Do leaf hairs contribute to rice productivity? : Strategies to improve water use efficiency by imparting leaf hairiness
Tricomes (hair-like protuberances) are often found in pla…
Norimitsu Hamaoka
Norimitsu Hamaoka Associate Professors
Division: Tropical Crops and Environment
Specialty : Tropical Crop Science and Cultivation
Recent Research
In order to confront environmental changes such as global warming and sustainably produce food, it is necessary to understand the superior characteristics of crops (plants) themselves, such as their adaptability to the environment and survival strategies, and apply them to the development of crop varieties that can be stably produced and to the improvement of production technologies. In this division, we are working to elucidate the physiological and ecological characteristics of tropical and subtropical crops (mainly yams and rice) that contribute to improved productivity, and to develop cultivation techniques based on these characteristics. In addition, through international joint research with Vietnam and other Southeast Asian countries, we are involved in the development of crop varieties adapted to the local environment and the development of high production systems. In the future, we hope to promote tropical crop science research based on cultivation science and return the research results to agriculture in the tropics and subtropics.
Research Keywords
Yam, Indian rice, wild rice, yield and quality, environmental response, stress adaptation, photosynthesis and translocation, sink formation, nutrient water absorption, mutants
Research Topics
Elucidation of Tuber Formation and Hypertrophy Mechanisms in Tropical Yams and Their Cultivation Applications
Exploring the “actors” that control the grow…
Norimitsu Hamaoka
Nitrogen responses of photosynthetic and dry matter production characteristics in wild rice of the AA genome
The AA genome group within the rice genus includes cultiv…
Norimitsu Hamaoka