No.116 Seminar ： Breaking barriers
- Yohei Koide (Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, 4th batch of the Hakubi researcher)
- 2016/07/19 4:30pm
- The Hakubi Center for Advanced Research (Research Administration Building 1F)
- Japanese(This seminar is open for students and researchers at Kyoto Univ.)
Summary
To meet the world food needs in the future, it is necessary to increase the grain production of world major crops. I have studied about the improvement of rice using closely related rice species and found that hybrids between African and Asian rice species show vigorous growth. However, these inter-specific hybrids show sterile, and, therefore, we cannot use the inter-specific hybrids for food production. Hybrid sterility observed in inter-specific hybrids is considered as a “species barrier”. In the Hakubi project, I have studied the causative gene for hybrid sterility in rice. In this seminar, I will show the resent progress of my research and talk about my experience during Hakubi.