Germain Montazeaud, a researcher in the Plant Biology and Breeding (BAP) division, has been awarded a Starting Grant from the European Research Council for his five-year PHYTOPOGON project (€1.5 milli...

High planting densities expose field crops to competition for light, which typically induces shade avoidance responses such as stem elongation. While adaptive in natural environments, these responses...

2026年6月12日 ポイント ●植物の遺伝的多様性を維持する進化的要因を解明。●混ぜて植えると収量が増える遺伝子座を特定することに成功。●作物の競争緩和と収量増加に期待。 概要 北海道大学大学院地球...

Mixing crops for agroecology

rNeighborLMM: Fitting mixed models for oligogenic and polygenic indirect genetic effects - yassato/rNeighborLMM

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

Certain genes, chromosomes, organelles, or entire sets of chromosomes can bias their transmission to the next generation, propagating themselves at the expense of the rest of the genome. Referred to …

Our study shows that the harvester ant Messor barbarus exhibits genotype-specific preferences for durum wheat, linked to a major QTL on chromosome 2A. Ant predation is also influenced by spike size, ...

Speciation, the process by which new reproductively isolated species emerge from ancestral populations, results from the gradual accumulation of barriers to gene flow within genomes. To date, the noti...