between Two Wheat Cultivars Grown under Irrigation in a Hot Environment in Sudan.
Mohammed AAA, Tsubo M, Ma S, Kurosaki Y, Ibaraki Y, Tahir ISA, Gorafi YSA, Idris AAM, Tsujimoto H. Agronomy. 2023; 13(12):3032. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy13123032
High-temperature indicators for capturing the impacts of heat stress on yield: lessons learned from irrigated wheat in the hot and dry environment of Sudan.
Iizumi T., Tsubo M., Maruyama A., Tahir I.S.A., Kurosaki Y., Tsujimoto H. 2023. Climate Research. 89:85-98. https://doi.org/10.3354/cr01709
2022
Genome-wide association study reveals distinct genetic associations related to leaf hair density in two lineages of wheat-wild relative Aegilops tauschii.
Mahjoob, M.M.M., Kamal, N.M., Gorafi, Y.S.A., Tsujimoto, H. 2022. Scientific Reports. 12, 17486. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-21713-3
Identification of Glu-D1 alleles and novel marker-trait associations for flour quality and grain yield traits under heat-stress environments in wheat lines derived from diverse accessions of Aegilops tauschii.
Mohamed, I.E.S.; Kamal, N.M.; Mustafa, H.M.; Abdalla, M.G.A.; Elhashimi, A.M.A.; Gorafi, Y.S.A.; Tahir, I.S.A.; Tsujimoto, H.; Tanaka, H. 2022. International Journal of Molecular Science, 23, 12034. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms231912034
Exploiting wild emmer wheat diversity to improve wheat A and B genomes in breeding for heat stress adaptation.
Balla M.Y., Gorafi Y.S.A., Kamal N.M., Abdalla M.G.A., Tahir I.S.A. and Tsujimoto H. 2022. Frontiers in Plant Science. 13:895742. doi:10.3389/fpls.2022.895742.
Harnessing the diversity of wild emmer wheat for genetic improvement of durum wheat.
Balla, M.Y., Gorafi, Y.S.A., Kamal, N.M., Abdalla M. G. A., Tahir I. S. A., Tsujimoto H. 2022. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-022-04062-7
Enhancing Wheat Flour Quality Through Introgression of High-Molecular-Weight Glutenin Subunits from Aegilops tauschii Accessions.
Mohamed I.E.S., Oe H., Kamal N.M., Mustafa H.M., Gorafi Y.S.A., Tahir I.S.A., Tsujimoto H. and Tanaka H. 2022. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 6:887795. doi:10.3389/fsufs.2022.887795
Probing Differential Metabolome Responses among Wheat Genotypes to Heat Stress Using Fourier Transform Infrared-Based Chemical Fingerprinting.
Osman S.O.M., Saad A.S.I., Tadano S., Takeda Y., Yamasaki Y., Tahir I.S.A., Tsujimoto H., Akashi K. 2022. Agriculture 12:753. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture12060753
Chemical Fingerprinting of Heat Stress Responses in the Leaves of Common Wheat by Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy.
Osman, S.O.M., Saad, A.S.I., Tadano, S., Takeda, Y., Konaka, T., Yamasaki, Y., Tahir, I.S.A., Tsujimoto, H., Akashi, K. 2022. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23: 2842. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms23052842
8. Evaluation of WRF Cumulus Parameterization Schemes for the Hot Climate of Sudan Emphasizing Crop Growing Seasons.
Musa, Abuelgasim I. I., Mitsuru Tsubo, Shaoxiu Ma, Yasunori Kurosaki, Yasuomi Ibaraki, and Imad-Eldin A. Ali-Babiker. 2022. Atmosphere 13 (4): 572. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos13040572
2021
Genomic analysis for heat and combined heat-drought resilience in bread wheat under field conditions
Itam, M.O., Mega, R., Gorafi, Y.S.A., Yamasaki, Y., Tahir, I.S.A., Akashi, K., Tsujimoto, H. 2021. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. doi: 10.1007/s00122-021-03969-x.
Traits to Differentiate Lineages and Subspecies of Aegilops tauschii, the D Genome Progenitor Species of Bread Wheat
Mahjoob, M.M.M.; Chen, T.-S.; Gorafi, Y.S.A.; Yamasaki, Y.;Kamal, N.M.; Abdelrahman, M.; Iwata, H.; Matsuoka, Y.; Tahir, I.S.A.; Tsujimoto, H. 2021. Diversity, 13: 217. https://doi.org/10.3390/d13050217
Novel Loci for Kernel Hardness Appeared as a Response to Heat and Combined Heat-Drought Conditions in Wheat Harboring Aegilops tauschii Diversity
Elhadi, G.M.I.; Kamal, N.M.; Gorafi, Y.S.A.; Yamasaki, Y.; Ban, Y.; Kato, K.; Tahir, I.S.A.; Ishii, T.; Tanaka, H.; Tsujimoto, H. 2021. Agronomy, 11: 1061. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy11061061
Relationship of irrigated wheat yield with temperature in hot environments of Sudan.
Musa, A.I.I., Tsubo, M., Ali-Babiker, IE.A. Iizumi, T., Kurosaki Y., Ibaraki Y. El‑Hag, F.M. A., Tahir, I.S.A., Tsujimoto, H. 2021. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-021-03690-1
Genetic variation in drought resilience-related traits among wheat multiple synthetic derivative lines: insights for climate resilience breeding.
Itam, M. O., Gorafi, Y. S. A., Tahir, I. S. A. and Tsujimoto, H. 2021. Breeding Science. doi: 10.1270/jsbbs.20162.
Genome-Wide Association Study of Morpho-Physiological Traits in Aegilops tauschii to Broaden Wheat Genetic Diversity.
Mahjoob, M.M.M.; Gorafi, Y.S.A.; Kamal, N.M.; Yamasaki, Y.; Tahir, I.S.A.; Matsuoka, Y.; Tsujimoto, H. 2021. Plants. 10: 211. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10020211
Expression of seed storage proteins responsible for maintaining kernel traits and wheat flour quality in common wheat under heat stress conditions
Hiroyuki Tanaka, Yasir S A Gorafi, Fujita M, Sasaki H, Izzat S A Tahir & Hisashi Tsujimoto. Breeding Science
Gamila M I Elhadi, Nasrein M Kamal, Yasir S A Gorafi, Yuji Yamasaki, Kanenori Takata, Izzat S A Tahir, Michel O Itam, Hiroyuki Tanaka & Hisashi Tsujimoto
International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Toshichika Iizumi, Imad-Eldin A A Babiker, Mitsuru Tsubo, Izzat S A Tahir, Yasunori Kurosaki, Wonsik Kim, Yasir S A Gorafi, Amani A M Idris & Hisashi Tsujimoto. Nature Food
2020
Metabolic and physiological responses to progressive drought stress in bread wheat
Michael Itam, Ryosuke Mega , Shota Tadano, Mostafa Abdelrahman, Sachiko Matsunaga, Yuji Yamasaki, Kinya Akashi & Hisashi Tsujimoto
Scientific Reports
Michael Itam, Mostafa Abdelrahman, Yuji Yamasaki, Ryosuke Mega, Yasir Gorafi, Kinya Akashi & Hisashi Tsujimoto
Agronomy
2019
Nasrein M Kamal, Yasir S A Gorfai, Mustafa Abdelrahman, Eltayed Abdellatef & Hisashi Tsujimoto
International Journal of Molecular Sciences