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Kawakita Lab
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A lab that explores how plant diversity arises, through the relationships between flowers and animals.
AboutAbout the lab
Plant diversity, seen through relationships between organisms.
The Kawakita Lab studies the relationships between plants and the animals that carry their pollen or eat them.
As the diversity of flowers illustrates, a large part of plant diversity has been shaped by interactions with other organisms.
The lab investigates the adaptive backgrounds against which the various traits seen in the flowers and leaves of angiosperms arose, focusing on their relationships with pollinators and herbivores.
The lab is located in the Botanical Gardens of the Graduate School of Science (Koishikawa Botanical Garden).
Key terms
- Pollinator
- Animals, such as insects, that carry pollen from flower to flower and help plants get pollinated
- Herbivore
- Animals that live by eating plant parts such as leaves and seeds
- Obligate pollination mutualism
- A relationship in which a plant and its pollinator depend on each other so much that neither can reproduce without the other
NewsLab news
Associate Professor Mochizuki received the Encouragement Award of the Botanical Society of Japan
Paper showing that the orchid Oberonia is pollinated by gall midges published in Ecology
Paper showing that pandan is pollinated by sap beetles published in Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society
A student received the Best Poster Award at MONOCOTS VII
A master's student received the Society for the Study of Species Biology Poster Award at the 55th Symposium on Species Biology
ResearchResearch themes
To understand plant diversity, it is essential to understand the diversity of interactions with other organisms. The lab studies how the traits of angiosperm flowers and leaves have been shaped, focusing on the relationships between plants and pollinators and between plants and herbivores.
*Illustrative imagePhyllanthaceae and Epicephala moths: an obligate pollination mutualism
Using the obligate pollination mutualism between Phyllanthaceae plants and Epicephala moths, which actively pollinate the plants to feed their seed-eating larvae, the lab investigates the origin of mutualism, the mechanisms that keep it stable, and its links to speciation and diversification.
*Illustrative imageDiversity of pollination modes in angiosperms
For plants with unusual flowers whose pollinating insects cannot be guessed from their appearance, the lab identifies the pollinators and examines what adaptations the flowers show for efficient pollination.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Kawakita Lab consist of faculty, project researchers, visiting research fellows, and doctoral and master's students.
- ProfessorAtsushi KawakitaPublications ↗
- Associate ProfessorKo MochizukiPublications ↗
- Project Assistant ProfessorDiego Tavares Vasques
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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: “Bunkyou Koishikawa Botanical Greenhouse 1” 京浜にけ / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Phyllanthaceae and Epicephala moths: an obligate pollination mutualism: “Male flower and fruits of Glochidion lanceolatum” M108t / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Diversity of pollination modes in angiosperms: “Aucuba japonica -p4170403” Michael Becker / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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