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Akiyama, Hiroko, Kazuyuki Yagi, Xiaoyuan Yan (2005) Direct N2O emissions from rice paddy fields: summary of available data, Global Biogeo-chemical Cycles, 19: GB1005, doi:10.1029/2004 GB002378

Breiling, Meinhard, Shizuka Hashimoto, Yohei Sato, Gilbert Ahamer (2005) Rice-related greenhouse gases in Japan, variations in scales and time and significance for the Kyoto Protocol, Paddy and Water Environment, 3(1): 39-46

Cheng, Weiguo, Kazuyuki Yagi, Hidemitsu Sakai, Hua Xu, Kazuhiko Kobayashi (2005) Changes in

concentrations and d13C values of dissolved CH4, CO2, and water-soluble organic carbon in rice paddies under ambient and elevated concentrations of atmospheric CO2, Organic Geochemistry, 36: 813-823

Cheng, Weiguo, Kazuyuki Yagi, Hidemitsu Sakai, Hua Xu, Kazuhiko Kobayashi (2005) Influence of elevated concentrations of atmospheric CO2 on CH4 and CO2 entrapped in rice-paddy soil, Chemical Geology, 218: 15-24

Cheng, Weiguo, Kazuyuki Yagi, Hidemitsu Sakai, Kazuhiko Kobayashi (2006) Effects of elevated CO2 concentrations on CH4 and N2O emission from rice soil: an experiment in controlled- envi-

Publications 1. Official publications

1) Bulletin of National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences 2) Miscellaneous Publication of National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences 3) NIAES Annual Report 2005 4) Major Research Topics of Agro-Environment (Japanese ed.) (Nogyo kankyo kenkyu seika

joho), No.22 5) Series of Agro-Environmental Research (Japanese ed.) (Nogyo kankyo kenkyu sosho), No.17

Utilization of Biological Function for Conservation of Agro-Esosystems (Nogyo seitaikei no hozen ni muketa seibutsu kino no katsuyou)

6) Annual Report of National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences (Japanese ed.) (Nogyokankyo gijutsu kenkyusho nenpo), No.22

7) NIAES News (Japanese ed.)（No-kan-ken nyusu), No.67 - No.70

2. Research Papers published by the NIAES staff

Scientific Papers English 143 Japanese 40 Others 4Proceedings (incl. Abstracts) English 133 Japanese 376Others English 41 Japanese 116 Others 1

3. Research staff activities (English papers) NIAES staff’s names are boldfaced.

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ronment chambers, Biogeochemistry, 77: 351-373 Chiwaki, Kenji, Shigeyuki Nagamori, Yoshio Inoue

(2005) Predicting bacterial wilt disease of tomato plants using remotely sensed thermal imagery, Journal of Agricultural Meteorology, 61: 153-163

Chu, Haiyan, Yasukazu Hosen, Kazuyuki Yagi, Kensuke Okada, Osamu Ito (2005) Soil microbial biomass and activities in a Japanese Andisol as affected by controlled release and application depth of urea, Biology and Fertility of Soils, 42: 89-96

Davidson, Glen, Kazuo Ouchi, Genya Saito, Naoki Ishituka, Kentaro Mohri, Seiho Uratsuka (2006) Single‐look classification accuracy for po-larimetric SAR, International Journal of Remote Sensing, http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1080/01431160500056816

Du, Mingyuan, Seiichiro Yonemura, Zhibao Shen, Yanbo Shen, Wanfu Wang, Yutaka Yamada, Taichi Maki, Shigeto Kawashima, Satoshi Inoue (2005) Tillage effects on aeolian dust emission in bare ag-ricultural fields at Dunhuang, China, Journal of Agricultural Meteorology, 60(5):503-506

Gu, Song, Yanhong Tang, Xiaoyong Cui, Tomomichi Kato, Mingyuan Du, Yingnian Li, Xingquan Zhao (2005) Energy exchange between the atmosphere and a meadow ecosystem on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 129(3-4): 175-185

Han, Gwang Hyun, Hisashi Yoshikoshi, Hideyuki Na-gai, Tomoyasu Yamada, Makoto Saito, Akira Miyata, Yoshinobu Harazono (2005) Concentra-tion and carbon isotope profiles of CH4 in paddy rice canopy: Isotopic evidence for changes in CH4 emission pathways upon drainage, Chemical Ge-ology, 218: 25-40

Han, Gwang Hyun, Hisashi Yoshikoshi, Hideyuki Na-gai, Tomoyasu Yamada, Makoto Saito, Akira Miyata, Yoshinobu Harazono (2005) Late grow-ing-season CH4 budget in a rice paddy determined by stable isotope, emission flux, and soil storage measurements, Organic Geochemistry, 36: 789-801

Kawashima, Shigeto, Kazuto Mastuo, Mingyuan Du, Yuichi Takahashi, Satoshi Inoue, Seiichiro Yo-nemura (2005) An algorithm for estimating po-tential deposition of corn pollen, Environmental Biosafety Research, 3(4): 197-207

Kawashima, Shigeto, Toshio Fujita, Kazuto Mastuo, Hiroyuki Shibaike, Mingyuan Du, Seiichiro Yonemura (2005) Variation feature of airborne corn pollen number obtained by the automatic

pollen monitor, Journal of Agricultural Meteorol-ogy, 60(5): 1033-1036

Khan, Nasir M., Victor V. Rastoskuev, Yohei Sato, S. Shiozawa (2005) Assessment of hydrosaline land degradation by using a simple approach of remote sensing indicators, Agricultural Water Manage-ment, 77: 96-109

Liang, Zhao, Yingnian Li, Xingquan Zhao, Shixiao Xu, Yanhong Tang, Guirui Yu, Song Gu, Mingyuan Du, Qinxue Wang (2005) Seasonal patterns of gross primary production and ecosystem respira-tion in an alpine meadow ecosystem on the Qing-hai-Tibetan Plateau, Chinese Science Bulle-tin,50(16): 1767-1774

Maki, Taichi, Mingyuan Du (2005) Characteristics of meteorological alleviation by a reed straw-mat network in summer and autumn at Dunhuang de-sert in China, Journal of Agricultural Meteorol-ogy,60 (5): 485-490

