Nicholas Harberd

Nicholas Harberd
Born Nicholas Paul Harberd
(1956-07-15) 15 July 1956
Institutions
Alma mater University of Cambridge
Thesis A genetical investigation of the alcohol dehydrogenase in barley (1981)
Doctoral students Ho Yuen Tam[1]
Known for Seed to Seed: The Secret Life of Plants[2]
Notable awards FRS (2009)[3]
Website
www.plants.ox.ac.uk/plants/staff/NicholasHarberd.aspx

Nicholas Paul Harberd FRS (born 15 July 1956) is Sibthorpian Professor of Plant Science in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of St John's College, Oxford.[4][5]

Education

Harberd earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honours, a Master of Arts, and PhD in 1981, from Christ's College, Cambridge.

Career and research

He was a scientist at the Plant Breeding Institute, Trumpington, Cambridge from 1982 to 1986, and the University of California, Berkeley, from 1986 to 1988.

He is head of the Harberd group, which was located at John Innes Centre, and is now at Oxford,[6] where he is Sibthorpian Professor of Plant Sciences.[2][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]

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.[14]

Awards and honours

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2009.[7] 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.[3] ”

References

  1. ↑ Tam, Ho Yuen (2013). LRL genes are ancient regulators of tip-growing rooting cell development in land plants (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford.
  2. 1 2 Harberd, Nicholas (2006). Seed to Seed: The Secret Life of Plants. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7475-7039-4.
  3. 1 2 "EC/2009/16: Harberd, Nicholas Paul". London: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2014-06-20.
  4. ↑ "Prof Nicholas Harberd, Sibthorpian Professor of Plant Science and Fellow of St. John's College". University of Oxford. Sep 24, 2009. Archived from the original on August 29, 2010. Retrieved February 27, 2012.
  5. ↑ Nicholas Harberd's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier. (subscription required)
  6. ↑ "Plant Sciences Staff: Prof. NP Harberd". University of Oxford. December 2011. Retrieved February 27, 2012.
  7. 1 2 "New Royal Society Fellows". University of Oxford. Retrieved 2012-03-09.
  8. ↑ Colin Tudge (24 March 2006). "Genes by the wayside". The Guardian.
  9. ↑ Harberd, N. P.; Peng, J.; Richards, D. E.; Hartley, N. M.; Murphy, G. P.; Devos, K. M.; Flintham, J. E.; Beales, J.; Fish, L. J.; Worland, A. J.; Pelica, F.; Sudhakar, D.; Christou, P.; Snape, J. W.; Gale, M. D. (1999). "'Green revolution' genes encode mutant gibberellin response modulators". Nature. 400 (6741): 256–61. doi:10.1038/22307. PMID 10421366.
  10. ↑ Fu, X.; Harberd, N. P. (2003). "Auxin promotes Arabidopsis root growth by modulating gibberellin response". Nature. 421 (6924): 740. doi:10.1038/nature01387. PMID 12610625.
  11. ↑ Peng, J.; Carol, P.; Richards, D. E.; King, K. E.; Cowling, R. J.; Murphy, G. P.; Harberd, N. P. (1997). "The Arabidopsis GAI gene defines a signaling pathway that negatively regulates gibberellin responses". Genes & Development. 11 (23): 3194. doi:10.1101/gad.11.23.3194.
  12. ↑ Achard, P.; Cheng, H; De Grauwe, L; Decat, J; Schoutteten, H; Moritz, T; Van Der Straeten, D; Peng, J; Harberd, N. P. (2006). "Integration of Plant Responses to Environmentally Activated Phytohormonal Signals". Science. 311 (5757): 91–4. doi:10.1126/science.1118642. PMID 16400150.
  13. ↑ Achard, P.; Herr, A; Baulcombe, D. C.; Harberd, N. P. (2004). "Modulation of floral development by a gibberellin-regulated microRNA". Development. 131 (14): 3357–65. doi:10.1242/dev.01206. PMID 15226253.
  14. ↑ Smith, Alison Mary; Coupand, George; Dolan, Liam; Harberd, Nicholas; Jones, Jonathan; Martin, Cathie; Sablowski, Robert; Amey, Abigail (2009). Plant Biology. Garland Science. ISBN 0815340257.
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