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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?
Join us exploring this fascinating world of plant biology!
News
2025.08.21: Manuscript "Adenosine Kinase and ADAL Coordinate Detoxification of Modified Adenosines
to Safeguard Metabolism" in collaboration with Prof. Fan-Yan Wei (Tohoku University) is published
in Cell.
2025.06.01: Associate professor Satoru Nakagami is joining the Sawa Laboratory. Welcome!
2025.05.08: Manuscript "Microfluidic device integrated with a porous membrane for quantitative
chemotaxis assay of plant-parasitic nematodes" in collaboration with the group of Prof. Hirotaka Hida (Kobe University)
has been published in Microfluidics and Nanofluidics.
2025.05.07: Technical staff Kazuko Onga is joining the Sawa Laboratory. Welcome!
Photo credits: Reira Suzuki, Allen Yi-Lun Tsai