Unit of Environmental Plant biology, Fukui Prefectural Univeristy

 


 

1Prof. Dr. Takeshi FUKAO
e-mail: Fukao (at)fpu.ac.jp

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES:
1. Flooding tolerance
2. Underwater germination

KEY WORDS:
Abiotic stress, Molecular biology, Genetics

TARGET PLATS:
Rice

 
Prof. Dr. Katsuhiro SHIONO
e-mail: shionok(at)fpu.ac.jp

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES:
1. Waterlogging tolerance
2. Regulation of root aeration
3. Apoplastic barrier

KEY WORDS:
Barrier to Radial Oxygen Loss (ROL), Aerenchyma, Waterlogging, Casparian strip, Suberin, Lignin, Oxygen sensor

TARGET PLANTS:
Rice, Wild rice, Barley, Brachypodium distachyon

KEY TECHNIQUE:
Cylindrical Pt electrode (Oxygen measurement)
Planar oxygen optode (Oxygen imaging)


EDUCATION:
2007 PhD in Agriculture. University of Tsukuba, Japan.
2004 Master of Biosystem. University of Tsukuba, Japan.
2002 BSc. Engineering. Tokyo University of Science, Japan.

POSITIONS HELD:
Apr 2023 - present:
Full Professor, Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Fukui Prefectural University

Apr 2016 - Mar 2023:
Associate Professor, Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Fukui Prefectural University

May 2016 - May 2019:
Adjunct Lecturer of School of Plant Biology, The University of Western Australia

May 2018 - Dec 2018:
Guest Researcher with Prof. Ronnie N Glud, Department of Biology, University of Southern Denmark

Nov 2013 - Sep 2015:
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow for Research Abroad with Prof. T. Colmer, School of Plant Biology, The University of Western Australia

Jun 2011 - present:
Guest Researcher, Alliance for Research on North Africa, University of Tsukuba

Apr 2011 - Mar 2016:
Assistant Professor, Department of Bioscience, Fukui Prefectural University

May 2010 - Mar 2011:
JSPS Research Fellow with Prof. Lukas Schreiber, University of Bonn.
supported by the Excellent Young Researcher Overseas Visit Program.

Apr 2009 - Mar 2011:
JSPS Research Fellow with Dr. Mikio Nakazono, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo

Apr 2007 - Mar 2009:
Post-doc with Dr. Mikio Nakazono, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo


PRIZES & AWARDS:
2017 The JSRR Young Investigator Award (47th JSRR Bi-annual Meeting)
2010 Outstanding Presentation Award (117th Meeting of the Japanese Society of Breeding)
2007 Early Career Scientists Award (9th ISPA Conference, Matsushima, Japan)


OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS AND FORMS OF RECOGNITION:
2022- present: Chief of Secretariat in Japanese Society for Root Research
2018 - 2021: Editors in Chief of Plant Root
2016 - present: Review Editor in Plant Abiotic Stress, part of the journal Frontiers in Plant Science
2014 - 2017: Managing Editor of Plant Root
2008 - 2017: Editor of Root Research (In Japanese)
2009 - present: Reviewer of manuscripts for a number of international plant science journals