Goal 2: Zero hunger

Projects

2024.06.13
Agriculture and Environment

International agricultural research platform for sustainable food production

Projects

2024.05.20
Engineering sciences

Creating an international innovation hub for engineering biology

Press releases

2023.08.25
Agriculture and Environment

The Discovery of Differences in Gene Expression Between White Rust Resistant and Susceptible Cultivars in Brassica rapa L

Interviews

2023.04.14
Agriculture and Environment

Aiming to feed future generations without famine

Press releases

2022.07.01
Agriculture and Environment

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

Press releases

2021.10.01
Agriculture and Environment

System for controlling gene expression in Chinese cabbage revealed

Press releases

2021.06.22
Agriculture and Environment

Illuminating the mechanism behind how plants regulate starch synthesis

Press releases

2021.03.24
Agriculture and Environment

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

Press releases

2020.07.28
Agriculture and Environment

Pesticides can protect crops from hydrophobic pollutants

Press releases

2020.01.28
Agriculture and Environment

Solving the riddle of strigolactone biosynthesis in plants

Press releases

2019.12.05
Agriculture and Environment

Gene expression regulation in Chinese cabbage illuminated

Press releases

2019.11.13
Agriculture and Environment

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

Press releases

2019.11.08
Agriculture and Environment

Flowering mechanism in Brassica rapa leafy vegetables illuminated

Press releases

2019.10.21
Agriculture and Environment

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

Press releases

2019.08.20
Agriculture and Environment

The mechanism that controls Chinese cabbage flowering

Press releases

2019.03.26
Agriculture and Environment

Why photosynthesis works better for some plants than others

Press releases

2019.03.01
Agriculture and Environment

Drying without dying

Press releases

2019.02.26
Agriculture and Environment

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

Press releases

2019.01.18
Biological sciences

Plant peptide helps roots to branch out in the right places

Press releases

2018.07.13
Agriculture and Environment

How rice plants cope with flooding

Press releases

2017.07.18
Agriculture and Environment

Evolution of the fungus that is devastating wheat crops

Press releases

2017.06.07
Agriculture and Environment

How plants prevent oxidative stress

Press releases

2017.04.06
Chemistry

Mechanism behind the electric charges generated by photosynthesis

Press releases

2017.01.31
Agriculture and Environment

Mechanism for photosynthesis already existed in primeval microbe

Press releases

2016.10.27
Agriculture and Environment

DNA methylation affects superiority of hybrid plants

Press releases

2016.09.26
Biological sciences

How plants grow new lateral roots

Press releases

2016.06.24
Agriculture and Environment

Four newly-identified genes could improve rice

Press releases

2016.04.20
Agriculture and Environment

Mechanism behind plant withering clarified

Press releases

2016.03.09
Agriculture and Environment

Gene protects against toxic byproducts of photosynthesis, helping plants to "breathe"