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Experimental Organism Environment Control Lab
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A center that explores production systems such as plant factories, with the control of plant environments as its foundation.
AboutAbout the lab
Controlling the environment to explore how to grow plants
The Experimental Organism Environment Control Center is a shared on-campus education and research facility that provides laboratories with artificially controlled conditions, such as temperature and light, to researchers and students within the university.
In the plant laboratories, temperature, moisture, light, wind, and gas composition can be artificially controlled. There are also laboratories for insects and for fishes, amphibians, and reptiles.
The full-time faculty specialize in phytotronics, which is based on bio-environment control technology, and teach advanced plant production systems such as plant factories in the graduate school.
The center does not belong to an undergraduate faculty, and it accepts students from the master's program.
Key terms
- Phytotronics
- Academic research based on bio-environment control technology. It is the specialty of this center's full-time faculty
- Plant factory
- The fully controlled type is a facility that grows plants with artificial light sources in a closed environment, and it can physically block pests and diseases
- Sand culture
- A type of hydroponics. Sand is used as the growing medium, and only the necessary amount of an aqueous solution with dissolved fertilizer is supplied
ResearchResearch themes
The full-time faculty of the center conduct research in phytotronics, built on technology that artificially regulates the environment surrounding plants, such as temperature and light. Examples of research in bio-environment control science include the domestic production of medicinal plants, vegetable production under artificial light in plant factories, sand culture under LED light sources, and plant production as a raw material for fragrances.
*Illustrative imageDomestic Production of Medicinal Plants
The work includes searching for superior strains, establishing cropping systems and cultivation methods, and efficiently monitoring useful components.
*Illustrative imageYear-Round, Planned Production of Spinach
Using spinach as a model, plants are grown under short-day conditions with LED light sources, and growth, yield, and quality are examined. The aim is to establish a cropping system by finding the optimal light intensity, light quality, and irradiation time.
*Illustrative imageSand Culture of Vegetables under LED Light
This research grows vegetables by sand culture, which uses sand as the growing medium, indoors with LEDs as the light source. Sand culture has slow growth and is hard to scale up, but the center holds that this is not a drawback for artificial-light cultivation in a limited space.
*Illustrative imageRose Production as a Fragrance Ingredient
Roses for fragrance are grown in the closed environment of a fully controlled plant factory, and petals are harvested without spraying pesticides. The extraction and use of the aroma components are being examined. The center believes that, under Japan's climate, there is no way other than this method to grow roses without pesticides.
MembersFaculty
The members of the center consist of full-time faculty and concurrent faculty from the Faculty of Agriculture, the Faculty of Medical Sciences, the Faculty of Sciences, and others.
- ProfessorSatoshi Yoshida
- Associate ProfessorToshihiko Eguchi
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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: “Tomato cultivation in France (3)” Mouh2jijel / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Domestic Production of Medicinal Plants: “Licorice weed plant at Nativeplants botanical garden” Nativeplants garden / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Year-Round, Planned Production of Spinach: “Spinach in multiples” Cut angles / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Sand Culture of Vegetables under LED Light: “Species of vegetables” Zmu'az4Z / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Rose Production as a Fragrance Ingredient: “Pink rose bloom of a climbing rose at Boreham, Essex, England 1” Acabashi / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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