TOP 10 Research Topics

The Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Research Council (AFFRC) selects the top 10 researches from various research institutions and universities in Japan every year. Below is a list of NIAS researches included in the top 10 with the corresponding rank.

2015

• No. 2: A self-compatible pollen-part mutant of Japanese pear produced by crossing ‘Kosui’ with pollen from gamma-irradiated ‘Kosui’
• No. 3: Development of easy-to-use and beautiful healing bandage-type artificial skin
• No. 6: Evolution of the grain dispersal system in barley
• No. 9: The birth of a black rice gene and its spread by introgression

2014

• No. 6: High-toughness silk produced by a transgenic silkworm expressing spider (Araneus ventricosus) dragline silk protein

2013

• No. 5: TAWAWA1, a regulator of rice inflorescence architecture, functions through the suppression of meristem phase transition

2012

• No. 4: IL2rg gene-targeted severe combined immunodeficiency pigs
• No. 5: Analysis of pig genomes provide insight into porcine demography and evolution

2010

• No. 5: Fine definition of the pedigree haplotypes of closely related rice cultivars by means of genome-wide discovery of single-nucleotide polymorphisms

2009

• No. 1: Loss of function of a proline-containing protein confers durable disease resistance in rice
• No. 4: Completion of the draft sequencing of the pig genome
• No. 10: Dynamics of cell wall components of Magnaporthe grisea during infectious structure development

2008

• No. 1: Production of high-quality silks having different flourescent colors by transgenic silkworms

2007

• No. 1: Rice WRKY45 plays a crucial role in benzothiadiazole-inducible blast resistance
• No. 7: Curated annotation of 32,00 genes in the rice genome
• No. 10: Molecular breeding of a novel herbicide-tolerant rice via gene targeting

2006

• No. 8: An SNP caused loss of seed shattering during rice domestication

2005

• No. 1: Transgenic rice for allergy immunotherapy: oral feeding of rice seeds expressing T-cell epitopes suppresses clinical symptoms in a mouse model of pollen allergy
• No. 2: The map-based sequence of the rice genome
• No. 8: Production of transgenic pig and goat with implications in biomedical industry

2004

• No. 1: Sequencing of the rice genome: Unravelling the rosetta stone for solving food shortage
• No. 3: Completion of the sequencing of the silkworm genome

2003

• No. 1: Collection, mapping, and annotation of over 28,000 cDNA clones from japonica rice
• No. 4: Low glutelin content 1: A dominant mutation that suppresses the glutelin multigene family via RNA silencing
• No. 6: Transgenic rice with high peptide content

2002

• No. 1: The genome sequence and structure of rice chromosome1>
• No. 5: The complete structure of rice (Oryza sativa) mitochondrial genome
• No. 9: A transcript map of rice with 6,591 ESTs
• No. 10: Development of technology for production of transgenic plants with resistance to antibiotics

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