Research

Professor Midori Tuda and her research group have discovered that co-infection with Wolbachia enables insect parents to produce larger, fitter sons under high temperature and elevated CO₂ stress.

Assistant Professor TAKAHASHI Daiki and his research team have discovered a new plant species in the World Natural Heritage area in northern Okinawa Island

Professor MIZOUE Nobuya and Associate Professor OTA Tetsuji identified demands and expectations of experts involved in Japan's forest policy from various perspectives

Professor HIRADATE Syuntaro and his research group have elucidated that repeated cycles of drying and rewetting substantially increase soil CO₂ release

Professor KUME Atsushi and his research group have revealed that street trees also become healthier as a result of air pollution control measures

Professor ANAI Toyoaki and his research team have identified a gene conferring resistance to bacterial pustule in soybeans

Harnessing microwave flow reaction to convert biomass into useful sugars

Professor KUME Atsushi and his research group have discovered that the color of the sky as perceived by plants changes daily

Professor KOKITA Tomoyuki and his research team have, for the first time, elucidated hidden population-specific adaptations in a marine biological resource found around the coastal waters of Japan.

MATSUI Yuki and his research team discovered two new moth species that likely evolved uniquely in the Ogasawara Islands!