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Ayumi Tanaka

Ayumi Tanaka

D-Index & Metrics

Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
60
Citations
14008
World Ranking
1200
National Ranking
36

Ayumi Tanaka publication distribution in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ayumi Tanaka sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 197 publications — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 467 publications or more.

Ayumi Tanaka D-index placement in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Plant Science and Agronomy scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ayumi Tanaka sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 109 D-Index or more.

Overview

What is she best known for?

The fields of study she is best known for:

  • Gene
  • Enzyme
  • Photosynthesis

Ayumi Tanaka mainly investigates Biochemistry, Chlorophyll, Chlorophyll b, Chlorophyll cycle and Photosynthesis. Mutant, Reductase, Photosystem, Arabidopsis thaliana and Gene are among the areas of Biochemistry where the researcher is concentrating her efforts. Her Chlorophyll research is within the category of Botany.

Her Chlorophyll b research includes elements of Chloroplast, Chlorophyll fluorescence and Photosystem II. She interconnects Prochlorophytes and Accessory pigment in the investigation of issues within Chlorophyll cycle. Her Chlorophyll a research incorporates elements of Light-harvesting complexes of green plants and Chlorophyll c.

Her most cited work include:

  • Tetrapyrrole Biosynthesis in Higher Plants (510 citations)
  • Chlorophyll a oxygenase (CAO) is involved in chlorophyll b formation from chlorophyll a (330 citations)
  • Rice NON-YELLOW COLORING1 Is Involved in Light-Harvesting Complex II and Grana Degradation during Leaf Senescence (324 citations)

What are the main themes of her work throughout her whole career to date?

Ayumi Tanaka mostly deals with Biochemistry, Chlorophyll, Chlorophyll b, Botany and Chlorophyll a. Her Biochemistry and Mutant, Chloroplast, Reductase, Biosynthesis and Gene investigations all form part of her Biochemistry research activities. Her biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Photosynthesis, Photosystem, Photosystem II, Arabidopsis thaliana and Oxygenase.

Her work deals with themes such as Chlorophyll cycle, Prochlorophytes, Cyanobacteria, Chlamydomonas and Chlorophyll fluorescence, which intersect with Chlorophyll b. Her Botany research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Greening and Pigment. Her studies examine the connections between Chlorophyll a and genetics, as well as such issues in Light-harvesting complexes of green plants, with regards to Chlorosome.

She most often published in these fields:

  • Biochemistry (53.01%)
  • Chlorophyll (50.60%)
  • Chlorophyll b (31.93%)

What were the highlights of her more recent work (between 2016-2021)?

  • Chlorophyll (50.60%)
  • Biochemistry (53.01%)
  • Photosystem (21.08%)

In recent papers she was focusing on the following fields of study:

The scientist’s investigation covers issues in Chlorophyll, Biochemistry, Photosystem, Mutant and Arabidopsis. Her Chlorophyll research integrates issues from Photosynthesis and Chloroplast. Her work is connected to Chlorophyll b, Chlorophyll a, Cofactor, Active site and Tetrahydromethanopterin, as a part of Biochemistry.

The concepts of her Chlorophyll b study are interwoven with issues in Chlorophyll cycle, Green algae and Metabolic pathway. Her Mutant study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Phenotype, Protein subunit and Pheophytin, Photosystem II. Her research integrates issues of Arabidopsis thaliana, Biophysics and Cell biology in her study of Arabidopsis.

Between 2016 and 2021, her most popular works were:

  • The SUFBC2D Complex is Required for the Biogenesis of All Major Classes of Plastid Fe‐S Proteins (28 citations)
  • The iron–sulfur cluster biosynthesis protein SUFB is required for chlorophyll synthesis, but not phytochrome signaling (19 citations)
  • Mg-dechelation of chlorophyll a by Stay-Green activates chlorophyll b degradation through expressing Non-Yellow Coloring 1 in Arabidopsis thaliana. (16 citations)

In her most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Enzyme
  • Gene
  • Bacteria

Her primary areas of investigation include Biochemistry, Mutant, Photosystem II, Photosystem and Chlorophyll. Her work on Chlorophyll b as part of general Biochemistry study is frequently connected to Cyclase activity, therefore bridging the gap between diverse disciplines of science and establishing a new relationship between them. Ayumi Tanaka usually deals with Chlorophyll b and limits it to topics linked to Metabolic pathway and Wild type, Arabidopsis thaliana, Chlorophyll cycle, Oxygenase and Green algae.

Ayumi Tanaka has researched Mutant in several fields, including Phenotype, RNA interference, Protein subunit and Protoporphyrin IX. Her Photosystem research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Pheophytin, Chlamydomonas and Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. The study incorporates disciplines such as Photosynthesis, Cotyledon and Nicotiana tabacum in addition to Chlorophyll.

