Table Of ContentMakie Kokubun
Shuichi Asanuma Editors
Crop Production
under Stressful
Conditions
Application of Cutting-edge Science and
Technology in Developing Countries
Crop Production under Stressful Conditions
Makie Kokubun • Shuichi Asanuma
Editors
Crop Production under
Stressful Conditions
Application of Cutting-edge Science
and Technology in Developing Countries
Editors
Makie Kokubun Shuichi Asanuma
Tohoku University Nagoya University
Sendai, Miyagi, Japan Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
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Preface
Crops provide us with food, medicines, animal feeds, textiles, energy, and much
more. Given that the global population continues to grow, we need to enhance the
capacity of crop production worldwide. However, sustainable crop production is
threatened by problems such as desertification, salinization of agricultural land,
pests, unstable temperatures, and erratic rainfall, which are especially accentuated
in developing countries where technologies and human resources addressing these
problems are not adequately available.
Science and Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable Development
(SATREPS) is a Japanese government program that promotes international joint
research to address global issues including food insecurity. The program is struc-
tured as collaboration between Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), which
provides competitive research funds for science and technology projects, and the
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), which provides official develop-
ment assistance (ODA) to the developing countries. In the SATREPS framework,
food insecurity is recognized as a major global issue, and research projects looking
to enhance crop productivity and utilization in developing regions have been imple-
mented. Since the commencement of the first project in 2010, more than 10 projects
(including completed) have focused on crop production in developing regions.
This book provides examples that multidisciplinary research teams consisting of
molecular biologists, breeders, physiologists, soil scientists, agronomists, chemists,
and other scientists related to agricultural development are working together for
enhancing the capacity of crop production in the respective regions. For the imple-
mentation, teams are putting an emphasis on not only producing novel scientific
findings but verifying the effectiveness of the findings in the actual environments
prevailing in the respective countries. Specifically, this book provides good exam-
ples of application of cutting-edge science and technologies to solving problems in
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developing countries. We believe that the achievements attained in these projects
should be beneficial to researchers, students, and administrators engaged in the field
of crop production and food security in developing regions, and lessons learnt will
be useful to re-design the strategy to address the issues involved in crop production
worldwide.
Sendai, Miyagi, Japan Makie Kokubun
Nagoya, Aichi, Japan Shuichi Asanuma
Contents
1 SATREPS Program Challenging Global Issues
on Crop Production: Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Makie Kokubun and Shuichi Asanuma
2 Development of Rice Promising Lines Using Genomic
Technology and Information in Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Atsushi Yoshimura, Hideshi Yasui, Pham Van Cuong,
Motoyuki Ashikari, Enric E. Angeres, Nguyen Van Hoan,
Tran Tan Phuong, Yoshiyuki Yamagata, Norimitsu Hamaoka,
Kazuyuki Doi, Tang Thi Hanh, Mai Van Tan, Nguyen Quoc Trung,
Nobuyuki Iseri, and Kazuo Ogata
3 Development of Rice Breeding and Cultivation Technology
Tailored for Kenya’s Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Daigo Makihara, John Kimani, Hiroaki Samejima, Mayumi Kikuta,
Daniel Menge, Kazuyuki Doi, Yoshiaki Inukai, Masahiko Maekawa,
Tsugiyuki Masunaga, Yuka Sasaki, Keisuke Katsura, Hidemi Kitano,
Shiro Mitsuya, Mana Kano-Nakata, Cornelius Wainaina,
Emily Gichuhi, Symon Njinju, Sammy Kagito, Rahab Magoti,
Caroline Kundu, and Akira Yamauchi
4 Development of Flood- and Drought- Adaptive Cropping
Systems in Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Morio Iijima, Simon K. Awala, Pamwenafye I. Nanhapo,
Anton Wanga, and Osmund D. Mwandemele
5 Improving Resource Utilization Efficiency in Rice Production
Systems with Contour- Levee Irrigation in Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Kensuke Okada and Lorena Lopez-Galvis
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6 Development of Wheat Breeding Materials
Using Genetic Resources in Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Tomohiro Ban
7 Application of Biotechnology to Generate Drought-Tolerant
Soybean Plants in Brazil: Development of Genetic
