Information on research results is selected and published from among the research results obtained through JIRCAS research activities in each fiscal year, especially those that are outstanding in terms of "results that can be used as production technology in the field”, "results of academically advanced and effective new methods, new knowledge etc." and "results that are extremely effective or helpful for improving administrative measures. The purpose is to promote the dissemination and utilization of the information by accumulating it as research highlights for each fiscal year and disseminating it to the outside world.

Among the selected research results, those that are particularly useful for developing regions and are expected to be disseminated and used, or those that have a considerable possibility of being disseminated and used, are selected as “major research results for dissemination”. In order to ensure the evaluation of the appropriateness of the content and the possibility of dissemination, the evaluation process  involves an external review by one reviewer from each of the research and administrative divisions related to the candidate. In addition, follow-up evaluations are conducted for major research results that have been published for about two years.

• SSR marker technology package for variety identification of white Guinea Yam 
• Liquefaction of Thai fermented rice noodles can be prevented by maintaining the product in acidic condition of pH around 4 

Program A: Environment and Natural Resource Management

• Variable-timing, fixed-rate application of cattle biogas effluent as fertilizer for rice using a leaf color chart 
• Oxygenation of flooded paddy soil and inhibition of methane production through irrigation with water containing bulk oxygen nanobubbles
• Farmland reclamation using micro-dam sediments in the Ethiopian Highlands
• Assessing nanoparticulate lime and phosphate rock and increasing their efficiency as a liming agent and phosphorus source, respectively 
• Biological nitrification inhibition of sorghum is related to the inhibition of ammonia-oxidizing archaea
• Solubility improvement of African low-grade phosphate rock through calcination with potassium carbonate 

Program B: Stable Agricultural Production

• Soil phosphorus availability for rice plants can be rapidly estimated by laboratory visible and near-infrared spectroscopy
• A new indicator of leaf stomatal conductance based on thermal imaging 
• SPIKE, a quantitative trait locus for increasing the number of spikelets per panicle, enhances rice grain yield under low-yield conditions
• Sugarcane and Miscanthus intergeneric hybrids: New sugarcane breeding materials with high photosynthetic activity in a low-temperature environment 
• Harunoogi, a high ratoon yield sugarcane cultivar developed by interspecific hybridization between sugarcane and Saccharum spontanium
• Current status of insecticide use by farmers for controlling rice planthoppers in the northern part of Vietnam

Program C: Value-adding Technologies

• New approach for Tartary buckwheat utilization by rapid heating treatment 
• Main factors that determine the amounts of soluble sugar and starch in old oil palm trunk
• Bacillus aryabhattai produces bioplastics from starch in agricultural residues
• Efficacy of black soldier fly larvae as a protein source in aquaculture feed for the climbing perch
• Biological information contributing to resource conservation of the important Laotian food fish Pa keo
• Utilization of poultry by-product meal as an effective alternative to fish meal in aquaculture feed for milkfish Chanos chanos

Program D: Information Analysis

• Use of RNA interference to suppress gene expression of vitellogenesis-inhibiting hormone in the whiteleg shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei
• Genetic diversity and characteristics of mango genetic resources in Japan