Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology
Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo
LABORATORY OF PLANT BREEDING & GENETICS
富山県の農業試験場との共同研究
2023.10 田無のフィールドにて撮影
All crops are the result of the selection of easy-to-cultivate, stable-yielding, and tasty strains from native plants and strains that had been "harvested" from their fruits in order to obtain a stable supply of food for humans who started farming about 10,000 years ago. This initial process is called domestication, and subsequent improvements are called breeding.
We study the biology of crop breeding using molecular genetic and genomic methods, using rice, the staple food of the Japanese, as our main research material.
NEWS
2023.6 The research by Nishiyama et al. was published in BMC Genomics (High genome heterozygosity revealed vegetative propagation over the sea in Moso bamboo )
2023.6 The research by Cui et al. was published in Nature Communications (Fertilization controls tiller numbers via transcriptional regulation of a MAX1-like gene in rice cultivation )
2021.12. The project by graduates Ms. Honda, Dr. Hibara, and Dr. Itoh, in collaboration with Dr. Keizuka of Tohoku University and Dr. Naramoto of Hokkaido University, was accepted in PCP (NARROW AND DWARF LEAF 1, the Orthologue of Arabidopsis ENHANCER OF SHOOT REGENERATION1/DORNRÖSCHEN, Mediates Leaf Development and Maintenance of the Shoot Apical Meristem in Oryza sativa L)
2021.11 Yoshioka(M2) et al. was accepted (Dec: Published) in Frontiers in Plant Science (Real-time monitoring of key gene products involved in rice photoperiodic flowering)
2021.11 Dr. Mimura has been appointed as an assistant professor.
2021.9 The research by Asanga(D3) et al. was published in PCP (High Ambient Temperatures Inhibit Ghd7-Mediated Flowering Repression in Rice)
2021.3 The research by Miya(D2) et al. was published in BMC Genomics (Genome-wide analysis of spatiotemporal expression patterns during rice leaf development)
Kwangtung bamboo
Rice leaf epidermis (Fluorescence image)
Rice shoot apex
(X-ray CT )
Rice shoot apex
(X-ray CT)
Lab of Plant Breeding and Genetics
〒113-8657 東京都文京区弥生1-1-1 東京大学 農学部1号館220
〒113-8657, Building 1 #220, Department of Agriculture, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1, Yayoi, Bunkyo, Tokyo
Tel: 03-5841-5064