Nicholas Harberd
Nicholas Harberd | |
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| Born | Nicholas Paul Harberd 15 July 1956 |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge (MA, PhD) |
| Known for | Seed to Seed: The Secret Life of Plants[1] |
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| Fields | Plant biology[2] |
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| Thesis | A genetical investigation of the alcohol dehydrogenase in barley (1981) |
| Website | www |
Nicholas Paul Harberd FRS (born 15 July 1956)[3] an Emeritus Professor of Plant Sciences at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford. He was previously Sibthorpian Professor and served as head of Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford before it became part of the Department of Biology, University of Oxford.[2][4][5][6]
Education
[edit]Harberd earned a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree with Honours, a Master of Arts, and PhD in 1981,[7] from the University of Cambridge where he was a student of Christ's College, Cambridge.[3]
Career and research
[edit]Harberd was a scientist at the Plant Breeding Institute in Trumpington, Cambridgeshire from 1982 to 1986, and the University of California, Berkeley, from 1986 to 1988.
Harberd led his laboratory, which was located at John Innes Centre, and subsequently at the University of Oxford[8] from 2007.[1][9][10] Harberd's research has been published in leading journals including Nature,[11][12][13] Science,[14] and Development.[15][16]
With George Coupland, Liam Dolan, Alison Smith, Jonathan Jones, Cathie Martin, Robert Sablowski and Abigail Amey he is a co-author of the textbook Plant Biology.[17]
Awards and honours
[edit]Harberd was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2009.[18][9] His nomination reads:
Nick Harberd has made pioneering contributions to the solution of a fundamental problem in biology – the molecular mechanisms via which plant hormones control growth. He showed that the hormone gibberellin promotes growth by counteracting a family of nuclear growth-repressing proteins, and that this provides a key mechanism for adaptive regulation of growth in response to environmental change. He also showed how this mechanism underlies the action of genes responsible for the increase in yield of wheat varieties during the 'green revolution'. His discoveries have thus provided many important and original contributions to developmental, evolutionary and agricultural science.[19]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Harberd, Nicholas (2006). Seed to Seed: The Secret Life of Plants. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7475-7039-4. OCLC 1223042026.
- 1 2 Nicholas Harberd publications indexed by Google Scholar
- 1 2 Anon (2017). "Harberd, Prof. Nicholas Paul". Who's Who (177th (online) ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 2720. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U245781. ISBN 9781399411837. OCLC 1427336388. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ↑ "Prof Nicholas Harberd, Sibthorpian Professor of Plant Science and Fellow of St. John's College". University of Oxford. 24 September 2009. Archived from the original on 29 August 2010. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
- ↑ Nicholas Harberd publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
- ↑ Nicholas Harberd publications from Europe PubMed Central
- ↑ Harberd, Nicholas Paul (1981). A genetical investigation of the alcohol dehydrogenase system in barley. cam.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 1554430591. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.256738.
- ↑ "Plant Sciences Staff: Prof. NP Harberd". University of Oxford. December 2011. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
- 1 2 Anon (2009). "New Royal Society Fellows". University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 2 December 2012. Retrieved 9 March 2012.
- ↑ Colin Tudge (24 March 2006). "Genes by the wayside". theguardian.com. London: The Guardian.
- ↑ Jinrong Peng; Donald E. Richards; Nigel M. Hartley; et al. (1 July 1999). "'Green revolution' genes encode mutant gibberellin response modulators". Nature. 400 (6741): 256–261. doi:10.1038/22307. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 10421366. Wikidata Q33869122.
- ↑ Xiangdong Fu; Nicholas P Harberd (1 February 2003). "Auxin promotes Arabidopsis root growth by modulating gibberellin response". Nature. 421 (6924): 740–743. doi:10.1038/NATURE01387. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 12610625. Wikidata Q34180368.
- ↑ S. Vinod Kumar; Doris Lucyshyn; Katja E. Jaeger; Enriqueta Alós; Elizabeth Alvey; Nicholas P. Harberd; Philip A. Wigge (21 March 2012). "Transcription factor PIF4 controls the thermosensory activation of flowering". Nature. 484 (7393): 242–245. doi:10.1038/NATURE10928. ISSN 1476-4687. PMC 4972390. PMID 22437497. Wikidata Q34205566.
- ↑ Patrick Achard; Hui Cheng; Liesbeth De Grauwe; et al. (1 January 2006). "Integration of plant responses to environmentally activated phytohormonal signals". Science. 311 (5757): 91–94. doi:10.1126/SCIENCE.1118642. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 16400150. Wikidata Q34482593.
- ↑ J. Peng; P. Carol; D E Richards; D. E. Richards; K. E. King; R. J. Cowling; G. P. Murphy; N. P. Harberd (1 December 1997). "The Arabidopsis GAI gene defines a signaling pathway that negatively regulates gibberellin responses" (PDF). Genes & Development. 11 (23): 3194–3205. doi:10.1101/GAD.11.23.3194. ISSN 0890-9369. PMC 316750. PMID 9389651. Wikidata Q34448367.
- ↑ Patrick Achard; Alan Herr; David C Baulcombe; Nicholas P Harberd (July 2004). "Modulation of floral development by a gibberellin-regulated microRNA". Development. 131 (14): 3357–65. doi:10.1242/DEV.01206. ISSN 0950-1991. PMID 15226253. Wikidata Q28269394.
- ↑ Smith, Alison Mary; Coupand, George; Dolan, Liam; Harberd, Nicholas; Jones, Jonathan; Martin, Cathie; Sablowski, Robert; Amey, Abigail (2009). Plant Biology. Garland Science. ISBN 978-0815340256. OCLC 1554014037.
- ↑ Anon (2009). "Professor Nick Harberd elected Fellow of the Royal Society". jic.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 26 September 2018. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
- ↑ "EC/2009/16: Harberd, Nicholas Paul". London: The Royal Society.[dead link]
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