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Year
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Loomis Lecturer(Institution)
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Title
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| 1981
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Olle Bjarkman
Carnegie Institution of Washington
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| 1982 |
John G. Torrey
Harvard University
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Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation in Actinomycete-nodulated Plants
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| 1983 |
Kenneth V. Thimann
University of California-Santa Cruz
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The Endocrinology of Leaf Senescence
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| 1985 |
Joseph E. Varner
Washington University
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How Plants handle Stress in the Workplace
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| 1986 |
Winslow R. Briggs
Carnegie Institution of Washington
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| 1987 |
William L. Ogren
USDA, University of Illinois
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Photorespiration-The Plant Kingdom's Enduring Enigma
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| 1988 |
Jake MacMillan
University of Bristol
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The Plant Physiologist: A Man for All Seasons
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| 1989 |
Elizabeth Gantt
University of Maryland
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The Photosynthetic Apparatus in Evolution
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| 1990 |
Peter Albersheim
University of Georgia
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Oligosaccharins-Regulatory Oligosaccarides with the Ability
to Control Growth, Development, and Defense Responses of Plants
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| 1991 |
Eric Conn
University of California-Davis
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An Overview of Cyanogenesis in Plants and Animals
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| 1992 |
Mary Helen Goldsmith
Yale University
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Auxin transport
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| 1993 |
Roger Beachy
Scripps Research Institute
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Resistance to Virus diseases in Transgenic Plants
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| 1994 |
Don Grierson
University of Nottingham
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What Can We Learn About Physiology From
Plants Transformed with Antisense RNA?
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| 1995 |
Clarence Ryan
Washington State University
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Signaling Pathways for Inducible Plant Defense Genes
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| 1997 |
Lawrence Bogorad
Harvard University
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The Chloroplast Saga: Two Billion Years of Captivity
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| 1998 |
Jack Preiss
Michigan State University
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Research in Starch Synthesis: How Basic Science and
Biotechnological Innovation Come Together
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| 1999 |
Ian Sussex
Yale University
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Research in Starch Synthesis: How Basic Science and Biotechnological
Innovation Come Together Themes in Plant Development
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| 2000 |
David Dennis
Queens University
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From Academia to Industry: TheCommercialization of Plant Biology
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| 2001 |
Natasha Raikhel
Michigan State University
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Protein Sorting and Storage in Seeds
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| 2002 |
Athanasios Theologis
University of California, Berkeley
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From Agriculture to Genomics: A Personal Odyssey
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| 2003 |
Hans Bohnert
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Salt and Drought Stress Responses in Plants
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| 2004 |
David Baulcombe
John Innes Center, UK
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Short RNA - The Dark Matter of the Gene Universe
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| 2005 |
Richard Dixon
Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation
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Metabolic Engineering of Plant Natural Products
for Plant Animal and Human Health
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| 2006 |
Stanton Gelvin
Purdue University
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The molecular mechanisms of plant transformation
by Agrobacterium tumefaciens,
Nature's genetic engineer
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| 2007 |
Bill Lucas
University of California-Davis
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The Plant Vascular System: An Information Superhighway
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