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Assistant Professor, Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Illinois, USA
Tel.: (+1) 2173334378
E-mail: amitrai9@illinois.edu
Website: https://experts.illinois.edu/en/persons/amit-rai
Google scholar: https://scholar.google.co.jp/citations?user=_PyqG7MAAAAJ&hl=ja
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Amit_Rai23
Area of expertise: Plant genome analysis; functional genomics; specialized metabolites biosynthesis; evolutionary biology; bioinformatics; metabolomics; medicinal plants
Selected Publications:
Rai, M., Rai, A., Mori, T., Nakabayashi, R., Yamamoto, M., Nakamura, M., Suzuki, H., Saito, K., and Yamazaki, M. (2021). Gene-Metabolite Network Analysis Revealed Tissue-Specific Accumulation of Therapeutic Metabolites in Mallotus japonicus. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 22: 8835.
Tsugawa, H., Rai, A., Saito, K., and Nakabayashi R. (2021). Metabolomics and complementary techniques to investigate the plant phytochemical cosmos. Nat. Pro. Rep. 38: 1729–1759
Saini, D.K., Rai, A., Devi, A., Pabbi, S., Chhabra, D., Chang, J.S., Shukla, P. (2021). A multi-objective hybrid machine learning approach-based optimization for enhanced biomass and bioactive phycobiliproteins production in Nostoc sp. CCC 403. Bioresour. Technol. 329: 124908.
Rai, A., Hirakawa, H., Nakabayashi, R., Kikuchi, S., Hayashi, K., Rai, M., Tsugawa, H,, Nakaya, T., Mori, T., Nagasaki, H., Fukushi, R., Kusuya, Y., Takahashi, H., Uchiyama, H., Toyoda, A., Hikosaka, S., Goto, E., Saito, K., and Yamazaki, M. (2021). Multi-scaffolding driven chromosome-level Ophiorrhiza genome revealed gene cluster centered evolution of camptothecin biosynthesis. Nat. Commun. 12: 405.
Rai, A., Rai, M., Kamochi, H., Mori, T., Nakabayashi, R., Nakamura, M., Suzuki, H., Saito, K., and Yamazaki, M. (2020). Multiomics-based characterization of specialized metabolites biosynthesis in Cornus officinalis. DNA Res. 27: 1-15.
Rai, A., Yamazaki, M., and Saito, K. (2019). A new era in plant functional genomics. Curr. Opin. Syst. Biol. 15: 58-67.
Shimizu, Y., Rai, A., Okawa, Y., Tomatsu, H., Sato, M., Kera, K., Suzuki, H., Saito, K., and Yamazaki, M. (2019). Metabolic diversification of nitrogen-containing metabolites by expression of a heterologous lysine decarboxylase gene in Arabidopsis. Plant J. 100: 505-521
Tsugawa, H., Nakabayashi, R., Mori, T., Yamada, Y., Takahashi, M., Rai, A., Sugiyama, R., Yamamoto, H., Nakaya, T., Yamazaki, M., et al. (2019). Computational metabolomics to characterize metabolites in stable isotope- labelled organisms. Nat. Methods. 16: 295-298.
Rai, M., Rai, A., Kawano, N., Yoshimatsu, K., Takahashi, H., Suzuki, H., Kawahara, N., Saito, K., and Yamazaki, M. (2017). De Novo RNA sequencing and expression analysis of Aconitum carmichaelli to analyze key genes involved in the biosynthesis of diterpene alkaloids. Molecules. 22: 2155
Rai, A., Saito, K., and Yamazaki, M. (2017). Integrated omics analysis of specialized metabolism in medicinal plants. Plant J. 90(4): 764-787.
Udomsom, N., Rai, A., Suzuki, H., Okuyama, J., Imai, R., Mori, T., Nakabayashi, R., Saito, K., and Yamazaki, M. (2016). Function of AP2/ERF transcription factors Involved in the regulation of specialized metabolism in Ophiorrhiza pumila revealed by transcriptomics and metabolomics. Front. Plant Sci. 7: 1861
Rai, A., Nakamura, M., Takahashi, H., Suzuki, H., Saito, K., and Yamazaki, M. (2016). De novo assembly and characterization of Swertia japonica transcriptome for the identification of candidate genes involved in the biosynthesis of therapeutic metabolites. Plant Cell Rep. 35(10): 2091-2111
Rai, A., Umashankar, S., Megha, Kiat, L.B., Johanan, A.S.B., and Swarup, S. (2016). Coordinate regulation of metabolite glycosylation and stress hormone biosynthesis by TT8 in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol. 171: 2499-515
Rai, A., Yamazaki, M., Takahashi, H., Nakamura, M., Kojoma, M., Suzuki, H., and Saito, K. (2016). RNA-seq transcriptome analysis of Panax japonicus, and its comparison with other Panax species to identify potential genes involved in the saponins biosynthesis. Front. Plant Sci. 7: 481
Zhang, W.C., Chang, N.S., Yang, H., Rai, A. et.al. (2012). Glycine decarboxylase activity drives non-small cell lung cancer tumor-initiating cells and tumorigenesis. Cell. 148: 259-272.
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