Miyata, Akira, Toru Iwata, Hideyuki Nagai, Tomoyasu Yamada, Hisashi Yoshikoshi, Masayoshi Mano, Keisuke Ono, Gwang Hyun Han, Yoshinobu Harazono, Eiji Ohtaki, Md. Abdul Baten, Sachiko Inohara, Takahiro Takimoto, Makoto Saito (2005) Seasonal variation of carbon dioxide and methane fluxes at single cropping paddy fields in central and western Japan, Phyton, 45(4): 89-97

Morita, Shigenori, Takeo Sakagaichi, Jun Abe, Kazuhiko Kobayashi, Masumi Okada, Hiroyuki Shimono, Yasuhiro Yamakawa, Han-Yong Kim, Toshihiro Hasegawa (2005) Structure and function of rice root system under FACE condition, Journal of Ag-ricultural Meteorology, 60(5): 961-964

Nishihara, Eiji, Mohammad Masud Parvez, Hiroshi Araya, Shigeto Kawashima, Yoshiharu Fujii (2005) L-3-(3,4-Dihydroxyphenyl) alanine (L-DOPA), an allelochemical exuded from vel-vetbean (Mucuna pruriens) roots, Plant Growth Regulation, 45(2): 113-120

Nishimura, Seiichi, Takuji Sawamoto, Hiroko Aki-yama, Shigeto Sudo, Weiguo Cheng, Kazuyuki Yagi (2005) Continuous, automated nitrous oxide measurements from paddy soils converted to up-land crops, Soil Science Society of America Jour-nal, 69(6): 1977-1986

Nouchi, Isamu, Seiichiro Yonemura (2005) N2O, CO2 and CH4 fluxes from soybean and barley double cropping in relation to tillage in Japan, Phyton, 45(4): 327-338

Okamoto, Katsuo, Junko Shindo, Hiroyuki Kawa-shima (2005) Analysis of rapid land-use/land- cover change in Northeastern China using Landsat

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TM/ETM+ data, Wit Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, 553-561

Olioso, Albert, Yoshio Inoue, Samuel Ortega-Farias, Jerome Demarty, Jean-Pierre Wigneron Isabelle Braud, Frederic Jacob, Patrice Lecharpentier, Catherine Ottle, Jean-Christoph Calvet, Nadine Brisson (2006) Future directions for advanced evapotranspiration modeling: Assimilation of re-mote sensing data into crop simulation models and SVAT models, Irrigation and Drainage Systems, 19: 377-412

Oue, Hiroki, Mayumi Yoshimoto, Kazuhiko Kobayashi (2005) Effects of free-air CO2 enrichment on leaf and panicle temperatures of rice at heading and flowering stage, Phyton, 45(4): 117-124

Oura, Noriko, Junko Shindo, Tamon Fumoto, Hide-shige Toda, Hiroyuki Kawashima (2005) Effect of nitrogen deposition on nitrogen cycle in the plant-soil system and N2O emissions from the for-est floors, Proceedings of N2004: The Third Inter-national Nitrogen Conference, 620-625

Prasad, V. Krishna, Prabhat.K.Gupta, Chhemendaera. Sharma, Yogesh Kant, Shigeto Sudo, Seiichiro Yonemura, Haruo Tsuruta, Krishna V.S. Badari-nath (2005) Greenhouse gas emission inventory from Biomass burning due to shifting cultivation in India, Trends in Environmental Pollution : Ed-ited by James V. Livingston, 1-26

Purunomo, Errym, Athaillah Mursyid, Muhrizal Syar-wani, Ahmadi Jumberi, Yasuyuki Hashidoko, To-shihiro Hasegawa, Saori Honma, Mitsuru Osaki (2005) Phosphorus solubilizing microorganisms in the rihizosphere of local rice varieties grown without fertilizer on acid sulfate soils., Soil Sci-ence and Plant Nutrition, 51: 679-681

Quilang, E. J. P., Taichi Maki, Mingyuan Du (2005) Dust storm monitoring in spring at Dunhuang, China, Journal of Agricultural Meteorology, 60(5): 507-512

Quilang, E. J. P., Taichi Maki, Mingyuan Du (2005) Variation characteristics of meteorological factors during dust storm at Dunhuang, China, Journal of the Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, 50(1): 189-199

Saito, Makoto, Akira Miyata, Hideyuki Nagai, Tomo-yasu Yamada (2005) Seasonal variation of carbon dioxide exchange in rice paddy field in Japan, Ag-ricultural and Forest Meteorology, 135: 93-109

Sakamoto, Toshihiro, Masayuki Yokozawa, Hitoshi Toritani, Michio Shibayama, Naoki Ishitsuka, Hiroyuki Ohno (2005) A crop phenology detec-tion method using time-series MODIS data, Re-

mote Sensing of Environment, 96: 366-374 Sakamoto, Toshihiro, Nhan Van Nguyen, Hiroyuki

Ohno, Naoki Ishitsuka, Masayuki Yokozawa (2006) Spatio-temporal distribution of rice phenology and cropping systems in the Mekong Delta with special reference to the seasonal water flow of the Mekong and Bassac rivers, Remote Sensing of Environment, 100: 1-16

Shen, Yanbo, Zhibao Shen, Mingyuan Du, Wanfu Wang (2005) Dust emission over different land surface in the arid region of Northwest China, Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, 83(6): 935-942

Shindo, Junko, Katsuo Okamoto, Hideshige Toda, Hiroyuki Kawashima (2005) Nitrogen load and water quality estimation by an Eastern Asia scale model, Proceedings of N2004: The Third Interna-tional Nitrogen Conference, 871-875

Shindo, Junko, Katsuo Okamoto, Hiroyuki Kawa-shima (2005) A model based estimation of the ef-fect of population concentration of the urban areas in eastern Asia in terms of nitrogen pollution, Ecosystems and Sustainable Development, edited by Tiezzi, E. et al., 81: 115-123

Shindo, Junko, Katsuo Okamoto, Hiroyuki Kawa-shima (2006) Prediction of the environmental ef-fects of excess nitrogen caused by increasing food demand with rapid economic growth in eastern Asian countries, 1961-2020, Ecological Modeling, 193: 703-720

