Plant Microbiota
Research Network
working on and/or interested in plant-microbiota interactions.
Click HERE for PMRN2024 details
PMRN2024の詳細は こちら
Plant microbiota research is a multi-disciplinary research area. In the real world, multiple plant individuals interact with millions of soil- and air-borne microbes, and they all share an ecological niche. Besides plants and microbes interacting with each other, plants interact with plants and microbes interact with microbes. Every combination of organisms interacts with each other, which together dictates the overall nature of the ecosystem.
植物マイクロバイオータ研究は極めて学際的な研究分野です。自然環境において植物は、土壌や空気中に存在するとてつもない量の微生物と相互作用してニッチを共有しています。そのなかでは植物と微生物だけでなく、植物同士や微生物同士も相互作用を繰り広げていて、それらの総計としてひとつの生態系の挙動が規定されていきます。
Our goal is to understand the plant-microbiota interactions at the molecular, agricultural, and ecological levels. We want to comprehensively understand plant-microbiota interactions at the molecular level, predict the interaction given the environmental conditions, and manipulate/regulate the interactions to provide a solution for sustainable agricultural practices.
私たちの目的は植物マイクロバイオータ相互作用を分子生物学的に、農学的に、そして生態学的に理解することです。植物マイクロバイオータ相互作用を統合的に理解し、予測し、制御することで持続可能な農業技術の開発へ貢献します。
Toward this end, we need plant and microbial geneticists, cell biologists, microbiologists, plant and microbial breeders (both from academia and industry), soil scientists, organic chemists, molecular and theoretical ecologists, computational scientists, statisticians, and more, and we provide an opportunity for all academic and industrial scientists, entrepreneurs, venture capitals, and policy makers to gather around and discuss the science behind plant-microbiota interactions — what we know, what we can and can’t, and what we want to be able to — and facilitate the inter-disciplinary collaborations to boost our efforts.
そのためにはあらゆる研究者の力が必要です。植物や微生物の遺伝学者、細胞生物学者、植物や微生物の育種家(アカデミアからも産業界からも)、土壌科学者、有機化学者、分子生態学者に理論生態学者、情報科学者やデータサイティスト、統計学者、などなど。私たちは植物マイクロバイオータに関わる科学的な議論の場所をあらゆる研究者、起業家、政治家などに提供します。私たちは植物マイクロバイオータ相互作用について何を知っていて、何ができて何ができなくて、何ができるようになりたいのか。あらゆる分野の研究者が一堂に会して議論を重ねることで、学際的な共同研究を推進し、「植物マイクロバイオータの統合的理解」への努力をブーストします。
Activities
We organize annual online symposia in late August. Everyone who is working on and/or interested in plant-microbiota interactions from any point of view is welcome to join. We normally have an oral session, where we invite researchers to give a talk (30-40 min each), along with a poster session, where we call for poster submission from all participants.
Research areas in scope are unlimited, as long as there is a chance to discuss your research having the plant microbiota in mind — basically anything.
For instance…
- Plant pathology
- Plant physiology
- Plant ecology
- Microbiology
- Microbial ecology
- Plant-microbe interactions
- Plant-insect interactions
- Plant-plant interactions
- Host-microbe interactions
- Microbe-microbe interactions
- Computational biology
- … and more