Shigemoto Kato

Japanese: 加藤茂苞 - かとうしげもと
Shigemoto Kato

Botanist. Born in Inao Village, Yamagata Prefecture (now Tsuruoka City). Graduated from the College of Agriculture of the Imperial University in 1891 (Meiji 24), he worked at the Agricultural Experiment Station of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, where he was involved in rice cultivation research. In 1903 (Meiji 36), he moved to the Kinai branch, where he succeeded in creating hybrids through artificial crossbreeding of rice with Ando Kotaro, and was a pioneer in introducing Mendelian genetics to rice breeding. He also compared rice varieties and organized them into 60 varieties, laying the foundations of rice breeding. He received his doctorate in agriculture in 1919 (Taisho 8), and became a professor at Kyushu Imperial University in 1921. After comparing Japanese rice with foreign rice, he proposed dividing the world's rice into two major types, indica and japonica, which was widely recognized. From 1932 (Showa 7), he held the position of professor at Tokyo University of Agriculture.

[Sato Shichiro]

[Reference item] | Ando Hirotaro | Rice | Rice

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Japanese:

植物学者。山形県稲生(いなおい)村(現、鶴岡市)の生まれ。1891年(明治24)帝国大学農科大学を卒業、農林省農事試験場に勤務、稲作の研究に携わった。1903年(明治36)畿内(きない)支部に移り、安藤広太郎とともにイネの人為交配による雑種作成に成功し、メンデル遺伝学をイネ品種改良に先駆的に導入した。またイネの品種を比較して60品種に整理しイネ育種学の基礎を固めた。1919年(大正8)農学博士、1921年九州帝国大学教授となり、日本のイネと外国のイネを比較して、世界のイネを、インディカとジャポニカに2大別することを提唱し、広く認められた。1932年(昭和7)以降は東京農業大学教授の地位にあった。

[佐藤七郎]

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