Dr. Toshiro Shigaki

Director

Pacific Agriculture Alliance, Japan

Plant Pathology Laboratory

The University of Tokyo, Japan

Email: tshigaki@gmail.com

Qualifications

1991-1996   Ph.D., Plant Pathology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

1989-1991   M.Sc., Plant Pathology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, USA

1976-1980   B.Sc., Physics, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan

Publications (Selected)

Jornals

1. Shigaki, T. (2020). Health effects of environmental pollutants. In Gut Remediation of Environmental Pollutants: Potential Roles of Probiotics and Gut Microbiota (pp. 1-29). Singapore: Springer Singapore.
2. Shigaki, T. (2018). Application of biotechnologies in the conservation and utilization of plant genetic resources for food security. Food Security and Climate Change, 413-431.
3. Koinuma, H., Miyazaki, A., Wakaki, R., Fujimoto, Y., Iwabuchi, N., Nijo, T., ... & Namba, S. (2018). First report of ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma pruni’infecting cassava in Japan. Journal of General Plant Pathology, 84(4), 300-304.
4. Miyazaki, A., Shigaki, T., Koinuma, H., Iwabuchi, N., Rauka, G. B., Kembu, A., ... & Namba, S. (2018). ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma noviguineense’, a novel taxon associated with Bogia coconut syndrome and banana wilt disease on the island of New Guinea. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 68(1), 170-175.
5. Wu, Q., Shigaki, T., Han, J. S., Kim, C. K., Hirschi, K. D., & Park, S. (2012). Ectopic expression of a maize calreticulin mitigates calcium deficiency-like disorders in sCAX1-expressing tobacco and tomato. Plant molecular biology, 80(6), 609-619.
6. Manohar, M., Shigaki, T., Shigaki, L., Hirschi, K. D., Bubia, L., & Guinea, P. N. (2012). Past, present and future approaches for reducing cadmium content in tobacco leaves. In Quantitative Risk Assessment: A Path Forward, 66th Tobacco Science Research Conference (pp. 5-33).
7. Manohar, M., Shigaki, T., Mei, H., Park, S., Marshall, J., Aguilar, J., & Hirschi, K. D. (2011). Characterization of Arabidopsis Ca2+/H+ exchanger CAX3. Biochemistry, 50(28), 6189-6195.
8. Wu, Q., Shigaki, T., Williams, K. A., Han, J. S., Kim, C. K., Hirschi, K. D., & Park, S. (2011). Expression of an Arabidopsis Ca2+/H+ antiporter CAX1 variant in petunia enhances cadmium tolerance and accumulation. Journal of plant physiology, 168(2), 167-173.
9. Shigaki, T., Mei, H., Marshall, J., Li, X., Manohar, M., & Hirschi, K. D. (2010). The expression of the open reading frame of Arabidopsis CAX1, but not its cDNA, confers metal tolerance in yeast. Plant Biology, 12(6), 935-939.
10. Manohar, M., Mei, H., Franklin, A. J., Sweet, E. M., Shigaki, T., Riley, B. B., ... & Hirschi, K. (2010). Zebrafish (Danio rerio) endomembrane antiporter similar to a yeast cation/H+ transporter is required for neural crest development. Biochemistry, 49(31), 6557-6566.
11. Zhao, J., Connorton, J. M., Guo, Y., Li, X., Shigaki, T., Hirschi, K. D., & Pittman, J. K. (2009). Functional studies of split Arabidopsis Ca2+/H+ exchangers. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 284(49), 34075-34083.
12. Han, J. S., Park, S., Shigaki, T., Hirschi, K. D., & Kim, C. K. (2009). Improved watermelon quality using bottle gourd rootstock expressing a Ca2+/H+ antiporter. Molecular breeding, 24(3), 201-211.

Book Chapters

1. T. Shigaki. Gut Remediation of Environmental Pollutants: Chapter 1, Health Effects of Environmental Pollutants. X. Li and P. Liu, ed. Springer, 2020.
2. T. Shigaki. Climate Change and Food Security in the 21st Century: Chapter 17, Application of biotechnologies in the conservation and utilization of plant genetic resources for food security. S. S. Yadav, R. Redden, J. L. Hatfield, A. W. Ebert, and D. Hunter, ed. Wiley-Blackwell International, 2019.
3. T. Shigaki. Encyclopedia of Food and Health: Chapter 124, Cassava-the nature and uses. B. Caballero, P. Finglas, and F. Toldrá, ed. Elsevier, 2015.

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