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Arimura Lab
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The lab explores how plants and insects recognize other organisms.
AboutAbout the lab
Conversations between living things, mediated by plant scents
The Arimura Lab studies how plants and insects recognize other organisms, combining genetic engineering and ecology.
It investigates how the scents (odors) released when pest insects chew on plants mediate communication between plants and insects, and among plants.
The lab is working to elucidate these mechanisms and to apply such ecosystem systems to agricultural biotechnology.
Key terms
- Genetic engineering
- Technology for investigating or manipulating the genes of living things in order to uncover how they function
- Ecology
- The field that studies the relationships among living things, and between living things and their environment
- Defense mechanisms
- Mechanisms that plants have to protect themselves from pests and diseases
NewsLab news
A paper on plant chitin responses, from joint research with Meiji University, was published in Plant and Cell Physiology
A paper on submergence responses in an amphibious plant, from joint research with Kyoto Sangyo University, was published in New Phytologist
A master's student received the Matsuo Jin Award at the Plant Chemistry Symposium
A master's student received the Excellent Presentation Award at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Chemical Regulation of Plants
A paper on a next-generation organic tomato cultivation system using peppermint was published in an aromatherapy academic journal
ResearchResearch themes
The lab aims to clarify how plants and insects recognize other organisms. Examples of its research introduced include "talking plants" that communicate through plant scents, the development of plant-derived supplements that contribute to health, and plant defense mechanisms.
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The Arimura Lab consists of faculty members and master's and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorGenichiro Arimura
- Assistant ProfessorTakuya Uemura
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