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Why do plants look the ways they do? How do plants and animals communicate with eath other, even though they can't talk?
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2026.10.01: International students Sheikh Saha Ali, Naila Ahamed, and Alba María Carrión Escudero are joining the Sawa Laboratory. Welcome!

2026.08.31: International students Maria Ahmed Chandra and Farhana Yeasmin are leaving the Sawa Laboratory. Thank you very much for everything!

2026.06.10: Manuscript "A CLE-RLK-LBD signaling module promotes de novo shoot regeneration in plants" in collaboration with Prof. Guodong Wang (Shaanxi Normal University) has been published in Journal of Integrative Plant Biology.

2026.04.04: Manuscript "Tri-arabinosylation facilitates the bioactivity of CLE3 peptide in Arabidopsis" by Honoka Maki has been published in Plant Biotechnology.

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