SHINANO Takuro

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Affiliation

Crop-Driven Cultivation Environment Improvement Unit （Agriculture, forestry and fisheries）

Position
Unit Leader
Final Education
Final Education Completed the doctoral course in, Graduate School, Division of Agriculture, Hokkaido University
Degree(s)
Ph.D. (Agriculture)
Research Keywords
Crop production, Environment radiology, Plant physiology, Rhizosphere, Omics analysis
Research Area
Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, Plant Physiology, Soil Microorganism
External Link
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Academic Affiliations

  • Japanese Society of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition
  • The Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists
  • Crop Science Society of Japan
  • The Society for Remediation of Radioactive Contamination in the Environment
  • Japanese Society of Soil Microbiology
  • Japanese Society for Root Research
  • American Society of Plant Biologists
  • European Geosciences Union

Member of Committees for National Policies

  • Cooperative Member, Science Council of Japan (26th and 27th Terms)

Patents / Industrial Property Rights

  • JP-A-2016-055281: Cesium adsorbent, its use, and method for producing iron phytate
  • JP-A-2005-110526: Microorganism capable of utilizing insoluble phytate in soil, phytase produced by the microorganism, and uses

Peer-Reviewed Papers

  • Uchibayashi, H., Maruyama, H., Watanabe, T., Hamamoto, S., Toma, Y., Nakao, A., Kurokawa, K. and Shinano, T. Impact of basalt application on soil chemical properties and elemental uptake by paddy rice through enhanced rock weathering. Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 71(4), 484-495 (2025). DOI: 10.1080/00380768.2024.2448457

  • Suzuki, M., Kubo, K., Hachinohe, M., Sato, T., Tsukada, H., Yamaguchi, N., Watanabe, T., Maruyama, H. and Shinano, T. Effect of cattle manure compost application to the crop growth and transfer of cesium from soil to crops in the field physically decontaminated the radionuclides. Science of The Total Environment, 908, 167939 (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167939

  • Kubo, K., Kobayashi, H., Nitta, M., Takenaka, S., Nasuda, S., Fujimura, S., Takagi, K., Nagata, O., Ota, T. and Shinano, T. Variations in radioactive cesium accumulation in wheat germplasm from fields affected by the 2011 Fukushima nuclear power plant accident. Scientific Reports 10, 3744 (2020). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-60716-w

Books

  • Edited by Ma, J. Shinano, T. and Takano, J. Plant Nutrition 3rd Edition, Buneido Publishing Co., Ltd.
     ISBN:978-4-8300-4145-7 2024
  • Tagami, K., Sato, M., Shinano, T., Tsukada, H., Eguchi, S., Uchida, S., Yamaguchi, N., Carini, F., Vidal, M., Takata, D., Fujimura, S., Saito, T., Ishii, N., Matsunami, H., Onda, Y., Choi, Y-H., Beresford, N., Fesenko, S., Pröhl, G., Howard, B.J. and Brown, J. Chapter 4. Agricultural Systems, In “Environmental transfer parameters for radionuclides released from the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant” Vienna : International Atomic Energy Agency, 2020. | Series: IAEA TECDOC series, ISSN 1011–4289 ; no. 1927 | Includes bibliographical references.
    Identifiers: IAEAL 20-01352 | ISBN 978–92–0–117920–3 (paperback : alk. paper) |
    ISBN 978–92–0–118020–9 (pdf) 2020
  • Unno, Y. and Shinano, T. Metagenomic analysis on the rhizosphere soil microbial community. In Molecular Microbial Ecology of the Rhizosphere. Ed., Frans J. de Brjin. Wiley-Blackwell Publishers Vol. 2, Wiley-Blackwell Publishers, Chapter 104, pp. 1099-1103 (2013).

Lectures / Oral Presentations, etc.

  • Exchangeable 137Cs plays a key role in the transfer of 137Cs from soil to plants. Shinano, T., Iwai, J., Mochizuki, A., Maruyama, H., Watanabe, T., Vlasimsky, M., Albinet, F., Dercon, G. International Conference on Nuclear and radiological emergencies. Ryad, Saudi Arabia, 2025
  • Decrease of RCs transfer from soil to plant is driven by application of manure -Distinguished roles for potassium and organic matter- . Centennial Celebration and Congress of the International Union of Soil Sciences. Rome, Italy, 2024
  • Exploring Novel Agricultural Systems through Crop–Soil Interactions,Sapporo Alumni Association of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan, 2025

Awards

  • 2000
    Encouragement Award, Japanese Society of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition
    (“Role of respiration in crop productivity and the reconstruction of carbon and nitrogen compounds”)
  • 2016
    NARO Special Prize II, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization
    (“Establishment of potassium-based technology to reduce the transfer of radioactive cesium to crops (rice, soybean, buckwheat, and forage grasses)”
    Naoto Kato, Takuro Shinano, Takeshi Ohta, Katashi Kubo, Tomoko Uchida, Toshiya Matsunami, Tetsuya Eguchi, Shinji Shimada, Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Tetsuo Sekiguchi, Kyoko Togamura, Daigo Yamada, Takeshi Shibuya, Nobuharu Kikata, Noriko Yamaguchi, Hisatomi Harada, Yoshiaki Watanabe, Sumio Ito, Takeshi Kimura)
  • 2018
    Award, Japanese Society of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition
    (“Plant nutritional studies on rhizosphere environment control for improving crop productivity”)

Visiting Professor at Other Universities, etc.

  • Specially appointed professor, Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University

Classes at Other Universities/Graduate Schools

  • Nuclear Environmental Impact Assessment II, University of Tsukuba

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