Plants

Projects

2024.06.13
Agriculture and Environment

International agricultural research platform for sustainable food production

Press releases

2024.05.09
Biological sciences

New record holder for smallest dispersers of ingested seeds: Woodlice

Features

2024.03.05
Biological sciences

Recreate development in a petri dish to understand how plants live

Press releases

2024.03.01
Biological sciences

A new plant’s name that tells a story

Press releases

2024.02.20
Biological sciences

Pollinator's death trap turns into nursery

Press releases

2023.10.18
Biological sciences

Orchid without bumblebee on island finds wasp, loses self

Press releases

2023.08.24
Biological sciences

Fungi-eating plants and flies team up for reproduction

Interviews

2023.04.14
Agriculture and Environment

Aiming to feed future generations without famine

Press releases

2023.03.17
Biological sciences

An elegant new orchid hiding in plain sight

Press releases

2023.03.10
Biological sciences

Leaf-like photosynthesis discovered in the roots of a leafless orchid

Press releases

2023.02.28
Biological sciences

The rediscovery of an ethereal fairy lantern brightly illuminates their mysterious past

Press releases

2023.01.24
Biological sciences

New discovery: Endangered Amami rabbit disperses seeds for non-photosynthetic plant

Press releases

2022.12.26
Biological sciences

Ethereal color variant of mysterious plant is actually a new species

Press releases

2022.07.29
Biological sciences

Orchid helps insect get a grip

Press releases

2022.07.25
Biological sciences

Arisaema urashima’s ‘fishing rod’ reels in its primary pollinator

Interviews

2022.01.13
Biological sciences

Mysterious plants and multi-faceted symbioses

Press releases

2021.09.06
Agriculture and Environment

Environmental monitoring of organic pollutants using plants

Press releases

2021.06.22
Agriculture and Environment

Illuminating the mechanism behind how plants regulate starch synthesis

Press releases

2021.06.10
Biological sciences

A new mechanism behind continuous stem cell activity in plants

Press releases

2020.09.15
Agriculture and Environment

Successful improvement of the catalytic activity of photosynthetic CO2 fixing enzyme Rubisco

Press releases

2020.08.21
Biological sciences

What kind of animal transports the seeds of the world's smallest fruit-bearing plants?

Press releases

2020.08.11
Biological sciences

An ancient association?

Press releases

2020.01.24
Biological sciences

How old are they? Some non-photosynthetic orchids consist of dead wood

Press releases

2019.11.19
Biological sciences

New species of seaweed uncovered by genetic analyses

Press releases

2019.11.13
Agriculture and Environment

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

Press releases

2019.10.21
Agriculture and Environment

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

Press releases

2019.08.02
Biological sciences

Discovery of non-blooming orchid on Japanese subtropical islands

Press releases

2019.06.19
Agriculture and Environment

Electrons take alternative route to prevent plant stress

Press releases

2019.05.01
Biological sciences

Close relatives can coexist

Press releases

2019.03.01
Agriculture and Environment

Drying without dying