Yu Ito (botanist)

Yu Ito is an aquatic botanist worked at the University of Tokyo (PhD: 2006-2010), University of West Hungary (PostDoc: 2010-2011), University of Saskatchewan (PostDoc: 2011-2012), Aarhus University (PostDoc: 2012) and University of Canterbury (PostDoc: 2013-2014).

Dr. Ito is an expert on the family Ruppiaceae, and in 2010 published a worldwide molecular phylogeny of the family, proposing a new taxonomic classification of three species and one species complex. The R. maritima complex defined there is now updated to include in total eight entities.

Among the other contributions of him to science include botanical surveys of aquatic plants in Myanmar and Thailand.

Colleagues

  • Norio Tanaka (Tsukuba Botanical Garden, National Science Museum, Tokyo, Japan)
  • Tetsuo Ohi-Toma (the University of Tokyo, Japan)
  • Jin Murata (the University of Tokyo, Japan)
  • Nobuyuki Tanaka (Makino Botanical Garden, Japan)
  • Anna Skriptsova (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)
  • Surrey W. L. Jacobs (Sydney Botanic Gardens, Australia)
  • Changkyun Kim (Ajou University, Korea)
  • Attila Mesterhazy (University of West Hungary, Hungary)
  • Pablo Garcia-Murillo (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain)
  • J. Hugo Cota-Sanchez (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
  • Anders S. Barfod (Aarhus University, Denmark)
  • Pieter B. Pelser (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
  • Robert B. Kaul (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
  • Dirk C. Albach (University of Oldenburg, Germany)
  • Karen L. Wilson (Sydney Botanic Gardens, Australia)
  • A. Muthama Muasya (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
  • Okihito Yano (Okayama University of Science, Japan)

Professional Services

Publications

  • Ito, Y., Nb. Tanaka (2014) Chromosome studies in the aquatic monocots of Myanmar: A brief review with additional records. Biodiversity Data Journal 2: e1069. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.2.e1069
  • Ito, Y. T. Ohi-Toma, A. V. Skriptsova, M. Sasagawa, N. Tanaka, and J. Murata (2014) Ruppia megacarpa (Ruppiaceae): a new species to the floras of Japan, Korea, and Russia. Botanica Pacifica 3: 49-52.
  • Ito, Y., Nr. Tanaka, R. Pooma, and Nb. Tanaka (2014) DNA barcoding reveals a new record of Potamogeton distinctus (Potamogetonaceae) and its natural hybrids, P. distinctus × P. nodosus and P. distinctus × P. wrightii (P. ×malainoides) from Myanmar. Biodiversity Data Journal 2: e1073. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.2.e1073
  • Ito, Y. & J. H. Cota-Sanchez (2014) Distribution and conservation status of Sparganium (Typhaceae) in the Canadian Prairie Provinces. Great Plains Research 24: 119-125. doi: 10.1353/gpr.2014.0019
  • Ito, Y. (2014) Ruppiaceae. In: Santisuk & Larsen (eds.) Flora of Thailand 11(4): 608-609.
  • Ito, Y., T. Ohi-Toma, Nb. Tanaka, Nr. Tanaka & J. Murata (2014) New or noteworthy plant collections from Myanmar (8) Blyxa aubertii var. echinosperma, Lemna trisulca, and Najas tenuis. APG: Acta Phytotaxonomica et Geobotanica 65: 53-61.
  • Ito, Y. & A. S. Barfod (2014) An updated checklist of aquatic plants of Myanmar and Thailand. Biodiversity Data Journal 2: e1019. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.2.e1019
  • Ito, Y. (2013) New records of aquatic plants for the flora of Thailand: Nechamandra alternifolia and Potamogeton octandrus. Thai Forest Bulletin 41: 140-144. link
  • Ito, Y., T. Ohi-Toma, J. Murata & Nr. Tanaka (2013) Comprehensive phylogenetic analyses of the Ruppia maritima complex focusing on taxa from the Mediterranean. Journal of Plant Research 126: 753-762. doi: 10.1007/s10265-013-0570-6
  • Ito, Y. and Nr. Tanaka (2013) Additional Potamogeton hybrids from China: Evidence from a comparison of plastid trnT–trnF and nuclear ITS phylogenies. APG: Acta Phytotaxonomica et Geobotanica 64: 1–14. link
  • Ito, Y. and Nr. Tanaka (2011) Hybridisation in a tropical seagrass genus, Halodule (Cymodoceaceae), inferred from plastid and nuclear DNA phylogenies. Telopea 13: 219-231. link
  • Ito, Y., T. Ohi-Toma, J. Murata & Nr. Tanaka (2010) Hybridization and polyploidy of an aquatic plant, Ruppia (Ruppiaceae), inferred from plastid and nuclear DNA phylogenies American Journal of Botany 97: 1156-1167. doi: 10.3732/ajb.0900168
  • Ito, Y., T. Ohi-Toma, Nb. Tanaka, and J. Murata (2009) New or noteworthy plant collections from Myanmar (3) Caldesia parnassifolia, Nechamandra alternifolia, Potamogeton maackianus and P. octandrus. Journal of Japanese Botany 84: 321-329.
  • Ito, Y., Nr. Tanaka and K. Uehara (2007) Inferring the origin of Potamogeton ×inbaensis (Potamogetonaceae) using nuclear and chloroplast DNA sequences. Journal of Japanese Botany 82: 20-28.