Research Component in IPADS

Plant Science

Faculty:

Kensuke OKADA, Professor  *2

Toru FUJIWARA, Professor

Saneyuki KAWABATA, Professor

Yoichiro KATO, Professor

Kae MIYAZAWA, Associate Professor

Akihiko KAMOSHITA, Associate Professor

• Impacts of atmospheric changes on agriculture and ecosystems in Asia
• Plant production in effective agro-ecosystem management
• Studies on plant mechanisms to respond to different nutritional conditions
• Crop management assisted with modeling in Africa and South America
• Intercropping and green manure effects on phosphorus cycling
• Water-saving rice production systems
• Regulation of anthocyanin biosynthesis under LED plant factory
• Optimizing plant growth under LED plant factory by modifying LED light quality

Plant Material Science

Faculty:

Yukie SAITO, Professor  *2

Satoshi KUBO, Associate Professor　*1

• Technology development to use under-utilized plant resources
• Study on function of plant components in ecosystems
• Development of the techniques for performance evaluation of material for lesser-utilized biomass resources
• Effective utilization of lignin and other chemicals from wood materials
• Wood-based building materials and components

Plant Biotechnology

Faculty:

Hiromi NAKANISHI, Associate Professor
Matthias WISSUWA, Associate Professor   *1

• Identification and isolation of Fe acquisition related genes from graminaceous plants.
• Identification of Fe-deficiency inducible gene expression mechanism
• Plant tissue culture to introduce useful genes to produce functional molecules
• Genetic studies on acquisition and efficient use of phosphorus
• Analysis of stress response and molecular genetic breeding of stress tolerant plant

Economics

Faculty:

Nobuhiro SUZUKI, Professor  *2

Takeshi SAKURAI, Professor

Katsuhiro SAITO, Professor

Kentaro KAWASAKI, Associate Professor
Hsiaoping CHIEN, Associate Professor *1

• Effect of global warming on world agriculture and forestry
• Food supply and demand in the world interpreted by system model
• Economic development and environmental problems in the developing countries
• Historical study for climate change, agriculture and population growth in the world
• Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa and Poverty Reduction
• Comparative Economic History on the Development of Market Institutions
• Volatility of International price of rice and poverty
• Quantitative agricultural policy evaluation

Animal Science

Faculty:

Yasunobu MATSUMOTO, Associate Professor

Hideki ENDO, Professor

• Virus-based recombinant vaccines for animal diseases
• Molecular pathology of malaria and leishmaniasis
• Development of edible vaccines and other mucosal vaccines
• Studies on the morphological diversity of vertebrates

Food Science

Faculty:

Tetsuya ARAKI, Associate Professor

• Food engineering including the optimization of freeze-drying processes
• Value chain analysis in developing countries
• Application of membrane separation technology for food processing
• Optimal distribution model for fresh produce in rural Java, Indonesia

Agroinformatics

Faculty:

Masaru MIZOGUCHI, Professor  *3

• Constructing monitoring system for agricultural and soil information using IT technologies
• Engineering development in the conservation of agricultural farm

Forestry

Faculty:

Satoshi TSUYUKI, Professor  *3

Naoto KAMATA, Professor

Kenji FUKUDA, Professor
Toshiaki OWARI, Associate Professor

Takuya HIROSHIMA, Associate Professor

Tamotsu SATO, Associate Professor *1

• Policy options for collaborative forest governance
• Comparative analysis on participatory forest management policy
• Forest monitoring using satellite remote sensing
• Forest environment assessment by remote sensing and GIS
• Close-to-nature silviculture
• Development of forest certification system for the rural communities
• Prediction of timber harvest from forest plantations
• Survival analysis of individual tree populations in uneven-aged forest stands
• Carbon stock estimation in sustainably managed forests under the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement
• Forest insect population ecology

Fisheries

Faculty:

Nobuyuki YAGI, Professor

Shuichi ASAKAWA, Professor
Marcy N. WILDER, Professor  *1
Tomohiko KAWAMURA, Professor  *2

Yutaro SAKAI, Associate Professor

Hiroe ISHIHARA, Associate Professor (Environmental Sociology)

• Economics and policy for conserving marine biological resources
• Analysis of marine biodiversity and economic development
• Life histories, population dynamics and community structures of coastal fishes in southern Japan and Southeast Asia
• Material cycles and food web systems of coastal areas in Southeast Asia
• Improvement of aquaculture systems for sustainable utilization of coastal environments in Southeast Asia
• Genome analysis of pearl oyster, eel, tuna, grouper, flatworm, dolphin, sea slug, shark, etc.
• Metagenome/environmental DNA analysis of the Pacific ocean, Japanese coastal area

Environmental Science

Faculty:

Mitsuo YAMAMOTO, Associate Professor

• Influence of rice paddy fields on iron dynamics in rivers and the structural features of humic acids in their sediments
• Influence of freshwater from terrestrial sources on iron concentrations in coastal areas
• Effective utilization of agricultural waste in Africa for environmental conservation

Soil Science

Faculty:

Taku NISHIMURA, Professor

• Unsaturated water and solute transport through soils
• Colloid facilitated migration of pollutants
• Behavior of Cs in soil
• Remediation of alkalization and salinization of clayey soil
• Effect of forest fire on soil physical and chemical properties
• Water erosion and conservation of sloped agriculturallands
• How biochar and compost affects soil physical properties
• GHG emission from agricultural lands

Ecology

Faculty:

Toshiya OKURO, Professor

• Land and vegetation dynamics in agro-ecosystemm
• Sustainable land use planning/management
• Restoration and sustainable use of ecosystem services
• Biodiversity conservation