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Biography |
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Education BSc First Class Honours Biological Chemistry, University of Bristol PhD University of Bristol; Amino acid and protein synthesis in barley DSc University of Bristol; Plant cell biology and nitrogen metabolism Career Civil Service Commission Research Fellow in Bacterial Chemistry Lecturer, then Reader, Department of Botany, University of Nottingham Research Fellowships at the ETH, Zurich and Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Göttingen, Professor of Botany and Head of Department of Botany, University of Nottingham and sometime Director of Biological Studies Head Agricultural Research Council Research Group: Somatic hybridization of cereals and other crop plants by the fusion of isolated protoplasts Vice Dean, Faculty of Pure Science Dean, Faculty of Science Professor of Botany and Head of Plant Genetic Manipulation Group, University of Nottingham (Emeritus Professor, 1997) Director, Centre for Crop Nitrogen Fixation, University of Nottingham Membership and Distinctions Fellow of the Royal Society, Member Academia Europaea, Member Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow, Fellow Indian Academy Agricultural Sciences, Member Lawes Trust (Rothamsted), Fellow World Innovation Foundation, Lifetime Achievement Award, University of Toledo (USA).
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Nitrogen Fixing Cereals, the Dream is Alive |
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Nitrogen Fixing Cereals, the Dream is Alive
Norman Borlaug highlighted the need to extend the symbiotic nitrogen fixation of legumes to the world's major cereals to sustain the Green Revolution.This is now beginning to become possible as a result of intracellular colonization of cereals by the nitrogen-fixing bacterium Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus. |
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