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The University of Tokyo Forests Education and Research Center, The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences Associate Professor Susumu Goto

Clarifying global warming stress response processes in northern forest ecosystems

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Project Description

Clarifying the stress response process of coniferous trees by simulating global warming
The onset of global warming is having a big impact on forest ecosystems. Many current long-standing tree populations that take time to propogate are thought to be particularly susceptible to these changes in environment. This research simulates global warming by planting three species of conifer tree considered representative of northern climes in two areas with different temperature levels in order to clarify their response process in terms of growth, growth cycle, and gene expression, and to reveal any interspecific changes between the three trees. [Project No. R15-0026]

Fields
Global Environment
Grant year
FY2015 Research Grants
Grant term
3 years
April 2016 - March 2019
Grant amount
4,950,000 yen
Activity region
Furano, Hokkaido; Kamogawa, Chiba; Chichibu, Saitama
Measuring a Yezo spruce

Overview of the Organization

Susumu Goto, Associate Professor
Project organization
The University of Tokyo
The University of Tokyo Forests Education and Research Center, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences
Representative
Susumu Goto, Associate Professor
Profile
Specialist field: forest genetics and tree breeding
Affiliated academic societies: the Japanese Society of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding, the Japanese Forest Society, the Ecological Society of Japan
Background: March 1991, graduated from the Tohoku University Faculty of Science's Department of Biology. April 1992, joined Yamaha Corporation, leaving in March 1995. April 1995, hired by the Fukuoka Forestry Research Center as an engineer, leaving in March 2000. April 2000, accepted as a research assistant at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences. February 2001, awarded a doctorate in agricultural science. May 2002, promoted to lecturer at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences. November 2008, promoted to current position of associate professor at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences.
Research record
  • Ishizuka W, Ono K, Hara T, Goto S (2015) "Use of intraspecific variation in thermal responses for estimating an elevational cline in the timing of cold hardening in a sub-boreal conifer." Plant Biology 17, 177-185
  • Okada M, Kitamura K, Lian C, Goto S (2015) "The effects of multilocus heterozygosity on the longevity of seedlings established on fallen logs in Picea jezoensis and Abies sachalinensis." Open J. Forestry 5, 422-430
  • Iwaizumi M, Aizawa M, Watanabe A, Goto S (2015) "Highly polymorphic nuclear microsatellite markers reveal detailed patterns of genetic variation in natural populations of Yezo spruce in Hokkaido." J. For. Res. 20, 301-307
  • Ishizuka W, Goto S (2012) "Modeling intraspecific adapatation of Abies sachalinensis to local altitude and responses to global warming, based on a 36-year reciprocal transplant experiment." Evol. Appl. 5, 229-244
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http://www.uf.a.u-tokyo.ac.jp/