Name KITASHIBA Hiroysasu
Affiliation Professor
Mail hiroyasu.kitashiba.c7*tohoku.ac.jp (Please replace * with @)
Research Interest Plant breeding, Plant genetics
Career Education: Grad. Sch. Agri. Sci., Tohoku Univ., PhD (Agri.)　(1999) Research Experience: Senior Researcher, Yamagata Prefecture Enterprise Promotion Corporation (1999-2003), Research Fellow (PD) of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in Fruit Tree Research Institute of NARO (2003 - 2006), Assoc. Prof., Tohoku Univ. (2006 - 2019), Prof., Tohoku Univ. (2019 -)
Research map https://researchmap.jp/Kitashiba-1
Research Projects

1. Genome research of Brassica and Raphanus (Brassicaceae) and its application to breeding

2. Molecular genetics and breeding studies on self-incompatibility in Brassicaceae.

3. Breeding research for improvement of environmental stress tolerance (salt tolerance, cold tolerance)

4. Development of practical breeding techniques for the breeding process

5. Genetic resource management of Brassica and the related species in Brassicaceae

Past Research outline:

Basic research for molecular breeding of Rosaceae fruit trees

– Frost resistance, Plant growth substance: polyamines, self-incompatibility

Research Seeds

・Published a paper on radish genome study

Identification of genome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphisms among geographically diverse radish accessions.

Hiroto Kobayashi, Kenta Shirasawa, Nobuko Fukino, Hideki Hirakawa, Takashi Akanuma, Hiroyasu Kitashiba*. DNA Research doi: 10.1093/dnares/dsaa001. (2020)

・Published a book on the latest radish genome study edited by Nishio and Kitashiba

The Radish Genome（eds. Nishio and Kitashiba）. (2017)

URL: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-59253-4