The Faculty and Graduate School of Agriculture conduct advanced research across a wide range of fields related to food, plants, environment, and life sciences. Our work addresses global challenges in sustainable food production, environmental protection, and biotechnology.
Food Production
- Plant physiology and mechanisms of environmental stress resistance for agricultural use
- Growth morphology and ecological physiology related to crop yield
- Neural control of animal digestion and feed development
- Evaluation of feed environments and unused feed resources
- Development of new meat resources
- Agronomic studies on high-yield rice production
- Analysis of mechanisms behind meteorological disasters
- Agricultural protection policy and environmental protection technologies
- Business management for regional agricultural development
- Growth regulation and breeding of vegetables
- Breeding of kiwifruit and climate-resilient fruit trees
- Fertility studies of fruit trees
- Flowering mechanisms and genetic modification of ornamental plants
- Breeding and cultivation techniques for strawberries
- Physiology of cut flowers for quality and freshness control
Horticultural Science
- Evaluation of breeding traits in wild fruit tree resources and new horticultural materials
- Genetic resources and regulation of flower color in garden plants
- Control of color patterns through petal epidermal cell traits
- Behavior and ecology of social insects in coastal areas
Environmental and Ecological Sciences
- Physiological ecology and life history of terrestrial plants
- Carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus cycles in forest and farmland soils
- Behavioral ecology and environmental adaptation of insects
- Material circulation and biological production environments
- Material and energy cycles in coastal ecosystems
- Element movement during biological production by lower organisms in coastal areas
- Environmental assessment and material circulation in aquatic ecosystems
Biological Molecular Chemistry
- Binding properties of algae-derived anticancer compounds and target proteins
- Chemistry, biosynthesis, and biological activity of tree components
- Biosynthesis, stereochemistry, and synthesis of lignin-related compounds
- Biochemistry and molecular biology of plant development and differentiation
- Discovery of functional compounds, including rare sugars with anti-aging effects
- Physical chemistry and function of amphiphilic compounds
- Organic chemistry of functional natural compounds
- Chemical studies on plant functional components
- Organic chemistry of sugars, including rare sugars
Plant Science
- Biochemistry and molecular biology of plant–microbe interactions
- Molecular biology of plant–insect–microbe interactions
- Physiology and biochemistry of plant cell regeneration
- Mechanisms of somatic cell mutation in higher plants
- Stress tolerance and environmental response mechanisms in plants
- Plant signal transduction related to stress and immunity
- Plant genomics
- Molecular breeding and functional analysis of useful genes in grasses
- Rare sugar synthesis and effects on plants
- Animal cell culture and enzyme synthesis
Life Science and Biotechnology
- Function and biosynthesis of glycoproteins and sugar chains
- Structure and function of enzymes from extremophiles
- Regulation of signal transduction by protein phosphorylation
- Mechanisms of bacterial adaptation to environmental change
- Life phenomena studied using yeast
- Enzymatic function and mass production using sugars
- Characterization of basidiomycete mushrooms for applications
- Breeding and cultivation of edible mushrooms
- Molecular analysis of genes and gene regulation
- Disease control mechanisms related to phosphorylation signaling
Food Science
- Energy-saving emulsion control and food physical properties
- Improvement of protein function in foods
- Production and analysis of functional powdered foods
- Sugar crystallization technology
- Functional food production using anti-allergy components from olive fruits
- Biosynthetic enzymes of rare sugars
- Cellulose-degrading enzymes from microbes
- Rare sugar synthesis using microbial enzymes
- Immunological detection using monoclonal antibodies