List of articles on plants

Nagoya University, Achievement that will be a big step toward agriculture that "uses air as fertilizer"

 The research group of Professor Yuichi Fujita of the Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University succeeded in working nitrogen-fixing enzymes in photosynthetic organisms for the first time.

Why are stomata surrounded by a pair of cells? Kyushu University elucidates through interdisciplinary research

 A collaborative research group led by Professor Takeshi Miura of the Graduate School of Medicine, Kyushu University, said that the cells that form the pores of a plant divide correctly only once […].

Chiba University establishes cultivation base for medicinal plants and functional plants, and starts empirical research with Fujitsu

 The research group of Associate Professor Hitoshi Watanabe of the Center for Environmental Health Field Science, Chiba University has set up a cultivation base for seedlings of medicinal and functional plants […]

Discovered a mobile plant peptide that enhances drought stress tolerance

 Due to the increase in the world population and economic growth, it is predicted that by 2050, food production will need to be increased by more than 1.6 times the current level.Stable crops […]

Discovered that the branch size at the end has a lognormal distribution from the branch structure of the tree Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, etc.

Assistant Professor Kohei Koyama of the Environmental Agriculture Research Division of Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, through joint research with Chuo University and Kyoto University, has changed the branch structure of the tree to the size of the end branch […].

For the first time tracking the process of Sasa growing densely in the forest Yamagata University and Akita Prefectural University, etc.

 In the research group led by Professor Akifumi Makita of the Faculty of Bioresources, Akita Prefectural University and Associate Professor Hiroshi Tomimatsu of the Faculty of Science, Yamagata University, Chishimazasa is a forest […].

Flower "Kuroyoran" whose name has been misunderstood for decades, Kobe University and Kumamoto University

 Kenji Suetsugu, Specially Appointed Lecturer, Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, Yuichi Fukunaga, a plant researcher in the field, Tomoe Shimaoka, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kumamoto University […]

Elucidation of the origin of genes that make flowers 

 A joint research group of the Institute of Basic Biology, Kanazawa University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and Miyagi University has helped to make a flower called the MADS-box gene […].

Hokkaido University elucidates the mechanism by which the roots of broken plants regenerate

The group of Associate Professor Masaaki Watabiki of Hokkaido University Graduate School of Science is a plant hormone necessary for plant growth and shaping when cutting the roots of plants. […]

Elucidation of the mechanism by which the shape and size of plant leaves are determined by "diffusion"

 A research group led by Kensuke Kawade, a specially appointed associate professor at the National Institute for Basic Biology, found that the protein "AN3" is concentrated in plant leaves due to the physical phenomenon of diffusion […].