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Plant Environmental Engineering Lab
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A lab that adjusts light and temperature to grow plants efficiently in greenhouses and plant factories.
AboutAbout the lab
Finding the best environment for plants and designing new production systems.
The Plant Environmental Engineering Lab studies environmental control for growing plants efficiently in greenhouses and plant factories.
It investigates how plants respond to the environment, from the gene level to the canopy level, to find environments suited to growth.
Based on this knowledge, the lab designs new plant production systems such as greenhouses and plant factories.
It aims to produce highly functional, high-quality crops efficiently on an evidence basis.
Key terms
- Plant factory
- A production system in which vegetables and other crops are grown on a planned basis inside a facility where light, temperature, and other conditions are artificially controlled
- Canopy
- A stand of plants growing together in one place. The crops across a whole field or greenhouse also count as one
- Dissolved oxygen
- Oxygen dissolved in water. In hydroponics, it is essential for the roots to respire
NewsLab news
Professor Goto and a research group at the University of Tsukuba developed lettuce with a controlled balance of components
A paper by Professor Goto and colleagues was published in Building and Environment
A paper by Professor Goto and colleagues was published in Agriculture
A paper by Professor Goto and colleagues was published in Plants
A paper by Professor Goto and colleagues was published in Frontiers in Plant Science
ResearchResearch themes
The lab creates environments suited to plant growth by actively controlling conditions inside facilities, and develops efficient growth control technologies matched to production goals. Using methods from environmental engineering and ecophysiology, it clarifies how plants respond to the environment and applies that knowledge to efficient production.
*Illustrative imageEnvironmental Factors: Light, Gas, Temperature, and More
Among the factors surrounding plants, the lab mainly targets the physical and chemical environment. It focuses on carbon dioxide and oxygen concentrations, light intensity and color, light period, temperature and humidity, wind, and the dissolved oxygen and nutrient composition around the roots.
*Illustrative imageProduction Technologies in Greenhouses and Plant Factories
The lab works on environmental control technologies for large-scale greenhouses and on closed transplant production systems specialized in seedling production. It is also researching the production of functional vegetables by adjusting the light environment, and the efficient production of medicinal components of medicinal plants in plant factories.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Plant Environmental Engineering Lab are faculty, collaborative researchers, research assistants, secretaries, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- Project ProfessorEiji Goto
- ProfessorShoko Hikosaka
- Assistant ProfessorHideo Yoshida
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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: “IFarm.fi Vertical farm Finland” ifarm.fi / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Environmental Factors: Light, Gas, Temperature, and More: “LED panel and plants” NASA Marshall Space Flight Center / Public domain (cropped)
- Production Technologies in Greenhouses and Plant Factories: “Tomato P5260299b” Goldlocki / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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