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Ecological Developmental Adaptability Life Sciences :
Specially-appointed Faculties

Research

Specially-appointed Assistant Professor  ITAKURA Manabu
Campus Katahira campus
Laboratory Soil Microbiology
Tel +81-22-217-5687
E-mail manabu.itakura.c2@tohoku.ac.jp
Website https://lifescitohokuchiken.wordpress.com/
I was born in Hiroshima, and Sendai is second hometown. I love music, ramen and motorcycle.
Career
Postdoctoral Researcher, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University
Postdoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Life Sciences, Kyoto Sangyo University
Project Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University
Selected Publications
  1. Yuichi Saeki, Misato Nakamura, Maria Luisa T. Mason, Tsubasa Yano, Sokichi Shiro, Reiko Sameshima-Saito, Manabu Itakura, Kiwamu Minamisawa, Akihiro Yamamoto. 2017. Effect of flooding and the nosZ gene in bradyrhizobia on bradyzhizobial community structure in the soil. Microbes and Environments 32(2), 154-163.
  2. Sachiko Masuda, Masaki Saito, Chiaki Sugawara, Manabu Itakura, Shima Eda, Kiwamu Minamisawa. 2016. Identification of the hydrogen uptake gene cluster for chemolithoautotrophic growth and symbiosis hydrogen uptake in Bradyrhizobium diazoefficiens. Microbes and Environments 31(1), 76-78.
  3. Hiroko Akiyama, Yuko Takada Hoshino, Manabu Itakura, Yumi Shimomura, Yong Wang, Akinori Yamamoto, Kanako Tago, Yasuhiro Nakajima, Kiwamu Minamisawa, Masahito Hayatsu. 2016. Mitigation of soil N2O emission by inoculation with a mixed culture of indigenous Bradyrhizobium diazoefficiens. Scientific Reports 6:32869. DOI: 10.1038/srep32869.
  4. Takayuki Iida, Manabu Itakura, Mizue Anda, Masayuki Sugarawa, Tsuyoshi Isawa, Takashi Okubo, Shusei Sato, Kaori Kakizaki-Chiba, Kiwamu Minamisawa. 2015. Symbiosis island shuffling with abundant insertion sequences in the genomes of extra-slow-growing strains of soybean bradyrhizobia. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 81(12), 4143-4154.
  5. Yoko Shiina, Manabu Itakura, Hyunseok Choi, Yuichi Saeki, Masahito Hayatsu, Kiwamu Minamisawa. 2014. Correlation between soil type and N2O reductase genotype (nosZ) of indigenous soybean bradyrhizobia: nosZ-minus populations are dominant in Andosols. Microbes and Environments 29(4), 420-426.
  6. Cristina Sánchez, Manabu Itakura, Takashi Okubo, Takashi Matsumoto, Hirofumi Yoshikawa, Aina Gotoh, Masafumi Hidaka, Takafumi Uchida, Kiwamu Minamisawa. 2014. The nitrate-sensing NasST system regulates nitrous oxide reductase and periplasmic nitrate reductase in Bradyrhizobium japonicum. Environmental Microbiology 16(10), 3263-3274. 
  7. Cristina Sánchez, Manabu Itakura, Hisayuki Mitsui, Kiwamu Minamisawa. 2013. Linked expression of nap and nos genes in a Bradyrhizobium japonicum mutant with increased N2O reductase activity. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 79(13), 4178-4180.
  8. Manabu Itakura, Yoshitaka Uchida, Hiroko Akiyama, Yuko Takada Hoshino, Yumi Shimomura, Sho Morimoto, Kanako Tago, Yong Wang, Chihiro Hayakawa, Yusuke Uetake, Cristina Sánchez, Shima Eda, Masahito Hayatsu, Kiwamu Minamisawa. 2013. Mitigation of nitrous oxide emissions from soils by Bradyrhizobium japonicum inoculation. Nature Climate Change 3, 208-212.
  9. Manabu Itakura, Kazuhiko Saeki, Hirofumi Omori, Tadashi Yokoyama, Takakazu Kaneko, Satoshi Tabata, Takuji Ohwada, Shigeyuki Tajima, Toshiki Uchiumi, Keina Honnma, Konosuke Fujita, Hiroyoshi Iwata, Yuichi Saeki, Yoshino Hara, Seishi Ikeda, Shima Eda, Hisayuki Mitsui, Kiwamu Minamisawa. 2009. Genomic comparison of Bradyrhizobium japonicum strains with different symbiotic nitrogen-fixing capabilities and other Bradyrhizobiaceae members. The ISME Journal 3(3), 326-339.
  10. Manabu Itakura, Kazufumi Tabata, Shima Eda, Hisayuki Mitsui, Kiriko Murakami, Junichi Yasuda, Kiwamu Minamisawa. 2008. Generation of Bradyrhizobium japonicum mutants with increased N2O reductase activity by selection after introduction of a mutated dnaQ gene. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 74(23), 7258-7264.
     
Activities in Academic Societies
Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry, Japanese Society of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology, Society of Genome Microbiology, Japan, Japanese Society of Plant Microbe Interactions 

Recent Activities

Global warming is one of the serious environmental problems facing humankind. Nitrous oxide (N2O) is more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2, and its mitigation is very important to solve the global warming. My present research topic is to mitigate the N2O gas by using denitrification activity of soybean rhizobia.