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【JIRCAS Mail Magazine No.6 (July 2017)】
Published by Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences (JIRCAS)
https://www.jircas.go.jp/en
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■Latest topics
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●President of the Republic of Guinea visits JIRCAS

https://www.jircas.go.jp/en/reports/2017/r20170620

●The Wheat Initiative's Expert Working Group and Scientific Board Meeting

https://www.jircas.go.jp/en/program/program_d/blog/20170605

●JIRCAS attends First Partners Meeting of the Initiative for Food and Nutrition Security in Africa (IFNA)

https://www.jircas.go.jp/en/program/program_d/blog/20170720

●Participation at the 26th World Outlook Conference

https://www.jircas.go.jp/en/program/program_d/blog/20170725

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■Events, seminars, workshops, and other information
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●JIRCAS-NARO International Symposium on Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Mitigation

https://www.jircas.go.jp/en/symposium/2017/e20170831

date:August 31,2017
place:Tsukuba International Congress Center (Epochal Tsukuba),
Convention Hall 200 (2-20-3 Takezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0032, Japan)
price:free
Registration: 9:00

●JIRCAS International Symposium 2017 "Promoting an active role for female researchers in agriculture, food, and nutrition research"

https://www.jircas.go.jp/en/event/2017/intl_symp

date:November 2,2017
place:U Thant International Hall, UNU (5-53-70, Jingu-mae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo)
price:free

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■Introduction of new technologies and research highlights
【Research Highlights (International agriculture, forestry and fisheries research information) Fiscal year 2015】
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●Lowering of rhizosphere soil pH is a relevant factor on biological nitrification inhibition in sorghum
https://www.jircas.go.jp/en/publication/research_results/2015_a05

●The release of biological nitrification inhibitors from sorghum root is regulated at the transcriptional level
https://www.jircas.go.jp/en/publication/research_results/2015_a06

●New sugarcane varieties using wild sugarcane and collaboratively bred in Thailand
https://www.jircas.go.jp/en/publication/research_results/2015_b10

●Movement ability of vector insects of sugarcane white leaf disease
https://www.jircas.go.jp/en/publication/research_results/2015_b11

●Maintenance of outbred seraya seed production by selectively excluding inbred seeds in natural hill dipterocarp forests
https://www.jircas.go.jp/en/publication/research_results/2015_c11

●Improving the production of giant tiger prawn using an unidentified species of Chaetomorpha having euryhaline nature
https://www.jircas.go.jp/en/publication/research_results/2015_c12

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■Guidance publications
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●JARQ (Japan Agricultural Research Quarterly) Vol.51 No.3 July. 2017
-REVIEWS-

〇Crop Science
▲Effectiveness of Resistance Genes to the Soybean Rust Pathogen Phakopsora pachyrhizi

〇Agricultural Engineering
▲Establishment of Self-sufficient Concentrate by an Ear Corn Silage Production System through Cooperation between Arable and Livestock Farming

https://www.jircas.go.jp/en/publication/jarq/51/3

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