News & Events
Important information
- Jun 29th-Jul 1st, 2017：We attended Mei-Fong Forum 2017 held at highland farm of NTU.
- Sep 5th-6th, 2016：NTU-GSAKU Joint Horticulture Workshop was organized.
- Jul. 12th, 2015：Pomology laboratory reunion was held.
- Dec 4th-6th, 2014：Dr. Tao host the ISHS Board meeting in Kyoto.
- Oct 31st, 2014：Our research on sex determination of persimmons was published in Science.
- Aug. 15th, 2014：Dr. Tao was elected as a Board member of the International Society for Horticultural Science.
- Mar 28th, 2014：Dr. Tao received the Japanese Society for Horticultural Science Outstanding Horticulturist Award.
Open Seminar
- December 22th, 2016： Key factors controlling pollen tube guidance in plants (Dr. Masahiro Kanaoka, Nagoya University)
- April 8th, 2016：Towards understanding and harnessing dosage variation in plants (UC Davis・Dr. Isabelle M. Henry）
- November 27th, 2015：Evolutionary studies on selfing in flowering plants (Dr. Kentaro Shimizu, Zurich University)
- October ７th, 2015：Live cell imaging technologies to observe plant reproduction(Dr. Tetsuya Higashiyama, Nagoya University)
- July 2７th, 2015：Genome iimprinting and epigenetic controls during plant reproduction(Dr. Tetsu Kinoshita, Yokohama City University)
- May 26th, 2015：Functional genomics resources for easy and challinging crop plants（Dr. Luca Comai: UC Davis）
- Apr. 15th, 2015：Sexuality regulation in persimmons(Dr. Tao and Dr. Akagi, Kyoto University)
Pomology Seminar
- July 6th, 2022：Global warming??? It’s already warm here… Regulation and modulation of grapevine dormancy in the desert (Prof. Etti Or, Volcani center, Israel)
- October 22nd, 2018：The pomegranate as a model for studying the genetics of dormancy in fruit trees (Dr. Doron Holland, Newe Yaar Research Center, Agricultural Research Organization, Israel)
- May 18th, 2018：Sustainable horticulture and nutritional security (Prof. Sisir Kumar Mitra: Former Dean, BCKV, India)
- April 20th, 2018：Resistance to plum pox virus (PPV) in apricot (Prunus armeniaca L.) is associated with down-regulation of two MATHd genes (Dr. Elena Zuriaga: Valencian Institute of Agriculture Research, Spain)
- February 27th, 2018：Blueberry introduction, research, and extension progresses in Taiwan (Assis. Prof. Kuo-Tan Li: National Taiwan Univ. Taiwan)
- August 25th, 2017：Tropical fruit production in India: Technology development (Prof. Sisir Kumar Mitra: Bidhan Candra Agric. Univ., India)
- June 2nd, 2017：1. Origins and structure of somatic variation in the grapevine: how these phenotypes help in the study of the regulation of reproductive development. 2. The microvine, a biological model, versatile and efficient to boost grapevine research in physiology and genetics (Prof. Laurent Torregrosa: Montpellier SupAgro, France)
- December 19th, 2016：Advanced technologies in horticulture: what can we learn from one sector to another?（Prof. Silvana Nicola: Div. Agronomy & Hort. Sci., Univ. Turin, Italy）
- November 30th, 2016：Promotion of made-in-Japan fruits exports ~ Research project in collaboration with industry-govenment-university (Dr. Ryohei Nakano, Okayama University)