Research and Teaching Areas of Qualified Teachers
*Cooperation with JIRCAS.
As of April 1, 2023
Bioproduction and Bioenvironmental Sciences
Agricultural Production Science
Name of Major Supervisor | University | Research and Educational Field | |
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Major | Major Research Interests | ||
ASAO Toshiki | Shimane | Vegetable and Ornamental Science | Production of vegetables and ornamentals |
ARAKI Hideki | Yamaguchi | Agronomy | Function of plant production under environmental stresses and its agronomical application |
OHTA Katsumi | Shimane | Horticultural Plant Science | Studies on growth control in horticultural plants |
KOBAYASHI Nobuo | Shimane | Horticultural Breeding | Evaluation of plant genetic resources and applications for breeding |
TAKAHASHI Tadashi | Yamaguchi | Crop Science | Establishment of low-cost and low-input crop cultivation systems |
TAKEMURA Yoshihiro | Tottori | Horticultural Science | Studies on the crop ecophysiology in horticultural crops |
TANAKA Hiroyuki | Tottori | Plant Genetics | Genetic and breeding studies on improving quality of wheat flour |
TSURUNAGA Yoko | Shimane | Food Processing | Studies on manufacturing method and functionality in food processing |
NAKATSUKA Akira | Shimane | Molecular Breeding of Horticultural Crop | Molecular breeding for agriculturally useful traits in horticulture crops |
NONAMI Kazuyoshi | Tottori | Agricultural Production Engineering | Mechanization of agricultural work |
MATSUMOTO Shingo | Shimane | Biochemistry of Soil and Plant Nutrition | Studies on the mechanism of plant nutrient acquisition in relation to soil fertility |
MATSUMOTO Toshikazu | Shimane | Fruit science | Studies on fruit growing and processed food |
YANO Akira | Shimane | Bioenvironmental Electrical Engineering | Application of electrical engineering to bioenvironmental technologies |
Managerial Economics
Name of Major Supervisor | University | Research and Educational Field | |
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Major | Major Research Interests | ||
TANEICHI Yutaka | Yamaguchi | Agricultual Marketing | Study on distribution of agricultural products and agricultural materials |
TSUTSUI Kazunobu |
Tottori | Rural Geography | Studies on regional economy and community development in Rural areas |
MATSUDA Toshinobu | Tottori | Economics of Consumer Behavior | Empirical analysis of consumer behavior, especially food demand |
MATSUMURA Ichizen | Tottori | Farm Management | Studies on the relationship between farm management and rural society |
Li WAN | Tottori | Marketing Information Analytics | Agricultural products distribution channels and econometric analysis of market information |
YASUNAGA Nobuyoshi | Shimane | Regional Economics | Sustainability of farmlands, communities, and economies in less favored areas |
YASUNOBU Kumi | Tottori | International agricultural development studies | Agricultural and rural development in Southeast Asia |
Forest and Watershed Environmental Sciences
Name of Major Supervisor | University | Research and Educational Field | |
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Major | Major Research Interests | ||
ISHII Masayuki | Shimane | Regional infrastructure Engineering | Development of designing method for renovation of irrigation facilities |
KUBO Masako | Shimane | Plant Ecology | Plant ecology, vegetation and conservation |
NAGAMATSU Dai | Tottori | Plant Ecology | Population dynamics of forest and grassland, vegetation science and biodiversity conservation |
FUJIMOTO Takaaki | Tottori | Wood Physics | Analysis of wood property variation, and development of measurement techniques |
YOSHIMURA Tetsuhiko | Shimane | Forest Utilization | Social and technological issues in forest utilization and wood harvesting |
Environmental Bioscience
Name of Major Supervisor | University | Research and Educational Field | |
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Major | Major Research Interests | ||
ARANISHI Futoshi | Shimane | Conservation ecology | Conservation genetics and evolutionary ecology of hydrobiosphere |