Shirato, Yasuhito (2005) Testing the suitability of the DNDC model for simulating long-term soil or-ganic carbon dynamics in Japanese paddy soils, Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 51(2): 183-192

Shirato, Yasuhito, Masayuki Yokozawa (2005) Apply-ing the Rothamsted Carbon Model for long-term experiments on Japanese paddy soils and modify-ing it by simple tuning of the decomposition rate, Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 51(3): 405-415

Shuimono, Hiryoyuki, Toshihiro Hasegawa, Masahisa Moriyama, Shigeto Fujimura, Takayuki Nagata (2005) Modeling spikelet sterility induced by low tempterature in rice, Agronomy Journal, 97(6): 1524-1536

Suh, Sang-Uk, Yong-Moon Chun, Namyi Chae, Joon Kim, Masayuki Yokozawa, Mi-Sun Lee, Jae-Seok Lee (2006) A chamber system with automatic opening and closing for continuously measuring soil respiration based on an open-flow dynamic method, Ecological Research, doi: 10.1007/s 11284-005-0137-7

Takahashi, R., H. Matsumura, S. Watanabe, K. Harada, M. Senda, S. Akada, S. Kawasaki, E. Doubouzet,

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N. Minaka (2005) Molecular linkage mapping and phylogeny of chalcone synthase multigene family in soybean, Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 110: 1203-1209

Tanaka, Yukio, Yohei Sato (2005) Farmers managed irrigation districts in Japan: Assessing how fairness may contribute to sustainability, Agricultural Water Management, 77: 196-209

Tanimoto, Hiroshi, Yousuke Sawa, Hidekazu Matsueda, Izushi Uno, Takehisa Ohara, Kyoko Yamaji, Jun Kurokawa, Seiichiro Yonemura (2005) Signifi-cant latitudinal gradient in the surface ozone spring maximum over East Asia,Geophysical Re-search Letters, 32, L21805, doi:10.1029/2005 GL023514

Toda, Hideshige, T. Takatsu, K. Wakahara, H. Kaneko, M. Inatomi, Hiroshi Koizumi, Junko Shindo, Ka-tsuo Okamoto, Hiroyuki Kawashima (2005) Ef-fect of nitrogen addition to forest floor on nitrate concentration of soil water, Proceedings of N2004: The Third International Nitrogen Conference, 519-522

Xu, Shixiao, Xinquan Zhao, Yingnian Li, Liang Zhao, Guirui Yu, Guangmin Cao, Yanhong Tang, Song Gu, Qinxue Wang, Mingyuan Du (2005) Charac-terizing CO2 fluxes for growing and non-growing seasons in a shrub ecosystem on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Science in China (D-Earth Science), 48S: 133-140

Yagi, Kazuyuki, Katsuyuki Minami (2005) Challenges of reducing excess nitrogen in Japanese agroeco-systems, Science in China, 48: 928-936

Yan, Xiaoyuan, Hiroko Akiyama, Kazuyuki Yagi, Hazime Akiymoto (2005) Statistical analysis of the major variables controlling methane emission from rice fields, Global Change Biology, 11: 1131-1141

Yonemura, Seiichiro, Lisseth Sandoval-Soto, Juergen Kesselmeier, Uwe Kuhn, Mark von Hobe, Shigeto Kawashima (2005) Uptake of carbonyl sulfide (COS) and emission of dimethyl Sulfide (DMS) by plants, Phyton, 45: 17-24

Yonemura, Seiichiro, Mingyuan Du, Zhibao Shen, Yanbo Shen, Wanfu Wang, Taichi Maki, Shigeto Kawashima, Satoshi Inoue (2005) Time series analyses of dust concentrations measured at Dun-huang Gobi desert site: Analyses of asymmetry property of dust concentration index, Journal of Agricultural Meteorology, 60(5): 1049-1052

Yoshimoto, Mayumi, Hiroki Oue, Kazuhiko Kobayashi (2005) Energy balance and water use efficiency of rice canopies under free-air CO2 enrichment, Ag-ricultural and Forest Meteorology, 133: 226-246

Yoshimoto, Mayumi, Hiroki Oue, Noriko Takahashi, Kazuhiko Kobayashi (2005) The effects of FACE (Free-Air CO2 Enrichment) on temperature and transpiration of rice panicles at flowering stage, Journal of Agricultural Meteorology, 60(5): 597-600

Department of Biological Safety

Adachi, Minako, Yukiko Sakata-Bekku, Akihiro

Konuma, Wan Rashidah Kadir, Toshinori Okuda, Hiroshi Koizumi (2005) Required sample size for estimating soil respiration rates in large areas of two tropical forests and of two types of plantation in Malaysia, Forest Ecology and Management, 201: 455-459

Aida, Miki, Hiroaki Ikeda, Kazuyuki Itoh, Kenji Usui (2006) Effects of five rice herbicides on growth of two threatened aquatic ferns, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 63(3): 463-468

Fujii, Yoshiharu, Akihiro Furubayashi, Syuntaro Hiradate (2005) Rhizosphere soil method: a new bioassay to evaluate allelopathy in the field, Pro-ceedings of the 4th World Congress on Allelopathy, 4: 490-492

Fujii, Yoshiharu, Minoru Matsuyama, Syuntaro Hiradate, Hideki Shimozawa (2005) Dish pack method: a new bioassay for volatile allelopathy, Proceedings of the 4th World Congress on Allelo-pathy, 4: 493-497

Fujii, Yoshiharu, Syuntaro Hiradate (2005) A critical survey of allelochemicals in action: the importance of total activity and the weed suppression eauation., Proceedings of the 4th World Congress on Allelo-pathy, 4: 73-76

Fukaya, Midori, Toshiharu Akino, Hiroe Yasui, Tetsuya Yasuda, Sadao Wakamura, Kohji Yamamura (2005) Effects of size and color of female models for male mate orientation in the white-spotted longicorn beetle Anoplophora malasiaca (Coleop-tera: Cerambycidae), Applied Entomology and Zoology, 40(3): 513-519

