Simon Firek

559 total citations
15 papers, 445 citations indexed

About

Simon Firek is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Biotechnology. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon Firek has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 445 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Plant Science and 5 papers in Biotechnology. Recurrent topics in Simon Firek's work include Plant tissue culture and regeneration (8 papers), Transgenic Plants and Applications (5 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (5 papers). Simon Firek is often cited by papers focused on Plant tissue culture and regeneration (8 papers), Transgenic Plants and Applications (5 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (5 papers). Simon Firek collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Canada and United States. Simon Firek's co-authors include John Draper, Robert Darby, Yong‐Mei Bi, Luis A. J. Mur, M. Barghchi, Garry C. Whitelam, Atul R. Gandecha, M. R. L. Owen, Tom Moss and Duncan R. Smith and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Biotechnology.

In The Last Decade

Simon Firek

15 papers receiving 412 citations

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Simon Firek United Kingdom 11 319 297 150 42 14 15 445
A. Wilmink Netherlands 5 243 0.8× 199 0.7× 156 1.0× 24 0.6× 8 0.6× 6 277
Mukund Zambre Belgium 10 457 1.4× 404 1.4× 277 1.8× 40 1.0× 4 0.3× 18 575
Sigrun Hippe Germany 9 201 0.6× 179 0.6× 144 1.0× 48 1.1× 11 0.8× 15 325
R. Cárcamo United States 8 321 1.0× 312 1.1× 142 0.9× 57 1.4× 7 0.5× 10 426
Gijs J. H. van Rooijen Canada 6 220 0.7× 164 0.6× 101 0.7× 18 0.4× 38 2.7× 6 302
Janniek De Clercq Belgium 6 244 0.8× 219 0.7× 150 1.0× 13 0.3× 10 0.7× 10 301
Stephan Rips Germany 8 258 0.8× 306 1.0× 81 0.5× 53 1.3× 7 0.5× 9 432
Oliver Zobell Germany 7 325 1.0× 309 1.0× 115 0.8× 40 1.0× 2 0.1× 7 427
Mirjam P. Does Belgium 7 308 1.0× 225 0.8× 99 0.7× 26 0.6× 5 0.4× 10 349
Indrajit Dutta India 8 293 0.9× 276 0.9× 87 0.6× 20 0.5× 53 3.8× 8 374

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Fields of papers citing papers by Simon Firek

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon Firek

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All Works

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Firek, Simon, et al.. (1997). Alternative processing of the maize Ac transcript in Arabidopsis. The Plant Journal. 11(5). 933–943. 18 indexed citations
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Mur, Luis A. J., Yong‐Mei Bi, Robert Darby, Simon Firek, & John Draper. (1997). Compromising early salicylic acid accumulation delays the hypersensitive response and increases viral dispersal during lesion establishment in TMV‐infected tobacco. The Plant Journal. 12(5). 1113–1126. 134 indexed citations
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Firek, Simon, et al.. (1996). Gametophyte‐specific transposition of the maize Ds element in transgenic tobacco. The Plant Journal. 10(3). 569–578. 6 indexed citations
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Firek, Simon, Garry C. Whitelam, & John Draper. (1994). Endoplasmic reticulum targeting of active modified β-glucuronidase (GUS) in transgenic tobacco plants. Transgenic Research. 3(5). 326–331. 10 indexed citations
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Barghchi, M., et al.. (1993). Efficient adventitious shoot regeneration and somatic embryogenesis in pea. Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC). 34(3). 271–277. 46 indexed citations
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Özcan, Sebahattin, Simon Firek, & John Draper. (1993). Can elimination of the protein products of selectable marker genes in transgenic plants allay public anxieties?. Trends in biotechnology. 11(6). 219–219. 3 indexed citations
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Özcan, Sebahattin, Simon Firek, & John Draper. (1993). Selectable Marker Genes Engineered for Specific Expression in Target Cells for Plant Transformation. Nature Biotechnology. 11(2). 218–221. 19 indexed citations
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Firek, Simon, et al.. (1993). Secretion of a functional single-chain Fv protein in transgenic tobacco plants and cell suspension cultures. Plant Molecular Biology. 23(4). 861–870. 105 indexed citations
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Leblanc, Benjamin, et al.. (1992). High resolution studies of the Xenopus laevis ribosomal gene promoter in vivo and in vitro.. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 267(16). 10961–10967. 12 indexed citations
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Barghchi, M., et al.. (1992). High frequency adventitious shoot regeneration from immature cotyledons of pea (Pisum sativum L.). Plant Cell Reports. 11(1). 44–7. 40 indexed citations
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Firek, Simon, et al.. (1990). Point mutation analysis of theXenopus laevisRNA polymerase I core promoter. Nucleic Acids Research. 18(1). 105–109. 10 indexed citations
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Firek, Simon, et al.. (1989). The Xenopus laevis Ribosomal Gene Terminator Contains Sequences That Both Enhance and Repress Ribosomal Transcription. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 9(9). 3777–3784. 6 indexed citations
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Firek, Simon, et al.. (1989). The Xenopus laevis ribosomal gene terminator contains sequences that both enhance and repress ribosomal transcription.. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 9(9). 3777–3784. 14 indexed citations

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