Yu Ito (botanist)

Yu Ito is an aquatic botanist who has been worked at several universities and/or institutes, such as the University of Tokyo (PhD: 2006-2010), University of West Hungary (PostDoc: 2010-2011), University of Saskatchewan (PostDoc: 2011-2012), Aarhus University (PostDoc: 2012), University of Canterbury (PostDoc: 2013-2014), and Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (2015-).

Dr. Ito is an expert on the family Ruppiaceae, and in 2010 published a worldwide molecular phylogeny of the family,[1] proposing a new taxonomic classification of three species and one species complex. The R. maritima complex defined there was updated to include in total eight entities.[2] The systematics of the genus was further changed by the discovery of a new and the most basal species from Western Cape, South Africa (Ruppia bicarpa Yu Ito et Muasya, sp. nov.).[3] The phylogeny of Zannichelliaceae is among his research interests, in which based on molecular and morphological evidence Australasian Lepilaena is merged into Afro-Eurasian Althenia with the following taxonomic treatment: Althenia F.Petit, Ann. Sci. Observ. 1: 451 (1829) = Lepilaena J. Drumm. ex Harv., Hooker's J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 7: 57. (1855), syn. nov.; Althenia marina (E.L. Robertson) Yu Ito, comb. nov., � Lepilaena marina E.L. Robertson, H.B.S. Womersley, Mar. Benth. Fl. South Australia 1: 80 (1984) = Lepilaena patentifolia E.L. Robertson, Fl. S. Australia 4: 1736. (1986), syn. nov.[4]

Among the other contributions of him to science include botanical surveys of aquatic plants in tropical Asia, such as Myanmar and Thailand.[5][6][7]

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  1. ↑ 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
  2. ↑ 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
  3. ↑ Ito, Y., T. Ohi-Toma, J. Murata, Nr. Tanaka, & M.A. Muasya (2015) Phylogeny of Ruppia (Ruppiaceae) revisited: Molecular and Morphological Evidence for a New Species from Western Cape, South Africa. Systematic Botany 40: 942-949
  4. ↑ Ito, Y., Nr. Tanaka, P. García-Murillo, A.M. Muasya (2016) A new delimitation of the Afro-Eurasian plant genus Althenia to include its Australasian relative, Lepilaena (Potamogetonaceae) – evidence from DNA and morphological data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 98: 261-270.
  5. ↑ 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
  6. ↑ Ito, Y. (2013) New records of aquatic plants for the flora of Thailand: Nechamandra alternifolia and Potamogeton octandrus. Thai Forest Bulletin 41: 140-144
  7. ↑ 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
  8. ↑ "Author Query for 'Yu Ito'". International Plant Names Index.

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