CONTENTS
Preface
Faculty of Agriculture 1
Graduate School of Agriculture 1
International Academic Exchange and Cooperation of the Faculty of Agriculture 5
Report of a visiting professorship stay in Japan 9
1. Departments
1-1 Dpartment of Bioresource Sciences 21
1-2 Department of Applied Life Sciences 23
1-3 Department of Agricultural and Environmental Engineering 25
1-4 Department of Food and Environmental Economics 27
1-5 Department of Forest and Biomaterials Science 29
1-6 Department of Food Science and Biotechnology 31
1-7 (Department of Bio-production Science and Technology: 4th year) 32
1-8 (Department of Life and Biomaterials Science: 4th year) 33
2. Divisions & Facilities
2-1 Division of Agronomy and Horticultural Science
Chair of Crop Science 35
2-1-1 Laboratory of Crop Science 35
2-1-2 Laboratory of Plant Breeding 40
Chair of Horticultural Science 44
2-1-3 Laboratory of Vegetable and Ornamental Horticulture 44
2-1-4 Laboratory of Pomology 47
Chair of Agricultural Ecology 51
2-1-5 Laboratory of Weed Science 51
2-1-6 Laboratory of Plant Production Systems 54
Chair of Food Quality Science 58
2-1-7 Laboratory of Food Quality Design and Development 58
2-1-8 Laboratory of Quality Analysis and Assessment 61
Chair of Plant Production Science (Experimental Farm) 64
2-1-9 Laboratory of Plant Production Control 64
2-2 Division of Forest and Biomaterials Science
Chair of Forest Resource Management 70
2-2-1 Laboratory of Forest Resources and Society 70
2-2-2 Laboratory of Tropical Forest Resources and Environments 71
2-2-3 Laboratory of Forest Environment Planning 75
Chair of Forest and Forestry Production 77
2-2-4 Laboratory of Forest Utilization 77
2-2-5 Laboratory of Forest Biology 81
Chair of Forest Environment Conservation 84
2-2-6 Laboratory of Landscape Architecture 84
2-2-7 Laboratory of Erosion Control 89
Chair of Biomaterials Technology 93
2-2-8 Laboratory of Biomaterials Design 93
2-2-9 Laboratory of Wood Processing 97
2-2-10 Laboratory of Fibrous Materials 101
Chair of Biomaterials Function 105
2-2-11 Laboratory of Tree Cell Biology 105
2-2-12 Laboratory of Chemistry of Composite Materials 107
2-2-13 Laboratory of Chemistry of Biomaterials 111
Chair of Forest Resources (Field Science Education and Research Center: FSERC) 115
2-2-14 Laboratory of Forest Information 115
2-2-15 Laboratory of Silviculture 120
Chair of Wood Biomass Science 126
2-2-16 Laboratory of Biomass Morphogenesis and Information  
(Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere) 126
2-2-17 Laboratory of Active Bio-based Materials  
(Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere) 128
2-2-18 Laboratory of Sustainable Materials  
(Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere) 132
2-2-19 Laboratory of Innovative Humano-habitability  
(Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere) 136
2-2-20 Laboratory of Structural Function 144
2-3 Division of Applied Life Sciences
Chair of Applied Biochemistry 151
2-3-1 Laboratory of Cellular Biochemistry 151
2-3-2 Laboratory of Biomacromolecular Chemistry 155
2-3-3 Laboratory of Bioregulation Chemistry 157
2-3-4 Laboratory of Chemical Ecology 161
Chair of Molecular and Cellular Sciences 164
2-3-5 Laboratory of Plant Nutrition 164
2-3-6 Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology 166
Chair of Applied Microbiology 169
2-3-7 Laboratory of Fermentation Physiology and Applied Microbiology 169
2-3-8 Laboratory of Microbial Biotechnology 175
Chair of Bioorganic and Biophysical Chemistry 178
2-3-9 Laboratory of Bio-Analytical and Physical Chemistry 178
2-3-10 Laboratory of Biofunction Chemistry 182
2-3-11 Laboratory of Applied Structural Biology 187
Chair of Molecular Biofunction (Institute for Chemical Research) 190
2-3-12 Laboratory of Chemistry of Molecular Biocatalysts 190
2-3-13 Laboratory of Molecular Microbial Science (Institute for Chemical Research) 194
Division of Diagnostics and Control of Humanospere (Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere) 197
2-3-14 Laboratory of Plant Gene Expression 197
