Nobuyuki Tanaka


Nobuyuki Tanaka is an economic botanist at the Tokyo Metropolitan University, the Makino Botanical Garden in Kōchi Prefecture, Japan.
Tanaka is an expert on the family Cannaceae, and in 2001 published a revision of the family Cannaceae in the New World and Asia.
Another contribution by Dr. Tanaka is to revise the Flora of Myanmar.

Publications

  • Nobuyuki Tanaka : The utilization of edible Canna plants in southeastern Asia and southern China in Economic Botany 52 pp 112–114 The New York Botanical Garden.
  • Ito, Y., T. Ohi-Toma, Nb. Tanaka, and J. Murata New or noteworthy plant collections from Myanmar Caldesia parnassifolia, Nechamandra alternifolia, Potamogeton maackianus and P. octandrus. Journal of Japanese Botany 84: 321-329.
  • Ito, Y., T. Ohi-Toma, Nb. Tanaka, Nr. Tanaka & J. Murata New or noteworthy plant collections from Myanmar Blyxa aubertii var. echinosperma, Lemna trisulca, and Najas tenuis. APG: Acta Phytotaxonomica et Geobotanica 65: 53-61.
  • Ito, Y., Nr. Tanaka, R. Pooma, and Nb. Tanaka DNA barcoding reveals a new record of Potamogeton ''distinctus and its natural hybrids, P''. distinctus × P. nodosus and P. distinctus × P. wrightii from Myanmar. Biodiversity Data Journal 2: e1073.
  • Ito, Y., Nb. Tanaka Chromosome studies in the aquatic monocots of Myanmar: A brief review with additional records. Biodiversity Data Journal 2: e1069.