Furubayashi, Akihiro, Syuntaro Hiradate, Yoshiharu Fujii (2005) Adsorption and transformation reac-tions of L-DOPA in soils, Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 51(6): 819-825

Hiradate, Syuntaro (2005) Structural changes of allo-phane during purification procedures as deter-mined by solid-state 27Al and 29Si NMR, Clays and Clay Minerals, 53(6): 653-658

Hiradate, Syuntaro, Akihiro Furubayashi, Yoshiharu Fujii (2005) Changes in chemical structure and

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biological activity of L-DOPA as influenced by an Andosol and its components, Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 51(4): 477-484

Hiradate, Syuntaro, Shin-Ichiro Wada (2005) Weather-ing process of volcanic glass into allophane deter-mined by 27Al and 29Si solid state NMR, Clays and Clay Minerals, 53(4): 401-408

Hiradate, Syuntaro, Tsunashi Kamo, Eri Nakajima, Kenji Kato, Yoshiharu Fujii (2005) Direct quan-titative determination of cyanamide by stable iso-tope dilution gas chromatography—mass spec-trometry, Journal of Chromatography A, 1098(1-2): 138-143

Hoshino, Yuko T., Naoyuki Matsumoto (2005) Skim milk drastically improves the efficacy of DNA ex-traction from Andisol, a volcanic ash soil, Japan Agricultural Research Quarterly, 39(4): 247-252

Ikeda, Ken-ichi, Hitoshi Nakamura, Naoyuki Matsu-moto (2005) Comparison between Rosellinia ne-catrix from soil and diseased roots in terms of virulence, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 54(2): 307-315

Luo, Xiao-Yong, Hiroaki Ikeda (2005) Effects of four rice herbicides on seed germination and seedling growth of a threatened vascular plant Penthorum chinense Pursh, Bulletin of Environmental Con-tamination and Toxicology, 75(2): 382-389

Morita, Akio, Osamu Yanagisawa, Syuntaro Hiradate (2005) Speciation of low molecular weight alumi-num complexes in roots of tea plant (Camellia sinensis L.), Plant Nutrition for Food Security, Human Health and Environmental Protection, 728-729

Morita, Sayaka, Syuntaro Hiradate, Yoshiharu Fujii, Jiro Harada (2005) cis-Cinnamoyl glucoside as a major plant growth inhibitor contained in Spiraea prunifolia, Plant Growth Regulation, 46(2): 125-131

Murakami, Yoshiteru, Hajime Sugie, Takehiko Fukumoto, Fumiaki Mochizuki (2005) Sex pheromone of Grapholita komai (Lepidoptera: tortricidae), and its utilization for monitoring, Applied Entomology and Zoology, 40(3): 521-527

Nagata, Yuji, Muneaki Matsuda, Harunobu Komatsu, Yoshiyuki Imura, Hiroyuki Sawada, Yoshiyuki Ohtsubo, Masataka Tsuda (2005) Organization and localization of the dnaA and dnaK gene regions on the multichromosomal genome of Burkholderia multivorans ATCC 17616, Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering, 99(6): 603-610

Naito, Yoko, Akihiro Konuma, Hiroyoshi Iwata, Yoshi-hisa Suyam, Kenji Seiwa, Toshinori Okuda, Soon

Leong Lee, Norwati Muhammad, Yoshihiko Tsu-mura (2005) Selfing and inbreeding depression in seeds and seedlings of Neobalanocarpus heimii (Dipterocarpaceae), Journal of Plant Research, 118(6): 423-430

Naka, Hideshi, Takayuki Mitsunaga, Atsushi Mochizuki (2005) Laboratory hybridization between the in-troduced and the indigenous green lacewings (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae: Chrysoperla) in Japan, Environmental Entomology, 34(3): 727-731

Nasir, Habib, Zahida Iqbal, Syuntaro Hiradate, Yo-shiharu Fujii (2005) Allelopathic potential of Robinia pseudo-acacia L., Journal of Chemical Ecology,31(9): 2179-2192

Okada, Hiroaki, Hiroki Harada, Ikuo Kadota (2005) Fungal-feeding habits of six nematode isolates in the genus Filenchus, Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 37(6): 1113-1120

Okada, Hiroaki, Hiroki Harada, Takao Tsukiboshi, Masaaki Araki (2006) Characteristics of Tylen-cholaimus parvus (Nematoda: Dorylaimida) as a fungivorus nematode, Nematology, 7(6): 843-849

Shindo, Haruo, Miho Yoshida, Akio Yamamoto, Hiromi Honma, Syuntaro Hiradate (2005) δ13C values of organic constituents and possible source of humic substances in Japanese volcanic ash soils, Soil Science, 170(3): 175-182

Shiraishi, Sayaka, Izumi Watanabe, Katsuji Kuno, Yo-shiharu Fujii (2005) Evaluation of allelopathic activity of five Oxalidaceae cover plants and the demonstration of potnet weed suppresdsion by Oxalis species, Weed Biology and Management, 5(3): 128-136

Suzaki, Kouichi, Ken-ichi Ikeda, Atsuko Sasaki, Satoko Kanematsu, Naoyuki Matsumoto, Kouji Yoshida (2005) Horizontal transmission and host-virulence attenuation of totivirus in violet root rot fungus Helicobasidium mompa, Journal of General Plant Pathology, 71(2): 161-168

Tabata, Jun, Yukio Ishikawa (2005) Genetic basis to divergence of sex pheromones in two closely re-lated moths, Ostrinia scapulalis and O. zealis, Journal of Chemical Ecology, 31(5): 1111-1124

Tomita-Yokotani, Kaori, Takako Kato, Yoshiharu Fujii, Hirofumi Hashimoto, Teruko Nakamura, Ma-samichi Yamashita (2005) Response of al-lelochemicals under pseudo-microgravity, Pro-ceedings of the 4th World Congress on Allelopathy, 4:462-465

Tsuda, Kumiko, Noriko Takamura, Minoru Matsuyama, Yoshiharu Fujii (2005) Assessment method for leaf litters allelopathic effect on Cyanobacteria,

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Journal of Aquatic Plant Management, 43: 43-46 Wakamura, Sadao, Norio Arakaki, Masanobu Yamamoto,