2-3-15 Laboratory of Metabolic Science of Forest Plants and Microorganisms 202
2-3-16 Laboratory of Biomass Conversion 207
2-4 Division of Applied Biosciences
Chair of Science of Plant Resources 211
2-4-1 Laboratory of Plant Genetics 211
2-4-2 Laboratory of Crop Evolution 214
Chair of Science of Plant Protection 216
2-4-3 Laboratory of Plant Pathology 216
2-4-4 Laboratory of Insect Ecology 220
2-4-5 Laboratory of Insect Physiology 224
Chair of Animal Genetics and Reproduction 227
2-4-6 Laboratory of Animal Breeding and Genetics 227
2-4-7 Laboratory of Reproductive Biology 230
Chair of Animal Anatomy, Nutrition and Resources 233
2-4-8 Laboratory of Nutritional Science 233
2-4-9 Laboratory of Animal Physiology and Functional Anatomy 236
2-4-10 Laboratory of Animal Husbandry Resources 238
Chair of Marine Biological Resources 242
2-4-11 Laboratory of Fisheries and Environmental Oceanography 242
2-4-12 Laboratory of Marine Stock-Enhancement Biology 247
Chair of Marine Microbiology 250
2-4-13 Laboratory of Physiology and Genetics of Marine Microbes 250
2-4-14 Laboratory of Marine Environmental Microbiology 254
Chair of Marine Bio-production 259
2-4-15 Laboratory of Technology of Marine Bio-products 259
2-4-16 Laboratory of Marine Biological Function 262
2-5 Division of Environmental Science and Technology
Chair of Comparative Agricultural Science 267
2-5-1 Laboratory of Comparative Agricultural Science 267
Chair of Bio-environmental Science 272
2-5-2 Laboratory of Forest Ecology 272
2-5-3 Laboratory of Forest Hydrology 276
2-5-4 Laboratory of Forest Biochemistry 279
Chair of Agro-ecosystem Science 282
2-5-5 Laboratory of Tropical Agriculture 282
2-5-6 Laboratory of Soil Science 286
2-5-7 Laboratory of Environmental Mycoscience 290
2-5-8 Laboratory of Ecological Information 293
Chair of Environmental Development Engineering 297
2-5-9 Laboratory of Agricultural Facilities Engineering 297
2-5-10 Laboratory of Water Resources Engineering 301
Chair of Land and Water Resources Management 304
2-5-11 Laboratory of Irrigation, Drainage and Hydrological Environment Engineering 304
2-5-12 Laboratory of Rural Planning 309
Chair of Bioproduction Engineering 312
2-5-13 Laboratory of Agricultural Systems Engineering 312
2-5-14 Laboratory of Field Robotics 316
2-5-15 Laboratory of Agricultural Process Technology 322
Chair of Nuclear Science and Engineering (Research Reactor Institute) 325
2-5-16 Laboratory of Radiation Safety Control 325
2-6 Division of Natural Resource Economics
Chair of Management & Information of Agricultural Enterprise 329
2-6-1 Laboratory of Farm Management 329
2-6-2 Laboratory of Farm Managerial Information and Accounting 333
Chair of International Agricultural Economics 335
2-6-3 Laboratory of Regional Environmental Economics 335
2-6-4 Laboratory of Food and Environmental Policy 340
2-6-5 Laboratory of Forest Policy and Economics 342
2-6-6 Laboratory of International Rural Development 345
Chair of Comparative Agricultural History & Philosophy of Agricultural Science 346
2-6-7 Laboratory of Comparative Agricultural History 346
2-6-8 Laboratory of Philosophy of Agricultural Science 350
2-7 Division of Food Science and Biotechnology
Chair of Food Life Sciences 354
2-7-1 Laboratory of Enzyme Chemistry 354
2-7-2 Laboratory of Food and Environmental Sciences 360
2-7-3 Laboratory of Organic Chemistry in Life Science 362
Chair of Food Bioscience 369
2-7-4 Laboratory of Nutrition Chemistry 369
2-7-5 Laboratory of Molecular Function of Food 374
2-7-6 Laboratory of Physiological Function of Food 378
Chair of Food Production Technology 383
2-7-7 Laboratory of Bioengineering 383
2-7-8 Laboratory of Basic and Applied Molecular Biotechnology 388
2-8 Facilities
2-8-1 Experimental Farm 393
2-8-2 Livestock Farm 394
2-9 Endowed Chair  
2-9-1 Industrial Microbiology 397
2-9-2 AJINOMOTO Integrative Research for Advanced Dieting 399
2-9-3 Food and Agricultural Safety and Ethics 401
     
Academic Staff Index  
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