Plant Phylogeny and Taxonomy
Core Course
Staff
Minoru Tamura
- Position
- Professor
- Office
- Science Building 2, Room 101
- Phone
- 075-753-4134
- Fax
- 075-753-4145
- mntamura(at-mark)sys.bot.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Koji Takayama
- Position
- Associate Professor
- Office
- Science Building 2, Room 103
- Phone
- 075-753-4131
- Fax
- takayama(at-mark)sys.bot.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Shizuka Fuse
- Position
- Associate Professor
- Office
- Science Building 2, Room 102
- Phone
- 075-753-4145
- Fax
- 075-753-4145
- fuse(at-mark)sys.bot.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Hidetoshi Nagamasu (Kyoto University Museum)
- Position
- Professor
- Office
- Kyoto University Museum S311
- Phone
- Fax
- nagamasu.hidetoshi.2w(at-mark)kyoto-u.ac.jp
Research
Research themes: (1) Analysis of biodiversity, (2) Elucidation of lineage evolution, (3) Research on speciation mechanisms.
(1) We conduct field surveys mainly in forests and grasslands of East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayas to discover and describe new genera and new species, and are working to elucidate the flora of various regions. (Figs. 1, 2).
(2) We study how various traits such as morphology, anatomy, embryology, and chromosomes have evolved against the background of a phylogenetic tree based on the molecular information of DNA, leading to the acquisition of the diversity seen at present. (Figs. 3, 4).
(3) We are trying to clarify the formation of the distribution of various land plants mainly by population genetic analysis using a next-generation sequencing (Fig. 5). We are also observing the pollination patterns of early spring plants and working on research on the mechanism of species maintenance and sequestration (Fig. 6).
