Researcher Takaragawa Wins Best Oral Presentation Award at the 254th Annual Meeting of the Crop Science Society of Japan

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Dr. TAKARAGAWA Hiroo, Researcher at the JIRCAS Tropical Agriculture Research Front  (TARF), received the Best Presentation Award (Oral), for his research achievement titled “Responses of gas exchange and metabolites to drought stress in sugarcane and Erianthus" (H. Takaragawa and M. Wakayama) presented at the 254th Annual Meeting of the Crop Science Society of Japan (CSSJ) held on September 20-21, 2022.

Dr. TAKARAGAWA Hiroo, Researcher at the JIRCAS Tropical Agriculture Research Front  (TARF), received the Best Presentation Award (Oral), for his research achievement titled “Responses of gas exchange and metabolites to drought stress in sugarcane and Erianthus" (H. Takaragawa and M. Wakayama) presented at the 254th Annual Meeting of the Crop Science Society of Japan (CSSJ) held on September 20-21, 2022.

In this award-winning research results, Dr. Takaragawa demonstrated that sugarcane's closely related genus, Erianthus, has superior water use efficiency at the leaf gas exchange level compared to sugarcane. In addition, a comprehensive study of primary metabolites in various parts of the plant body using metabolome analysis revealed many metabolites associated with the high water use efficiency of Erianthus. The results of this research will provide basic data for the construction of biomarkers related to high water use efficiency, and the accumulation of data in the future is expected to contribute to the development of drought tolerant breeding of sugarcane using Erianthus japonicus.

Researcher Takaragawa with the CSSJ Best Presentation Award (Oral)

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