[Yusaku Uga] Development of climate-resilient crops by employing ROOTomics

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Yusaku Uga

National Agriculture and Food Research Organization
Institute of Crop Science
Leader, Division of Crop Design Research

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Genetic improvement of the root system is essential to enhance crop production in sterile and unstable soil environments. However, evaluating the root system architecture in the soil is not technically feasible, thus severely limiting our ability to understand which root traits are critical for crop production. In an attempt to address this issue, we propose to obtain root-related multi-omics data, ROOTomics, by root phenotyping via an X-ray CT scanner along with shoot phenotyping and transcriptome analysis. ROOTomics will allow for the modeling of an ideal root system architecture that is robust to environmental stress, and based on this model, we aim to develop climate-resilient crops.

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Takeshi Hayashi Breeding Informatics Unit, Institute of Crop Science, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Unit Chief
Takanari Tanabata Department of Frontier Research, Kazusa DNA Research Institute, Research Scientist
Taiji Kawakatsu Senior Scientist, Division of Plant Molecular Regulation, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization

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