CONTENTS

Preface I. General Information Faculty of Agriculture Graduate School of Agriculture II. International Activities International Academic Exchange and Cooperation of the Faculty of Agriculture Report of a visiting professorship stay in Japan III. Research and Educational Activities 1. Departments 1-1 Department of Bioresource Sciences 1-2 Department of Applied Life Sciences 1-3 Department of Agricultural and Environmental Engineering 1-4 Department of Food and Environmental Economics 1-5 Department of Forest and Biomaterials Science 1-6 Department of Food Science and Biotechnology 1-7 (Department of Bio-production Science and Technology: 4th year) 1-8 (Department of Life and Biomaterials Science: 4th year) 2. Divisions & Facilities 2-1 Division of Agronomy and Horticultural Science Chair of Crop Science 2-1-1 Laboratory of Crop Science 2-1-2 Laboratory of Plant Breeding Chair of Horticultural Science 2-1-3 Laboratory of Vegetable and Ornamental Horticulture 2-1-4 Laboratory of Pomology Chair of Agricultural Ecology 2-1-5 Laboratory of Weed Science 2-1-6 Laboratory of Plant Production Systems Chair of Food Quality Science 2-1-7 Laboratory of Food Quality Design and Development 2-1-8 Laboratory of Quality Analysis and Assessment Chair of Plant Production Science (Experimental Farm) 2-1-9 Laboratory of Plant Production Control 2-2 Division of Forest and Biomaterials Science Chair of Forest Resource Management 2-2-1 Laboratory of Forest Resources and Society 2-2-2 Laboratory of Tropical Forest Resources and Environments 2-2-3 Laboratory of Forest Environment Planning Chair of Forest and Forestry Production 2-2-4 Laboratory of Forest Utilization 2-2-5 Laboratory of Forest Biology Chair of Forest Environment Conservation 2-2-6 Laboratory of Landscape Architecture 2-2-7 Laboratory of Erosion Control Chair of Biomaterials Technology 2-2-8 Laboratory of Biomaterials Design 2-2-9 Laboratory of Wood Processing 2-2-10 Laboratory of Fibrous Materials Chair of Biomaterials Function 2-2-11 Laboratory of Tree Cell Biology 2-2-12 Laboratory of Chemistry of Composite Materials 2-2-13 Laboratory of Chemistry of Biomaterials Chair of Forest Resources (Field Science Education and Research Center: FSERC) 2-2-14 Laboratory of Forest Information 2-2-15 Laboratory of Silviculture Chair of Wood Biomass Science 2-2-16 Laboratory of Biomass Morphogenesis and Information   (Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere) 2-2-17 Laboratory of Active Bio-based Materials   (Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere) 2-2-18 Laboratory of Sustainable Materials   (Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere) 2-2-19 Laboratory of Innovative Humano-habitability   (Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere) 2-2-20 Laboratory of Structural Function 2-3 Division of Applied Life Sciences Chair of Applied Biochemistry 2-3-1 Laboratory of Cellular Biochemistry 2-3-2 Laboratory of Biomacromolecular Chemistry 2-3-3 Laboratory of Bioregulation Chemistry 2-3-4 Laboratory of Chemical Ecology Chair of Molecular and Cellular Sciences 2-3-5 Laboratory of Plant Nutrition 2-3-6 Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology Chair of Applied Microbiology 2-3-7 Laboratory of Fermentation Physiology and Applied Microbiology 2-3-8 Laboratory of Microbial Biotechnology Chair of Bioorganic and Biophysical Chemistry 2-3-9 Laboratory of Bio-Analytical and Physical Chemistry 2-3-10 Laboratory of Biofunction Chemistry 2-3-11 Laboratory of Applied Structural Biology Chair of Molecular Biofunction (Institute for Chemical Research) 2-3-12 Laboratory of Chemistry of Molecular Biocatalysts 2-3-13 Laboratory of Molecular Microbial Science (Institute for Chemical Research) Division of Diagnostics and Control of Humanospere (Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere) 