Engineering Technology of Crops with Stress Tolerance
Against Degradation of Global Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Kazuo Nakashima, Norihito Kanamori, Yukari Nagatoshi,
Yasunari Fujita, Hironori Takasaki, Kaoru Urano, Junro Mogami,
Junya Mizoi, Liliane Marcia Mertz-Henning, Norman Neumaier,
Jose Renato Bouças Farias, Renata Fuganti-Pagliarini,
Silvana Regina Rockenbach Marin, Kazuo Shinozaki,
Kazuko Yamaguchi-S hinozaki, and Alexandre Lima Nepomuceno
8 Sustainable Management of Invasive Cassava Pests
in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Hiroki Tokunaga, Tamon Baba, Manabu Ishitani, Kasumi Ito,
Ok-Kyung Kim, Le Huy Ham, Hoang Khac Le, Kensaku Maejima,
Shigeto Namba, Keiko T. Natsuaki, Nguyen Van Dong,
Hy Huu Nguyen, Nien Chau Nguyen, Nguyen Anh Vu,
Hisako Nomura, Motoaki Seki, Pao Srean, Hirotaka Tanaka,
Bunna Touch, Hoat Xuan Trinh, Masashi Ugaki, Ayaka Uke,
Yoshinori Utsumi, Prapit Wongtiem, and Keiji Takasu
9 Improvement of Food Security in Semiarid Regions
of Sudan Through Management of Root Parasitic Weeds . . . . . . . . . 159
Hiroaki Samejima, Abdel Gabar Babiker, and Yukihiro Sugimoto
10 Bringing Stability to World Food Supplies with Japanese
Technology and Mexican Genetic Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Kazuo Watanabe
11 Lessons Learned from SATREPS Projects and Perspectives . . . . . . . 195
Shuichi Asanuma and Makie Kokubun
Contributors
Enric E. Angeres Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Nguyen Anh Vu International Laboratory for Cassava Molecular Breeding,
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), c/o National Key Laboratory
for Plant Cell Technology, Agricultural Genetics Institute (AGI), Hanoi, Vietnam
Shuichi Asanuma Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Motoyuki Ashikari Biosciences and Biotechnology Center, Nagoya University,
Nagoya, Japan
Simon K. Awala University of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia
Tamon Baba Faculty of Humanities, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Abdel Gabar Babiker College of Agricultural Studies, Sudan University of
Science and Technology, Khartoum, Sudan
Tomohiro Ban Kihara Institute for Biological Research, Yokohama City University,
Yokohama, Japan
Kazuyuki Doi Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University,
Nagoya, Japan
Jose Renato Bouças Farias Embrapa Soybean, Londrina, PR, Brazil
Renata Fuganti-Pagliarini Embrapa Soybean, Londrina, PR, Brazil
Yasunari Fujita Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences
(JIRCAS), Tsukuba, Japan
Emily Gichuhi Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization,
Industrial Crops Research Institute – Mwea, Kerugoya, Kenya
Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University,
Okayama, Japan
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Le Huy Ham National Key Laboratory for Plant Cell Technology, Agricultural
Genetics Institute (AGI), Hanoi, Vietnam
Norimitsu Hamaoka Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Tang Thi Hanh Vietnam National University of Agriculture, Hanoi, Vietnam
Morio Iijima Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Kindai University, Nara,
Japan
Yoshiaki Inukai International Center for Research and Education in Agriculture,
Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
Nobuyuki Iseri DCGV (Development of Crop Genotype in Vietnam) project,
Japan International Cooperation Agency, Hanoi, Vietnam
Manabu Ishitani International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Cali,
Colombia
Kasumi Ito International Cooperation Centre for Agricultural Education, Nagoya
University, Nagoya, Japan
Sammy Kagito Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization,
Industrial Crops Research Institute – Mwea, Kerugoya, Kenya
Norihito Kanamori Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences
(JIRCAS), Tsukuba, Japan
Mana Kano-Nakata Institute for Advanced Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya,
Japan
Keisuke Katsura Graduate School of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture
and Technology, Fuchu, Japan
Mayumi Kikuta Applied Social System Institute of Asia, Nagoya University,
Nagoya, Japan
Ok-Kyung Kim Graduate School of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture,
Tokyo, Japan
John Kimani Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization, Industrial
Crops Research Institute – Mwea, Kerugoya, Kenya
Hidemi Kitano Bioscience and Biotechnology Center, Nagoya University,
Nagoya, Japan
Makie Kokubun Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
Caroline Kundu The United Graduated School of Agricultural Sciences, Tottori
University (in Shimane University), Matsue, Japan
Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization, Non-Ruminant Research
Institute – Kakamega, Kakamega, Kenya
