SUGIHARA Soh

Professional Career

2008.04～2010.03：JSPS Research Fellow (DC2)
2010.04～2012.06：Researcher, The Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto Univeristy
2012.07～2014.02：Program-Specific Researcher, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University
2014.03～2015.03：Assistant, Decision Science for Sustainable Society, Graduate Education and Research Training Program, Kyushu University
2015.04～20151.02：Assistant Professor, Faculty of Urban Environmental Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University
2016.01～2020.12：Associate Professor, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
2021.01～2024.09：Associate Professor(Tenured), Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
2024.10～present：Professor, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

Academic Degrees

2006: MSc in Agriculture, Kyoto University, Japan
2010: PhD in Agriculture, Kyoto University, Japan

Research Interests

Nutrient dynamics in soil-ecosystems, and its application for the sustainable land management and resources. Nutirent dynamics / Sustainalbe land management / Soil fertility

Publications

• Siegwart L, Jourdan C, Piel C, Piton G, Sauze J, Sugihara S, Bertrand I. Carbon and nutrient colimitations control the microbial response to fresh organic carbon inputs in soil at different depths. Geoderma 440, 116729 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.116729
• Damo JLC, Shimizu T, Sugiura H, Yamamoto S, Agake SI, Anarna J, Tanaka H, Sugihara S, Okazaki S, Yokoyama T, Yasuda M, Ohkama-Ohtsu N. The Application of Sulfur Influences Microbiome of Soybean Rhizosphere and Nutrient-Mobilizing Bacteria in Andosol. Microorganisms. 2023 May 3;11(5):1193. doi: 10.3390/microorganisms11051193.
• Hinako Sugiura, Shunsuke Miyaji, Saki Yamamoto, Michiko Yasuda, Jean Louise Cocson Damo, Maria Daniela Artigas Ramirez, Shin-Ichiro Agake, Takehiro Kamiya, Toru Fujiwara, Sonoko Dorothea Bellingrath-Kimura, Haruo Tanaka, Soh Sugihara & Naoko Ohkama-Ohtsu, 2022. “Induction of citrate transporter gene expression in soybean roots by sulfur application“, Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, DOI: 10.1080/00380768.2022.2104594
• Saki Yamamoto, Shin Okazaki, Nakei D Monica, Naoko Ohkama-Ohtsu, Haruo Tanaka, Soh Sugihara: Rhizobium Inoculation Improved the Rhizosphere P Dynamics and P Uptake Capacity of Pigeon Pea Plants Grown in Strongly Weathered Soil Only under P Fertilized Conditions, Agronomy 12(12), 3149 (2022): https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12123149
• Lorène Siegwart, Christophe Jourdan, Gabin Piton, Soh Sugihara, Karel Van den Meersche, Isabelle Bertrand: Root distribution and properties of a young alley-cropping system: effects on soil carbon storage and microbial activity. Plant and Soil, 482(1-2), 601-625. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-022-05714-9
• Mayuko Seki, Soh Sugihara, Hidetoshi Miyazaki, Muniandi Jegadeesan, Pandian Kannan, Haruo Tanaka: Soil nitrogen dynamics and sorghum productivity as affected by biochar in the dry tropics. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems 124 (3), 423-435 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10705-022-10248-8
• Damo JLC, Ramirez MDA, Agake S, Pedro M, Brown M, Sekimoto H, Yokoyama T, Sugihara S, Okazaki S, Ohkama-Ohtsu N. 2022. Isolation and Characterization of Phosphate Solubilizing Bacteria from Paddy Field Soils in Japan. Microbes Environ 37 (2)　ME21085
• Seki M, Sugihara S, Miyazaki H, Jegadeesan M, Kannan P, Bertrand I, Tanaka H. Impact of biochar and manure application on in-situ carbon dioxide flux, microbial activity, and carbon budget in degraded cropland soil of southern India. Land Degradation and Development, DOI10.1002/ldr.4234
• Sawada K, Watanabe S, Nguyen HL, Sugihara S, Seki M, Kobayashi H, Toyota K, Funakawa S. 2021. Comparison of the sturucture and diversity of root-associated and soil microbial communitites between acacia plantations and native tropical mountain forests. Frontiers in Microbiology (Front. Microbiol.), 12, 735121 https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.735121
• Soh Sugihara, Tomomi Kawashita, Mawazo Shitindi, Boniface Massawe, Haruo Tanaka. 2021. Dynamics of fractionated rhizosphere soil P and plant P uptake under maize/P-mobilizing legumes intercropping in strongly weathered soil of Tanzania. Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 67: 312-322, https://doi.org/10.1080/00380768.2021.1911589
• Kozue Sawada, Yoshiyuki Inagaki, Soh Sugihara, Shinya Funakawa, Karl Ritz, Koki Toyota. Impacts of conversion from natural forest to cedar plantation on the structure and diversity of root-associated and soil microbial communities. Applied Soil Ecology (Appl. Soil Ecol.), 167: 104027, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2021.104027
• Ashida, K., Watanabe, T., Urayama, S., Hartono, A., Kilasara, M., Mvondo Ze, A. D., Nakao, A., Sugihara, S., Funakawa, S. 2021. Quantitative relationship between organic carbon and geochemical properties in tropical surface and subsurface soils, Biogeochemistry, 155, 77-95. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-021-00813-8
• Sugiura, H., S. Sugihara, T. Kamiya, M. D. A. Ramirez, M. Miyatake, T. Fujiwara, O. Takuji, T. Motobayashi, T. Yokoyama, S.D. Bellingrath-Kimura, and N. Ohkama-Ohtsu. 2021. “Sulfur application enhances secretion of organic acids by soybean roots and solubilization of phosphorus in rhizosphere.” Soil Science and Plant Nutrition. doi: 10.1080/00380768.2021.1919011.
• Nishigaki T., Sugihara S., Kilasara, M., Funakawa, S. 2021,  Carbon dioxide flux and soil carbon stock as affected by crop residue management and soil texture in semi-arid maize croplands in Tanzania. Soil Use and Management (Soil Use Manage.), 37:83-94 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sum.12680
• Soh Sugihara., Makoto Shibata., Antoine MVondo Ze., Haruo Tanaka., Takashi Kosaki., Shinya Funakawa. Forest understories controlled the soil organic carbon stock during the fallow period in African tropical forest: a 13C analysis.” Scientific Reports 9, Article number: 9835. 2019
• Mayuko Seki., Soh Sugihara S., Hidetoshi Miyazaki., Ryoichi Araki, Muniandee Jegadeesan., Syun Ishiyama., Ueru Tanaka., Haruo Tanaka. Effect of Traditional Cultivation Management on CO2 Flux in the Dry Tropical Cropland of South India” Agronomy 9(7), 347., 2019
• Miyatake, M., Ohyama, T., Yokoyama, T., Sugihara, S., Motobayashi, T., Kamiya, T., Fujiwara, T., Yuan, K., Bellingrath-Kimura S.D., Ohkama-Ohtsu, N. Effects of deep placement of controlled-release nitrogen fertilizer on soybean growth and yield under sulfur deficiency, Soil Science and Plant Nutrition (Soil. Sci. Plant Nutr.). 65: 259-266, 2019