OGITA Laboratory

Affiliation：Faculty of Bioresource Sciences / Department of Development of Local Resources
Position：Position：Professor / Dean, Faculty of Bioresource Sciences / Dean, Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences
Degree：Ph.D.（Agriculture）

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(1)Establishment and provision of cell manipulation technology to freely select and design plant cells according to their purpose.
(2)Scrutiny and improvement of growth and culture environments that increase the efficiency of plant growth and the material productivity of plant cells.
(3)Research on local issues and plant resources and recommendations for their utilization.

Specializing in plant cell engineering, I am researching plant cell culture and cell manipulation techniques to control the growth and differentiation of resource plants used in our society.
We are also interested in characterizing and developing products to make local plants into specialty products.

Plant cell culture is a technique for extracting cells from the shoots, leaves, stems, etc. of target plants and increasing them in petri dishes or flasks in a sterile environment.
It can increase the number of plant cells, and it can perform metabolic activation and plant body regeneration due to its multipotent nature.
We would like to promote research and development on “cellular agriculture” with the aim of utilizing cultured plant cells for food and industrial raw materials.

We would like to conduct research in cooperation with the local community on rare plants and natural monument trees that need to be preserved, as well as plant materials that could become local specialties.
For example, new initiatives are underway, including the cultivation of green papayas and collaboration to utilize them.

Research and development of bath salts utilizing local resources such as wild plants（Miyoshi City）
Research on preservation and utilization of natural monument trees（Shobara City）
Research on bamboo forest management and utilization of bamboo resources（Aki Takata City）