I would like to report my last week's Taiwan trip.

　

I participated in the joint meeting of Taiwan-Japan Plant Biology 2017 held at Taipei, 3-6, November. I got a chance to talk about my recent work in the five minutes' short talk section in the 'Reproductive growth, Flowering' session. I feel honored to attend this memorable first joint meeting of TSPB and JSPP. There were six keynote talk, fifteen sessions and 360 posters!

　

My presentation was made neither good nor bad, I think. After the short talk, I explained detail of my work to two Taiwanese scientists and a student. That was a very good experience for me but there are also several things I must reflect on. The phenomenon of my presentation (intraspecies unilateral incompatibility in Brassica rapa) is slightly complicated. I felt that I should have explained it more clearly.

　

And it was my first trip to Taiwan. Unfortunately, I could not join to the study tour, which planed on the last day, to go to the national palace museum, because of my flight time. But first day, I went to there to see one of the most famous sculpture, 翠玉白菜 (The Jadeite Cabbage) in Taiwan. I place a photograph of it (beautiful Chinese cabbage, one of my plant materials) in this blog.

　

This trip was supported by "International Activity Support Group" of Scientific Research on Innovative Areas "The Birth of New Plant Species". I would like to express my sincere gratitude for this support.

　

Yoshinobu Takada,

working in Masao Watanabe' lab. as a technical assistant.