Lab. Global Plant Material Science
■Disciplines : Plant Cell Wall Chemistry, Wood Chemistry, Lignin
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2022: Associate Professor, Department of Global Agricultural Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences/Faculty of Agriculture, the University of Tokyo
2019: Researcher, Department of Forest Resource Chemistry, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute
2010: Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the University of Tokyo
2009: Project Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the University of Tokyo
2008: Special Postdoctoral Researcher, RIKEN Institute
2004: Postdoctoral Researcher, Dairy Forage Research Center, USDA-Agricultural Research service, USA
2004 Postdoctoral Researcher, Asian Natural Environmental and Science Center (ANESC), The University of Tokyo
2003: Ph.D., Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the University of Tokyo
2002: Research Fellow (DC2), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
1999: M.S., Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the University of Tokyo
1999: Researcher, Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
1997: B.Sc., Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Cell walls vary in chemical composition and physical properties depending on the plant species, parts, and tissues. Among these cell walls, tree xylem has long been used on an industrial basis. Timber produced from wood is used for building materials, wood is chemically treated to produce paper, and various derivatives of cellulose are used to make chemical products that support our daily lives. Currently, there is a need to actively utilize unutilized plant resources as well as wood.
However, when replacing wood raw materials with agricultural residues or bark, we are sometimes we are sometimes faced with difficulties in solving these problems. In such cases, investigating the properties of the raw material from a chemical point of view is one way to find out the cause of the problem. Our goal is to uncover the potential of various plants as raw materials for biomass utilization by clarifying the chemical characteristics of polysaccharides such as cellulose and hemicellulose, which constitute the cell wall, lignin, a persistent polymer that is responsible for lignification, and other components.
- Study on cell Wall composition of Bark
- Chemical structural study of reaction wood
- Structural study of lignin related to chemical reactivity
- Biosynthetic studies on lignin based on stereochemical structures
- Experiments on water addition reaction to quinone methide lignin model compounds
- Development of analytical methods for lignin by chemical degradation and NMR
