応募書類の受付は4月26日13時に締め切りました。
書類の受諾状況は、5月中旬頃に応募者登録サイトに表示されます。
"Application forms were closed at 13:00 on 26 April.
The acceptance status of documents will be displayed on the registration website around mid-May."
Breaking barriers
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.