8th-13th September 2014 at Nagoya Univ., Japan


Oral presentations

September 8th (Mon)
16:00-17:00 Registration 
17:00-19:00 Welcome party
 
September 9th (Tue) 
8:00- Registration
8:50-9:00 Welcome remark
 
Session 1: Nutrient uptake and utilization, chaired by Pauline Grierson and David Eissenstat
9:00-9:40 Keynote - Erik Hobbie (USA): NITROGEN UPTAKE BY MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI: FROM INDIVIDUALS TO ECOSYSTEMS.
9:40-10:00 Barbara Hawkins (Canada): TEMPERATURE EFFECTS ON INORGANIC NITROGEN UPTAKE BY MYCORRHIZAE.
10:00-10:20 Keizo Hirai (Japan): SEASONAL AND DEPTH VARIABILITY OF NITROGEN UPTAKE IN JAPANESE CEDAR AND BROAD LEAVED FOREST EASTERN JAPAN.
10:20-10:40 Coffee break
10:40-11:00 Qingmin Han (Japan): NITROGEN SOURCE FOR SEEDS IN MASTING FAGUS CRENATA: UPTAKE OR INTERNAL STORAGE?
11:00-11:20 Hiroki Osawa (Japan): COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF PROANTHOCYANIDIN ACCUMULATION IN WOODY PLANT ROOTS.
11:20-11:40 Toril Eldhuset (Norway): DROUGHT IMPACT ON ROOT GROWTH AND GENE EXPRESSION IN NORWAY SPRUCE (PICEA ABIES). 
11:40-13:40 Lunch
 
Session 2: Water acquisition, chaired by Helja-Sisko Helmisaari and Takayoshi Koike
13:40-14:20 Keynote - Uwe Hacke (Canada): DYNAMIC ROOT RESPONSES TO INCREASED TRANSPIRATIONAL DEMAND.
14:20-14:40 Tarja Lehto (Finland): ECTOMYCORRHIZAS AND TREE WATER RELATIONS.
14:40-15:00 David Eissenstat (USA): ROOTS OF FRUIT CROPS UNDER SOIL WATER DEFICITS.
15:00-15:20 Coffee break
15:20-15:40 Ivano Brunner (Switzerland): RESPONSES OF ROOTS OF FOREST TREES TO DROUGHT CONDITIONS.
15:40-16:00 Pauline Grierson (Australia): UNDERSTANDING FUNCTIONING OF TREE ROOT SYSTEMS IN RESPONSE TO HYDROCLIMATE VARIABILITY.
16:00-16:20 Tomonori Kume (Taiwan): HOW EMERGENT TREES IN A BORNEAN TROPICAL RAINFOREST CAN MITIGATE IMPACTS OF DROUGHT?
 
16:20-16:30 Photo time
16:30-18:00 Poster session
 
September 10th (Wed) 
Session 3: Biological interaction, chaired by Tarja Lehto and Hojka Kraigher
8:30-9:10 Keynote - Han Chen (Canada): FINE ROOT DYNAMICS AND TREE SPECIES DIVERSITY EFFECTS ON FINE ROOT PRODUCTIVITY.
9:10-9:30 Kaarin Parts (Estonia): TREE ROOTS ADAPT TO CLIMATE CHANGE – EXPERIMENTS WITH AIR HUMIDITY AND SOIL TEMPERATURE.
9:30-9:50 Jennifer Walker (Australia): ECTOMYCORRHIZAL FUNGAL SPECIES COLONIZING SEEDLINGS PLANTED IN FORESTS AND CLEARCUTS DIFFER IN EXOENZYME ACTIVITY AND DEMONSTRATE FUNCTIONAL COMPLEMENTARITY.
9:50-10:10 Coffee break
10:10-10:30 Saori Fujii (Japan): A STRONGER COORDINATION OF LITTER DECOMPOSABILITY BETWEEN LEAVES AND FINE ROOTS FOR WOODY SPECIES IN A WARMER REGION.
10:30-10:50 Alex Paya (USA): X-RAY VISION UNCOVERS ROOT-ROOT INTERACTIONS: QUANTIFYING SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS AMONG INTERACTING ROOT SYSTEMS IN THREE DIMENSIONS.
10:50-11:10 Annie DesRochers (Canada): ROOT CLONAL NETWORKS PRESERVE GENETIC DIVERSITY IN ASPEN (POPULUS TREMULOIDES) STANDS OF EASTERN CANADA.
11:10-13:10 Lunch
 