Syuntaro Hiradate, Hiroe Yasui, Kunio Kinjo, Tetsuya Yasuda, Hiroyuki Yamazawa, Tetsu Ando (2005) Sex pheromone and related compounds in the Ishigaki and Okinawa strains of the tussock moth Orgyia postica (Walker) (Lepidoptera: Lymantriidae), Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry, 65(5): 957-965

Watanabe, Toshihiro, Seiji Misawa, Syuntaro Hiradate, Steven Jansen, Mitsuru Osaki (2005) The charac-teristics of aluminum uptake in roots of Melastoma malabathricum, an aluminum accumulating plant, Plant Nutrition for Food Security, Human Health and Environmental Protection, 746-747

Yamamura, Kohji, Masayuki Yokozawa, Motoki Ni-shimori, Yasuo Ueda, Tomoyuki Yokosuka (2006) How to analyze long-term insect population dy-namics under climate change: 50-year data of three insect pests in paddy fields, Population Ecology, 48(1): 31-48

Yara, Kaori (2006) Identification of Torymus sinensis and T. beneficus (Hymenoptera: Torymidae), in-troduced and indigenous parasitoids of the chest-nut gall wasp Dryocosmus kuriphilus (Hymenop-tera: Cynipidae), using the ribosomal ITS2 region, Biological Control, 36(1): 15-21

Yasuda, Nobuko, Masako T. Noguchi, Yoshikatsu (2005) Identification of an avirulence gene in the fungus Magnaporthe grisea corresponding to re-sistance gene at Pik locus, Phytopathology, 95(7): 768-772

Department of Environmental Chemistry

Ahmad, Riaz, Hidetaka Katou, Rai S. Kookana (2005)

Measuring sorption of hydrophilic organic com-pounds in soils by an unsaturated transient flow method, Journal of Environmental Quality, 34(3): 1045-1054

Arao, Tomohito, Satoru Ishikawa (2006) Genotypic differences in cadmium and distribution of soy-bean and rice, Japan Agricultural Research Quar-terly, 40: 21-30

Ezawa, Tatsuhiro, Masahito Hayatsu, Masanori Saito (2005) A new hypothesis on the strategy for acqui-sition of phosphorus in arbuscular mycorrhiza: up-regulation of secreted acid phosphatase gene in the host plant, Molecular Plant-Microbe Interac-tions, 18: 1046-1053

Faize, Mohamed, Lydia Faize, Masumi Ishizaka, Hideo Ishii (2004) Expression of potential defense

responses of Asian and European pears to infection with Venturia nashicola, Physiological and Mo-lecular Plant Pathology, 64(6): 319-330

Fujii, Takeshi, Kiyotaka Miyashita, Ryo Ohtomo, Aki-hiro Saito (2005) A DNA-binding protein involved in the regulation of chitinase production in Strep-tomyces lividans, Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry, 69(4): 790-799

Harada, Naoki, Kazuhiro Takagi, Kunihiko Fujii, Akio Iwasaki (2006) Isolation and characterization of microorganisms capable of hydrolysing the herbi-cide mefenacet., Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 38: 173-179

Hayashi, Kentaro, Masanori Okazaki (2005) Relation-ships between the high aluminum concentration in soil solution and other chemical properties of acidic soil in Kumagaya, central Japan, Soil Sci-ence and Plant Nutrition, 51(5): 655-658

Hideo Ishii (2005) Resistance management strategies for fungicides, Environmental Fate and Safety Man-agement of Agrochemicals (ACS Symposium Se-ries 899), 280-288

Ibaraki, Toshiyuki, Kazuhiro Kadoshige, Masaharu Murakami (2005) Evaluation of extraction meth-ods for plant-available soil cadmium to wheat by several extraction methods in cadmium-polluted paddy field, Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 51(6): 893-898

Ishikawa, Satoru, Noriharu Ae, Masaharu Murakami, Tadao Wagatsuma (2006) Is Brassica juncea a suitable plant for phytoremediation of Cd in soils with moderately low Cd contamination? —Possibility of using other plant species for Cd-phytoextraction—, Soil Science and Plant Nu-trition, 52(1): 32-42

Ishikawa, Satoru, Noriharu Ae, Masahiro Yano (2005) Chromosomal regions with quntitative trait loci controlling cadmium concentration in brown rice (Oryza sativa), New Phytologist, 168: 345-350

Ishizuka, Shigehiro, Anas Iswandi, Yasuhiro Nakajima, Seiichiro Yonemura, Shigeto Sudo, Haruo Tsu-ruta, Daniel Muldiyarso (2005) Spatial patterns of greenhouse gas emission in a tropical rainforest in Indonesia, Nutrient Cycles in Agroecosystems, 71: 55-62

Ishizuka, Shigehiro, Anas Iswandi, Yasuhiro Nakajima, Seiichiro Yonemura, Shigeto Sudo, Haruo Tsu-ruta, Daniel Muldiyarso (2005) The variation of greenhouse gas emissions from soils of various land-use/cover types in Jambi province, Indonesia, Nutrient Cycles in Agroecosystems, 71: 17-32

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Jaward, Foday M., Gan Zhang, Jae Jak Nam, Andrew J. Sweetman, Jeffrey P. Obbard, Yuso Kobara, Kevin C. Jones (2005) Passive air sampling of polychlorinated biphenyls, organochlorine com-pounds, and polybrominated diphenyl ethers across Asia, Environmental Science & Technology, 39(22): 8638-8645

Jaward, Foday M., Jae Jak Nam, Gan Zhang, Jeff Obbard, Yuso Kobara, Kevin C. Jones (2005) Passive air sampling of PCBs, organochlorine compounds, Organohalogen Compounds, 67: 1078-1080

Kobara, Yuso, Motoki Nishimori, Wei Yongfen, Satoru Ishihara, Atsushi Yokoyama, Kazuhisa Ohtsu (2005) Evaluation of surface adsorption on water droplets in the atmosphere of semivolatile pesticides, Organohalogen Compounds, 67: 1904- 1907

