【Institute for Advanced Biosciences】 Preventing Insect Damage Through the Power of Biodiversity: Predicting Optimal Plant Genotype Pairings for Mixed Planting Using Genomic Information

2024.10.09

A research group led by Visiting Professor Kentaro Shimizu of the Kihara Institute for Biological Research, Yokohama City University (who also serves as Professor and Director at the University of Zurich), Assistant Professor Yasuhiro Sato of the Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, and Professor Atsushi Nagano of the Faculty of Agriculture, Ryukoku University (also Specially Appointed Professor at the IAB, Keio University), has developed a new method called “Neighbor GWAS,” which applies physical theory of magnetic interactions to DNA sequence analysis. Using this approach, the team successfully demonstrated that mixing plants with different genotypes can reduce insect herbivory, leveraging the power of biodiversity.

This research has been published in the international scientific journal Nature Communications.

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Preventing Insect Damage Through the Power of Biodiversity: Predicting Optimal Plant Genotype Pairings for Mixed Planting Using Genomic Information