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Prof. Ryohei Terauchi was selected as Highly Cited Researcher 2023

> Highly Cited Researcher 2023

In the conference of “the Genomic Dynamics Underlying the Plastic Hermaphroditism in Plants” held in October 2023, Aoi Kudo (Ph. D. student) and Koki Minoji (Master course student) were awarded as the best oral presenter and the best poster presenter, respectively

Paper by Hiroaki Adachi (Project-Specific Assistant Prof.), Toshiyuki Sakai (Assistant Prof.) and colleagues published in The Plant Cell

Adachi, H., Sakai, T., Kourelis, J., Pai, H., Gonzalez Hernandez, J. L., Utsumi, Y., Seki, M., Maqbool, A., & Kamoun, S. (2023). Jurassic NLR: Conserved and dynamic evolutionary features of the atypically ancient immune receptor ZAR1. The Plant Cell, 35(10), 3662–3685. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad175

Paper by Kudoh (Ph. D. student), Assistant Prof. Sakai and colleagues published in Estuaries and Coasts

Kudoh, A., Megonigal, J. P., Langley, J. A., Noyce, G. L., Sakai, T., & Whigham, D. F. (2023). Reproductive Responses to Increased Shoot Density and Global Change Drivers in a Widespread Clonal Wetland Species, Schoenoplectus americanus. Estuaries and Coasts. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-023-01249-z

Kodai Honda (Master course student) was awarded as the best presenter in a meeting of the Phytopathological Society of Japan held in September 2023.

Prof. Terauchi recieved “the Genetic award” from Ensyu-Shoutokukai, a public interest incorporated foundation.

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Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research

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Genetic Resources

Wheat Genetic Resources

Our laboratory maintains more than 10,000 wheat genetic resources under NBRP-Wheat project.

Web portal on wheat genetic resources. You can order resources of interest.
https://shigen.nig.ac.jp/wheat/komugi/

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阪本寧男名誉教授 エッセイ

京都の里山を駆けぬけて – アルキニスト/民族植物学者の哲学と軌跡 –

阪本寧男(京都大学名誉教授)、物集女くらぶ 編著 / 英明企画編集株式会社 出版

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Part of the Population Genomics book series

Population Genomics of Yams: Evolution and Domestication of Dioscorea Species

Yu Sugihara, Aoi Kudo, …, Ryohei Terauchi (2021), Springer

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/13836_2021_94