Lang, Gang-hua, Naoto Ogawa, Yusuke Tanaka, Ta-keshi Fujii, Roberta R. Fulthorpe, Masao Fukuda, Kiyotaka Miyashita (2005) Two kinds of chloroctechol 1,2-dioxygenase from 2,4- dichloro-phenoxyacetate-degrading Sphingomonas sp. strain TFD44, Biochemical and Biophysical Re-search Communications, 332(4): 941-948

Liu, Shenghao, Naoto Ogawa, Toshiya Senda, Akira Hasebe, Kiyotaka Miyashita (2005) Amino acids in positions 48, 52, and 73 differentiate the sub-strate specificities of the highly homologous chlorocatechol 1,2-dioxygenases, CbnA and TcbC, Journal of Bacteriology, 187(15): 5427-5436

Maejima, Yuji, Hiroyuki Matsuzaki, Teruo Higashi (2005) Application of cosmogenic 10Be to dating soils on the raised coral reef terraces of Kikai Is-land, southwest Japan, Geoderma, 126(3-4): 389- 399

Mishima, Shinichiro, Satoru Taniguchi, Akira Kawa-saki, Michio Komada (2005) Estimation of zinc and copper balance in Japanese farmland soil as-sociated with the application of chemical fertilizers and livestock excreta, Soil Science and Plant Nu-trition, 51(3): 437-442

Morimoto, Sho, Kazuki Togami, Naoto Ogawa, Akira Hasebe, Takeshi Fujii (2005) Analysis of a bacte-rial community in 3-chlorobenzoate-contaminated soil by PCR-DGGE targeting the 16S rRNA gene and benzoate 1.2-dioxygenase gene (benA), Mi-crobes and Environments, 20(3): 151-159

Nakajima, Yasuhiro, Shigehiro Ishizuka, Haruo Tsu-ruta, Anas Iswandi, Daniel Muldiyarso (2005) Microbial processes responsible for nitrous oxide production from acid soils in different land-use patterns in Pasirmayang, central Sumatra, Indone-

sia, Nutrient Cycles in Agroecosystems, 71: 33-42 Ohtomo, Ryo, Masanori Saito (2005) Polyphosphate

dynamics in mycorrhizal roots during colonization of an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus, New Phy-tologist, 167: 571-578

Ozawa, Kazuhiko, Hiroki Fujioka, Minoru Muranaka, Atsushi Yokoyama, Yukimi Katagami, Takamitsu Homma, Kanako Ishikawa, Shigeo Tsujimura, Michio Kumagai, Mariyo F. Watanabe, Ho-Dong Park (2005) Spatial distribution and temporal variation of Microcystis species composition and microcystin concentration in Lake Biwa, Envi-ronmental Toxicology, 20(3): 270-276

Saito, Akihiro, Kaku Hanae, Minami Eiiti, Takeshi Fujii, Akikazu Ando, Nagata Yoshiho, Hildegung Schrempf, Kiyotaka Miyashitra (2006) An en-zyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) to de-termine the specificity of the sugar-binding protein NgcE, a component of the ABC transporter for N-acetylglucosamine in Streptomyces olivaceovir-idis, Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry, 70(1): 237-242

Saito, Katsuharu, Ryo Ohtomo, Yukari Kuga-Uetake, Toshihiro Aono, Masanori Saito (2005) A direct labeling of polyphosphate at ultrastructural level in Saccharomyces cerevisiae using an affinity of polyphosphate binding domain of Escherichia coli exopolyphosphatase, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 71: 5692-5701

Sato, Kouichi, Yoshihisa Suyama, Masanori Saito, Ka-zuo Sugawara (2005) A new primer for discrimi-nation of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi with PCR-DGGE, Grassland Science, 51: 179-181

Sawamoto, Takuji, Yasuhiro Nakajima, Masahiro Ka-suya, Haruo Tsuruta, Kazuyuki Yagi (2005) Evaluation of emission factors for indirect N2O emission due to nitrogen leaching in agro- ecosys-tems, Geophysical Research Letters, L03403

Seike, Nobuyasu, Tetsuhisa Miwa, Takashi Otani, Masako Ueji (2005) Levels of dioxins in Japanese fruit in 1999 to 2002 and estimation of their intake, Journal of Food Hygienics Society of Japan, 46(6): 256-262

Takeuchi, Makoto, Sunao Iathashi, Masanori Saito, (2005) A water quality analysis system to evaluate the impact of agricultural activities on N outflow in river basins in Japan, Science in China Ser. C Life Sciences, 48, Supp. I: 100-109

Tournebize, Julien, Hirozumi Watanabe, Kazuhiro Ta-kagi, Taku Nishimura (2006) The development of a coupled model (PCPF-SWMS) to simulate water flow and pollutant transport in Japanese paddy

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fields, Paddy and Water Environment, 4(1): 39-51 Uegaki, Ryuichi, Nobuyasu Seike, Takashi Otani

(2005) Annual mass balance of dioxins in a Japa-nese paddy field, Japanese Society of Grassland Science, 51: 215-221

Uegaki, Ryuichi, Nobuyasu Seike, Takashi Otani (2005) Annual mass balance of dioxins in a Japa-nese paddy field, Organohalogen Compounds, 67: 1993-1996

Vu, Son Hong, Hirozumi Watanabe, Kazuhiro Takagi (2005) Application of FAO-56 for evaluating evapotranspiration in simulation of pollutant run-off from paddy rice field in Japan, Agricultural Water Management, 76: 195-210

Watanabe, Hirozumi, Kazuhiro Takagi, Son Hong Vu (2006) Simulation of mefenacet concentrations in paddy field by an improved PCPF-1 model, Pest Management Science, 62: 20-29

Natural Resources Inventory Center

Ando, Sugihiro, Takahiro Asano, Seiya Tsushima,

Shinichiro Kamachi, Takashi Hagio, Yutaka Tabei (2005) Changes in gene expression of putative isopentenyltransferase during clubroot develop-ment in Chinese cabbage (Brassica rapa L.), Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology, 67: 59-67

Ando, Sugihiro, Tomohiro Yamada, Takahiro Asano, Shinichiro Kamachi, Seiya Tsushima, Takashi Hagio, Yutaka Tabei (2005) Molecular cloning of PbSTKL1 gene from Plasmodiophora brassicae expressed during clubroot development, Journal of Phytopathology, 154: 185-189

