OOKAWA Taiichiro

Position

Professor

Affiliations

Division of Science of Biological Production, Institute of Agriculture
Food - Ohtsu Team, Institute of Global Innovation Research

Researcher ID

C-9323-2013

0000-0002-6326-173X

Email

ookawa (at) cc.tuat.ac.jp

URL

http://web.tuat.ac.jp/~crop/index.html

Professional Career

1990 – 1998 : Assistant, Faculty of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
1999 – 2003 : Assistant Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
2004 – 2006 : Assistant Professor, Institute of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
2007 – 2014 : Associate Professor, Institute of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
2015 – present : Professor, Institute of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

Academic Degrees

Ph.D., Agricultural Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

Research Interests

Environmental science, Agricultural science, Crop production science, Agronomy, Weed Studies

Publications

Agake S, Ohwaki Y, Kojima K, Yoshikawa E, Artigas Ramirez MD, Bellingrath-Kimura SD, Yamada T, Ookawa T, Yokoyama T, Ohkama-Ohtsu N. Biofertilizer with Bacillus pumilus TUAT1 spores improves growth, productivity, and lodging resistance in forage rice. Agronomy. 12, 10, 2325
Tomohiro Nomura, Yoshiaki Seki, Makoto Matsuoka, Ken Yano, Koki Chigira, Shunsuke Adachi, Francisco J Pinera, Matthew Reynolds, Satoshi Ohkubo and Taiichiro Ookawa. Potential of rice landraces with strong culms as genetic resources for improving lodging resistance against super typhoons. Scientific Reports 11: 15780. Doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-95268-0, 2021.
Koki Chigira, Natsuko Kojima, Masanori Yamasaki, Kenji Yano, Shunsuke Adachi, Tomohiro Nomura, Mingjin Jiang, Keisuke Katsura and Taiichiro Ookawa, Landraces of temperate japonica rice have superior alleles for improving culm strength associated with lodging resistance. Scientific Reports 10, 19855, doi: org/10.1038/s41598-020-76949-8, 2020
Mingjin Jiang, Eiji Yamamoto, Toshio Yamamoto, Kazuki Matsubara, Hiroshi Kato, Shunsuke Adachi, Tomohiro Nomura, Eri Kamahora, Jun Ma, Taiichiro Ookawa. Mapping of QTLs associated with lodging resistance in rice (Oryza sativa L.) using the recombinant inbred lines derived from two high yielding cultivars, Tachisugata and Hokuriku 193. Plant Growth Regulation (Plant Growth Regul.) 87: 267-276, 2019