International agricultural research platform for sustainable food production

Creating an international innovation hub for engineering biology

Questioning cities that create wealth disparities

Aiming to feed future generations without famine

Focusing on issues facing people without transportation access from minority perspectives

Why are wages not rising in Japan?

It takes three: the genetic mutations that made rice cultivation possible

System for controlling gene expression in Chinese cabbage revealed

Illuminating the mechanism behind how plants regulate starch synthesis

Toxin in potatoes evolved from a bitter-tasting compound in tomatoes

Pesticides can protect crops from hydrophobic pollutants

Solving the riddle of strigolactone biosynthesis in plants

Gene expression regulation in Chinese cabbage illuminated

Research team illuminates system by which plants have formed secondary buds since ancient times

Flowering mechanism in Brassica rapa leafy vegetables illuminated

Researchers discover the ‘KARAPPO’ gene and illuminate how plants reproduce through cloning

The mechanism that controls Chinese cabbage flowering

Why photosynthesis works better for some plants than others

Drying without dying

The secret behind witchweed’s devastating ability to steal nutrients from crops

Plant peptide helps roots to branch out in the right places

How rice plants cope with flooding

Evolution of the fungus that is devastating wheat crops

How plants prevent oxidative stress

Mechanism behind the electric charges generated by photosynthesis

Mechanism for photosynthesis already existed in primeval microbe

DNA methylation affects superiority of hybrid plants

How plants grow new lateral roots

Four newly-identified genes could improve rice

Mechanism behind plant withering clarified