Laboratory of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry
Professor Takafumi YOSHIKAWA yoshikawat@pharm.kitasato-u.ac.jp
Associate Prof. Yoshihisa ASADA asaday@pharm.kitasato-u.ac.jp
Assistant Prof. Masao HIROTANI hirotanim@pharm.kitasato-u.ac.jp
Research Assistant Toshiya KONDO kondout@pharm.kitasato-u.ac.jp
Research Assistant Shigeyuki NAGASHIMA nagashimas@pharm.kitasato-u.ac.jp

Research Subjects
  • Plant biotechnology: i) Isolation and characterization of genes encoding the biosynthetic enzymes on useful secondary metabolites, ii) Formation of the transgenic plants by transduction of the genes into another plants, iii) Production of medical resources by plant tissue cultures.

  • Isolation and structual determination of natural bioactive compounds from higher plants and fungi.


Last update May/1/2001