Satellite session: EUFORINNO 
13:10-13:30 Ivan Kreft (Slovenia): EUFORINNO: EUROPEAN FOREST RESEARCH AND INNOVATION.
13:30-14:00 Douglas Godbold (Austria): NECROMASS INPUTS AND ORGANIC MATTER STORES.
14:00-14:30 Mark Smits (Belgium): ECTOMYCORHIZAL ORGANIC MATTER DEGRADATION.
14:30-14:50 Ines Straus (Slovenia): DISTRIBUTION OF SURFACE-BOUND PHOSPHATASE (SBP) ON DIFFERENT EXPLORATION TYPES OF ECTOMYCORRHIZA.
14:50-15:10 Coffee break
15:10-15:40 Helja-Sisko Helmisaari (Finland): ROOT CARBON – ORIGIN, TURNOVER AND ROLE IN SOM FORMATION?
15:40-16:00 Peter Zeleznik (Slovenia): GROWTH OF BEECH (FAGUS SYLVATICA L.) FINE ROOTS IN RELATION TO SOIL TEMPERATURE, WATER AVAILABILITY AND DROUGHT STRESS.
16:00-16:20 Hojka Kraigher (Slovenia): MYCORRHIZOSPHERE COMPLEXITY – SIMPLIFIED?
 
18:30-21:30 Conference dinner
 
September 11th (Thu) 
Session 4: Root development and turnover, chaired by Barbara Hawkins and Toril Eldhuset
8:30-9:10 Keynote - Ivika Ostonen (Estonia): THE CONCEPT OF ECTOMYCORRHIZAL AND FINE ROOT FORAGING STRATEGIES IN EUROPEAN FORESTS.
9:10-9:30 Isabella Borja (Norway): NORWAY SPUCE DIEBACK: THE ROOT PERSPECTIVE.
9:30-9:50 Tapani Repo (Finland): CLASSIFICATION OF SCOTS PINE ROOTS COLONIZED BY MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI AND INJURED BY FREEZING ACCORDING TO ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTRA.
9:50-10:10 Coffee break
10:10-10:30 Karibu Fukuzawa (Japan): EFFECTS OF LONG-TERM SOIL WARMING ON FINE ROOT DYNAMICS IN MATURE OAK STAND IN NORTHERN JAPAN.
10:30-10:50 Yowhan Son (Korea): EFFECT OF OPEN-FIELD CLIMATE CHANGE EXPERIMENT ON ROOT BIOMASS ALLOCATION OF TREE SEEDLINGS.
10:50-11:10 Hidetoshi Ikeno (Japan): DEVELOPMENT OF IMAGE PROCESSING SCHEME FOR MORPHOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF WOODY ROOT.
11:10-11:20 Introduction of supporters
11:10-13:30 Lunch
 
Session 5: Belowground carbon allocation, chaired by Yowhan Son and Tomonori Kume 
13:30-14:10 Keynote - Ina Meier (Germany): BELOWGROUND CARBON ALLOCATION.
14:10-14:30 Naoki Makita (Japan): CHANGES IN PHYZIO-MORPHOLOGY OF ROOT AND SHOOT WITH SPATIAL SOIL NITROGEN HETEROGENEITY IN A 100-YEAR-OLD CYPRESS FOREST.
14:30-14:50 Jaana Leppalammi-Kujansuu (Finland): FINE ROOT LONGEVITY AND CARBON INPUT INTO THE SOIL FROM BELOW- AND ABOVEGROUND LITTER IN CLIMATICALLY CONTRASTING FORESTS.
14:50-15:10 Coffee break 
15:10-15:30 Nobuhiko Kasuya (Japan): COMPARISON OF BELOWGROUND BIOMASS IN THINNED AND UNTHINNED PHYLLOSTACHYS PUBESCENS STANDS IN CENTRAL JAPAN.
15:30-15:50 Sasitorn Poungparn (Thailand): FINE ROOT PRODUCTION IN A SECONDARY MANGROVE FOREST OF THAILAND.
15:50-16:10 Seikoh Saitoh (Japan): GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING ON ACCLIMATIZATION TO SALINITY IN A STILT MANGROVE, RHIZOPHORA STYLOSA (RHIZOPHORACEAE).
 
