15th International Symposium on Integrated Field Science“Biological Interactions for Sustainable Agriculture”
Sponsor and organizer: Field Science Center, Graduate School of Agricultural Science,Tohoku University
Co-sponsors: International Education and Research Center for Food andAgricultural Immunology (CFAI), Applied Biodiversity Center,
Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University
Research Center for Fungal and Microbial Dynamism, Shinshu
University
Date: March 13-15, 2018
Venue: Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University(Aobayama campus), Sendai city, Miyagi, Japan
ProgramMarch 13 (10:00 – 17:00)
Registration
11:00～
13:00
Makoto Osada
Welcome address(Director of Field Science Center, Tohoku University)
13:10

Masanori Saito
Perspectives of the symposium(Field Science Center, Tohoku University)

Part 1: Function and management of soil microorganisms in agro-ecosystems with specialreference to arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
13:30

Jan Jansa

Utilization of organic nitrogen by arbuscular mycorrhizal hyphae insoil - zooming into the hyphosphere microbiome(Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)

14:00

Zakaria Solaiman
Use of biochar for sustainable agriculture (tentative)(School of Agriculture and Environment, University of Western Australia)

14:30

Yoshihiro Kobae

Toward the high-resolution functional analysis of arbuscular
mycorrhizal symbiosis in field crops(NARO Hokkaido Agric. Res. Cent.)

15:00

Coffee break & Poster preview

15:30

Lightning talk for poster presentation

16:00

Baodong Chen
The role of AM symbiosis in plant adaptation to drought stress(Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

16:30

Katsuharu Saito

Molecular mechanisms underlying P translocation and metabolism
in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.

(Shinshu University)
17:00

Akyol Turgut Yigit

Effect of AMF inoculation on the root fungal and bacterial
communities of bunching onion(Graduate School of Life Science, Tohoku University)

Welcome ReceptionMarch 14 (9:30 – 13:00)
9:30

Poster presentation

Part 2: Frontiers of sustainable rice production system
10:30

Lixiao Nie

Research progress and the limiting factors of direct seeding rice incentral China(Huazhong Agricultural University)

11:00

Ryosuke Tajima
Phenotyping of root system architecture using root model(Field Science Center, Tohoku University)

11:30

Sugihiro Ando

12:00

Toyoaki Ito

12:30

Masanori Saito

Analysis of disease-suppression effect of microorganisms includedin nursery soils for organic farming of rice
(Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University)
Recovery of tsunami-affected paddy soil using calcium materials forsustainable agriculture(Field Science Center, Tohoku University)
Closing remark

March 15
Field trip (Nature and agriculture around Sendai city, Kawatabi Field Science Center)----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Call for poster presentation.
Any poster presentation relating to sustainable agriculture or field science is welcome.
Especially, presentation by students is encouraged, even if it is preliminary. Deadline ofabstract submission for poster and oral presentations is January 31, 2018.

Contact:Prof. Masanori Saito