Nicholas Harberd
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| Native name | Nicholas Paul Harberd |
| Born | 15 July 1956 |
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| 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] |
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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
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.
Research
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]
Awards and honours
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2009.[7] His nomination reads: <templatestyles src="Template:Blockquote/styles.css" />
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]
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