[Akifumi Sugiyama] Elucidation of rhizosphere chemical world for the regulation of crop robustness

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Akifumi Sugiyama

Kyoto University
Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere

Outline

Crops such as soybean and tomato can only be grown to about half of their potentially achievable yield due to various problems related to soils. In this research, we develop a multimodal sensor device to diagnose minerals and metabolites in the rhizosphere, which has strong influence on the crop growth. We identify biomarkers for robustness by integrating data from sensors and omics and analysing in multimodal deep learning. We verify biomarkers under fluctuating environment to achieve crop robustness for the increase of production.

Collaborator

Yoshiharu Fujii Graduate School of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Professor
Nozomu Sakurai Project Associate Professor, National Institute of Genetics, Research Organization of Information and Systems
Masaru Kobayashi Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Associate Professor
Yuichi Aoki Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, Assistant Professor
Takeshi Onodera Graduate School and Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu
Kentaro Ifuku Professor, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University
Ai Hosoki Specially appointed assistant professor, Faculty of Science,University of Toyama

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