UENO Makoto | Shimane | Plant Pathology | Studies on the expression of resistance in plant-microbe interaction |
KAMINAKA Hironori | Tottori | Plant-Microbe Interactions | Molecular mechanisms of immune response and mycorrhizal symbiosis in plants |
KARASAWA Shigenori | Tottori | Biodiversity | Genetic diversity and species diversity of invertebrates |
KIHARA Junichi | Shimane | Plant Pathology | Photoresponces of the phytopathogenic fungi |
KODAMA Motoichiro | Tottori | Plant Pathology | Molecular mechanisms in plant-microbe interactions and plant disease resistance |
TAKEMATSU Yoko | Yamaguchi | Ecological Entomology | Biodiversity and ecology of termites |
MIYANAGA Ryoichi | Shimane | Insect Ecology | Biology and management of wild bees |
YAMAGUCHI Keiko | Shimane | Aquatic Ecology | Studies on ecology of benthic animals and aquatic environments |
Bioresource and Life Sciences
Fungus and Mushroom Sciences
Name of Major Supervisor | University | Research and Educational Field | |
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Major | Major Research Interests | ||
AIMI Tadanori | Tottori | Biochemical Technology of Microorganisms | Biochemistry, molecular biology and biotechnology of microbial production |
SHIMOMURA Norihiro | Tottori | Mushroom Breeding and Cultivation | Studies on breeding and cultivation of mushroom resources |
SOTOME Kozue | Tottori | Mushroom Phylogeny and Taxonomy | Phylogenetic taxonomy of mushrooms, and ecological researches of wood-decaying basidiomycetes |
Bioscience and Biotechnology
Name of Major Supervisor | University | Research and Educational Field | |
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Major | Major Research Interests | ||
ARIMA Jiro | Tottori | Bio-Functional Chemistry | Functional analysis of enzymes and microorganisms, and their application to industry |
ISHIKAWA Takahiro | Shimane | Plant Molecular Physiology | Biosynthesis pathway of antioxidants and metabolism of reactive oxygen species in photosynthetic organisms |
IWASAKI Takashi | Tottori | Bioregulatory Chemistry | Development and screening of bioactive substances regulating biological function |
KAWAMUKAI Makoto | Shimane | Genetic Engineering | Signal transduction, cell cycle control and biosynthesis of coenzyme Q in yeasts |
SHIOTSUKI Takahiro | Shimane | Insect Chemical Biology and Agrobio-Regulators | Chemical biology and molecular mechanisms in regulation of insect development and their applications |
MATSUO Yasuhiro | Shimane | Microbial Genetics | Cell signaling and cell cycle control in fission yeast |
MANO Jun'ichi | Yamaguchi | Mechanisms of Environmental Stress-tolerance in Plants | Elucidation and application of plant tolerance mechanisms against bitotic environmental stresses |
MARUTA Takanori | Shimane | Plant Physiology | Redox metabolism network and stress response in plants |
Applied Bioresource Chemistry
Name of Major Supervisor | University | Research and Educational Field | |
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Major | Major Research Interests | ||
AZAKAMI Hiroyuki | Yamaguchi | Molecular Microbiology | Molecular mechanisms of bacterial colonization to host surface |
ISHIHARA Atsushi | Tottori | Natural Product Chemistry | Function, Biological activity, and Biosynthesis of metabolites produced by plants and microorganisms |
ICHIYANAGI Tsuyoshi | Tottori | Organic Chemistry | The molecular design and functional analysis of bioactive compounds |
KAWANO Tsuyoshi | Tottori | Bioorganic Chemistry | Regulation of diapause, metabolism and longevity corresponding to the growth environment |
SHIMIZU Hidehisa | Shimane | Nutritional Pathophysiology | Study on the relationship between food-derived bacterial metabolites or cyanobacteria-derived toxins, and pathogenesis of diseases |
TAMURA Jun-ichi | Tottori | Organic Chemistry | Chemical synthesis of bioactive glycans and isolation/characterization of natural glycans |
MUROTA Kaeko | Shimane | Bioavailability and Food Function | Bioavailability and physiological function of lipophilic food factors |
YABUTA Yukinori | Tottori | Nutritional Science | Studies on the function of antioxidant vitamins and oxidative stress response |
