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Sheila McCormick 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 Sheila McCormick sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 179 publications — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Sheila McCormick 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 Sheila McCormick 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.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Sheila McCormick is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research predominantly spans the field of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with focused subfields including Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions, and Conservation.

The main topics addressed in their work include Plant Reproductive Biology, Plant Molecular Biology Research, Plant Virus Research Studies, Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues, Ethics in Clinical Research, Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare, and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms.

Sheila McCormick's publication record features articles in multiple scientific venues, with a frequent presence in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, New Phytologist, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY, the University of Salford Institutional Repository, and Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature.

  • Heterochromatic silencing is reinforced by ARID1-mediated small RNA movement in Arabidopsis pollen (2020, New Phytologist)
  • Community Informed Recruitment: A Promising Method to Enhance Clinical Trial Participation (2023, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
  • Kinase Partner Protein Plays a Key Role in Controlling the Speed and Shape of Pollen Tube Growth in Tomato (2020, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY)
  • The Dinner and Performance Project: A Study of the Efficacy of Performance to Enhance Conversations Around Death and Dying (2021, University of Salford Institutional Repository)
  • Faculty Opinions recommendation of Induction of Multichotomous Branching by CLAVATA Peptide in Marchantia polymorpha. (2020, Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature)

Their research collaborations include frequent coauthors such as Shena Gazaway, Marie Bakitas, Felicia Underwood, Christiana Ekelem, and Marlee Duffie. These collaborations indicate a multidisciplinary approach involving expertise from various aspects of the healthcare and biological sciences sectors.

Sheila McCormick was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Insect Tolerant Transgenic Tomato Plants

    David A. Fischhoff;Katherine S. Bowdish;Katherine S. Bowdish;Frederick J. Perlak;Pamela G. Marrone

  • Leaf disc transformation of cultivated tomato (L. esculentum) using Agrobacterium tumefaciens.

    Sheila McCormick;Jeanne Niedermeyer;Joyce Fry;Arlene Barnason

  • Male Gametophyte Development.

    Sheila McCormick

  • Control of Male Gametophyte Development

    Sheila McCormick

  • Temperature as a determinant factor for increased and reproducible in vitro pollen germination in Arabidopsis thaliana.

    Leonor C. Boavida;Sheila McCormick

  • The N gene of tobacco confers resistance to tobacco mosaic virus in transgenic tomato

    Steve Whitham;Sheila McCormick;Barbara Baker

  • Comparative Transcriptomics of Arabidopsis Sperm Cells

    Filipe Filipe Borges;Gabriela Gomes;Rui Gardner;Nuno Moreno

  • Pollen-specific gene expression in transgenic plants: coordinate regulation of two different tomato gene promoters during microsporogenesis

    D. Twell;J. Yamaguchi;S. McCormick

  • A large family of genes that share homology with CLAVATA3.

    J. Mark Cock;Sheila McCormick

  • Isolation and expression of an anther-specific gene from tomato.

    David Twell;Rod Wing;Judy Yamaguchi;Sheila McCormick

  • Promoter analysis of genes that are coordinately expressed during pollen development reveals pollen-specific enhancer sequences and shared regulatory elements.

    D Twell;J Yamaguchi;R A Wing;J Ushiba

  • Virus Tolerance, Plant Performance of Transgenic Tomato Plants Expressing Coat Protein from Tobacco Mosaic Virus

    Richard S. Nelson;Sheila M. McCormick;Sheila M. McCormick;Xavier Delannay;Philip Dubé

  • LAT52 protein is essential for tomato pollen development: pollen expressing antisense LAT52 RNA hydrates and germinates abnormally and cannot achieve fertilization

    Jorge Muschietti;Lori Dircks;Guy Vancanneyt;Sheila McCormick

  • A compendium of methods useful for characterizing Arabidopsis pollen mutants and gametophytically‐ expressed genes

    Sheila A. Johnson-Brousseau;Sheila McCormick

  • Proteome mapping of mature pollen of Arabidopsis thaliana.

    Rachel Holmes-Davis;Charlene K. Tanaka;William H. Vensel;William J. Hurkman

  • Transient expression of chimeric genes delivered into pollen by microprojectile bombardment.

    David Twell;Theodore M. Klein;Michael E. Fromm;Sheila McCormick

  • RNA-Seq of Arabidopsis Pollen Uncovers Novel Transcription and Alternative Splicing

    Ann E. Loraine;Sheila McCormick;April Estrada;Ketan Patel

  • A distinct mechanism regulating a pollen-specific guanine nucleotide exchange factor for the small GTPase Rop in Arabidopsis thaliana.

    Yan Zhang;Sheila McCormick

  • Molecular and genetic characterization of two pollen-expressed genes that have sequence similarity to pectate lyases of the plant pathogen Erwinia.

    Rod A. Wing;Judy Yamaguchi;Susan K. Larabell;Virginia M. Ursin

  • Sperm cells of Zea mays have a complex complement of mRNAs.

    Michele L. Engel;Annie Chaboud;Christian Dumas;Sheila McCormick

  • A cysteine-rich extracellular protein, LAT52, interacts with the extracellular domain of the pollen receptor kinase LePRK2.

    Weihua Tang;Inés Ezcurra;Jorge Muschietti;Sheila McCormick

  • Green Sperm. Identification of Male Gamete Promoters in Arabidopsis

    Michele L. Engel;Rachel Holmes-Davis;Sheila McCormick

  • Transformation of tomato with Agrobacterium tumefaciens

    Sheila McCormick

Frequent Co-Authors

David Twell
David Twell University of Leicester
Robert T. Fraley
Robert T. Fraley Trace Genomics
Yuan Chen
Yuan Chen University of Sydney
Miltos Tsiantis
Miltos Tsiantis Max Planck Society
Rod A. Wing
Rod A. Wing University of Arizona
Jaime F. Martínez-García
Jaime F. Martínez-García Spanish National Research Council
Barbara Baker
Barbara Baker University of California, Berkeley
Jacques Joyard
Jacques Joyard Grenoble Alpes University
Charles S. Gasser
Charles S. Gasser University of California, Davis
David W. Lee
David W. Lee Florida International University

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