Research on subtropical plants

Research staff profile

Tomoko Matsubara, Ph.D.

Area of expertise	Pomology, Mycorrhizal fungi
Research content	Mechanism of symbiosis between mycorrhizal fungi and pants Utilization of mycorrhizal fungi for sustainable agriculture

Background

2017 - Current post at the Okinawa Churashima Foundation Research Institute
2015 - Employed by Kobe University, Japan
2015 - Ph.D (Agriculture), Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University, Japan
2012 - Master (Agriculture), Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University, Japan
2010 - Bachelor (Agriculture), Faculty of Agriculture, Kyoto Prefectual University, Japan

Tomoko MATSUBARA, Haruki SUNAGAWA. 2024. Effects of organic compost utilizing fish meal, trimmed wood chips and cut grass from Ocean Expo Park on the growth of Tagetes erecta and Viola × wittrockiana, Japan. Bulletin of Japan Association of Botanical Gardens 58: 52-61.
T. Matsubara, T. Ishii. Development of preparative chromatography for proteomic approach of mycorrhizal symbiosis. Adv. Biol. Chem. 5, 16-23(2015)
T. Matsubara, M. Yoneda, T. Ishii. Fungal isolate “KMI” is a new type of orchid mycorrhizal fungus. Amer. J. Plant Sci. 3, 1121-1126(2012).
A. F. Cruz, C. Hamel,Yang, T. Matsubara, Y. Gan, A. K. Singh, K. Kuwada, T. Ishii. Phytochemicals to suppress Fusarium head blight in wheat–chickpea rotation. Phytochemistry. 78, 72-80 (2012).