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Mitsutoshi Kitao is affiliated with the Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute in Japan. Their research intersects multiple domains within environmental and biological sciences, focusing particularly on plant science, nature and landscape conservation, and global and planetary change.

The main fields of study covered by Mitsutoshi Kitao include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these fields, their research delves into several subfields such as:

  • Plant Science
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Molecular Biology

The scientist's work frequently centers on topics related to plant water relations and carbon dynamics, as well as responses of plants to elevated CO₂ levels. Other prominent topics include seedling growth and survival studies, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, forest ecology and management, bioenergy crop production and management, and soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Mitsutoshi Kitao include:

  • Hormesis: Highly Generalizable and Beyond Laboratory (2020), published in Trends in Plant Science
  • Single and combined effects of fertilization, ectomycorrhizal inoculation, and drought on container-grown Japanese larch seedlings (2022), published in Journal of Forestry Research
  • Ethylenediurea (EDU) effects on Japanese larch: an one growing season experiment with simulated regenerating communities and a four growing season application to individual saplings (2020), published in Journal of Forestry Research
  • Ethylenediurea (EDU) spray effects on willows (Salix sachalinensis F. Schmid) grown in ambient or ozone-enriched air: implications for renewable biomass production (2021), published in Journal of Forestry Research
  • High Biomass Productivity of Short-Rotation Willow Plantation in Boreal Hokkaido Achieved by Mulching and Cutback (2020), published in Forests

Among frequent co-authors collaborating with Mitsutoshi Kitao are:

  • Hisanori Harayama
  • Evgenios Agathokleous
  • Hiroyuki Tobita
  • K. Yazaki
  • Takayoshi Koike

The majority of the scientist's works have been published in the following venues:

  • Forests
  • Journal of Forestry Research
  • Trends in Plant Science
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Journal of Experimental Botany

Best Publications

  • Susceptibility to photoinhibition of three deciduous broadleaf tree species with different successional traits raised under various light regimes

    M. Kitao;T. T. Lei;T. Koike;H. Tobita

  • Leaf morphology and photosynthetic adjustments among deciduous broad-leaved trees within the vertical canopy profile

    Takayoshi Koike;Mitsutoshi Kitao;Yutaka Maruyama;Shigeta Mori

  • Hormesis: A Compelling Platform for Sophisticated Plant Science.

    Evgenios Agathokleous;Mitsutoshi Kitao;Edward J. Calabrese

  • Hormesis: Highly Generalizable and Beyond Laboratory.

    Evgenios Agathokleous;Mitsutoshi Kitao;Edward J. Calabrese

  • Enhanced ozone strongly reduces carbon sink strength of adult beech (Fagus sylvatica) – Resume from the free-air fumigation study at Kranzberg Forest

    R. Matyssek;G. Wieser;R. Ceulemans;H. Rennenberg

  • Does the root to shoot ratio show a hormetic response to stress? An ecological and environmental perspective

    Evgenios Agathokleous;Regina G. Belz;Mitsutoshi Kitao;Takayoshi Koike

  • Effects of chronic elevated ozone exposure on gas exchange responses of adult beech trees (Fagus sylvatica) as related to the within-canopy light gradient.

    Mitsutoshi Kitao;Markus Löw;Christian Heerdt;Thorsten E.E. Grams

  • Effects of manganese toxicity on photosynthesis of white birch (Betula platyphylla var. japonica) seedlings

    Mitsutoshi Kitao;Thomas T. Lei;Takayoshi Koike

  • Effects of deicing salt on the vitality and health of two spruce species, Picea abies Karst., and Picea glehnii Masters planted along roadsides in northern Japan.

    M Kayama;A.M Quoreshi;S Kitaoka;Y Kitahashi

  • Predicting the effect of ozone on vegetation via linear non-threshold (LNT), threshold and hormetic dose-response models

    Evgenios Agathokleous;Regina G. Belz;Vicent Calatayud;Alessandra De Marco

  • Human and veterinary antibiotics induce hormesis in plants: Scientific and regulatory issues and an environmental perspective.

    Evgenios Agathokleous;Mitsutoshi Kitao;Edward J. Calabrese

  • Hormetic dose responses induced by lanthanum in plants.

    Evgenios Agathokleous;Mitsutoshi Kitao;Edward J. Calabrese

  • Functional relationship between chlorophyll content and leaf reflectance, and light-capturing efficiency of Japanese forest species

    Thomas T. Lei;R. Tabuchi;M. Kitao;T. Koike

  • Temperature response and photoinhibition investigated by chlorophyll fluorescence measurements for four distinct species of dipterocarp trees

    Mitsutoshi Kitao;Thomas T. Lei;Takayoshi Koike;Hiroyuki Tobita

  • Light-dependent photosynthetic characteristics indicated by chlorophyll fluorescence in five mangrove species native to Pohnpei Island, Micronesia.

    Mitsutoshi Kitao;Hajime Utsugi;Shigeo Kuramoto;Ryuichi Tabuchi

  • The rare earth element (REE) lanthanum (La) induces hormesis in plants.

    Evgenios Agathokleous;Mitsutoshi Kitao;Edward J. Calabrese

  • Higher electron transport rate observed at low intercellular CO2 concentration in long-term drought-acclimated leaves of Japanese mountain birch (Betula ermanii)

    Mitsutoshi Kitao;Thomas T. Lei;Takayoshi Koike;Hiroyuki Tobita

  • Effects of Ozone on Forest Ecosystems in East and Southeast Asia

    Takayoshi Koike;Makoto Watanabe;Makoto Watanabe;Yasutomo Hoshika;Mitsutoshi Kitao

  • Manganese toxicity as indicated by visible foliar symptoms of Japanese white birch (Betula platyphylla var. japonica).

    M. Kitao;T.T. Lei;T. Nakamura;T. Koike

  • Circumvention of over-excitation of PSII by maintaining electron transport rate in leaves of four cotton genotypes developed under long-term drought.

    M. Kitao;T. T. Lei;T. T. Lei

  • Peroxidation of lipids and growth inhibition induced by UV-B irradiation.

    Yuichi Takeuchi;Reiko Fukumoto;Hirokazu Kasahara;Takeshi Sakaki

Frequent Co-Authors

Takayoshi Koike
Takayoshi Koike Hokkaido University
Edward J. Calabrese
Edward J. Calabrese University of Massachusetts Amherst
Makoto Watanabe
Makoto Watanabe Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Ryo Funada
Ryo Funada Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Rainer Matyssek
Rainer Matyssek Technical University of Munich
Karl-Heinz Häberle
Karl-Heinz Häberle Technical University of Munich
Elena Paoletti
Elena Paoletti National Research Council (CNR)
William J. Manning
William J. Manning University of Massachusetts Amherst
Alessandra De Marco
Alessandra De Marco National Agency For New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development
Thorsten E. E. Grams
Thorsten E. E. Grams Technical University of Munich

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