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Plant Frontier Research Center
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A university-wide shared-use plant science research center that aims to contribute to solving food and environmental problems.
AboutAbout the lab
Comprehensive plant science, centered on rice
The Plant Frontier Research Center is a university-wide shared-use facility established as a base for comprehensive research, development, and demonstration in plant science, with the aim of contributing to solving food and environmental problems.
The center conducts comprehensive research and applied development on useful plants, especially rice, a cereal crop, covering basic research, breeding, control of cultivation environments, distribution economics, and international expansion.
The center is divided into the following divisions: Bioresource Management and Development, Fundamental Plant Research, Plant Molecular Design, Environmental Measurement and Control, Agribusiness, and Frontier.
The information on the center's website dates from around 2020.
Key terms
- Genetic resources
- Biological materials, such as plant lines and varieties, that can be used for breeding and other purposes
- Genome editing
- A technology for rewriting targeted locations in an organism's genetic information (genome)
- Smart agriculture
- Farming that uses information technologies such as sensors and AI to monitor crop growth and weather
ResearchResearch themes
As a base for comprehensive research, development, and demonstration in plant science, the center aims to contribute to solving food and environmental problems. Centered on useful plants, especially rice, a cereal crop, it studies everything from basic research to breeding, control of cultivation environments, distribution economics, and international expansion.
*Illustrative imageManaging genetic resources of rice and morning glory
In cooperation with the National BioResource Project, the center manages, evaluates, and makes use of genetic resources of rice and morning glory. It also supports their transfer outside the university and promotes joint research.
*Illustrative imageBasic research on plants that adapt to their environment
The center aims to establish basic technologies for developing plants that adapt to conditions such as elevated CO2 and global warming (drought). It also works on extracting useful agricultural traits and applying them to new varieties, and on an integrated understanding and use of plants, including traits shared across plant species and their diversity.
*Illustrative imageBreeding by genome editing
The center develops genome engineering technologies such as genome editing, and uses these new breeding methods to improve plant varieties.
*Illustrative imageSmart agriculture and growth simulation
The center works on smart agriculture that focuses on crop growth conditions and weather. It also conducts simulations such as AI-based growth models, and research on soil environmental microbes.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorTakahiko Kubo
- Associate ProfessorYoshiyuki Yamagata
- Associate ProfessorEiji Nitasaka
- LecturerKensuke Kusumi
- Assistant ProfessorSatona Kadota
- ProfessorTakahiro Nakamura
- Associate ProfessorTomohiko Kazama
- ProfessorTakashi Okayasu
- Assistant ProfessorKoji Noshita
- ProfessorMasahiro Moritaka
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Rice research fields” Amrut Morade / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Managing genetic resources of rice and morning glory: “Morning Glory Flowers 15” Yokoyama, Masana, 1833–1908 (author)Hattori, Sessai, 1807–? (artist) / Public domain (cropped)
- Basic research on plants that adapt to their environment: “Arabidopsis thaliana kz07” Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Breeding by genome editing: “CRISPR-Cas9 Editing of the Genome ( )” National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Smart agriculture and growth simulation: “Secretary Perdue at Till Farm to discuss Broadband Connectivity (20191022-OSEC-LSC-1747)” USDAgov / Public domain (cropped)
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- Related lab (Experimental Organism Environment Control Lab): “Tomato cultivation in France (3)” Mouh2jijel / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Genetic Resources Development Research Lab): “Bombyx mori caterpillar tagged2” B kimmel / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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そらみみ / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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