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Toshiyuki Takano, Professor
2 student voices
The Biomaterials Chemistry Lab studies the chemistry of materials made by living organisms, such as wood components and chitin and chitosan. Moving between the material, fiber, nano, and molecular levels, the lab investigates cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin. Its work ranges from fundamental research on complex structures to research that leads to new functional materials and to solutions for the problems of existing materials.
Ryutaro Tao, Professor
1 student voices
The Pomology Lab studies the mechanisms behind the various traits involved in how fruit trees bear fruit and how that fruit comes to be used. Founded in 1926, the lab carries out its research while growing persimmons, Japanese apricots, peaches, and other fruit trees in the orchard of the Kyoto Farm, located on the grounds of the Faculty of Agriculture. The lab's persimmon orchard is known as one of the largest persimmon cultivar collections in Japan and abroad. The knowledge gained is applied to developing new varieties with useful traits and new breeding technologies.
Reiji Masuda, Professor
1 student voices
The Satoumi Ecology and Conservation Lab is based at the Maizuru Fisheries Research Station in Maizuru, Kyoto Prefecture, and studies organisms living in river mouths and coastal seas. It conducts education and research related to fisheries science and environmental science, covering the ecology, physiology, behavior, and taxonomy of aquatic organisms, including fish. The lab also works on Mori-Sato-Umi Connectivity Studies, which comprehensively examines ecosystem linkages from forest to sea. Equipped with facilities such as a specimen museum, rearing buildings, and a research and training vessel, it is the only university-affiliated fisheries research station on the Sea of Japan side, and promotes joint use of its facilities.
Emi Takeyama, Professor
1 student voices
The lab studies, from the perspective of planning theory, how farming and mountain village areas should develop as they are affected by globalization. Because farming and mountain villages are strongly shaped by local conditions, they find it hard to adapt to environmental change, and various distortions and frictions arise. The lab's topics include the direction of endogenous regional development, rational social infrastructure development for farming and mountain villages, and systems of cooperation between urban and rural areas. It is a practical and interdisciplinary field that starts from local issues and builds tools that help solve them.
Ryozo Noguchi, Professor
1 student voices
The Agricultural Systems Engineering lab views agriculture, in which many elements are interconnected, as a single system and studies it from the perspectives of energy, resources, and information. The lab believes that solving the challenges of the 21st century, such as food and environmental problems and securing a stable energy supply, requires optimizing the whole system as well as advancing individual technologies. Undergraduate students join the lab in their fourth year (graduate students belong to the Division of Environmental Science and Technology, Graduate School of Agriculture).
Keisuke Katsura, Professor
0 student voices
The Crop Science Lab studies crops such as rice, soybean, and buckwheat, aiming to produce high-quality crops stably and in large quantities. The lab's research spans a wide range of scales, from genes and proteins to production at the field and regional levels, while placing importance on observing crops directly in the field. The lab conducts surveys not only in the university's experimental fields but also in farmers' fields in Japan and abroad, and it is advancing joint research with overseas partners. Undergraduate students are assigned to the Plant Production Science course in their third year, and to this lab within the course in their fourth year (graduate students belong to the Department of Agronomy, Graduate School of Agriculture).
Shuhei Nasuda, Professor
0 student voices
The Plant Breeding Lab studies the genetic mechanisms that determine agriculturally important traits in major crops such as rice, wheat, and soybean. The lab aims to apply these results to developing new varieties. The main study material is wheat. Using genome information and landraces from around the world, the lab carries out research to speed up breeding. Undergraduates are assigned to the Plant Production Science Course in their third year, and to this field within the course in their fourth year (graduate school: Graduate School of Agriculture, Division of Agronomy and Horticultural Science).
Yoshiyuki Tanaka, Professor
0 student voices
The Vegetable and Ornamental Horticulture Lab aims to produce high-quality, safe vegetables and flowers inexpensively all year round. Based on basic research, the lab develops new varieties and the systems to produce them. It investigates at the gene level the pungent compounds of chili peppers, the flower color of dahlias and other flowers, and how Brassicaceae vegetables such as cabbage come into flower. Undergraduates are assigned to the Plant Production Science Course in their third year, and to this field within the course in their fourth year (graduate school: Graduate School of Agriculture, Division of Agronomy and Horticultural Science).
Shunji Kurokawa, Professor
0 student voices
The Weed Science Lab studies weeds, plants that evolve by adapting well to human activity. Weeds cause harm in agriculture and other settings, but they also help support biodiversity. To think about 'how to coexist with weeds,' the lab studies the relationships among the environment, crops, weeds, and human activity. Undergraduates join the Plant Production Science course in their third year and are assigned to this lab within the course in their fourth year (graduate school: Division of Agronomy and Horticultural Science, Graduate School of Agriculture).
Hiromo Inoe, Associate Professor
0 student voices
The Cropping Systems Lab conducts research to comprehensively identify the problems of current agricultural production from the structure and function of farmland ecosystems. Based on this, the lab does field research to build agricultural production systems that are highly productive and sustainable while protecting ecosystems. The lab is located at the Experimental Farm of the Graduate School of Agriculture (Kizu Farm) in Kizugawa City. Undergraduates join the Plant Production Science course in their third year and are assigned to this lab within the course in their fourth year (graduate school: Division of Agronomy and Horticultural Science, Graduate School of Agriculture).
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