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Shigeyuki Kawano

Shigeyuki Kawano

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
55
Citations
9088
World Ranking
15233
National Ranking
1075

Overview

Shigeyuki Kawano is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan and has contributed extensively to research in the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans multiple subfields including Molecular Biology, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Oceanography.

Their research focuses on topics such as algal biology and biofuel production, marine and coastal plant biology, photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, plant reproductive biology, plant and animal studies, CRISPR and genetic engineering, as well as biocrusts and microbial ecology.

Frequent coauthors in their publications include Kotaro Ishii, Yusuke Kazama, Tomoko Abe, Tsuyoshi Takeshita, and Shuhei Ota.

Shigeyuki Kawano has published in several scientific venues, with the most frequent publication venues being CYTOLOGIA, Algal Research, Phycological Research, Molecular Biology and Evolution, and Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts.

Recent published papers include:

  • A CLAVATA3-like Gene Acts as a Gynoecium Suppression Function in White Campion (2022, Molecular Biology and Evolution)
  • Genome editing using a DNA-free clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats-Cas9 system in green seaweed Ulva prolifera (2021, Phycological Research)
  • Development of a CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene-editing method to isolate a mutant of the unicellular green alga Parachlorella kessleri strain NIES-2152 with improved lipid productivity (2024, Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts)
  • Supra-Optimal Temperature: An Efficient Approach for Overaccumulation of Starch in the Green Alga Parachlorella kessleri (2021, Cells)
  • Characterization of Growth and Cell Cycle Events Affected by Light Intensity in the Green Alga Parachlorella kessleri: A New Model for Cell Cycle Research (2021, Biomolecules)

Best Publications

  • Accumulation of energy reserves in algae: From cell cycles to biotechnological applications

    Milada Vitova;Katerina Bisova;Shigeyuki Kawano;Vilem Zachleder

  • Guidance in Vitro of the Pollen Tube to the Naked Embryo Sac of Torenia fournieri

    Tetsuya Higashiyama;Haruko Kuroiwa;Shigeyuki Kawano;Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa

  • Three-dimensional ultrastructural study of oil and astaxanthin accumulation during encystment in the green alga Haematococcus pluvialis.

    Marina Wayama;Shuhei Ota;Hazuki Matsuura;Nobuhito Nango

  • Starch and lipid accumulation in eight strains of six Chlorella species under comparatively high light intensity and aeration culture conditions.

    Tsuyoshi Takeshita;Shuhei Ota;Tomokazu Yamazaki;Aiko Hirata

  • Auxin and Cytokinin Have Opposite Effects on Amyloplast Development and the Expression of Starch Synthesis Genes in Cultured Bright Yellow-2 Tobacco Cells

    Yutaka Miyazawa;Atsushi Sakai;Shin Ya Miyagishima;Hiroyoshi Takano

  • Relationship between starch and lipid accumulation induced by nutrient depletion and replenishment in the microalga Parachlorella kessleri.

    Bruno Fernandes;José Teixeira;Giuliano Dragone;António A. Vicente

  • Axillary Meristem Formation in Rice Requires the WUSCHEL Ortholog TILLERS ABSENT1

    Wakana Tanaka;Yoshihiro Ohmori;Tomokazu Ushijima;Hiroaki Matsusaka

  • Behavior of mitochondria, chloroplasts and their nuclei during the mitotic cycle in the ultramicroalga Cyanidioschyzon merolae

    K Suzuki;T Ehara;T Osafune;H Kuroiwa

  • The microalga Parachlorella kessleri––A novel highly efficient lipid producer

    Xiuling Li;Pavel Přibyl;Kateřina Bišová;Shigeyuki Kawano

  • Sequential accumulation of starch and lipid induced by sulfur deficiency in Chlorella and Parachlorella species.

    Yusuke Mizuno;Atsushi Sato;Koichi Watanabe;Aiko Hirata

  • Behavior of organelles and their nucleoids in the shoot apical meristem during leaf development in Arabidopsis thaliana L.

    Makoto Fujie;Haruko Kuroiwa;Shigeyuki Kawano;Shoshi Mutoh

  • A putative mitochondrial ftsZ gene is present in the unicellular primitive red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae.

    M. Takahara;H. Takahashi;S. Matsunaga;S. Miyagishima

  • Late type of daughter cell wall synthesis in one of the Chlorellaceae, Parachlorella kessleri (Chlorophyta, Trebouxiophyceae)

    Maki Yamamoto;Ippei Kurihara;Shigeyuki Kawano

  • Isolation and developmental expression of male reproductive organ‐specific genes in a dioecious campion, Melandrium album (Silene latifolia)

    Sachihiro Matsunaga;Shigeyuki Kawano;Hiroyoshi Takano;Hidenobu Uchida

  • Regeneration and maturation of daughter cell walls in the autospore-forming green alga Chlorella vulgaris (Chlorophyta, Trebouxiophyceae)

    Maki Yamamoto;Mariko Fujishita;Aiko Hirata;Shigeyuki Kawano

  • Studies on the behavior of organelles and their nucleoids in the root apical meristem of Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Col.

    Makoto Fujie;Haruko Kuroiwa;Shigeyuki Kawano;Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa

  • Duplicative Transfer of a MADS Box Gene to a Plant Y Chromosome

    Sachihiro Matsunaga;Erika Isono;Eduard Kejnovsky;Boris Vyskot

  • Degradation of chloroplast DNA in second leaves of rice (Oryza sativa) before leaf yellowing

    Sodmergen;S. Kawano;S. Tano;T. Kuroiwa

  • Preferential mitochondrial and plastid DNA synthesis before multiple cell divisions in Nicotiana tabacum

    Takeshi Suzuki;Shigeyuki Kawano;Atsushi Sakai;Makoto Fujie

  • Chloroplasts Divide by Contraction of a Bundle of Nanofilaments Consisting of Polyglucan

    Yamato Yoshida;Haruko Kuroiwa;Osami Misumi;Masaki Yoshida

Frequent Co-Authors

Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa
Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa Japan Women's University
Sachihiro Matsunaga
Sachihiro Matsunaga Tokyo University of Science
Haruko Kuroiwa
Haruko Kuroiwa Japan Women's University
Aiko Hirata
Aiko Hirata University of Tokyo
Tetsuya Higashiyama
Tetsuya Higashiyama University of Tokyo
Masahira Hattori
Masahira Hattori Waseda University
Kenshiro Oshima
Kenshiro Oshima University of Tokyo
Yoshikazu Ohya
Yoshikazu Ohya University of Tokyo
Shin-ya Miyagishima
Shin-ya Miyagishima National Institute of Genetics
Atsushi Toyoda
Atsushi Toyoda National Institute of Genetics

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