16:10-16:50 Final discussion, chaired by Douglas Godbold & Ivano Brunner
  Closing remark

Poster presentations

P1 Cong Shi: ABOVE AND BELOW-GROUND BIOMASS AND NUTRIENTS OF TAMARIX CHINENSIS GROWN UNDER SALINITY SOIL IN EAST-CENTRAL CHINA
P2 Junko Nagakura: CHANGES IN THE NUTRIENT STATUS OF SUGI (CRYPTOMERIA JAPONICA) FOLLOWING SEVEN YEARS OF NITROGEN FERTILIZATION
P3 Ayumi Tanaka-Oda: VARIATION OF LEAF δ15N IN DIVERSE TREE SPECIES IN LOWLAND DIPTEROCARP RAINFOREST, MALAYSIA
P4 Naoko Tokuchi: ESTIMATION OF NITRATE USE COST BY WOODY PLANTS
P5 Masazumi Kayama: INTERACTION BETWEEN NUTRIENT ACQUISITION AND ECTOMYCORRHIZAL SYMBIOSIS FOR SEEDLINGS OF JAPANESE LARCH REGENERATED ON MT. KOMA, HOKKAIDO, JAPAN
P6 Seitaro Deguchi: DISTRIBUTION OF ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAS WITHIN CHENGIOPANAX SCIADOPHYLLOIDES ROOT SYSTEM CONTAMINATED WITH RADIOCESIUM
P7 Sayaka Okimura: THE CONSIDERATION TO THE POSSIBILITY OF NI ACCUMULATION AND THE TOLERANCE OF THUJOPSIS DOLABRATA SEEDLINGS GROWING IN SERPENTINE SOIL, MT. HAYACHINE
P8 Gerardo H. Nunez: VACCINIUM SPP. DO NOT RESPOND TO IRON DEFICIENCY BY RHIZOSPHERE ACIDIFICATION
P9 Rie Tomioka: RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ROOT GROWTH ENHANCEMENT AND CARBONHYDRATES IN ROOTS BY AL TREATMENT IN QUERUCUS SERRATA SEEDLINGS
P10 Inga Dirks: THE PHOSPHORUS NUTRITION OF PALESTINE OAK UNDER CLIMATE CHANGES
P11 Yusaku Noda: SEASONAL GENE EXPRESSION OF POTASSIUM XYLEM LOADING CHANNEL, SKOR, IN HYBRID POPLAR
P12 Tsutomu Aohara: CONTROL OF THE EXPRESSION OF GENES FOR XYLEM SAP PROTEINS AND SUGARS BY ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS IN POPULUS TRICHOCARPA
P13 Tomoo Homma: NON-DESTRUCTIVE DIAGNOSIS OF PINUS ARMANDII VAR. AMAMIANA IN THE FIELD OF WORLD NATURAL HERITAGE SITE ON YAKU-SHIMA ISLAND, SOUTHWESTERN JAPAN BY ELECTRIC POTENTIAL MEASUREMENT
P14 Yasuhiro Hirano: NON-DESTRUCTIVE DETECTION OF TREE COARSE ROOTS USING GROUND PENETRATING RADAR
P15 Toko Tanikawa: INTERFERENCE OF LEAF LITTER LAYER WITH DETECTION OF TREE ROOTS BY GROUND-PENETRATING RADAR
P16 Tetsuya Kakizoe: DETECTION OF COARSE ROOT STRUCTURE OF JAPANESE BLACK PINE (PINUS THUNBERIGII) GROWING IN A SEA COAST IN AICHI PREFECTURE, JAPAN
P17 Chikage Todo: CONTRIBUTION OF HORIZONTAL ROOTS TO TREE ROOT ANCHORAGE
P18 Keitaro Yamase: PULL-OUT RESISTANCE OF COARSE ROOT SEGMENTS IS RELATED TO ROOT ARCHITECTURE
P19 Kana Yamashita: ROOT STRUCTURE AND WOOD PROPERTY OF SUGI CLONES
