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Tropical Bioresources Lab
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The lab studies the cultivation and management of sago palm and the adaptation of rice to its environment.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring sustainable food production through sago palm and rice.
The Tropical Bioresources Lab conducts research aimed at sustainable food production, focusing on sago palm, which grows wild in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific, and on crops such as rice.
Sago palm is a palm that adapts to nutrient-poor land, acidic soils, and areas around brackish water, where growing crops is difficult.
In its countries of origin, it is used as a staple food and as a food ingredient.
The lab works on developing techniques for stable cultivation and management of sago palm.
In rice, it investigates the structure and function of root systems that can adapt to stress in the soil environment.
Key terms
- Sago palm
- A palm that grows wild in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific. A single trunk stores about 300 kg of starch.
- Root system
- The overall structure of a plant's roots. Both its external form and its internal tissues change in response to changes in the soil environment.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab believes that, as climate change and the depletion of underground resources become more serious, it is important to produce food sustainably and to reduce losses of harvested biomass. To this end, it is developing cultivation and management techniques for sago palm and studying environmental stress adaptation and root systems in rice.
Stable cultivation and management of sago palm
The lab studies the mechanisms by which sago palm, which grows wild in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific, adapts to salt-affected and acidic soils. It also conducts follow-up surveys of plant growth in the field and is developing techniques for stable cultivation and management.
*Illustrative imageStress adaptation in rice and Vigna species
The lab studies rice adaptability to environmental stress, improvement of the efficiency of fertilizer use in production, and optimization of production costs while taking eating quality into account. It also works on salt and waterlogging tolerance in Vigna species and on applying low-temperature plasma technology to agricultural production.
*Illustrative imageRoot systems and stress adaptation in rice
Focusing mainly on rice, the lab works to clarify the structure and physiological functions of root systems that adapt to soil environment stresses such as drought and nitrogen deficiency and can absorb nutrients and water efficiently. It is also developing methods for evaluating root system traits, from hydroponic to soil culture.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorHiroshi Ehara
- Assistant ProfessorMana Nakata
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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: “Young rice seedlings in muddy rice field, Indonesia” Undeka 11 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Stress adaptation in rice and Vigna species: “Paddy crop near Malkapuram, Eluru” iMahesh / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Root systems and stress adaptation in rice: “Nahaufnahme von Reissetzlingen vor der Aussaat” Myrmux / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (生物遺伝情報): “Blond and green rice fields” Basile Morin / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (実践アジア開発): “Rural Cambodia” Peter Beardsley from Kittery, ME, USA / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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