Selected Publications:

• Dent RM, Haglund CM, Chin BL, Kobayashi MC, Niyogi KK (2005). Functional genomics of eukaryotic photosynthesis using insertional mutagenesis of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Plant Physiol 137: 545–556.
• McCarthy SS, Kobayashi MC, Niyogi KK (2004). White mutants of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii are defective in phytoene synthase. Genetics 168: 1249–1257.
• Kobayashi, M., J-Z. Lin, J. Davis, L. Francis and M. T. Clegg. 1998. Quantitative analysis of avocado outcrossing and yield in California using RAPD markers. Scientia Horticulturae. 86(2). 2 October, 2000. 135-149.
• Davis, J, D. Henderson, M. Kobayashi, M.T. Clegg, M.T. Clegg. 1998. Genealogical relationships among cultivated avocado as revealed through RFLP analyses. Journal of Heredity 89:319.
• Gallie, D.R. and M. Kobayashi. 1993. The role of the 3’-untranslated region of non-polyadenylated plant viral mRNAs in regulation translational efficiency. Gene 142:159.
  
• Leathers, V., R. Tanquay, M. Kobayashi and D.R. Gallie. 1993. Mutational analysis of phylogentically conserved RNA psuedoknots that regulate translational efficiency. Molecular and Cellular Biology 13:5331.
  
• Crawford, D.J., J.D. Palmer and M. Kobayashi. 1991. Chloroplast DNA restriction site variation, phylogenetic relationships, and character evolution among sections of North American Coreopsis (Asteraceae). Systematic Botany 16:211.
  
• Crawford, D.J., J.D. Palmer and M. Kobayashi. 1991. Chloroplast DNA restrictions site variation and the evolution of the annual habit in North American Coreopsis (Asteraceae). In: D.E. Soltis, P.S. Soltis and J.J. Doyle, eds. “Molecular Systematics in Plants.” Sterling, VA: World Composition Services, pp. 280-294.
  
• Crawford, D.J., J.D. Palmer and M. Kobayashi. 1990. Chloroplast DNA restriction site variation and the phylogeny of Coreopsis section Coreopsis (Asteraceae). Amer. J. Bot. 77: 552.