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Genetics and Molecular Biology
Japan
2024

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Molecular Biology

D-Index
93
Citations
30255
World Ranking
680
National Ranking
50

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Ko Shimamoto was affiliated with the Nara Institute of Science and Technology in Japan. Their research broadly covered Agricultural and Biological Sciences with a strong focus on Plant Science as well as related fields such as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Molecular Biology. The work spanned several interconnected subfields including Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Biotechnology, and even Astronomy and Astrophysics.

The core topics that shaped Shimamoto's research agenda included Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity, Plant Parasitism and Resistance, and Transgenic Plants and Applications. Other areas of focus involved Plant Molecular Biology Research, Plant responses to water stress, Plant Reproductive Biology, and mechanisms underlying RNA and protein synthesis.

Their recent scientific contributions comprised multiple papers published mainly between 2020 and 2024. Notable publications included:

  • DNA methylation is reconfigured at the onset of reproduction in rice shoot apical meristem, 2020, Nature Communications
  • The Small GTPase OsRac1 Forms Two Distinct Immune Receptor Complexes Containing the PRR OsCERK1 and the NLR Pit, 2021, Plant and Cell Physiology
  • An NLR paralog Pit2 generated from tandem duplication of Pit1 fine-tunes Pit1 localization and function, 2024, Nature Communications
  • The Small GTPase OsRac1 forms two distinct immune receptor complexes containing the PRR OsCERK1 and the NLR Pit, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Throughout their career, Shimamoto frequently collaborated with a group of researchers who contributed to multiple coauthored publications. These colleagues included Masayuki Fujiwara, Ken-ichi Kosami, Takako Kaneko-Kawano, Yoji Kawano, and Yoichiro Fukao, reflecting ongoing research partnerships.

Their research findings were regularly disseminated in journals where they published repeatedly, particularly Nature Communications, Plant and Cell Physiology, and bioRxiv, demonstrating consistent engagement with these scientific venues.

Best Publications

  • Hd3a protein is a mobile flowering signal in rice

    Shojiro Tamaki;Shoichi Matsuo;Hann Ling Wong;Shuji Yokoi

  • Over-expression of a single Ca2+-dependent protein kinase confers both cold and salt/drought tolerance on rice plants.

    Yusuke Saijo;Shingo Hata;Junko Kyozuka;Ko Shimamoto

  • Fertile transgenic rice plants regenerated from transformed protoplasts

    Ko Shimamoto;Rie Terada;Takeshi Izawa;Hideya Fujimoto

  • Adaptation of photoperiodic control pathways produces short-day flowering in rice

    Ryosuke Hayama;Shuji Yokoi;Shojiro Tamaki;Masahiro Yano

  • Calcium-Dependent Protein Kinases Regulate the Production of Reactive Oxygen Species by Potato NADPH Oxidase

    Michie Kobayashi;Ikuko Ohura;Kazuhito Kawakita;Naohiko Yokota

  • 14-3-3 proteins act as intracellular receptors for rice Hd3a florigen

    Ken Ichiro Taoka;Izuru Ohki;Hiroyuki Tsuji;Kyoko Furuita

  • Simple RNAi vectors for stable and transient suppression of gene function in rice.

    Daisuke Miki;Ko Shimamoto

  • Control of flowering and storage organ formation in potato by FLOWERING LOCUS T

    Cristina Navarro;José A. Abelenda;Eduard Cruz-Oró;Carlos A. Cuéllar

  • Hd3a and RFT1 are essential for flowering in rice

    Reina Komiya;Akiko Ikegami;Shojiro Tamaki;Shuji Yokoi

  • Insect Resistant Rice Generated by Introduction of a Modified δ-endotoxin Gene of Bacillus thuringiensis

    Hideya Fujimoto;Kimiko Itoh;Mikihiro Yamamoto;Junko Kyozuka

  • Regulation of Rice NADPH Oxidase by Binding of Rac GTPase to Its N-Terminal Extension

    Hann Ling Wong;Reinhard Pinontoan;Kokoro Hayashi;Ryo Tabata

  • LAX and SPA: major regulators of shoot branching in rice.

    Keishi Komatsu;Masahiko Maekawa;Shin Ujiie;Yuzuki Satake

  • Phytochrome mediates the external light signal to repress FT orthologs in photoperiodic flowering of rice

    Takeshi Izawa;Tetsuo Oikawa;Nobuko Sugiyama;Takatoshi Tanisaka

  • The small GTP-binding protein Rac is a regulator of cell death in plants

    Tsutomu Kawasaki;Kenji Henmi;Eiichiro Ono;Satoru Hatakeyama

  • Essential role of the small GTPase Rac in disease resistance of rice.

    Eiichiro Ono;Hann Ling Wong;Tsutomu Kawasaki;Morifumi Hasegawa

  • FRIZZY PANICLE is required to prevent the formation of axillary meristems and to establish floral meristem identity in rice spikelets.

    Mai Komatsu;Atsushi Chujo;Yasuo Nagato;Ko Shimamoto

  • A gene network for long-day flowering activates RFT1 encoding a mobile flowering signal in rice.

    Reina Komiya;Shuji Yokoi;Ko Shimamoto

  • Overexpression of RCN1 and RCN2, rice TERMINAL FLOWER 1/CENTRORADIALIS homologs, confers delay of phase transition and altered panicle morphology in rice.

    Mayu Nakagawa;Ko Shimamoto;Junko Kyozuka

  • Cinnamoyl-CoA reductase, a key enzyme in lignin biosynthesis, is an effector of small GTPase Rac in defense signaling in rice

    Tsutomu Kawasaki;Hisako Koita;Tomoyuki Nakatsubo;Kana Hasegawa

  • RNA Silencing of Single and Multiple Members in a Gene Family of Rice

    Daisuke Miki;Rika Itoh;Ko Shimamoto

Frequent Co-Authors

Tsutomu Kawasaki
Tsutomu Kawasaki Kindai University
Junko Kyozuka
Junko Kyozuka Tohoku University
Takeshi Izawa
Takeshi Izawa University of Tokyo
Hikaru Satoh
Hikaru Satoh Kyushu University
Toshiyuki Shimizu
Toshiyuki Shimizu University of Tokyo
Katsura Izui
Katsura Izui Kindai University
Yoichiro Fukao
Yoichiro Fukao Ritsumeikan University
Atsushi Nakagawa
Atsushi Nakagawa Osaka University
Yusuke Saijo
Yusuke Saijo Nara Institute of Science and Technology

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