Staff Profile

NameSATO, Yo-Ichiro
AffiliationResearch Department, RIHN
PositionDeputy Director-General, Professor
Year of Birth1952
Academic CareerFaculty of Agriculture, Kyoto University (1977)
Department of Agronomy, Kyoto University, M. Course (1979)
Professional CareerAssistant at Faculty of Agriculture, Kochi University (1981)
Research Associate at National Institute of Genetics (1983)
Associate Professor at Shizuoka University (1994)
Professor, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (2004)
Deputy Director-General, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (2008)
Program Director - Ecohistory
Higher DegreesD.Agr. (Kyoto University, 1986)
Fields of SpecializationPlant genetics
Academic Society MembershipsJapan Society of Breeding
Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan
Japan Society for Scientific Studies on Cultural Properties
Society of Tropical Ecology
The Society of Biosophia Studies
Japanese Society for DNA Polymorphism Research
The Society for the Study of Phytogeography and Taxonomy
The Japanese Forest Society
AwardsNinth Matsushita Konosuke “Hana to midori no hakuran-kai kinen shorei-sho” (2001)
Seventh NHK Shizuoka broadcasting station “Akebono-sho” (2001)
Seventeenth Hamada Seiryo-sho (2004)

　

Books

【Authored/Co-authored】

・Sato Yo-Ichiro 2007,06 Inasakun no kigen. Kagaku, Vol.77,No.6. Iwanami syoten, 618-620 (in Japanese)

・Sasaki Koumei, Sato Yo-Ichiro, Hotta Mituru, Yasuda yoshinori 2007 Shinyoujyurin bunka toha nanika,higashiajia no mori ga umidashita bunmei 2007 daisaaaaanbu touron Shinyoujyurin bunka to inasaku bunka o megutte. Tyuuoukoushinsyo, 1921. Tyuuoukouronsya, 200-309 (in Japanese)

・Sato Yo-Ichiro 2007 Kusunoki to setonaikai . Setonaikaijiten. nannansya, 46-47 (in Japanese)

【Chapters/Sections】

・Kuroda, Y., Rao, S.A., Bounphanousay, C., Kongpanh, V., Iwata, A., Tanaka, K. and Sato, Y.-I. 2006 Diversity of wild and weedy rice in Laos . Schiller, J.M. et al. eds (ed.) Rice in Laos . , pp.215-234..

【Translations / Joint Translations】

・Osada Toshiki and Sato, Y.-I. 2005 First Farmers　-The origins of agricultural societies . Blackwell publishing, Translation of Bellwood . ,

Editing

【Editing / Co-editing】

・Sato Yo-Ichiro (ed.) 2007 Nougyou ga kankyou o hakaisuru toki-yuurashia noukoushi to kankyou. ,

Papers

【Original Articles】

・Sato, Y.-I., Leo Aoi Hosoya, Emi Kimura, Takashi Kurata, Chiaki Muto, Katsunori Tanaka 2011,04 Sustainable agriculture: the lessons from history. Sansai 5 :69-81.(reviewed).

・Dorian Q Fuller and Sato,Y.-I. 2008 Japonica rice carried to, not from Southeast Asia. Nature　Genetics (40) :1264.(reviewed).

・Sato Yo-Ichiro 2007 Chikyuukankyou to yakihata . Tohokugaku (11) :50-55. (in Japanese)

・Hiroaki　Tabuchi，Yo-Ichiro　Sato，and　Ikuo　Ashikawa 2007 Mosaic Structure of Japanese Rice Genome Composed Mainly of Two Distinct Genotypes. Breeding Science 57(3) :213-221. (in Japanese)

・Shin-ichi Kawakami, Kaworu Ebana, Tomotaro Nishikawa, Yo-ichiro Sato, Duncan A.Vaughan, and Koh-ichi Kadowaki 2007 Genetic variation in the chloroplast genome suggests multiple domestication of cultivated Asian rice (Oryza sativa L.).. Genome (50) :180-187.

・Yosuke Kuroda, Yo-Ichiro Sato, Chay Bounphanousay, Yasuyuki Kono, Koji Tanaka 2007 Genetic structure of three Oryza AA genome species (O.rufipogon,O.nivara and O.sativa) as assessed by SSR analysis on the Vientiane Plain of Laos. . Conserv Genet (8) :149-158.

・Nozawa, S., M.Takahashi, H. Nakai and Sato, Y.-I. 2006 Difference in SSR variations between Japanese barnyard millet (Echinochloa esculenta) and its　wild　relative E. crus-galli. Breeding Science (56) :335-340.(reviewed).

・Ishikawa, R., S. Yamanaka, Y. Fukuta, S. Chitrakon, C. Bounphanousay, K. Kanyavong, L-H. Tang, I. Nakamura, T. Sato and Sato, Y.-I. 2006 Genetic erosion from modern varieties　into traditional upland rice cultivars (Oryza sativa L.) in northern Thailand. Genetic　Resources and Crop Evolution (53) :245-252.(reviewed).

・Sakamoto, S., R. Ishikawa, I. Nakamura, Sato, Y.-I., and Y.Shimamoto 2006 Species identification of 6,000-years-old beans from Sannai-Maruyama site, Aomori, Japan. . Journal of Fossil Research (39) :1-6.(reviewed).

・Sato, Y.-I. 2006 Domestication of Crops: What is Common and What is Different? –Fudo and Agriculture-. Proc. Pre-symposium of RIHN and 7th ESCA Harvard-Kyoto Roundtable (Osada, ed.) :73-78.

・Ishikawa, R., N. Toki, K. Imai, Sato, Y.-I., H. Yamagishi, Y. Shimamoto, K.Ueno, H. Morishima, T. Sato 2005 Origin of weedy rice grown in Bhutan and the force of　genetic diversity. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution (52) :395-403.(reviewed).

・Fukunaga, K., H. Nasu, Sato, Y.-I. 2005 An attempt of the wheat/barley ancient DNA　analysis of the samples from Kaman-Kalehöyük. Anatolian Archaeological Studies (XIV) :165-166.

・Umemoto, T., Sato, Y.-I. et al. 2004 Natural variation in rice starch synthase IIa affects enzyme and starch properties . Func. Plant Biol. 31 :671-684.(reviewed).

・Sato, Y.-I., S. Yamanaka and M.Takahashi 2003 Evidence for Jomon plant cultivation based on DNA analysis of chestnut remains, In: Hunter-gathers of the north pacific rim (Eds. by Habu et al.). Senri Ethological studies (No.63) :187-198.(reviewed).

Research Presentations

【Oral Presentation】

・ "Rice: grown in China”. Early Rice Cultivation & Its Weed Flora, 2011,05,30-2011,05,31, Beijing, Chine.

・ . VI Interntl Rice Genetics Symp.at IRRI, 2009,11,22-2009,11,23, Bangkok,Thailand.