Tsuneo Watanabe

Tsuneo Watanabe earned his Ph.D. degree in plant pathology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1967. He has been active as a plant pathologist and mycologist in the field of soilborne diseases, their pathogens, and soil fungi for more than 30 years at the National Institute of toon meer Agroenvironmental Sciences, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, and National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology of Japan. He is the author of more than 150 scientific papers on the subject. Dr. Watanabe is currently studying lignocellulose and dioxin-decomposing fungi as a part of the national Bioconsortia Project of Japan toon minder