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Kawabata Lab
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The lab explores low-cost, environmentally friendly plant factories and the mechanisms behind the traits of horticultural plants.
AboutAbout the lab
Sustainable food production in indoor farms
The Kawabata Lab works to achieve sustainable food production using plant factories.
The lab develops new crop production systems, including plant factories, and conducts basic research to understand the traits specific to horticultural plants.
Rather than pursuing high performance, the lab aims to build plant factory systems that are simple, have a low environmental impact, and can be used by anyone.
The lab is located at the Institute for Sustainable Agro-ecosystem Services, a facility affiliated with the Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, at the Nishi-Tokyo Campus.
Key terms
- Plant factory
- A facility where light, temperature, water, nutrients, and other conditions are controlled artificially so that crops can be grown indoors regardless of the weather
- Double flowers
- A flowering form in which a flower has more petals than usual, giving it a lavish appearance
- Next-generation sequencer
- A device that can read large amounts of DNA base sequence at once
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The lab develops new crop production systems, including plant factories, and conducts basic research to understand the traits specific to horticultural plants. It aims to achieve sustainable food production through low-cost indoor farms with a low environmental impact.
*Illustrative imageHow Double Flowers Form
The lab creates populations by crossing double-flowered and single-flowered lines of lisianthus (Eustoma) and searches for the gene responsible for double flowers. It is also decoding the whole genome of lisianthus using a next-generation sequencer.
*Illustrative imageEnergy-Saving Indoor Farms
Conventional plant factories are expensive to build and operate, and they are difficult to set up on farmland. The lab builds simple, energy-saving plant factories (indoor farms) from pipes and a special heat-shielding film, and conducts environmental tests on a variety of crops.
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- ProfessorSaneyuki KawabataPublications ↗
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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: “Vertical Grow” Ark. Agricultural Experiment Station / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- How Double Flowers Form: “Lisianthus (double-petal) Eustoma grandiflorum (Lisianthus russellianus) - Hong Kong Flower Show - ( )” 阿橋 HQ / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Energy-Saving Indoor Farms: “Vertical farm07” Ark. Agricultural Experiment Station / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
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