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Teruo Shimmen

Teruo Shimmen

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
58
Citations
9685
World Ranking
13411
National Ranking
941

Overview

Teruo Shimmen is a researcher affiliated with the University of Hyogo in Japan. Their work primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a strong focus on Plant Science, Endocrinology, and Molecular Biology. The scientist's research interests also extend into Insect Science and Infectious Diseases.

The main topics covered by Shimmen's research include Plant Virus Research Studies, Plant and Fungal Interactions Research, Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics, Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity, Insect-Plant Interactions and Control, Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies, and Plant Disease Management Techniques.

Shimmen has published articles in various scientific journals, with frequent publication venues including the Journal of General Plant Pathology, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Virus Research, Journal of General Virology, and Viruses.

  • ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Pospiviroidae (2020, Journal of General Virology)
  • Hop Latent Viroid: A Hidden Threat to the Cannabis Industry (2023, Viruses)
  • RNA silencing-related genes contribute to tolerance of infection with potato virus X and Y in a susceptible tomato plant (2020, Virology Journal)
  • Progress in 50 years of viroid research-Molecular structure, pathogenicity, and host adaptation (2021, Proceedings of the Japan Academy Series B)
  • Plant viruses and viroids in Japan (2022, Journal of General Plant Pathology)

Collaborative efforts feature prominently in Shimmen's work. Frequent co-authors include Charith Raj Adkar-Purushothama, Jean-Pierre Perreault, Takashi Naoi, Francesco Di Serio, and Shifang Li, reflecting a multidisciplinary and international dimension to the research collaborations.

Best Publications

  • Cytoplasmic streaming in plants.

    Teruo Shimmen;Etsuo Yokota

  • Myosin-dependent endoplasmic reticulum motility and F-actin organization in plant cells

    Haruko Ueda;Etsuo Yokota;Natsumaro Kutsuna;Tomoo Shimada

  • Higher plant myosin XI moves processively on actin with 35 nm steps at high velocity

    Motoki Tominaga;Hiroaki Kojima;Etsuo Yokota;Hidefumi Orii

  • Participation of Ca^ in cessation of cytoplasmic streaming induced by membrane excitation in Characeae internodal cells

    T. Hayama;T. Shimmen;M. Tazawa

  • The sliding theory of cytoplasmic streaming: fifty years of progress.

    Teruo Shimmen

  • MEMBRANE CONTROL IN THE CHARACEAE

    Masashi Tazawa;Teruo Shimmen;Tetsuro Mimura

  • Isolation and characterization of plant myosin from pollen tubes of lily

    E. Yokota;T. Shimmen

  • Cytoplasmic Streaming Velocity as a Plant Size Determinant

    Motoki Tominaga;Atsushi Kimura;Etsuo Yokota;Takeshi Haraguchi

  • Accelerated sliding of pollen tube organelles along Characeae actin bundles regulated by Ca2

    Tadashi Kohno;Teruo Shimmen

  • Physiological and Biochemical Aspects of Cytoplasmic Streaming

    Teruo Shimmen;Etsuo Yokota

  • Inhibitory Regulation of Higher-Plant Myosin by Ca2+Ions

    Etsuo Yokota;Shoshi Muto;Teruo Shimmen

  • Ca2+-induced fragmentation of actin filaments in pollen tubes

    T. Kohno;T. Shimmen

  • Actin-bundling protein isolated from pollen tubes of lily. Biochemical and immunocytochemical characterization

    Etsuo Yokota;Kei-ichiro Takahara;Teruo Shimmen

  • The role of plant villin in the organization of the actin cytoskeleton, cytoplasmic streaming and the architecture of the transvacuolar strand in root hair cells of Hydrocharis

    Motoki Tominaga;Etsuo Yokota;Luis Vidali;Seiji Sonobe

  • An Arabidopsis ACT2 dominant-negative mutation, which disturbs F-actin polymerization, reveals its distinctive function in root development.

    Taisuke Nishimura;Etsuo Yokota;Takuji Wada;Teruo Shimmen

  • Studies on the distribution, re‐translocation and homeostasis of inorganic phosphate in barley leaves

    T. Mimura;K. Sakano;T. Shimmen

  • Control of cytoplasmic streaming by extracellular Ca2+ in permeabilizedNitella cells

    Y. Tominaga;T. Shimmen;M. Tazawa

  • Microtubules regulate the organization of actin filaments at the cortical region in root hair cells of Hydrocharis

    M. Tominaga;K. Morita;S. Sonobe;E. Yokota

  • Isolation of a Novel 190 kDa Protein from Tobacco BY-2 Cells: Possible Involvement in the Interaction between Actin Filaments and Microtubules

    Hisako Igarashi;Hidefumi Orii;Hitoshi Mori;Teruo Shimmen

  • Peroxisomal localization of a myosin XI isoform in Arabidopsis thaliana.

    Kohsuke Hashimoto;Hisako Igarashi;Shoji Mano;Mikio Nishimura

Frequent Co-Authors

Tetsuro Mimura
Tetsuro Mimura Kyoto University of Advanced Science
Ikuko Hara-Nishimura
Ikuko Hara-Nishimura Kyoto University
Tomoo Shimada
Tomoo Shimada Kyoto University
Peter K. Hepler
Peter K. Hepler University of Massachusetts Amherst
Masayoshi Maeshima
Masayoshi Maeshima Nagoya University
Yoichiro Fukao
Yoichiro Fukao Ritsumeikan University
Mikio Nishimura
Mikio Nishimura National Institute for Basic Biology
Takashi Hashimoto
Takashi Hashimoto Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Karl-Josef Dietz
Karl-Josef Dietz Bielefeld University
Kenichi Yoshikawa
Kenichi Yoshikawa Doshisha University

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