Plant activity and physiology revealed by newly developed imaging applications of radiation and radioisotopes

Tomoko M. Nakanishi is a project professor at the Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Laboratory of Radio-Plant Physiology, as well as professor emeritus of The University of Tokyo, Japan and of Hoshi University, Japan. Her research group is world leading in radioisotope-based imaging methods for the uptake and utilisation of water and nutrition materials in plants.

Tomoko M. Nakanishi was awarded an honorary doctorate at Chalmers in 2019 for her outstanding interdisciplinary research on plant physiology, the development of ground-breaking new imaging methods for this purpose, as well as for surveying the agricultural and environmental consequences of the Fukushima accident and planning remediation work in the affected areas. She summarized the results of this latter work and published them in four volumes in Springer in 2013, 2016, 2019 and 2023. In the lecture she will give an account of her research methodology and the results obtained.