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Research Highlights(2018)

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Program A : Environment and Natural Resource Management

• Prediction of enteric methane emission from beef cattle in Southeast Asia
• Cassava pulp is suitable as beef cattle feed and shows less variation in chemical contents among seasons and factories
• Improvement of rice grain yield by predicting the optimum sowing period for rainfed rice areas in the Asian monsoon region
• Ground-penetrating radar can predict the soil depth at which the petroplinthic horizon starts in the Sudan Savanna, West Africa
• Conservation agriculture without intercropping component can adequately control water erosion in the Sudan Savanna, West Africa
• Simplified surge flow with improved furrow irrigation reduces infiltration loss and saves water
• Countermeasures against freshwater lens pollution on atolls should consider the groundwater residence time

Program B : Stable Agricultural Production

• Non-destructive shoot biomass evaluation for field-grown staking yam (Dioscorea rotundata Poir)
• A farm management model for assisting smallholder farmers in Africa
• Identification of a quantitative trait locus associated with development of lateral roots in rice employing a genome-wide association study
• Development of wild soybean chromosome segment substitution lines for genetic studies of important traits
• Accelerating soybean breeding in a CO₂-supplemented growth chamber
• Development of intergeneric F₁ hybrids between sugarcane and Erianthus arundinaceus as a new sugarcane breeding material
• Spatiotemporal distribution patterns of the desert locust in Africa

Program C : Value-adding Technologies

• Estimation of rice grain yield by canopy hyperspectral sensing of paddy fields at the booting stage
• Herbivorax saccincola A7, a novel alkaliphilic and thermophilic anaerobe, effectively degrades xylan-rich lignocellulosic biomass
• Climbing perch aquaculture is realizable in rice paddies under non-feeding conditions by rearing at low stocking densities
• Increasing rainy season lowland rice and dry season crop yields in the semi-mountainous villages of Laos using stored water intended for aquaculture

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