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Research Highlights(2017)

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Program A : Environment and Natural Resource Management

• Continuous application of rice straw compost increases rice yield and contributes to carbon sequestration in paddy fields in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam
• Estimation of nitrogen load to groundwater at a sugarcane monocropping area in the Philippines
• Technical manual on building a low-cost, shallow subsurface drainage system for mitigating salinization
• Further insights into underlying mechanisms for the release of biological nitrification inhibitors from sorghum roots

Program B : Stable Agricultural Production

• Genetic variation of blast resistance in rice germplasm from West Africa
• Whole genome sequence of Guinea yam (Dioscorea rotundata) and development of a DNA marker for sex determination
• Topographical selection and sulfur application enable high grain yields in rice in currently unutilized floodplain ecosystems of northern Ghana
• Reinforcement technology that can be applied by farmers themselves using ground-cover plants for irrigation facilities in paddy fields
• Identification of a gene that promotes ammonium nitrogen (NH4⁺-N) uptake in rice
• Evaluation method of root angle distribution at seedling stage in rice (Oryza sativa L.)
• Overexpression of AtGolS2, an Arabidopsis galactinol synthase gene, increases grain yield in rice under drought stress in the field
• Enhancement of drought tolerance in soybean plants by down-regulation of GmERA1 genes
• Delayed heading technique for early heading Erianthus arundinaceus collected in Japan
• Complete chloroplast genomes of Erianthus and Miscanthus, and phylogenetic relationships within the Saccharum complex
• Characterization of Erianthus arundinaceus collected from Japan based on nuclear DNA content and simple sequence repeat markers
• An effective pesticide against the dominant insect vector of sugarcane white leaf disease
• Genetic variation in resistance in rice germplasm and differentiation of blast races in Bangladesh

Program C : Value-adding Technologies

• Improvement of functionality of broccoli sprouts using slightly acidic electrolyzed water
• pH adjustment of oil palm sap improves lactic acid fermentation
• Forecasting mass synchronized flowering in Southeast Asian tropical forest by analyzing the dynamics of flowering gene expression
• Development of a rearing technique for the free-swimming zoea larvae of the freshwater shrimp Macrobrachium yui from Northern Laos

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