YAMAMOTO Tatsuyuki | Shimane | Bio-molecular Spectroscopy | Spectroscopic studies on life science and medical applications |
WATANABE Fumio | Tottori | Food Science | Chemistry and nutrition of vitamin B12 and related compounds in food |
Global Dryland Science
Global Dryland Science
Name of Major Supervisor | University | Research and Educational Field | |
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Major | Major Research Interests | ||
AKASHI Kinya | Tottori | Molecular and Cellular biology | Molecular responses of drought-tolerant plants and their application to molecular breeding |
Nigussie Haregeweyn AYEHU |
Tottori | Land Management | Watershed processes monitoring, modeling and management |
AN Ping | Tottor | Plant Eco-Physiology |
Physiological responses and relative mechanisms of plants and plant ecophysiology in dry lands |
ICHINOHE Toshiyoshi | Shimane | Livestock Feeding | Evaluation of ruminants production system |
INOSAKO Koji | Tottor | Soil and Water Management | Conservation, restoration and sustainable use of soil and water environment |
IBARAKI Yasuomi | Yamaguchi | Bio-environmental Control Engineering | Environmental control in plant production |
ENDO Tsuneyoshi | Tottor | Soil Chemistry | Influence of soil properties and irrigation water quality on soil salinization/sodication in irrigated farmlands of arid regions |
OGATA Hidehiko | Tottor | Irrigation and Drainage Facilities Engineering | Evaluation of construction materials and structural performance of irrigation and drainage structures |
KISHII Masahiro* | Tottor | Plant genetic resource development |
Research and utilization of plant genetic resources with high environmental tolerance for breeding |
KINUGASA Toshihiko | Tottor | Dryland Restoration and Conservation Ecology | Ecology and ecophysiology of plants in arid and semi-arid grasslands |
KIMURA Reiji | Tottor | Boundary Layer Meteorology | Heat and water balance in arid lands |
KUROSAKI Yasunori | Tottor | Dryland Climatology | Climate change and variability, wind erosion, dust emission in drylands, and impacts of aeolian dust on climate |
SHIMIZU Katsuyuki | Tottor | Water Use and Management | Monitoring and assessment of irrigation water management |
SUZUKI Kenji | Yamaguchi | Meteorology | Observational study on precipitation mechanisms and development of instruments for hydrometeor measurements |
TAGAWA Kotaro | Tottor | Renewable Energy Engineering |
Technological development and optimal design of renewable energy systems and components |
TANIGUCHI Takeshi | Tottor | Microbial Ecology | Soil and root microbial ecology and the application |
TSUJIMOTO Hisashi | Tottor | Molecular Breeding | Breeding of drought tolerant crop lines by gene and chromosome engineering |
TSUNEKAWA Atsushi | Tottor | Conservation Informatics | Monitoring and modeling of plant production and ecosystem change in drylands |
TSUBO Mitsuru | Tottor | Climate Risk Management | Dryland agrometeorology and climate-smart agriculture |
TODERICH Kristina Nikolaevna | Tottor | Dryland Salinity and Landscape Restoration | Salinization in drylands and restoration of affected landscape using halophytes and non-conventional crops. |
NISHIHARA Eiji | Tottor | Crop Production in Drylands | Construction of crop production system in areas including drylands |
HYODO Masahiro | Tottor | Facilities and Environmental Materials | Rehabilitation management of agricultural irrigation facilities and development of environmental materials |
FUJIMAKI Haruyuki | Tottor | Soil Conservation | Development of methods for preventing salt accumulation and erosion and remediation of degraded soils |
MASUNAGA Tsugiyuki | Shimane | Pedosphere Ecological Engineering | Control and use of soil functions of environmental protection-restoration and plant production |
YAMADA Satoshi | Tottor | Plant Nutrition | Mechanisms of Response to Stresses of Plants in Arid Regions |
YAMANAKA Norikazu | Tottori | Revegetation in Arid Land | Ecological studies on woody plants in arid lands |
YAMAMOTO Sadahiro | Tottori | Environmental Soil Science | Conservation of soil environment and sustainable use of farmland in arid regions |