A happy New Year!
I've just received the Vol. 71, No. 1 of the Journal of the Japanese Society for Horticultural Science, on which my original paper is printed. So, I've updated the list of original papers.
My life has been hectic these days. For example, I only had some noodle and two beers on last Saturday, and a salad and a beer on Sunday. Good thing is that I still could sleep a total of eight hours on these two nights combined. Don't know why I am here, but life goes on.
Our web server is almost full, so I trimmed a major part of my site. It is going to be expanded soon. How soon? If I and my assistant find free time.
It's been a while since I updated this page last time. Not much change since then, except that our laboratory have been relocated to another building. This is temporary, caused by a refurbishing project of two buildings in Matsudo campus. We've been settled in by now, but we need to move again in the end of next March. It's a tedious process, to say the least.
I'm going to Argentina again for a research project on Argentinian Solanaceous plants. We'll leave Japan on October 26, and be back on November 16. I'd like to put a photo report on this site, but because of the shortage of server storage, am not sure if I can. This means that I have not installed a new hard disk to the server. I apologize.
Happy Birthday to me! I am 38 now.
It has been a rather cold winter here in Matsudo despite the earlier forcast of warm winter by the Weather Bureau. Not much is happening here, but our Petunia research team has made a siginificant contribution to the reproductive science of plants. We found a pollen-part mutation of an S gene of gametophytic self-incompatible Petunia axillaris. This will facilitate the search of the still-unkown pollen-part product responsible for the gametophytic self-incompatibility. See my new list of papers.
At last! I'm updating this page for the first time in over a year. Too lazy, ain't I? In this April, all the national universities in Japan became government-supported for-profit companies. Am not sure about "for-profit" part, but we are allowed now to make money out of our activities nonetheless. I'm no longer a public servant. I still personally believe that this was a bad decision in the long run, but I confess I didn't actively participate in the movement against it.
Anyhow, the new school year has begun. I'm busy keeping up with the schecules. Hopefully, I can update this page more often.
Creaated on18 Jan. 2002, last updated on 6 Sept. 2005.
Hisashi Kokubun