2-3-14 Laboratory of Plant Gene Expression 2-3-15 Laboratory of Metabolic Science of Forest Plants and Microorganisms 2-3-16 Laboratory of Biomass Conversion 2-4 Division of Applied Biosciences Chair of Science of Plant Resources 2-4-1 Laboratory of Plant Genetics 2-4-2 Laboratory of Crop Evolution Chair of Science of Plant Protection 2-4-3 Laboratory of Plant Pathology 2-4-4 Laboratory of Insect Ecology 2-4-5 Laboratory of Insect Physiology Chair of Animal Genetics and Reproduction 2-4-6 Laboratory of Animal Breeding and Genetics 2-4-7 Laboratory of Reproductive Biology Chair of Animal Anatomy, Nutrition and Resources 2-4-8 Laboratory of Nutritional Science 2-4-9 Laboratory of Animal Physiology and Functional Anatomy 2-4-10 Laboratory of Animal Husbandry Resources Chair of Marine Biological Resources 2-4-11 Laboratory of Fisheries and Environmental Oceanography 2-4-12 Laboratory of Marine Stock-Enhancement Biology Chair of Marine Microbiology 2-4-13 Laboratory of Physiology and Genetics of Marine Microbes 2-4-14 Laboratory of Marine Environmental Microbiology Chair of Marine Bio-production 2-4-15 Laboratory of Technology of Marine Bio-products 2-4-16 Laboratory of Marine Biological Function 2-5 Division of Environmental Science and Technology Chair of Comparative Agricultural Science 2-5-1 Laboratory of Forest Ecology 2-5-2 Laboratory of Forest Hydrology 2-5-3 Laboratory of Forest Biochemistry Chair of Agro-ecosystem Science 2-5-4 Laboratory of Tropical Agriculture 2-5-5 Laboratory of Soil Science 2-5-6 Laboratory of Environmental Mycoscience 2-5-7 Laboratory of Ecological Information Chair of Environmental Development Engineering 2-5-8 Laboratory of Agricultural Facilities Engineering 2-5-9 Laboratory of Water Resources Engineering Chair of Land and Water Resources Management 2-5-10 Laboratory of Irrigation, Drainage and Hydrological Environment Engineering 2-5-11 Laboratory of Rural Planning Chair of Bioproduction Engineering 2-5-12 Laboratory of Agricultural Systems Engineering 2-5-13 Laboratory of Field Robotics 2-5-14 Laboratory of Agricultural Process Technology Chair of Nuclear Science and Engineering (Research Reactor Institute) 2-5-15 Laboratory of Radiation Safety Control 2-6 Division of Natural Resource Economics Chair of Management & Information of Agricultural Enterprise 2-6-1 Laboratory of Farm Management 2-6-2 Laboratory of Farm Managerial Information and Accounting Chair of International Agricultural Economics 2-6-3 Laboratory of Regional Environmental Economics 2-6-4 Laboratory of Food and Environmental Policy 2-6-5 Laboratory of Forest Policy and Economics 2-6-6 Laboratory of International Rural Development Chair of Comparative Agricultural History & Philosophy of Agricultural Science 2-6-7 Laboratory of Comparative Agricultural History 2-6-8 Laboratory of Philosophy of Agricultural Science 2-7 Division of Food Science and Biotechnology Chair of Food Life Sciences 2-7-1 Laboratory of Enzyme Chemistry 2-7-2 Laboratory of Food and Environmental Sciences 2-7-3 Laboratory of Organic Chemistry in Life Science Chair of Food Bioscience 2-7-4 Laboratory of Nutrition Chemistry 2-7-5 Laboratory of Molecular Function of Food 2-7-6 Laboratory of Physiological Function of Food Chair of Food Production Technology 2-7-7 Laboratory of Bioengineering 2-7-8 Laboratory of Basic and Applied Molecular Biotechnology 2-8 Comparative Agricultural Science 2-8-1 Laboratory of Comparative Agricultural Science 2-9 Facilities 2-9-1 Experimental Farm 2-9-2 Livestock Farm 2-10 Endowed Chair   2-10-1 Industrial Microbiology 2-10-2 AJINOMOTO Integrative Research for Advanced Dieting 2-10-3 Food and Agricultural Safety and Ethics       Members of Performance Assessment Committee   Members of Editorial Board of Annual Report   Academic Staff Index   Colophon