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Directors |
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Dr. Toshiaki
Kudo
Director of Environmental Molecular
Biology Laboratory, RIKEN |
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Dr. Napavarn
Noparatnaraporn
Vice President, Kasetsart University |
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Counterpart Organization: Kasetsart University (Thailand)
Supporting National Agency: National Research Council
of Thailand |
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| Focusing on the symbiotic system between
termites and microbes playing an important role for the bio-recycling
in the tropical regions, we conducted the collaborative project
with Kasetsart University in Thailand to define this system.
We prosecuted a new type of integrated scientific approach
by paying attention to termites as a target, combining an
analysis principally through a method for molecular biology
of symbiotic system between termites and microbes at the Institute
of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) located in Japanese
side with a research for tropical fields at a laboratory situated
in Kasetsart University. |
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| We diversely conducted the research from
three points of view: 1) ecological analysis of termites in
the tropical ecosystems, 2) an analysis of the termite-microbe
symbiotic structure and the mechanism at a molecular level,
and 3) a quest for microbes that are symbionts of termites
to utilize the biomass. It came to fruition in various areas
such as microbiology, entomology, ecology, and so on. By developing
these results further, it is expected that the bio-recycle
system is explicated in various regions on Earth, and also
those studies will lead to the development of efficiently
utilizing biomass resources that are not yet utilized. |
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