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Tree Environmental Physiology Lab
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The lab explores how trees tolerate stress in order to grow forests on degraded land.
AboutAbout the lab
Tree responses to environmental stress and afforestation of degraded land
The Tree Environmental Physiology Lab studies how trees respond to and tolerate environmental stresses such as high temperature, flooding, and harmful substances in the soil.
Many of the degraded lands that are a problem in the tropics of Asia are areas of "problem soils," where plants have difficulty growing.
The lab searches for stress-tolerant trees and clarifies the mechanisms behind their tolerance, linking this work to "environmental afforestation" techniques for establishing forests on degraded land.
The lab also conducts research in tropical lowland wetlands in southern Thailand.
Key terms
- Environmental stress
- Conditions in the surrounding environment that hinder plant growth, such as high temperature, flooding, and harmful substances in the soil
- Problem soils
- Soils with properties that hinder plant growth, such as saline soils, strongly acidic soils, and peat soils
- Environmental afforestation
- A system of techniques for establishing forests on degraded land where plants have difficulty growing, combined with environmental improvement
ResearchResearch themes
The lab pursues two lines of research in parallel: the mechanisms of tree responses and tolerance to environmental stress, and environmental afforestation, which establishes forests on degraded tropical land. It aims to deepen the understanding of trees and forests and to provide scientific support for techniques to create various types of forests.
*Illustrative imageTree stress responses and tolerance mechanisms
Combining analysis of enzymes and other components, molecular biological analysis, and environmental measurements in the field, the lab investigates how trees respond to stresses they encounter during afforestation, such as high temperature, flooding, and aluminum, and the mechanisms by which they tolerate them.
*Illustrative imageEnvironmental afforestation of degraded tropical land
In tropical lowland wetlands in southern Thailand, the lab selects tree species suited to harsh degraded land that floods during the rainy season, and develops afforestation techniques, including methods for getting seedlings to take root.
*Illustrative imageWater and nutrient uptake by roots and stress
The lab investigates how the water and nutrient uptake functions of tree roots change when trees are exposed to stresses such as high temperature. Its research includes nitrogen uptake by cajuput, a tropical tree.
*Illustrative imagePhotosynthesis and stress
The lab investigates how the photosynthetic machinery of trees responds to stresses such as high temperature. It has conducted this research on Acacia species and on trees of the dipterocarp family (Dipterocarpaceae).
MembersFaculty
The members of the Tree Environmental Physiology Lab are faculty, Project Researchers, and international graduate research students.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorMariko NorisadaPublications ↗
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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: “Hutan sekunder M prui amr” Wibowo Djatmiko (Wie146) / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Tree stress responses and tolerance mechanisms: “Melaleuca cajuputi (habit)” R. Purdie / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Environmental afforestation of degraded tropical land: “Acacia mangium tanglebeans ( )” Dick Culbert / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Water and nutrient uptake by roots and stress: “Kürbis (Cucurbita maxima) Haarwurzeln--Josef Schlaghecken” Schlaghecken Josef / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Photosynthesis and stress: “Bryum capillare leaf cells” Des_Callaghan / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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