GTR seminar
Date: Apr.30 (Thu), 2026,15:00-16:00
Venue: ITbM 1F Lecture Room
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Wolf B. Frommer (Instiute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (WPI-ITbM), Nagoya University / Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU), Germany)
Title: Increasing yield potential and yield by genome editing in rice
Reference paper：
Solanki M., et al. (2026) KAMALA, a genome edited rice variety with improved yield by finetuning cytokinin oxidase activity released in India. bioRxiv
Zöllner N., et al. (2026) A critical role of sux cistron-mediated sucrose uptake for virulence of the rice blight pathogen Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae. PNAS Nexus 5, 1, pgaf412.
Loo E.P.I., et al. (2025) Removal of transgenes and evaluation of yield penalties in genome edited bacterial blight resistant rice varieties. Plant Biotech J. 24, 939-953.
Language： English
Contact： Akira Yoshinari ✉ yoshinari.akira.t2<at>f.mail.nagoya-u.ac.jp (<at>→@）