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Institute for Sustainable Agro-ecosystem Services
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A research base exploring, in the fields of Tanashi, how agriculture can work in harmony with the benefits nature provides.
AboutAbout the lab
Aiming for agriculture in harmony with ecosystem services
The Institute for Sustainable Agro-ecosystem Services studies how agriculture and forestry relate to ecosystem services, the benefits that nature provides.
Based at Tanashi Campus, where cropland, green space, and forest form a continuous landscape, the institute carries out education and research that connect farm fields with society.
Labs (Cooperating Chairs) from several departments of the Graduate School are located here and work on crop production and cultivation techniques, plant ecology, and more.
Students in the Major in Landscape Ecology and Planning can also carry out their graduation thesis research here.
Key terms
- Ecosystem services
- The various benefits that natural ecosystems provide to people, such as producing food and timber and maintaining landscapes and urban greenery
- Cooperating Chair
- A chair (lab) established at an affiliated facility of the university, which shares the education and research duties of a department
- Ecological risk
- The possibility that chemicals such as pesticides will have adverse effects on the numbers of living organisms or on ecosystems
NewsLab news
Genome editing of chloroplasts strengthens Rubisco, improving photosynthesis and plant productivity
Discovery of a gene that controls the flowering time of rice
Designing plant architecture with laser diode light to promote photosynthesis
Toward rice that withstands "light fluctuations" in high-CO₂ environments, with enhanced photosynthesis and growth
Selective use of far-red light balances yield and quality in plant factory lettuce
ResearchResearch themes
The institute aims to explore forms of agriculture, forestry, and society that are in harmony with sustainable ecosystem services, and to clarify the role that agriculture, forestry, and farming and mountain villages will play in the society of the future. At Tanashi Campus, which has cropland, green space, and forest, it conducts research that focuses on the functions of living organisms and material cycles.
*Illustrative imageProduction Ecology of Crops and the Environment
Focusing on the relationships among crops, the environment, and people, the institute studies new sustainable production systems that increase yield and improve quality while reducing the burden on the environment (Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology).
*Illustrative imageAgricultural Systems That Make Use of Nature's Benefits
Using engineering methods, the institute studies next-generation agricultural systems that connect fields with society and use ecosystem services sustainably. Currently, it mainly develops cultivation and postharvest technologies (Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering).
*Illustrative imageEcology of Plants in Farmland and Green Space
Focusing mainly on plants, the institute investigates the mechanisms that maintain population size and genetic diversity, the roles of wild organisms in agriculture and forestry, and the ecological risks of chemicals such as pesticides (Department of Ecosystem Studies).
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorSaneyuki KawabataPublications ↗
- Associate ProfessorChikako HondaPublications ↗
- Associate ProfessorWataru YamoriPublications ↗
- Associate ProfessorWei GuoPublications ↗
- Associate ProfessorSugimoto KoichiPublications ↗
- Assistant ProfessorYu WakabayashiPublications ↗
- Assistant ProfessorYoichi TsuzukiPublications ↗
- Assistant ProfessorSiyao ChenPublications ↗
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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: “Midoricho, Nishitokyo, University of Tokyo Tanashi Campus 20250615” Mikagekawase / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Production Ecology of Crops and the Environment: “Red Rice Paddy field in Japan 013” Flickr user gtknj / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Agricultural Systems That Make Use of Nature's Benefits: “VertiCrop” Valcenteu / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Ecology of Plants in Farmland and Green Space: “Taraxacum platycarpum 01” Dalgial / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (保全生態学研究室): “Satoyama, utilize plant layer” Namazu-tron / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (都市・ランドスケープ計画研究室): “Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden and NTT DoCoMo Yoyogi Building, Tokyo, Japan” Basile Morin / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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(緑地創成学研究室): “Shiroyone Senmaida 200906” Totti / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped) - Related lab (杉本研究室
（植物－植食者相互作用研究室／Plant Metabolisms-Herbivore Interaction Laboratory） ): “Badamia exclamationis caterpillar eating Terminalia catappa leaf. Dededo, Guam” Halenhardy / CC0 (cropped)
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