P20 Frida Andreasson: ROOT DEVELOPMENT FOR URBAN STREET TREES
P21 Frida Andreasson: FINE ROOT PRODUCTION AND MORPHOLOGY OF PINUS PINASTER ALONG WITH ITS UNDERSTORY SPECIES
P22 Sanae Yanagawa: QUANTITATIVE AND MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF FINE ROOTS IN FORESTS COMPOSED OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF TREES AND SASA DWARF BAMBOO IN NORTHERN JAPAN
P23 David Eissenstat: LINKING ROOT FORAGING WITH ROOT MORPHOLOGY
P24 Yusuke Tawa: FINE ROOT BIOMASS AND TIP DYNAMICS OF CRYPTOMERIA JAPONICA IN A PLANTATION FOREST
P25 Tomomi Ogawa: FINE ROOT PRODUCTION AND TIDAL ENVIERONMENT OF RHIZOPHORA STYLOSA STANDS IN IRIOMOTE ISLAND, SOUTHWESTERN JAPAN
P26 Kenji Ono: ESTIMATION OF FINE ROOT DYNAMICS IN MANGROVE (RHIZOPHORA APICULATA) FOREST IN PHONPEI ISLAND, FSM
P27 Ayumi Katayama: GROWTH AND DECOMPOSITION RATES OF ROOTS IN A BORNEAN TROPICAL RAINFOREST
P30 Kyotaro Noguchi: ANALYSIS OF LIVE AND DEAD FINE ROOTS OF CHAMAECYPARIS OBTUSA USING VIS-NIR SPECTRAL IMAGES
P31 Seung Hyun Han: ESTIMATING FINE ROOT PRODUCTION OF PINUS DENSIFLORA USING SOIL CORE SAMPLING AND MINIRHIZOTRON TECHNIQUES
P32 Xiaona Wang: FINE ROOT TURNOVER OF JAPANESE WHITE BIRCH GROWN UNDER ELEVATED CO2 IN NORTHERN JAPAN
P33 Evgenios Agathokleous: ROOT PRODUCTION OF DECIDUOUS BROAD-LEAVED TREE SAPLINGS GROWN IN FREE-AIR-CO2 ENRICHMENT (FACE)
P34 Evgenios Agathokleous: IMPACT OF GROUND-LEVEL OZONE (O3) ON WOODY PLANTS' ROOTS
P35 Ryo Nakahata: SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION AND ANNUAL CHANGES OF FINE ROOT DEMOGRAPHY IN A LARCH PLANTATION
P36 Kazumi Niihara: INVESTIGATING PERIODIC PATTERNS OF FINE ROOT ELONGATION FOR KONARA OAK AND SOYOGO ILEX IN YAMASHIRO HYDROLOGICAL EWPERIMENTAL FOREST IN JAPAN
P37 Masuro Sakata: THE EFFECT OF MEDIA AND SHAPES OF CONTAINERS ON THE ROOT SYSTEM FORMATION OF CUTTINGS IN CONTAINERS
P38 Mineko Ohira: CLONAL VARIATIONS IN THE ROOT TRAITS OF JAPANESE CEDAR AND ISOLATION OF EST RELATED TO ROOT DEVELOPMENT
P39 Meng Zhang: SUBCELLULAR LOCALIZATION OF POLYMERIC FLAVONOIDS IN BORDER-LIKE CELLS OF AL-TOLERANT WOODY PLANT ACACIA MANGIUM
P40 Astha Tuladhar: ANATOMICAL STUDY ON FORMATION OF PHI-THICKENING AND THE CASPARIAN STRIP IN ROOTS OF ROSACEAE
P41 Zhong Chen: UNRAVEL A ROOT BATTLE UNDERGROUND
P42 Tatsuro Nakaji: ESTIMATION OF SECONDARY METABOLITES CONSTITUTION IN THE LIVING AND DEAD FINE ROOTS OF POPPLAR SEEDLINGS BY USING VIS-SWIR HYPERSPECTRAL CAMERA
