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Plant Medical Science Lab
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The lab develops techniques to diagnose, treat, and prevent plant diseases, and trains plant doctors.
AboutAbout the lab
Hospitals for plants, too.
The Plant Medical Science Lab studies “clinical” techniques for protecting plants from disease.
Just like hospitals for people and pets, the lab aims to open “Plant Hospitals®” that diagnose, treat, and prevent plant diseases, and to expand a network of them across Japan.
The lab also trains “plant doctors®,” specialists who examine plant diseases, and provides retraining for specialists who are already working in the field.
The lab is established as an endowed chair in the Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology.
Key terms
- Plant doctor
- A specialist who diagnoses plant diseases and recommends methods of treatment and prevention
- Pathogen
- A microorganism, such as a fungus, bacterium, or virus, that causes disease
- LAMP (loop-mediated isothermal amplification)
- A genetic testing method that amplifies DNA in a short time at a constant temperature to check whether a pathogen is present
- Phytoplasma
- A group of bacteria that live inside plant cells and cause disease, and are spread by insects
NewsLab news
Held a guidance session for the Schedule B graduate school entrance exam of the Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology (10/17)
Project Professor Namba was elected a Member of the Japan Academy
A doctoral student received the Student Excellent Presentation Award from the International Society of Plant Medical Sciences
A doctoral student received the Student Excellent Presentation Award from the Kanto Division of the Phytopathological Society of Japan
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies clinical techniques for protecting plants, aiming to develop advanced technologies for efficient diagnosis of plant diseases, identification of pathogens, treatment, and prevention, as well as clinical systems based on those technologies. As the University of Tokyo Plant Hospital®, the lab also develops LAMP-based diagnostic kits for testing for diseases such as phytoplasma diseases.
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MembersFaculty
The members of the Plant Medical Science Lab are faculty, master's students, and undergraduate students.As of 2025
- Professor (Concurrent)Yasuyuki YamajiPublications ↗
- Project Professor難波 成任
- Project Assistant ProfessorMako AkahoriPublications ↗
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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: “Tomaten 1-Stemphylium vesicarium-Monika Götz, JKI” Dr. Monika Götz, Institut für Pflanzenschutz in Gartenbau und urbanem Grün am Julius Kühn-Institut in Braunschweig. / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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