7/21/2022
Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
President: Norio Nakajima
Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (hereinafter, “Murata”) will conduct joint demonstration testing using soil sensors in the saline paddy field at the Experimental Farm Station in Kashimadai, Osaki City, Miyagi Prefecture, attached to the Graduate School of Life Sciences at Tohoku University.
Damage caused by salt stress to agricultural land is an increasingly serious problem due to global warming. To maintain a stable food production supply, research is being conducted to develop crops that are resistant to salt stress.
Murata has been conducting joint demonstration testing with the Graduate School of Agricultural Science at Tohoku University since 2012 to solve the issue of salt-damaged fields in tsunami-affected areas, utilizing the sensor and communication technologies it has cultivated over the years. The commercialized soil sensors can remotely monitor changes in salt concentration in the soil using data communication technology via a gateway system. These sensors have been utilized by companies and organizations in Japan and overseas.
A research group from the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO) and Tohoku University reported in 2020 that soil surface-rooted rice, which forms the root near the soil surface at fields what are called “soil surface roots (SOR）”, could have suppressed grain yield reduction in the saline paddy fields. It is considered that the SOR avoids the salt stress in the soil of the saline paddy field. Murata plans to conduct joint demonstration testing by burying these soil sensors at different depths of the soil in the saline paddy field to investigate primary factors that SOR contributes to salt tolerance.
Murata will continue to work with the Tohoku University research group for the purpose to solve social problems caused by salt damage in agriculture.
Overview of the Demonstration Test
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June 2022 to March 2023 |
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The Experimental Farm Station, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University (Kashimadai, Osaki City, Miyagi prefecture)
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Equipment:
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Soil sensor
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