Best Publications

  • Tetrapyrrole Biosynthesis in Higher Plants

    Ryouichi Tanaka;Ayumi Tanaka

  • Rice NON-YELLOW COLORING1 Is Involved in Light-Harvesting Complex II and Grana Degradation during Leaf Senescence

    Makoto Kusaba;Hisashi Ito;Ryouhei Morita;Shuichi Iida

  • Chlorophyll a oxygenase (CAO) is involved in chlorophyll b formation from chlorophyll a

    Ayumi Tanaka;Hisashi Ito;Ryouichi Tanaka;Nobuaki K. Tanaka

  • Two short-chain dehydrogenase/reductases, NON-YELLOW COLORING 1 and NYC1-LIKE, are required for chlorophyll b and light-harvesting complex II degradation during senescence in rice

    Yutaka Sato;Ryouhei Morita;Susumu Katsuma;Minoru Nishimura

  • Chlorophyll metabolism.

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  • Identification of a Vinyl Reductase Gene for Chlorophyll Synthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana and Implications for the Evolution of Prochlorococcus Species

    Nozomi Nagata;Ryouichi Tanaka;Soichirou Satoh;Ayumi Tanaka

  • Arabidopsis STAY-GREEN, Mendel's Green Cotyledon Gene, Encodes Magnesium-Dechelatase

    Yousuke Shimoda;Hisashi Ito;Ayumi Tanaka

  • Cloning and functional expression of the gene encoding the key enzyme for chlorophyll b biosynthesis (CAO) from Arabidopsis thaliana

    Ulrike Oster;Ryouichi Tanaka;Ayumi Tanaka;Wolfhart Rüdiger

  • The cell biology of tetrapyrroles: a life and death struggle.

    Nobuyoshi Mochizuki;Ryouichi Tanaka;Bernhard Grimm;Tatsuru Masuda

  • Chlorophyll cycle regulates the construction and destruction of the light-harvesting complexes

    Ryouichi Tanaka;Ayumi Tanaka

  • Participation of Chlorophyll b Reductase in the Initial Step of the Degradation of Light-harvesting Chlorophyll a/b-Protein Complexes in Arabidopsis

    Yukiko Horie;Hisashi Ito;Makoto Kusaba;Ryouichi Tanaka

  • Chlorophyll b and phycobilins in the common ancestor of cyanobacteria and chloroplasts.

    Akiko Tomitani;Kiyotaka Okada;Hideaki Miyashita;Hans C. P. Matthijs

  • The steady-state level of Mg-protoporphyrin IX is not a determinant of plastid-to-nucleus signaling in Arabidopsis.

    Nobuyoshi Mochizuki;Ryouichi Tanaka;Ayumi Tanaka;Tatsuru Masuda

  • Identification of the 7-Hydroxymethyl Chlorophyll a Reductase of the Chlorophyll Cycle in Arabidopsis

    Miki Meguro;Hisashi Ito;Atsushi Takabayashi;Ryouichi Tanaka

  • The Arabidopsis-accelerated cell death gene ACD1 is involved in oxygenation of pheophorbide a: inhibition of the pheophorbide a oxygenase activity does not lead to the "stay-green" phenotype in Arabidopsis.

    Ryouichi Tanaka;Masumi Hirashima;Soichirou Satoh;Ayumi Tanaka

  • Conversion of Chlorophyll b to Chlorophyll a via 7-Hydroxymethyl Chlorophyll

    Hisashi Ito;Tatsuyuki Ohtsuka;Ayumi Tanaka

  • Stay-green plants: what do they tell us about the molecular mechanism of leaf senescence

    Makoto Kusaba;Ayumi Tanaka;Ryouichi Tanaka

  • Effect of salicylic acid on chlorophyll and carotenoid contents of wheat and moong seedlings

    S.T. Moharekar;S.T. Moharekar;S.D. Lokhande;T. Hara;R. Tanaka

  • Chlorophyll antenna size adjustments by irradiance in Dunaliella salina involve coordinate regulation of chlorophyll a oxygenase (CAO) and Lhcb gene expression

    Tatsuru Masuda;Ayumi Tanaka;Anastasios Melis

  • The N-Terminal Domain of Chlorophyllide a Oxygenase Confers Protein Instability in Response to Chlorophyll b Accumulation in Arabidopsis

    Akihiro Yamasato;Nozomi Nagata;Ryouichi Tanaka;Ayumi Tanaka

  • Overexpression of chlorophyllide a oxygenase (CAO) enlarges the antenna size of photosystem II in Arabidopsis thaliana.

    Ryouichi Tanaka;Yoshihiro Koshino;Shinichiro Sawa;Sumie Ishiguro

  • Photosynthetic apparatus organization and function in the wild type and a chlorophyll b-less mutant of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Dependence on carbon source

    Juergen E. W. Polle;John R. Benemann;Ayumi Tanaka;Anastasios Melis

Frequent Co-Authors

Yasuhito Sakuraba
Yasuhito Sakuraba University of Tokyo
Makoto Kusaba
Makoto Kusaba Hiroshima University
Tatsuya Tomo
Tatsuya Tomo Tokyo University of Science
Kiyotaka Okada
Kiyotaka Okada National Institute for Basic Biology
Tatsuru Masuda
Tatsuru Masuda University of Tokyo
Wataru Sakamoto
Wataru Sakamoto Okayama University
Masahiko Ikeuchi
Masahiko Ikeuchi University of Tokyo
Toshihiko Hara
Toshihiko Hara Hokkaido University
Mamoru Mimuro
Mamoru Mimuro Kyoto University
Hitoshi Tamiaki
Hitoshi Tamiaki Ritsumeikan University

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