Yo Takenaka

Yo Takenaka (竹中要 Takenaka Yō, 1903–1966) was a Japanese plant geneticist and a Professor of Department of Cell Genetics, National Institute of Genetics. He is notable for researching the phylogenetic classification of cherry blossom. He discovered that Prunus × yedoensis is a crossbreed of two wild species of Japanese cherry; Prunus spachiana forma ascendens (Edo higan) and Prunus speciosa (Oshima zakura) by crossing experiments. He was also known as a researcher on Japanese morning glory and Nicotiana.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Career Edit

He was born in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan in 1903. He graduated from the Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Tokyo Imperial University in 1927. He was a Professor of Keijō Imperial University from 1929 to 1945. After the end of war, he became a Professor of National Institute of Genetics in 1949. He died on 18 March 1966 at the age of 62.^[2]

"ソメイヨシノの起源" [The Origin of the Yoshino cherry]. 染色体 [La Kromosomo]. 染色体学会 [The Society of Chromosome Research ]. 21: 777–778. 1954.
"サクラの研究(第1報) ソメイヨシノの起源" [Research on Cherry (1): The Origin of the Yoshino cherry]. 植物学雑誌 [Botanical Magazine]. Vol. 75. July 25, 1962. pp. 278–287.
"サクラの研究(第2報) ソメイヨシノの起源" [Research on Cherry (2): The Origin of the Yoshino cherry]. 植物学雑誌 [Botanical Magazine]. Vol. 78. September 25, 1965. pp. 319–331.
TAKENAKA, Yô (1963). "The Origin of the Yoshino cherry tree" (PDF). Journal of Heredity. Oxford University Press. 54 (5): 207–211. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a107250.

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^ ^a ^b "Dr. Takenaka and Cherries in the National Institute of Genetics" (PDF) (in Japanese). Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute.
^ "国立遺伝学研究所六十周年ミシマザクラと竹中博士" [National Institute of Genetics 60th anniversary: Mishima zakura and Dr. Takenaka]. Mishima City. July 1, 2009.
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