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Crop Science Lab
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The lab explores crop production that can withstand environmental stress.
AboutAbout the lab
Supporting humanity's future through agriculture and science
The Crop Science Lab studies the relationship between environmental stress and crop production.
Its goal is sustainable crop production that can continue stably even as the global environment changes.
Using a variety of experimental approaches, including crop science, molecular biology, and morphology, the lab conducts research ranging from field trials to cell biological analysis.
The lab began in 1920 as one of the chairs established in the Faculty of Agriculture at Kyushu Imperial University.
Key terms
- Environmental memory
- The idea that the effects of an environment an organism has experienced persist through epigenetic changes.
- Pre-harvest sprouting
- Damage in which seeds germinate on the ear of wheat or barley. In Japan, it often occurs because of heavy rain and high humidity from the grain-filling period to harvest.
- Abscisic acid
- A plant hormone. It is involved in stomatal closure.
NewsLab news
Received an Excellent Presentation Award at the 261st Meeting of the Crop Science Society of Japan
Paper published in Communications Biology
A student received the Faculty of Agriculture Award of Kyushu University
Received the Best Progress Award at the AgriFood SBIR Pitch Matching 2024
ResearchResearch themes
Aiming to produce crops stably and sustainably under a changing global environment, the lab investigates the relationship between environmental stress and crop production. It studies rice, wheat and barley, soybean, cowpea, and yam, combining approaches from crop science, molecular biology, and morphology.
*Illustrative imageRice cultivation techniques that withstand environmental change
The lab has analyzed the causes of yield and quality loss due to environmental stress during the grain-filling period. It now focuses on environmental memory, and has shown that rice seeds ripened under high temperature show delayed germination through DNA methylation.
*Illustrative imageStable production of wheat and barley, and pre-harvest sprouting
To address pre-harvest sprouting, which occurs frequently in wheat and barley cultivation in Japan, the lab studies the mechanisms that control seed dormancy and germination. It has shown that reactive oxygen species act as a new factor regulating germination, and is now analyzing germination regulators.
*Illustrative imageImproving soybean yield and quality
The lab studies the mechanisms controlling flowering and pod set, as well as the regulation of pod growth that leads to greater seed weight. It also investigates how delayed stem and leaf senescence occurs, in which only the pods mature while the stems and leaves remain green, and countermeasures against waterlogging damage caused by short-term flooding.
*Illustrative imageHow cowpea tolerates extreme drought
Cowpea is a legume crop with extremely high drought tolerance. Focusing on the plant hormone abscisic acid, the lab has shown that rapid synthesis of abscisic acid in the roots after drought is involved in early stomatal closure in the leaves.
MembersFaculty
Members of the Crop Science Lab include faculty and students in the doctoral, master's, and undergraduate programs.As of 2026
- ProfessorYushi Ishibashi
- Assistant ProfessorSuriyasak Chetphilin
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Khndzoresk, Wheat field, Armenia” Vyacheslav Argenberg / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Rice cultivation techniques that withstand environmental change: “Rice terraces, Rice fields, Tirta Gangga, Bali” Vyacheslav Argenberg / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Stable production of wheat and barley, and pre-harvest sprouting: “A few green ears of wheat among the barley - geograph.org.uk - 4561962” Adrian S Pye / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Improving soybean yield and quality: “Soybean field, Abbeville County, South Carolina, USA” Mlabar / CC0 (cropped)
- How cowpea tolerates extreme drought: “BlackEyedPeas” Toby Hudson / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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- Related lab (Agrochemical Chemistry Lab): “Schlenk flask 500mL” Ichwarsnur / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Agricultural Production System Design Lab): “Stubble field with tractor and other farm machinery - geograph.org.uk - 4683057” Trevor Littlewood / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
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