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【JIRCAS Mail Magazine No.18 (July 2020)】
Published by Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences (JIRCAS)
https://www.jircas.go.jp/en
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Dear subscribers,
Heavy rains toward the end of rainy season have triggered disasters in Japan.
A typically hot weather awaits the nation as the summer season begins.

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■Latest topics
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●JIRCAS Concludes Collaborative Research Agreement with Bolivia’s UMSA and PROINPA

https://www.jircas.go.jp/en/reports/2019/r20200319

●JIRCAS Researcher Receives the 24th Japanese Society of Crop Science Young Scientist Award

https://www.jircas.go.jp/en/reports/2020/r20200413

●PhilRice Magazine Article Introduces WeRise

https://www.jircas.go.jp/en/reports/2020/r20200422

●TARF Director and Researchers Receive Awards from the Japanese Society for Tropical Agriculture

https://www.jircas.go.jp/en/reports/2019/r20200608

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■Introduction of new technologies and research highlights
【Research Highlights (International agriculture, forestry and fisheries research information) Fiscal year 2019】
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●Variable-timing, fixed-rate application of cattle biogas effluent as fertilizer for rice using a leaf color chart
https://www.jircas.go.jp/en/publication/research_results/2019_a01

●Oxygenation of flooded paddy soil and inhibition of methane production through irrigation with water containing bulk oxygen nanobubbles
https://www.jircas.go.jp/en/publication/research_results/2019_a02

●Soil phosphorus availability for rice plants can be rapidly estimated by laboratory visible and near-infrared spectroscopy
https://www.jircas.go.jp/en/publication/research_results/2019_b01

●Liquefaction of Thai fermented rice noodles can be prevented by maintaining the product in acidic condition of pH around 4
https://www.jircas.go.jp/en/publication/research_results/2019_c01

●Use of RNA interference to suppress gene expression of vitellogenesis-inhibiting hormone in the whiteleg shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei
https://www.jircas.go.jp/en/publication/research_results/2019_d01

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■Guidance publications
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●JARQ (Japan Agricultural Research Quarterly) Vol.54 No.3 July. 2020

https://www.jircas.go.jp/en/publication/jarq/54/3

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