Soil solutions for the changing world
Research members： Dr. Koki Toyota, Yohey Hashimoto PhD.
Research fields： Environmental analyses and evaluation, Environmental conservation, Plant production and environmental agriculture, Agricultural chemistry, Forest and forest products science
Departments： Institute of Agriculture
Keywords： soil microorganism, soil contamination, rhizosphere microorganism, compost, plant protection, environmental remediation, harmful elements, food safety, endophyte, nematoda
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Summary
We are facing the critical global issues including desertification, global warming and soil degradation. We study "SOIL" to solve these issues and create sustainable world for the future. The goal of our mission is to establish the agricultural and environmental systems that can be sustainable and productive. Our studies focus on i) the use of organic amendments for enabling the sustainable soil management, ii) investigation of interrelationships among soil biota for elucidating of soil borne disease, and iii) investigation of chemical speciation of toxic and nutritional elements in soils for understanding their toxicity and availability in the environment.
Reference articles and patents
論文）Yu Yu Min, Koki Toyota and Erika Sato: A novel nematode diagnostic method by the direct quantification of plant-parasitic nematodes in soil with real-time PCR, Nematology, 14, 265-276 (2012)
論文）Hashimoto, Y., and Yamaguchi, N. Chemical speciation of cadmium and sulfur K-edge XANES spectroscopy in flooded paddy soils amended with zerovalent iron. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 77:1189-1198. (2013)
科研費）ゲノム情報に基づいた線虫病害診断技術の開発
科研費）不溶化処理の普及を目指した廃棄物資材の重金属不溶化機構の解明と生物影響評価
Contact
University Research Administration Center(URAC),
Tokyo University of Agriculture andTechnology
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