“From Food to Pharma, From Earth to Space: Plant Factories as a Platform for Sustainable Bioproduction”

Shoko Hikosaka
Professor, Graduate School of Horticulture, Chiba University

Dr. Shoko Hikosaka is a professor of laboratory of “Plant Environmental Engineering” and a division manager of “Division of Highly Efficient Plant Production” of Research Center for Space Agriculture and Horticulture, Graduate School of Horticulture, Chiba University. Her main research topics are “Efficient production of value-added plants under controlled environments” including the functional compounds production under environmental stress in greenhouses and plant factories, and food production in lunar farming. In addition to these core areas, her work also encompasses proposals for “Energy and resource-circulating urban models utilizing greenhouses and plant factories”, including digital twin-based resource management, carbon balance evaluations, and strategies for highly efficient water utilization of greenhouse. The plant materials for these studies include not only horticultural crops but also field crops, medicinal and herbal plants, micro-propagated plants, and genetically modified plants. She has examined plant responses from various perspectives—such as growth rate, water potential, secondary metabolite accumulation, and gene expression etc.

『食料から医薬品、地上から宇宙へ：植物工場が拓くサステイナブル物質生産』

彦坂 晶子
千葉大学大学院園芸学研究院教授 教授