Agro-biosciences

Introduction

Education and research aimed at 1) biotechnology and bioscience for the utilization of biological functions in agriculture under cold climate, 2) environment control, machinery, food preservation, farm management and marketing for efficient, safe and healthy food production and distribution, and 3) resource recycling technology for environment-friendly bio-industries

Research Projects

• Environment control assisted by plant acclimation ability to save energy and resources
• Quantitative trait loci for increasing grain yield under elevated atmospheric CO2
• Studies on the apple transformation
• New postharvest technology for freshness maintenance in food chain
• Molecular basis of flowering in plant
• Theory and practice of farm growth management
• Studies on the coloration of horticultural crops
• Development of autonomous mobile robot for agricultural productions

Academic Staff

Name Position	Research field Keywords	Profile
HOSHINO， Tsuguhiro Professor	Crop breeding, Cereal quality science quality breeding, cereal quality science, millet
KURODA，　Eiki Professor	Crop science rice plant, dry matter production, high yielding varieties, lodging-resistance, carbohydrate metabolism
OKADA， Masumi Professor	Agricultural meteorology, Environment control engineering climate change, crop responses to climate, greenhouse environment control
SUZUKI， Akira Professor	Fruit tree science apple, blueberry, fruit physiology
TAKAHATA， Yoshihito Professor	Plant breeding microspore embryogenesis, wide hybridization, genetic resources, speciation
TAKEDA， Jun-ichi Professor	Farm machinery systems, Agricultural machinery agricultural robotics, agricultural safety, automation for agricultural productions
HIROMA， Tatsuo Associate professor	Farm Machinery Systems interaction between a tire and soil, terramechanics, thermogenic plants,theramoregulation
KANAZAWA， Toshinari Associate professor	Olericultural and floricultural science horticultural science, plant morphology, plant anatomy
KINOSHITA， Yukio Associate professor	Farm management, Agricultural economics applied economics, agribusiness, agriculture and environment policy
KOIDE， Shoji Associate professor	Postharvaest technology, Food preservation postharvaest technology, food preservation, vegetable and fruit
KOMORI， Sadao Associate professor	Pomology fruit breeding, apple, genetic resources
MAEDA， Takeki Associate professor	Environmental science, Agricultural waste technology agricultural waste, manure management, composting, global warming, eutrophication
MATSUSHIMA， Uzuki Associate professor	Environmental agriculture image analysis, agricultural processes and production, optical and radiological equipments, water relation in plants, neutron radiography
SAGAWA， Satoru Associate professor	Crop husbandry cultivation technique, cultivation system, yield, quality, weed management
SHIMONO， Hiroyuki Associate professor	Agronomy cold damage, elevated atmospheric co2, global change, nutrient uptake, hotosynthesis, rice, soybean, stomatal conductance
SHONO， Hiroshi Associate professor	Agricultural informatics image analysis, applied ｓpectroscopy, remote sensing
TATSUZAWA， Fumi Associate professor	Olericultural and floricultural science pigment, flavonoid, anthocyanin, flower color, horticultural crops, native plants, cruciferae, orchidaceae, alstroemeriaceae
TSUIKI， Mikinori Associate professor	Environmental science, Agricultural ecology environmental impact assessment, global warming, eutrophication, remote sensing
YOKOI， Shuji Associate professor	Plant breeding, Genetics plants, flowering, stress, signal transduction
WATANABE， Manabu Assistant professor	Pomology apple, blueberry, plant growth regulation