Fujinaga, Masashi, Hideki Ogiso, Hirosuke Shinohara, Seiya Tsushima, Norio Nishimura, Masayuki To-gawa, Hideki Saito, Masayuki Nozue (2005) Phy-logenetic relationships between the lettuce root rot pathogen Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lactucae Races 1, 2, and 3 based on the sequence of the in-tergenic spacer region of its ribosomal DNA, Journal of General Plant Pathology, 71(6): 402-407

Koitanbashi, Motoo (2005) New biocontrol method for parsley powdery mildew by antifungal vola-tiles-producing fungus, Kyu-W63, Journal of General Plant Pathology, 71(4): 280-284

Chemical Analysis Research Center

Baba, Koji, Taka-aki Okamura, Chie Suzuki, Hitoshi

Yamamoto, Tetsuo Yamamoto, Mitsuo Ohama,

Norikazu Ueyama (2006) O-Atom-transfer oxi-dation of [Molybdenum (IV) Oxo {3,6- (acylamino) 2-1, 2-benzenedithiolato} 2 ] 2- pro-moted by intramolecular NH···S hydrogen bonds, Inorganic Chemistry, 45(2): 894-901

Eun, Heesoo, Tadashi Sekino, Hirokazu Nishijima, Eiki Watanabe, Koji Baba, Tomohito Arao, Shozo Endo (2005) Clean-up of interfering spices for dioxins analysis, Organohalogen Compounds, 67(2): 112-116

Hotokezaka, Hiroyasu, Noboru Aoyagi, Yasuhiro Kawa-hara, Noriko Yamaguchi, Shinya Nagasaki, Ken Sasaki, Satoru Tanaka (2005) Selective in-situ de-termination of carbonate and oxide particles in aqueous solution using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) for wearable information equipment, Microsystem Technologies, 11(8-10): 974-979

Ikenaka, Yoshinori, Heesoo Eun, Eiki Watanabe, Fujio Kumon, Yuichi Miyabara (2005) Estimation of sources and inflow of dioxins and polycyclic aro-matic hydrocarbons from the sediment core of Lake Suwa, Japan, Environmental Pollution, 138(3): 529-537

Ikenaka, Yoshinori, Heesoo Eun, Eiki Watanabe, Yui-chi Miyabara (2005) Sources, distribution, and in-flow pattern of dioxins in the bottom sediment of Lake Suwa, Japan, Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 75(2): 915-921

Kajiwara, Hideyuki, Yoko Ito, Atsue Imamaki, Masato-shi Nakamura, Kazuei Mita, Masami Ishizaka (2005) Protein profile of silkworm midgut of fifth-instar day-3 larvae, Journal of Electrophoresis, 49(2): 61-69

Kawakami, Tsuyoshi, Masumi Ishizaka, Yasuo Ishii, Heesoo Eun, Jyunji Miyazaki, Kenji Tamura, Teruo Higashi (2005) Concentration and distribu-tion of several pesticides applied to paddy fields in water and sediment, from Sugao Marsh, Japan, Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 74(5): 954-961

Takahashi, Yoshio, Kouichi Yuita, Nobuharu Kihou, Hiroshi Shimizu, Masaharu Nomura (2005) De-termination of the Ce(IV)/Ce(III) ratio by XANES in soil horizons and its comparison with the degree of Ce anomaly, Physica Scripta, T115: 936-939

Watanabe, Eiki, Heesoo Eun, Koji Baba, Tomohito Arao, Shozo Endo, Masako Ueji, Yasuo Ishii (2005) Synthesis of haptens for development of antibodies to alkylphenols and evaluation and op-timization of selected antibody for ELISA devel-

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opment, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemis-try, 53(19): 7395-7403

Watanabe, Eiki, Koji Baba, Heesoo Eun, Tomohito Arao, Yasuo Ishii, Masako Ueji, Shozo Endo (2005) Evaluation of a commercial immunoassay for the detection of chlorfenapyr in agricultural samples by comparison with gas chromatography with mass spectrometric detection, Journal of Chromatography A, 1074(1-2): 145-153

Watanabe, Eiki, Koji Baba, Heesoo Eun, Tomohito Arao, Yasuo Ishii, Masako Ueji, Shozo Endo (2006) Evaluation of performance of a commercial monoclonal antibody-based fenitrothion immuno-assay and application to residual analysis in fruit samples, Journal of Food Protection, 69(1): 191-198

Yamaguchi, Noriko, Hiroyasu Hotokezaka, Shinya Na-gasaki, Satoru Tanaka (2005) Direct quantitative analysis of particulate aluminum suspended in water using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy, Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 51(6): 565-571

Yamaguchi, Noriko, Masashi Nakano, Hajime Tanida, Hideshi Fujiwara (2006) Redox reaction of io-dine in paddy soil investigated by field observation and I K-edge XANES spectroscopy, Journal of

Environmental Radioactivity, 86(2): 212-226 Yuita, Kouichi, Nobuharu Kihou (2005) Behavior of

iodine in a forest plot, an upland field, and a paddy field in the upland area of Tsukuba, Japan：Vertical distribution of iodine in soil horizons and layers to a depth of 50m, Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 51(4): 455-467

Yuita, Kouichi, Nobuharu Kihou, Hideki Ichihashi, Shiho Yabusaki, Hideshi Fujiwara, Katsuaki Kurishima, Takeshi Noda (2006) Behavior of io-dine in a forest plot, an upland field and a paddy field in the upland area of Tsukuba, Japan. Sea-sonal variations in iodine concentration in precipi-tation and soil water and estimation of annual io-dine accumulative amount in soil horizon, Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 52(1): 92-102

Yuita, Kouichi, Nobuharu Kihou, Shiho Yabusaki, Yo-shio Takahashi, Takayuki Saitoh, Akito Tsumura, Hideki Ichihashi (2005) Behavior of iodine in a forest plot, an upland field and a paddy field in the upland area of Tsukuba, Japan. Iodine concentra-tion in precipitation, irrigation water, ponding wa-ter and soil waters to a depth of 2.5 m, Soil Sci-ence and Plant Nutrition, 51(7): 1011-1021

4. Patents

1) METHOD FOR ENRICHTING ISOLATED DEGRADING BACTERIUM, CARRIER HOLDING DEGRAD-ING BACTERIUM OBTAINED THEREBY, AND METHOD FOR RESTORING POLLUTED SOIL OR PRE-VENTING UNDER-GROUND WATER FROM POLLUTION BY USING THE CARRIER

Patent number: 3773449 (Japan) Date of application: 22.6.1999 Date of registration: 24.2.2006 Inventors: Kazuhiro Takagi and Yuuichi Yoshioka

5. Collaborative Research

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Private enterprise 17

Collaborating organization 5

Other independent administrative institution 3

Prefectural research institution 6

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* Total number does not meet the sum of the collaborating organizations because of overlaps in some projects.