P43 Haruhiko Taneda: CARBON ALLOCATION FOR WATER USE BETWEEN ROOT, STEM AND LEAF TISSUES IN THREE HERBACEOUS AND WOODY SPECIES
P44 Takuo Hishi: DIFFERENT ALLOCATION PATTERNS OF FINE ROOT BIOMASS BETWEEN UNDERSTORY DWARF BAMBOO AND TREES ALONG WITH TOPOGRAPHIC SEQUENCE IN NATURAL BROAD-LEAVED FORESTS AND LARCH PLANTATIONS
P45 Kazuki Miyamoto: VARIATION IN FINE ROOT BIOMASS OF TROPICAL FORESTS IN BORNEO UNDER DIFFERENT SOIL NUTRIENT AVAILABILITIES
P46 Marie Arndal: FINE ROOT DYNAMICS IN DIFFERENT TREE SPECIES – AN INVISIBLE BUT IMPORTANT PARAMETER
P47 Tran Van Do: CONTRIBUTION OF FINEROOT PRODUCTION TO TOTAL NPP IN AN OLD-GROWTH EVERGREEN BROAD-LEAVED FOREST, SOUTHWESTERN JAPAN
P48 Tadashi Sakata: FINE ROOT LITTER IN EACH SOIL DEPTH AT A COOL-TEMPERATE DECIDUOUS BROADLEAF FOREST IN JAPAN
P49 Yoshiyuki Inagaki: CARBON ALLOCATION IN CONIFEROUS PLANTATIONS OF JAPANESE CEDAR AND HINOKI CYPRESS IN JAPAN
P50 Yoshimi Sakai: COMPARING DECOMPOSING WOOD DENSITIES BETWEEN COARSE ROOT AND STUMP IN CONIFEROUS PLANTATIONS IN JAPAN
P51 Hsieh I-Fang: TEMPORAL VARIATIONS IN SOIL RESPIRATION IN AN INVASIVE SPECIES, MOSO BAMBOO
P52 Mioko Ataka: COMPARISON OF TEMPORAL STABILITY OF CO2 EFFLUX BETWEEN BELOW AND ABOVEGROUND LITTER ASSOCIATED WITH THD SPECIFIC WETTING AND DRYING CYCLE
P53 Mizue Ohashi: ROLE OF ROOT SYSTEMS ON SOIL RESPIRATION IN FOREST ECOSYSTEMS
P54 Hiromu Hoshido: SHOOT/ROOT RATIO IN WHOLE-PLANT RESPIRATION IN SOME HERBACEOUS AND WOODY PLANTS
P55 Mofei WANG: EXTREMELY HIGH RESPIRATION OF GROWING WHOLE-BAMBOO SPROUTS PHYLLOSTACHYS PUBESCENS -LINKED WITH CARBON SUPPLY FROM ROOTS
P56 Shigeta Mori: UNIVERSAL SCALING OF SHOOT/ROOT RATIO OF WHOLE-PLANT RESPIRATION FROM SEEDLINGS TO GIANT TREES
P57 Masako Dannoura: CARBON ALLOCATION TO THE ROOT –WHAT WE FOUND FROM PULS LABELING EXPERIMENTS
P58 Alex Paya: SEASONAL PATTERNS OF δ13C IN TREE ROOTS: USING NATURAL ABUNDANCE MEASUREMENTS TO QUALIFY CARBON ALLOCATION BY ROOT ORDER
P59 Douglas L. Godbold: INTRA-ROOT SYSTEM VARIABILITY OF RESPIRATION AND MORPHOLOGY IN FOUR EUROPEAN DECIDUOUS TREE SPECIES
P60 Kouhei Miyatani: FINE ROOT MORPHOLOGY AND RESPIRATION IN OLD AGED CHAMAECYPARIS OBTUSA STANDS
P61 Rie Takagi: EARLY-STAGE NITROGEN ADDITION DOES NOT ALTER RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FINE ROOT RESPIRATION AND MORPHOLOGY IN COOL-TEMPERATE FOREST
P62 NamJin Noh: EFFECTS OF EXPERIMENTAL SOIL WARMING ON ROOT CARBON DYNAMICS IN TWO COOL-TEMPERATE DECIDUOUS FORESTS, JAPAN
