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Izumi Okane, Associate Professor
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The Plant Parasitic Mycology Lab studies the diversity, taxonomy, ecology, and physiology of fungi and bacteria that live in close association with plants. The subjects include a wide range of microorganisms: plant pathogens such as rust fungi, symbionts such as mycorrhizal fungi, and decomposers of litter and wood. Using methods ranging from fieldwork to molecular biological analysis, the lab clarifies the basic biological characteristics of fungi and bacteria. The lab hopes this work will eventually contribute to the integrated control of plant pathogenic microorganisms and to environmental conservation.
Seiichi Furukawa, Associate Professor
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The Applied Entomology and Zoology Lab studies the mechanisms of insect immunity and the ecology of parasitoid wasps and flies. Insects survive in environments containing pathogenic bacteria and under attack from parasitoid insects. Using molecular biological methods, rearing experiments, and field surveys, the lab investigates these defense mechanisms and the strategies of the parasitoids. Undergraduates join from the College of Biological Sciences or the College of Agro-Biological Resource Sciences in the School of Life and Environmental Sciences, and graduate students join through the Agro-Bioresource Sciences or Agricultural Sciences degree programs.
Hiroko Isoda, Professor
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The Food Resource Utilization Science Lab focuses on international research on the functional analysis and effective use of food resources. The lab also studies how to turn food components into seeds for functional foods and cosmetics, maps the distribution of functional properties in dryland vegetation and builds a database of them, and develops methods for evaluating the safety of foods and the environment. Using bioassays based on animal cell engineering, the lab searches for new bioactive functions and clarifies their mechanisms, and it also conducts field surveys in drylands. The lab's website introduces it under the name "Isoda Lab."
Miyako Kusano, Professor
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The Metabolic Network Science Lab studies the mechanisms of metabolism inside plants, focusing on metabolites, which are organic compounds. The lab aims to clarify how plants allocate the energy they produce for themselves, and how they produce different metabolites in both quantity and quality in response to the environment. By analyzing volatile organic compounds, the components of odor, the lab explores how compounds in soil affect plant growth and how the aroma of tomatoes and other crops is produced. Developing measurement technologies using analytical instruments is also one of the main pillars of the lab's research.
Yukari Sunohara, Associate Professor
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The Plant Functional Biochemistry Lab studies the mechanisms of bioactive substances that act on plants, and plant responses to them. For both natural and synthetic bioactive substances, the lab identifies which molecules they act on (target molecules) and investigates how they work. The lab also studies plant responses to photooxidative stress, the biosynthesis of aroma compounds, semiochemicals that act among insects, plants, and animals, and the uptake and transport of metals in land plants. On the lab's website, it is introduced under the name "Plant Function Regulation Lab."
Hideyuki Shigemori, Professor
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The Natural Products Chemistry Lab searches for the target molecules of natural and synthetic bioactive compounds and studies how they work. Its research also covers phototropism, gravitropism, and allelopathy in plants. It also lists new pharmaceuticals and functional foods derived from untapped biological resources as research topics. The lab also examines whether components of seaweeds and plants can inhibit the aggregation of amyloid β.
Maki Asano, Assistant Professor
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The Soil Environmental Chemistry Lab conducts research on forest soils, soil organic matter, and the soils of the Eurasian steppe. The university's researcher directory lists soil carbonates, soil aggregates, soil organic matter, and pedogenesis as research keywords. In the College of Agro-Biological Resource Sciences, the lab is listed as one of the research areas of the Applied Life Chemistry course (chemistry field).
Keiko Yamaji, Professor
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The Plant Environmental Biochemistry Lab studies the mechanisms by which plants tolerate environmental stress such as heavy metals, focusing on their relationships with endophytes. The lab also investigates how plants and the microbes around their roots influence each other through chemical substances. Its research projects and papers include many that focus on plants growing naturally at abandoned mine sites.
Jun Furukawa, Associate Professor
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The Plant Nutrition Lab studies how plants adapt to environmental changes such as temperature, water, and nutrients. The lab focuses in particular on the roles of inorganic ions and the functions of the cell wall. Using the actions of signaling molecules such as plant hormones as clues, the lab investigates how separate organs, such as roots and shoots, influence one another. Its research also makes use of radioisotopes, research nuclear reactors, and accelerators.
Shigeru Matsuyama, Lecturer
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The Insect Semiochemistry Lab studies the semiochemicals that insects use. Its research field is bioorganic chemistry, and its listed keywords are insects, plants, semiochemicals, pheromones, and kairomones. Division of labor in social insects, semiochemicals of the Japanese honeybee, insect sex pheromones, and the relationship between plant scents and insects appear among its research topics and papers. In the College of Agro-Biological Resource Sciences, the lab corresponds to the Insect Semiochemistry field of the Applied Life Chemistry Course.
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