This group focuses on elucidating the genetic basis of important traits, developing DNA markers, and breeding the leading varieties of open field cultivation vegetables and flowers, mainly cruciferous vegetables, bunching onion and chrysanthemum.

Cruciferous vegetables
- Rich in functional substances
- Resistant to clubroot and bacterial leaf spot
- Resistant to bolting
Bunching onion
- Resistant to stone leek leafminer
Chrysanthemum
- Resistant to white rust
Members
Anou Campus Tsu
- FUKINO Nobuko (Leader)
- KAKIZAKI Tomohiro
- KAWASAKI Mitsuyo
- SAKAMOTO Honoka
- FUJITO Satoshi
- KON Sayaka
Fujimoto Campus Tsukuba
- YAMAGUCHI Hiroyasu (Deputy Leader)
- KISHIMOTO Kyutaro