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Akihiko KAMOSHITA

Akihiko KAMOSHITA, Associate Professor

・Cross-Appointed Faculty, International Program in Agricultural Development Studies (IPADS)

Laboratory of Regional Resources Reassessment, Asian Research Center for Bioresource and Environmental Sciences, the Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the University of Tokyo

 

 

 

 

https://en.kamoshitalab.com/blank

 Contact information:

Phone +81-70-1579-9740

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Discipline(s)

Crop Science, Agroecology, Rice Science, Sustainability Science

 

Research interests

My research interest is firstly mechanisms of crop production in relation with resource utilization, responses to climate, and adaptation to abiotic stress under various environmental and managemental conditions. I am interested in rice and water: rice is a staple food in Japan and in many Asian countries but also as a crop and food getting increasingly produced and consumed globally outside Asia. I am currently working on rice production with relation to symbiosis with arbuscular mycorrhiza under different water availability, as well as comparison with a dryland crop, pearl millet

My second research interest is diversity and heterogeneity of agroecosystems in both large and small scales. The heterogeneity of agroecosystem within a target area is small scale environmental variation, which would be related with success and failure of extension of new technologies, becoming as a source of gap between farm yield and potential yield. I have been investigating diversity of rice ecosystems such as rainfed lowlands, deepwater rice, tank irrigation rice and delta rice.

My third research interest is sustainability science; one example of sustainability science approach is to apply both crop production science and agroecology in the same target region. We worked before on sustainability of irrigated fields rehabilitated after the war during Pol Pot time in Cambodia by investigation of spatial variation in rice production and weed species diversity. Another attempt for sustainability science is to study people’s perception about agriculture and rural. We include children too as they will participate in creating future societies.

I hope to contribute to the peace of global and regional societies through academic knowledge generation for crop, environment, and sustainable agriculture.

 

Major publications

  1. Deshmukh V, Kamoshita A, Lopez-Galvis L, Pineda D (2021) Ecophysiology of drill-seeded rice under reduced nitrogen fertilizer and reduced irrigation during El Niño in Central Colombia. Plant Production Science, DOI: 10.1080/1343943X.2021.1881407
  2. Suwanmontri P, Kamoshita A, Fukai S (2021) Recent changes in rice production in rainfed lowland and irrigated ecosystems in Thailand. Plant Production Science 24, 15-28. DOI: 10.1080/1343943X.2020.1787182
  3. Phan L, Kamoshita A (2020) Salinity intrusion reduces grain yield in coastal paddy fields: case study in two estuaries in the Red River Delta, Vietnam. Paddy & Water Environment 18, 399–416. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10333-020-00790-y
  4. Y P, Kamoshita A, Norisada M, Deshmukh V (2020) Eco-physiological evaluation of Stele Transversal Area 1 for rice root anatomy and shoot growth. Plant Production Science 23, 202-210. DOI: 10.1080/1343943X.2020.1727754
  5. Suwanmontri P, Kamoshita A, Jongdee B, Fukai S, Kishino H (2018) Comparative analysis of farmers engaged in participatory research to cope with climate change versus non-participants in Northeast Thailand. Plant Production Science 21, 287-301
  6. Ramalingam P, Kamoshita A, Deshmukh V, Yaginuma S, Uga Y (2017) Association between root growth angle and root length density of a near-isogenic line of IR64 rice with DEEPER ROOTING 1 under different levels of soil compaction. Plant Production Science 20, 162-175.
  7. Kamoshita A, Ikeda H, Yamagishi J, Lor B, Ouk M (2016) Residual effects of cultivation methods on weed seed banks and weeds in Cambodia. Weed Biology & Management 16, 93–107.
  8. Kamoshita A, Ouk M 2015 Field level damage of deepwater rice by the 2011 Southeast Asian Flood in a flood plain of Tonle Sap Lake, Northwest Cambodia. Paddy & Water Environment 13, 455-463.
  9. Kamoshita A, Araki Y, Nguyen YTB 2014 Weed biodiversity and rice production during the irrigation rehabilitation process in Cambodia. Agriculture, Ecosystem & Environment 194, 1–6.
  10. Kamoshita A 2013. Chap. 9. Choosing agricultural production systems –From view point of regional agricultural sciences. In “Asian Natural Environmental Sciences” Asian Natural Environmental Science Center (Ed.), University of Tokyo Press, Tokyo.
  11. Kamoshita A., 2011. Current researches on drought resistance of rice (Oryza sativa L.). Japanese Journal of Crop Science 80, 1-12.
  12. Nishizaka R., Hori S, Kamoshita A. 2011. Landscape recognition by the students of Battambang, Cambodia – Analysis of landscape description at rural areas under development. Journal of Rural Planning Association 30, 219-224.
  13. Kamoshita A, Babu RC, Boopathi NM, Fukai S 2008 Phenotypic and genotypic analysis of drought-resistance traits for development of rice cultivars adapted to rainfed environments. Field Crops Research 109, 1-23.