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NIAES Advisory Council (2005)

Toru Nagata Former Professor, School of Agriculture, Ibaraki University

Masami Nakamura Editor, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc.

Makoto Kimura Professor, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University

Yoshio Ogawa Director General, Ibaraki Agricultural Center, Horticultural Research Institute

Kazuyoshi Fujita President of “Daichi-o-Mamoru-Kai”

Ryutaro Ohtsuka President, National Institute for Environmental Studies

Eitaro Miwa President, National Agriculture and Bio-oriented Research Organization

Motoaki Okuma President, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute

Toshio Akiyama President, National Research Institute of Fisheries and Environment of Inland Sea, Fisheries Research Agency

Kazuo Tsukamoto Head of Environmental Policy Coordination Office, Policy Planning and Evaluation Division, Minister’s Secretariat, MAFF

Yohei Sato President, National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences

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Budget in the FY 2005 (Million yen)

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No. Facilities 25 Experimental Fertilizer Plant1 Main Building 26 Gatehouse2 Wind Tunnel 27 Garage3 Extreme Low-temperature Lab. 28 Storage for Flammable Materials4 Insectron 29 Energy Substation No.15 Herbarium Museum 30 Gas Governor House No.1

5-1 Analytical Lab. for Environmental Studies 31 Waste Water Treatment Plant6 Phytotron (Plant protection) 32 Gas Cylinder Storage No.17 Environmental Chemicals Assessment Lab. 33 Gas Cylinder Storage No.28 Nematode Biology Workshop 34 Gas Cylinder Storage No.39 Greenhouse No.3 35 Gas Cylinder Storage No.4

10 Soil Sterilization Room 36 Gas Cylinder Storage No.511 Greenhouse No.1 37 Microbial Biotechnology Lab.12 Screen House No.1 38 Water L ve le Control Valve House13 Screen House No.2 39 Analytical Facility for Environmental Chemicals14 Screen House No.3 40 Insect Quarantine Facility15 Small Animal Rearing House 101 Weather Monitoring Station16 Greenhouse No.2 102 Parking Place for Bicycles17 Environmental Chemicals Assessment Lab. 104 Growth Chamber Yard No.118 Soil Stock Yard No.1 105 Growth Chamber Yard No.219 Soil Stock Yard No.2 106 Growth Chamber Yard No.320 Soil Stock Yard No.3 107 Bridge No.121 Soil Stock Yard No.4 108 Bridge No.222 Germplasm Seed Storage Center 109 Container Test Yard No.1

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10 Greenhouse No.2 51 Remote Sensing Experimental Field 8511 Greenhouse 52 Precisely Controlled Environment Unit No.2 86 Facility for Controlling Greenhouse Gas Emissions12 Pot Wash 53 Soil Stock Yard No.12 87 Bio-plant Research Center13 Soil Stock Yard No.5 54 Environmental-controlled Greenhouse 101 Rotary Greenhouse14 Soil Stock Yard No.6 56 Climatron 102 Thermostatic Water Culture Facilities15 Lysimeter 57 Weighing Lysimeter 103 Hydro-automatic Culture Facilities16 Inoculation and Aseptic Greenhouse 58 Micrometeorological Observatory 104 Nursery Beds17 Breeding Cycle Shortening Greenhouse 59 Ecology Workshop 105 Auto-watering Facilities18 Environmental Botany Lab. 60 Field Management Office, NIAR 106 Pot Test Yard19 Systematic Growth Control Facilities 61 Warehouse 107 Herbicide Evaluation Area20 Plant Growth Regulator Screening Greenhouse 62 Oven Pool No.1 108 Systematic Controled Greenhouse21 Auto-feeding Water Culture House 63 Thermal Power Drying House 110 Framed Paddy-Plot Unit22 Soil Moisture Controlled Facilities 64 Crop Drying House No.1 111 Water Level Controlled Paddyfield23 Monitoring Room (for No.22) 65 Farm Implements Shed No.1 112 Groth Chamber Yard No.424 Rainfall-free Greenhouse 66 Workshop No.1 113 Groth Chamber Yard No.525 Monitoring Room (for No.24) 67 Fumigation Room 114 Framed Upland-plot Unit26 Multi-purpose Greenhouse 68 Water-bath Disinfection House 115 Precisely Controlled Environment Unit No.127 Post-introduction Nursery 69 Tuber Storage 116 Evapotron28 Isolated Nursery 70 Fertilizer/Agrochemicals Storage 117 Micrometeorological Observatory29 Outcrossing Plant Nursery 71 Farm Machinery Pool 118 Framed Nursery

29-2 Refrigerator Room 72 Compost Shed 119 Water Tank30 Gravel Culture Greenhouse 73 Framed Nursery Control Room 120 Water Tower31 Winter Crop Greenhouse 74 Rest Room No.1 121 Concrete Floor No.132 Crossing Room No.1 75 Lavatory No.1 122 Concrete Floor No.2

33 Crossing Room No.2 76 Lavatory No.2 124 Container Test Yard No.2

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10 Field Management Office, NIAES11 Sample Shed12 Oven Pool No.213 Crop Drying House No.214 Farm Implements Shed No.215 Workshop No.216 Agro-ecology Workshop No.117 Agro-ecology Workshop No.218 Rest Room No.219 Lavatory No.420 Energy Substation No.621 Pump House No.2

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