CONTENTS
Preface
Faculty of Agriculture 1
Graduate School of Agriculture 1
International Academic Exchange and Cooperation of the Faculty of Agriculture 3
Report of a visiting professorship stay in Japan 7
1. Departments
1-1 Dpartment of Bioresource Sciences 13
1-2 Department of Applied Life Sciences 15
1-3 Department of Agricultural and Environmental Engineering 17
1-4 Department of Food and Environmental Economics 19
1-5 Department of Forest and Biomaterials Science 20
1-6 Department of Food Science and Biotechnology 22
1-7 (Department of Bio-production Science and Technology: 4th year) 23
1-8 (Department of Life and Biomaterials Science: 4th year) 24
1-9 (Department of Agro-Environmental Sciences: 4th year) 25
2. Divisions & Facilities
2-1 Division of Agronomy and Horticultural Science
Chair of Crop Science 27
2-1-1 Laboratory of Crop Science 27
2-1-2 Laboratory of Plant Breeding 31
Chair of Horticultural Science 35
2-1-3 Laboratory of Vegetable and Ornamental Horticulture 35
2-1-4 Laboratory of Pomology 38
Chair of Agricultural Ecology 42
2-1-5 Laboratory of Weed Science 42
2-1-6 Laboratory of Plant Production Systems 45
Chair of Food Quality Science 49
2-1-7 Laboratory of Food Quality Design and Development 49
2-1-8 Laboratory of Quality Analysis and Assessment 54
Chair of Plant Production Science (Experimental Farm) 57
2-1-9 Laboratory of Plant Production Control 57
2-2 Division of Forest and Biomaterials Science
Chair of Forest Resource Management 63
2-2-1 Laboratory of Forest Resources and Society 63
2-2-2 Laboratory of Tropical Forest Resources and Environments 65
2-2-3 Laboratory of Forest Environment Planning 70
Chair of Forest and Forestry Production 72
2-2-4 Laboratory of Forest Utilization 72
2-2-5 Laboratory of Forest Biology 75
Chair of Forest Environment Conservation 78
2-2-6 Laboratory of Landscape Architecture 78
2-2-7 Laboratory of Erosion Control 83
Chair of Biomaterials Technology 87
2-2-8 Laboratory of Biomaterials Design 87
2-2-9 Laboratory of Wood Processing 89
2-2-10 Laboratory of Natural Fibrous Materials 93
Chair of Biomaterials Function 97
2-2-11 Laboratory of Tree Cell Biology 97
2-2-12 Laboratory of Chemistry of Composite Materials 100
2-2-13 Laboratory of Chemistry of Biomaterials 103
Chair of Forest Resources (Field Science Education and Research Center: FSERC) 107
2-2-14 Laboratory of Forest Information 107
2-2-15 Laboratory of Silviculture 110
Chair of Wood Biomass Science 115
2-2-16 Laboratory of Biomass Morphogenesis and Information 115
(Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere)  
2-2-17 Laboratory of Active Bio-based Materials 119
(Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere)  
2-2-18 Laboratory of Sustainable Materials 123
(Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere)  
2-2-19 Laboratory of Innovative Humano-habitability 129
(Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere)  
2-2-20 Laboratory of Structural Function 137
2-3 Division of Applied Life Sciences
Chair of Applied Biochemistry 143
2-3-1 Laboratory of Cellular Biochemistry 143
2-3-2 Laboratory of Biomacromolecular Chemistry 147
2-3-3 Laboratory of Bioregulation Chemistry 149
2-3-4 Laboratory of Chemical Ecology 153
Chair of Molecular and Cellular Sciences 156
2-3-5 Laboratory of Plant Nutrition 156
2-3-6 Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology 158
Chair of Applied Microbiology 162
2-3-7 Laboratory of Fermentation Physiology and Applied Microbiology 162
2-3-8 Laboratory of Microbial Biotechnology 167
Chair of Bioorganic and Biophysical Chemistry 170
2-3-9 Laboratory of Bio-Analytical and Physical Chemistry 170
2-3-10 Laboratory of Biofunction Chemistry 174
2-3-11 Laboratory of Applied Structural Biology 178
Chair of Molecular Biofunction (Institute for Chemical Research) 180
2-3-12 Laboratory of Chemistry of Molecular Biocatalysts 180
2-3-13 Laboratory of Molecular Microbial Science (Institute for Chemical Research) 186
