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Quality Design and Development Lab
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A lab that designs the foods of the future from proteins found in the seeds of crops such as soybeans.
AboutAbout the lab
Redesigning the proteins in our food.
The Quality Design and Development Lab conducts basic research aimed at developing high-quality proteins, focusing mainly on plant-based food proteins.
Most of the protein in food crops is seed storage protein accumulated in the seed, and this property is also what allows tofu and bread to be made.
Starting from studies of protein structure and the mechanisms by which proteins are produced, the lab has broadened its research to the relationship between structure and qualities such as allergenicity and palatability.
Undergraduates are assigned to the Plant Production Sciences course in their third year, and to this lab within the course in their fourth year (graduate students belong to the Division of Agronomy and Horticultural Science, Graduate School of Agriculture).
Key terms
- Storage protein
- Protein that seeds accumulate for use in germination. It strongly influences the properties of food.
ResearchResearch themes
There is demand for foods newly equipped with nutrition, palatability, health benefits, and ease of processing. The lab investigates the structure of plant-based food proteins and the mechanisms by which they are produced, aiming to build a foundation for designing new food proteins.
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- ProfessorNobuyuki Maruyama
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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: “SOYBEAN 01” Jozef020 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Seed Proteins and Food Quality: “Close-up of High Oleic Soybean Pods ( )” United Soybean Board / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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