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Environmental Molecular Biology Lab
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A lab that decodes the functions of plants and other organisms from their genes and applies them to environmental conservation.
AboutAbout the lab
Irreplaceable Earth, precious life
The lab seeks to understand, at the gene level, the mechanisms of living organisms that protect the global environment.
It aims to develop new methods of environmental management that make use of the diverse biological functions found in nature.
Assistant Professor Washio studies how plant hormones support growth in plants such as rice.
Key terms
- Plant hormone
- A substance made within plants that regulates germination, growth, flowering, and other processes in very small amounts.
- Gibberellin
- A type of plant hormone that promotes plant growth, with effects such as stem elongation.
- Speciation
- The process by which a new, separate species arises from a single species.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab aims to understand the phenomena caused by nature and the essence of the organisms that safeguard it, so that people and the Earth can coexist. It investigates biological functions in nature starting from genes and explores ways to apply them to environmental conservation.
*Illustrative imageGenetic Analysis of Special Biological Functions
The lab performs comprehensive genetic analysis of special biological functions nurtured in nature, exploring their evolutionary significance in speciation and their usefulness.
*Illustrative imageHormones That Promote Plant Growth
The lab focuses on gibberellin, a plant hormone that promotes plant growth, and investigates the network this hormone is involved in, in order to understand the molecular mechanisms that support plant growth. Through collaborative research within the Faculty, it also works on the metabolism of environmental microorganisms and marine organisms.
MembersFaculty
- Assistant ProfessorKenji Washio
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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: “Reissetzlinge vor der Aussaat” Myrmux / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Genetic Analysis of Special Biological Functions: “CSIRO ScienceImage 2465 Sequencing DNA” Health Sciences and Nutrition, CSIRO / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Hormones That Promote Plant Growth: “Gibberellic-acid-from-xtal-3D-bs-17” Ben Mills / Public domain (cropped)
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