News
11.30, 2023
Dr. Kazuki Saito, Group Director and Dr. Takayuki Tohge, Visiting Scientist has been selected for Highly Cited Researchers2023 Highly Cited Researchers 2023
10.3, 2023
RIKEN People ".
6.6, 2023
RIKEN researchers decode the genome of medicinal licorice VIDEO
5.24, 2023
Dr. Kazuki Saito, Director of the CSRS, received " "Knight in the Order of Léopold" from King of the Belgians
5.19, 2023
4.1, 2023
A video featuring Mr. Makoto Kobayashi, Technical Staff appeared has been published. "Unsung Heroes in RIKEN CSRS -Technical Staff-" Unsung Heroes in RIKEN CSRS VIDEO
12.8, 2022
Dr. Kazuki Saito, Group Director, received "Shimadzu Award 2022"
11.21, 2022
Dr. Kazuki Saito, Group Director and Dr. Takayuki Tohge, Visiting Scientist has been selected for Highly Cited Researchers2022 Highly Cited Researchers 2022
9.1, 2022
Dr. Ryo Nakabayashi, Visiting Scientist, Dr. Kazuki Saito, Group Director and Dr. Tetsuya Mori, Expert Technician received "Japanese Society for Plant Biotechnology (The JSPB Awards in 2022), The JSPB Excellent Paper Award"
11.19, 2021
Dr. Kazuki Saito, Group Director and Dr. Takayuki Tohge, Visiting Scientist has been selected for Highly Cited Researchers2021 Highly Cited Researchers 2021
8.11, 2021
A blood pressure-lowering effect of asparagus
6.15, 2021
Why are some Glycyrrhiza species not sweet?
2.26, 2021
Potato toxin, α-solanine, was evolutionally diverged from a bitter-taste constituent of tomato
1.18, 2021
Highly accurate whole genome sequence was revealed for Ophiorrhiza pumila, a plant producing anti-cancer substance
12.1, 2020
How plants produce seed-protective neolignans
11.19, 2020
Dr. Kazuki Saito, Group Director has been selected for Highly Cited Researchers2020 Highly Cited Researchers 2020
9.7, 2020
Mechanism of energy metabolism for fruit setting in tomato
8.5, 2020
The mechanism of tuberous root formation revealed in cassava
4.23, 2020
Development of metabolome analysis method targeting alkaloids
4.1, 2020
Dr. Kazuki Saito was inaugurated as the director of RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS).
2.28, 2020
A shadow commander for flavonoid biosynthesis
2.17, 2020
A key enzyme for nitrogen assimilation is found to be essential for chloroplast development in roots
11.19, 2019
Dr. Kazuki Saito, Group Director has been selected for Highly Cited Researchers2019 Highly Cited Researchers 2019
6.21, 2019
Finding potential drugs from natural resources (P.21)
3.29, 2019
What’s in this plant? The best automated system for finding potential drugs
11.29, 2018
Dr. Kazuki Saito, Group Director has been selected for Highly Cited Researchers 2018
11.2, 2018
Dr. Kazuki Saito, CSRS Deputy Director, awarded "Medal with Purple Ribbon"
8.7, 2018
Discovery of biosynthetic gene for a medicinal component of ashwagandha
7.6, 2018
Summer fun: how plants beat the heat
7.2, 2018
Dr. Kazuki Saito, CSRS Deputy Director, received "The International Metabolomics Society Lifetime Honorary Fellow"
11.27, 2017
Dr. Kazuki Saito, Group Director has been selected for Highly Cited Researchers 2017
6.27, 2017
Vinegar: a cheap and simple way to help plants fight drought
5.31, 2017
A paper of Dr. Kazuki Saito, Deputy Center Director, and Drs. Shigehiko Kanaya and Mami Yamazaki, Senior Visiting Scientist, has been selected as" The Japanese Society of Pharmacognosy Paper Award" and also selected as one of the "World-changing Aticles of Springer Nature"
Link paper
4.4, 2017
New rice fights off drought
3.6, 2017
A new metabolome analysis approach for nitrogen (N)-containing metabolites
1.16, 2017
Dr. Kazuki Saito, Group Director has been selected for Highly Cited Researchers 2016
12.9, 2016
Dr. Kazuki Saito, Group Director has been selected for 'The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan Award '17'
11.4, 2016
Our research was featured at RIKEN News & Media.
8.23, 2016
New flavonoids protect plants from damaging UV rays
7.26, 2016
Non-poisonous potatoes
6.24, 2016
Plant alkaloid productivity from convergent evolution of metabolizing enzymes
2.15, 2016
Dr. Kazuki Saito, Group Director has been selected for Highly Cited Researchers 2015
2.15, 2016
Dr. Kazuki Saito, Group Director received the "Winners of 2016 JSPP Awards".
