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Crop Science Lab (Fukano)
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The lab uses ecology to explore agriculture that achieves both food production and rich natural environments.
AboutAbout the lab
Farming for both food and wildlife
Associate Professor Fukano conducts research aimed at a new kind of environment-harmonized agriculture in which food production and the environment coexist.
The professor specializes in ecology and crop science, and studies crops and the wild plants and animals around them, mainly through outdoor fieldwork.
The lab also conducts research on agriculture using technologies such as drones and AI, as well as research on human psychology and behavior toward nature and agricultural products.
Key terms
- Environment-harmonized agriculture
- Agriculture that aims to grow crops while also addressing climate change and protecting the diversity of living things.
- Evolutionary ecology
- An approach that examines how organisms change their form and traits to suit their environment, in relation to the surrounding environment.
- Biodiversity
- The richness of many different kinds of living things coexisting within their interconnections.
NewsLab news
A framework proposed for evaluating the benefits of mixed cropping from multiple perspectives using drones and AI (Precision Agriculture)
A doctoral student received the Crop Science Society of Japan Outstanding Presentation Award (Poster Presentation category)
Research findings published on crop growth and yield under agrivoltaics (farming with solar power generation above the fields) (npj Sustainable Agriculture)
Associate Professor Fukano's book Sekai wa Shinka ni Michite Iru (The World Is Full of Evolution) has been released in the Iwanami Kagaku Library
Associate Professor Fukano received the Young Scientists' Award of the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
ResearchResearch themes
The lab aims for a new environment-harmonized agriculture in which food production and the environment (climate change countermeasures and biodiversity) coexist. It studies crops and the wild plants and animals around them, mainly through outdoor fieldwork.
*Illustrative imageEvolutionary ecology and conservation of crops and wild organisms
In outdoor fields, the lab studies production, evolutionary ecology, and conservation, targeting a variety of crops and the wild plants and animals around them.
*Illustrative imageSustainable agriculture using drones and AI
The lab applies technologies such as drones and AI in research aimed at sustainable, smart agriculture.
*Illustrative imageHuman psychology toward nature and agricultural products
The lab also conducts research close to marketing, examining how people feel and act toward nature and agricultural products.
MembersFaculty
- Associate ProfessorYuya Fukano
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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: “Wildflowers and farmland near Bromfield - geograph.org.uk - 7566334” Mat Fascione / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Evolutionary ecology and conservation of crops and wild organisms: “Dragonfly on rice farm” Photobyamin / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Sustainable agriculture using drones and AI: “IRRI BBM rice drone demo 2” Christopher Hedreyd - PIA 4A CALABARZON / Public domain (cropped)
- Human psychology toward nature and agricultural products: “Vegetables Farmers Market Cubao” Wolfgang Hägele / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Cultivation Science Lab (Nakano)): “Tomato cultivation in France (4)” Mouh2jijel / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Space Horticulture Lab): “Genetically modified, extemely dwarf tomato plants grow aboard the International Space Station (iss073e0031528)” NASA Johnson Space Center / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Cultivation Science Lab (Kanno)): “Asparagus field Drzymalowo kz01” Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Plant Environment Engineering Lab): “Small greenhouse with grapevines escaping” W.carter / CC0 (cropped)
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