UPSC Seminar

Tsuyoshi Maruyama
Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI), Tsukuba, Japan

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Host: Ulrika Egertsdotter

Tsuyoshi Maruyama is a senior researcher at the Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI, Tsukuba, Japan), where he conducts research on the propagation and conservation of Japanese conifers and tropical forest trees, focusing primarily on the propagation of Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica) male-sterile (pollen-free) somatic plants, and on the genetic conservation of endangered mahogany species (Swietenia macrophylla and Cedrela odorata) in the Amazon rainforest. He earned a Master’s degree and a Ph.D. in Agricultural Sciences from the University of Tsukuba (Tsukuba, Japan). He has more than 35 years of experience and has authored over 100 scientific publications in the fields of tissue culture, somatic embryogenesis, plant propagation, and germplasm conservation.