12.24, 2015
Asparagus lowers blood pressure (P.8)
12.1, 2015
A paper by Dr. Ryo Nakabayashi has been selected as Most cited papers from The Plant Journal. "Enhancement of oxidative and drought tolerance in Arabidopsis by overaccumulation of antioxidant flavonoids."
8.20, 2015
Dr. Kazuki Saito, Group Director and Dr. Takayuki Tohge, Visiting Scientist have been selected for ASPB TOP AUTHORS
8.17, 2015
Our research was featured at RIKEN News & Media.
8.12, 2015
Dr. Yozo Okazaki, Research Scientist of the Metabolomics Research Group, received the "Japanese Society for Plant Cell and Molecular Biology Award for Young Scientists"
4.1, 2015
The new laboratory; Mass Spectrometry and Microscopy Unit has started.
3.24, 2015
RIKEN Metabolomics Group's 10 th Anniversary Party (3.18, 2015)
3.4, 2015
Dr. Satoru Sawai, Research Scientist of the Metabolomics Research Group, received RIKEN Research Incentive Awards (internal web site)
11.21, 2014
Cutting cholesterol for safer potatoes
10.28, 2014
Genome-wide association study on all metabolites from 175 Japanese rice cultivars
9.16, 2014
Our research was featured at RIKEN News & Media.
9.13, 2014
Dr. Kazuki Saito, Group Director of the Metabolomics Research Group, received "The PSJ Award"
6.17, 2014
Dr. Kazuki Saito, Group Director has been selected for Highly Cited Researchers 2014
6.16, 2014
Dr. Yozo Okazaki, Research Scientist of the Metabolomics Research Group, received "RIKEN Research Incentive Awards" (internal web site)
5.28, 2014
Dr. Kazuki Saito, Group Director and Dr. Shigehiko Kanaya, Senior Visiting Scientist of the Metabolomics Research Group, received the "JSPP Plant and Cell Physiology Award for the Paper of Excellence"
Paper
11.15, 2013
Modifying one cell factor alters many others
9.27, 2013
Dr. Kazuki Saito, Group Director's interview article is published in a web site , JOHN INNES SVC .
9.17, 2013
RIKEN CSRS Workshop: Metabolomics to Better Understand Plant Specialized Metabolism (This Workshop is finished.)
8.1, 2013
Interview with Group Director Kazuki Saito was published in MetaboNEWS.
8.1, 2013
Dr. Keiko Yonekura-Sakakibara and Ayuko Kuwahara technical staff translated "My life as a Plant” into Japanese.
7.19, 2013
A new tool for engineering crop tolerance
7.16, 2013
Discovery of the Regulator of Bioplastic Production in Cyanobacteria
4.26, 2013
Unearthing onions' sulfurous secrets
4.1, 2013
Our group has changed its name to Metabolomics Research Group.
7.13, 2012
Seeking a splice for better rice
3.9, 2012
Plant enzymes reveal complex secrets
2.8, 2012
New study sheds light on genetics of rice metabolism
11.26, 2011
Inside a plant's pharma factory
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10.12, 2011
9.6, 2011
Kazuki Saito Group Director won the JSPCMB Award for Distinguished Research 2011.
9.6, 2011
New technique elucidates dynamics of plant cell metabolites
5.31, 2011
The article on "UV-B metabolic response analysis" by Dr. Miyako Kusano was published in Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun.
5.13, 2011
Know your tomatoes
2.17, 2011
2. 7, 2011
10.20, 2010
4.14, 2010
Commendation for Science and Technology by MEST awarded to Prof. Kazuki Saito, Deputy Director
4.1, 2010
Our group has changed its name to Metabolomic Function Research Group.
3.12, 2010
Details uncovered of site-specific secondary metabolite biosynthesis by plants
6.12, 2009
All in the timing
4.7, 2009
Elucidating the close relationship between plant circadian clock and mitochondrial functions: Body clock regulation holds the key to the production of stress-tolerant plants and plants that produce useful substances
3.13, 2009
12.12, 2008
From genes to plant metabolism
11.14, 2008
Preparing a spectral library of tandem mass spectroscopy for plant secondary metabolites, collecting more than ten thousands spectra with Arabidopsis thaliana as a model plant
9.9, 2008
Identifying an emzymic gene for synthase that synthesizes a component of a natural low-calorie sweetner
9.2, 2008
Establishment of a new synthetic route to a plant anti-oxidative flavonoid
6.10, 2008
A paper from Metabolomics Research Group was selected as a FAST BREAKING PAPER - 2008.
4.29, 2008
Elucidating the mechanism of plants' tolerance of their own anti-tumor substance
12.10, 2007
9.26, 2007
A research paper from the Metabolomics Research Group and the Plant Nutrition and Basal Metabolism Research Team has been ranked as the top cited paper in the field of Plant Biotechnology for 2006
5.25, 2007
Honing in on plant ‘flavor’
Why are some Glycyrrhiza species not sweet?
Asparagus lowers blood pressure (P.8)
Thoughts on the genetics of medicinal licorice
