My academic background is in plant breeding science, plant molecular genetics and plant physiology with an emphasis in the elucidation and artificial control of programmed cell death. I am trained as a researcher in the field of plant breeding, with a focus on the development of molecular breeding techniques to enhance flower longevity and stress tolerance through genetic control of programmed cell death in plants. At Ibaraki University, under the academic guidance of Prof. Wataru Marubashi, I clarified that programmed cell death is involved in the expression of hybrid lethality in interspecific hybrids of Nicotiana species, and identified a group of genes related to its induction. At the Floriculture Research Institute of the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, under the collaboration with Dr. Wouter G. van Doorn, I characterized the programmed cell death involved in petal senescence using morning glory and other ornamental plants as models. My educational experience includes teaching undergraduate and graduate school lectures and teaching students as a full-time faculty member at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, as well as providing academic support about search of useful genes improved salt stress tolerance in rice to staff of Can Tho University. I also provided academic guidance to breeding staff of horticultural crop as a supervising researcher at the Tokyo Metropolitan Agriculture and Forestry Research Center. Current research responsibilities include the identifying genes involved in flower longevity and stress disorders through comparative omics analysis using morning glory and rice core-collections, and the modifying functions of those genes through genome editing to improve flower longevity and stress tolerance. In addition, in cooperation with private companies, I am conducting research to develop application methods and varieties that maximize the growth-promoting effect of Bacillus biofertilizers, and to improve seed productivity of ornamental plants by promoting petal senescence through ethephon treatment.