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Develops mostly plants cultivated with cutting-edge technology
- Development of novel varieties through
rapid and efficient phenotyping system
【Research Contents】
- Isolation of high value-added materials from over 20,000 strains of tomato mutants, the world’s largest tomato genetic resources.
- Development of high-throughput selection technology for prompt response to climate change or markets needs.
- Foundational construction of medicinal
plant genome breeding
【Research Contents】
- Deciphering 3 types of medicinal plant genome (Atractylodes lancea,Ephedra sinica Srapf, Glysyrrhiza uralensis Fischer).
- Foundational construction of DNA marker development related to chromosomal analysis and useful forms.
- Development of superior Red perilla cultivars using genomic information.
- Application of genome editing technology
to various crops by transient expression
【Research Contents】
- Application of genome editing technology to various crops using the high-yield transient expression system, “Tsukuba system”.
- Generation of various genome-edited crops without transformation.
- Development of efficient gene editing
technology for soybean
【Research Contents】
- Application of gene-editing technology to soybean without using transformation and cultivar-dependent processes.
- Development of a new soybean elite cultivar by improving the content of functional component.
- Development of breeding techniques for the
production of high-performance seaweeds
【Research Contents】
- Investigation of optimal conditions for introduction of genome editing tools into seaweed cells.
- Development of a highly efficient screening method for seaweed genome editing.
- Establishment of efficient genome
editing method in pig
【Research Contents】
- Improvement of the zygote electroporation method for efficient genome editing in pigs.
- Generation of genome edited pigs, and the phenotype analysis.
- Establishment of mutation induction
technique by neutron irradiation of plant
seeds and its quantitative evaluation
【Research Contents】
- Evaluation of neutron irradiation effects on Arabidopsis, rice, and tomato seeds
- Establishment of Neutron Beam Breeding Platform
- Scarless genome editing in plants
【Research Contents】
- Application of “Scarless Editing” a next-generation genome editing technology that enables flexible genome sequence manipulation like a typewriter, to plant cells.
Construction of tomato phenotype prediction system
- Construction of tomato
phenotype prediction system
【Research Contents】
- Collection of comprehensive genetic, phenotyping, and image datasets.
- Comprehensive high-precision extraction of knowledge information such as genetic, molecular and biological function of breeding traits and omics datasets by AI text mining technology.
- Construction of phenotype prediction system from genetic information.
- 2023.3.31 Completed research period
Develops systems to improve productivity with cutting-edge technology
- Production of high value-added
crops through labour-saving
production technology
【Research Contents】
- Collection of plant communities and breeding and growing information, and development of management systems with AI.
- Construction of environment prediction model for inside greenhouses through analysis of satellite data.
- Development of cultivation support technology with autonomous robots that coordinate with humans.
- Development of naturally-derived
materials to support crop production
【Research Contents】
- Development of harmful organism repellant with guaranteed safety (green agrichemicals), development of plant growth stimulation agents(Plant Growth Regulator,Biostimulant) and mass preparation technology through microbe production and conversion.
Accelerates social implementation of
crops created through cutting-edge technology
- Development of genome-edited crop
production in plant factories
【Research Contents】
- Creation of high-functioning, high value-added crops with genome editing technology.
- Establishment of high-level habitat control in order to stabilize functional components at a high level.
- Combining these new cultivars and environmental control technology, establishment of a high productivity system for high-functioning genome edited crops.
- Understanding and diffusion of crops
created with cutting-edge technology
【Research Contents】
- Transmission of information in order to communicate specialist informationabout crops created with cutting-edge technology such as genome editing to consumers, etc.(Creation of explanation videos , Holding of seminars ).
- Elucidation of what kind of value can be uncovered for consumers in crops created with genomic editing, etc. using knowledge from social and natural sciences.
Develops new functional food ingredients
- Development of new functional food
ingredients from rice
【Research Contents】
- Development of creative, highly-functional food ingredients that contribute to a healthy ageing society using the peptide library in rice endosperm protein digestions.
- Investigation of cultivation methods that raise protein content with high-yield rice cultivars with a view to research and development of middle chain peptides with high functionality and stable raw materials procurement.
- Development of taste modulator miraclin
as a functional food ingredient
【Research Contents】
- Miraclin is a taste modulator protein that makes acidic flavours sweet and is expected to be useful for people who need to limit carbohydrates.
- Verification of effects and food safety and development of stable production technology taking biodiversity into consideration working toward social implementation of miraclin tomatoes created through genetic modification.
- Trials of products with miraclin tomatoes as ingredients construction of value chains and promotion of commercialization.
- Rational engineering
of probiotics
【Research Contents】
- Development of safe and precise base editing technology.
- Construction of mass production technology for useful materials.
- Rational genome design of probiotics.
- Development of new functional food
materials derived from koji mold
【Research Contents】
- Focused on koji-mold biomass as an alternative protein has low environmental impacts to solve the protein shortage in the near future.
- To develop a koji mold culture method that reduces unused food wastes such as fermented lees.
- To establish an efficient large-scale production process for koji mold biomass.
Develops industrial science for useful materials
- Develops industrial science
for useful materials
【Research Contents】
- Optimization of environmental technology in plant factories.
- Construction of mass production technology for useful materials.
- Establishment of useful protein production technology with plant transient protein expression “Tsukuba system”.