Chair of Wood Biosciences (Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere) 189
2-3-14 Laboratory of Gene Expression 189
2-3-15 Laboratory of Biochemical Control 194
2-3-16 Laboratory of Biomass Conversion 198
2-4 Division of Applied Biosciences
Chair of Science of Plant Resources 202
2-4-1 Laboratory of Plant Genetics 202
2-4-2 Laboratory of Crop Evolution 205
Chair of Science of Plant Protection 208
2-4-3 Laboratory of Plant Pathology 208
2-4-4 Laboratory of Insect Ecology 212
2-4-5 Laboratory of Insect Physiology 216
Chair of Animal Genetics and Reproduction 219
2-4-6 Laboratory of Animal Breeding and Genetics 219
2-4-7 Laboratory of Reproductive Physiology 223
Chair of Animal Anatomy, Nutrition and Resources 226
2-4-8 Laboratory of Nutritional Science 226
2-4-9 Laboratory of Animal Physiology and Functional Anatomy 230
2-4-10 Laboratory of Animal Husbandry Resources 233
Chair of Marine Biological Resources 236
2-4-11 Laboratory of Fisheries and Environmental Oceanography 236
2-4-12 Laboratory of Marine Stock-Enhancement Biology 239
Chair of Marine Microbiology 244
2-4-13 Laboratory of Physiology and Genetics of Marine Microbes 244
2-4-14 Laboratory of Marine Environmental Microbiology 248
Chair of Marine Bio-production 253
2-4-15 Laboratory of Technology of Marine Bio-products 253
2-4-16 Laboratory of Marine Biological Function 257
2-5 Division of Environmental Science and Technology
Chair of Comparative Agricultural Science 262
2-5-1 Laboratory of Comparative Agricultural Science 262
Chair of Bio-environmental Science 267
2-5-2 Laboratory of Forest Ecology 267
2-5-3 Laboratory of Forest Hydrology 270
2-5-4 Laboratory of Forest Biochemistry 274
Chair of Agro-ecosystem Science 277
2-5-5 Laboratory of Tropical Agriculture 277
2-5-6 Laboratory of Soil Science 281
2-5-7 Laboratory of Environmental Mycoscience 285
2-5-8 Laboratory of Ecological Information 288
Chair of Environmental Development Engineering 292
2-5-9 Laboratory of Agricultural Facilities Engineering 292
2-5-10 Laboratory of Water Resources Engineering 296
Chair of Land and Water Resources Management 299
2-5-11 Laboratory of Irrigation, Drainage and Hydrological Environment Engineering 299
2-5-12 Laboratory of Rural Planning 303
Chair of Bioproduction Engineering 306
2-5-13 Laboratory of Agricultural Systems Engineering 306
2-5-14 Laboratory of Field Robotics 311
2-5-15 Laboratory of Agricultural Process Technology 316
Chair of Nuclear Science and Engineering (Research Reactor Institute) 320
2-5-16 Laboratory of Radiation Safety Control 320
2-6 Division of Natural Resource Economics
Chair of Management & Information of Agricultural Enterprise 324
2-6-1 Laboratory of Farm Management 324
2-6-2 Laboratory of Farm Managerial Information and Accounting 327
Chair of International Agricultural Economics 330
2-6-3 Laboratory of Regional Environmental Economics 330
2-6-4 Laboratory of Food and Environmental Policy 334
2-6-5 Laboratory of Forest Policy and Economics 336
2-6-6 Laboratory of International Rural Development 339
Chair of Comparative Agricultural History & Philosophy of Agricultural Science 341
2-6-7 Laboratory of Comparative Agricultural History 341
2-6-8 Laboratory of Philosophy of Agricultural Science 344
2-7 Division of Food Science and Biotechnology
Chair of Food Life Sciences 348
2-7-1 Laboratory of Enzyme Chemistry 348
2-7-2 Laboratory of Food and Environmental Sciences 354
2-7-3 Laboratory of Organic Chemistry in Life Science 357
Chair of Food Bioscience 366
2-7-4 Laboratory of Nutrition Chemistry 366
2-7-5 Laboratory of Molecular Function of Food 370
2-7-6 Laboratory of Physiological Function of Food 374
Chair of Food Production Technology 379
2-7-7 Laboratory of Bioengineering 379
2-7-8 Laboratory of Basic and Applied Molecular Biotechnology 383
2-8 Facilities
2-8-1 Experimental Farm 388
2-8-2 Livestock Farm 389
     
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