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Plant Systematics and Taxonomy Lab
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The lab explores plant diversity and evolution through field surveys and DNA analysis.
AboutAbout the lab
Discovering new species and tracing plant evolution
The Plant Systematics and Taxonomy Lab studies plant diversity and its evolution.
The lab conducts field surveys in forests and grasslands in East and Southeast Asia, discovering and describing new taxa such as new species while clarifying the flora of each region.
By combining DNA-based phylogenetic trees with anatomical and gene expression analyses, the lab investigates how plant forms and traits have evolved.
Key terms
- Phylogenetic tree
- A branching diagram that shows the evolutionary history of organisms
- Flora
- The complete set of plant species growing in a given region
- Vascular plants
- Plants that have vascular tissue inside the body to carry water and nutrients, such as ferns and seed plants
ResearchResearch themes
The lab's research themes are the analysis of biodiversity, the elucidation of plant phylogeny and speciation mechanisms, and the elucidation of plant morphological evolution.
*Illustrative imageStudying Plant Diversity in the Field
Mainly in forests and grasslands in East and Southeast Asia, the lab conducts field surveys, discovering and describing new taxa such as new species and working to clarify the flora of various regions.
*Illustrative imagePhylogenetic Evolution and the Mechanisms of Speciation
Using phylogenetic trees built from DNA molecular data as a framework, the lab studies how traits such as morphology, chromosomes, and ecology have evolved and led to the diversity seen today.
*Illustrative imagePlant Morphological Evolution
The lab studies the body structure of vascular plants and the evolution of roots and stems. By combining morphological observation through anatomy with gene expression analysis, it aims to clarify how plant forms come about.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Plant Systematics and Taxonomy Lab are faculty, doctoral and master's students, fourth-year undergraduates, and academic and technical assistants.As of 2026
- ProfessorShizuka Fuse
- Associate ProfessorRieko Fujinami
- Assistant ProfessorKotaro Takahashi
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Ranunculus lingua herbarium specimen by Joseph Witry” Musée national d'histoire naturelle Luxembourg / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Studying Plant Diversity in the Field: “Marchantia polymorpha kz02” Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Phylogenetic Evolution and the Mechanisms of Speciation: “Plant phylogeny” Maulucioni / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Plant Morphological Evolution: “Lycopodium shoot apex” Kingfiser / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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