P63 Takayoshi Koike: ROOT-SHOOT GROWTH OF ASH SEEDLINGS AFTER THE TWO DISTURBANCES DURING GROWING PERIOD
P64 Hiroyuki Tobita: EFFECTS OF ELEVATED CO2 AND O3 ON PHOTOSYNTHETIC RATE AND BIOMASS ALLOCATION IN FAGUS CRENATA SEEDLINGS
P65 Hisashi Okamoto: HYDRAULIC SIGNAL TRANSMISSION FROM LEAVES TO ROOT SYSTEM VIA PRESSURE-INDUCED ACTIVATION OF ELECTROGENIC XYLEM PROTON PUMP
P66 Nobuyuki Masaki: CORRELATION BETWEEN THE SEASONAL CHANGES IN THE ELECTROGENIC PROTON PUMP ACTIVITY ACROSS ROOT XYLEM/SYMPLAST INTERFACE, SAP-FLOW RATE AND XYLEM PRESSURE IN A FIELD TREE (DIOSPYROS KAKI)
P67 Sebastian Lamoureux: COMPARATIVE ROOT ECOPHYSIOLOGY OF AUSTRALIAN DRYLAND ACACIAS IN A MINE RESTORATION SOIL UNDER DROUGHT CONDITIONS
P68 Kenji Nakamura: FFECTS OF SOIL WATER CONTENTS ON EARLY GROWTH AND ROOT DEVELOPMENT OF JATROPHA CURCAS
P69 Claudia Fassio: AVOCADO (PERSEA AMERICANA MIL) ROOT ARCHITECTURE AND WATER RELATION
P70 Juan Pedro FERRIO: THE CARBON AND WATER BALANCE UPSIDE DOWN: LINKING ROOT RESPIRATION AND WATER UPTAKE IN WHOLE TREES
P71 Kazuma Kawahara: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FLOWERING FREQUENCY AND ÐEPTH OF WATER UPTAKE BY TREES IN BORNEAN TROPICAL
P72 Michiko Nakagawa: INTRASPECIFIC RELATIONSHIPS OF WOOD TRAITS BETWEEN STEM AND ROOT IN BORNEAN TROPICAL TREES
P73 Friderike Beyer: ROOT COMPETITION OF EUROPEAN ASH (FRAXINUS EXCELSIOR) AND EUROPEAN BEECH (FAGUS SYLVATICA) – EFFECTS ON FINE ROOT SURVIVAL AND ROOT ORDER RELATED TRAITS
P74 Yosuke Matsuda: CONTRASTING FUNGAL ASSEMBLAGES BETWEEN ECTOMYCORRHIZAL ROOTS AND EXTRAMATRICAL MYCELIA OF PINUS THUNBERGII IN A COASTAL ROCKY CLIFF
P75 Hirofumi Nakashima: EFFECT OF ECTOMYCORRHIZAE ON PINUS THUNBERGII AGAINST PINE WILT DISEASE
P76 Takashi Yamanaka: GROWTH AND NODULATION IN ALNUS SIEBOLDIANA IN RESPONSE TO FRANKIA INOCULATION AND N TREATMENTS
P77 Daiki Yamano: POSSIBLE AL-DETOXIATION MECHANISM IN CELASTRUS ORBICULATUS SEEDLINGS GROWING IN MINE SITE

Open public lecture at Lecture Hall of the Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University (map)

September 7th (Sun)
10:45-12:15 Helja-Sisko Helmisaari (Finland): "FOREST BIOENERGY AND SOIL SUSTAINABILITY" INCLUDING UTILIZATION OF ROOTS. (in English)
Isao Hirota (Japan): MULTIPLE LAND USE SYSTEM AND PLANT UTILIZATION MOUNTAINOUS AREA OF NORTHERN LAOS. (
in English)
13:30-15:30 Plant roots supporting human life and environments (in Japanese)
Speakers: Akimasa Nakano, Yasuhiro Hirano and Yosuke Matsuda
Click here for further information (
in Japanese)