2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Wild Taro in Southern Japan and Southeast Asia: an Urgently Needed Ethnobotanical and Genetic Survey
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23405004
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 海外学術 |
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| Research Field |
Resource conservation science
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| Research Institution | National Museum of Ethnology |
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Principal Investigator |
MATTHEWS Peter 国立民族学博物館, 民族社会研究部, 准教授 (70281590)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
NAKAMURA Ikuo 千葉大学, 園芸学研究科, 准教授 (50207867)
TAHARA Makoto 岡山大学, 環境生命科学研究科, 教授 (50274014)
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| Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) |
MASUNO Takashi 総合研究大学院大学, 外来研究員 (40569159)
NOJIMA Yoko 国際日本文化研究センター, プロジェクト研究員 (50586344)
TODA Masanori 北海道大学, 名誉教授 (40113592)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011-04-01 – 2014-03-31
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| Keywords | araceae / colocasia / taro / asia / chloroplast DNA / ethnobotany / agriculture / domestication |
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| Research Abstract |
We have analysed samples of wild and cultivated taro from all the fieldwork regions (2011-2013, present project), in addition to older samples collected in previous years from across Asia and the Pacific (1984 and later). A total of two hundred samples (approx.) were analysed, and the work has been successfully submitted as a PhD thesis (Ahmed 2013). Collaboration with the Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources (IEBR) in Hanoi has resulted in two papers so far (Ahmed et al. 2013, Matthews and Nguyen, 2014). Papers based on this work have also been presented at a number of conferences (see below). Some of the work has been reviewed in a book (Matthews 2014). Together with Dr NGUYEN Van Du project member, IEBR, Vietnam) I was co-organiser for the 11th International Aroid Conference, Hanoi, Dec. 11-13, 2013 (sponsored by the International Aroid Society in association with the Institute for Ecological and Biological Research, Hanoi).
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Research Products
(11 results)
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[Presentation] (a) Co-organiser and speaker : "Ethnobotany and Natural History of Wild Taro: Colocasia esculenta and C. formosana"; (b) paper coauthor: J. Castillo, P. J. Matthews, and M. Medecilo, "Ethnobotany of Alocasia macrorrhizos in the Philippines"; (c) poster co2013
Author(s)
Colocasia esculenta and C. formosana, J. Castillo, P. J. Matthews, and M. Medecilo, Masuno, T., N. A. Luu Dam, V. D. Nguyen and P. J. Matthews
Organizer
all presented at the 11th International Aroid Conference
Place of Presentation
Hanoi
Year and Date
20131211-13
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