Research fields:
Vegetable Crop Science
Research themes:
Clarification of physiological and ecological characteristics of different vegetables and development of their stable production techniques and cropping types
Establishment of a system for light labor and labor-saving vegetable crop techniques
Main books and papers:
◆“Asuparagasu no Sagyo Benri-cho” (Useful Notes for Asparagus) (Rural Culture Association Japan: Sole author)
◆“Asuparagasu no Kouhinshitsu Tashuu Gijyutsu” (Techniques for Good-Quality and High-Yield of Asparagus) (Rural Culture Association Japan: Joint author)
◆“Sekai to Nihon no Asuparagasu—Kokusaika-jidai no Nihon no Asuparagasu Saibai—” (Asparagus in Japan and the World—Asparagus Cultivation in Japan in the Age of Globalization—) (Yokendo Co., Ltd.: Author and editor)
◆Effects of various asparagus production methods on rutin and protodioscin contents in spears and cladophylls. Biosci., Biotechnol., Biochem. 76(5):1047-1050