Steven D. Tanksley

Steven Tanksley
Tanksley in 2011
Born Steven Dale Tanksley
(1954-04-07) April 7, 1954[1]
Nationality American
Alma mater Colorado State University
University of California-Davis
Awards
Scientific career
Fields Genetics
Doctoral students Susan McCouch
Website plbrgen.cals.cornell.edu/people/steven-d-tanksley/

Steven Dale Tanksley (born April 7, 1954) is the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Plant Breeding and Biometry[2] and chair of the Genomics Initiative Task Force at Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.[3]

Education

Tanksley received a bachelor's degree in agronomy from Colorado State University in 1976 and a doctorate in genetics from the University of California-Davis in 1979.

Career and research

Tanksley joined the faculty at Cornell in 1985 as an associate professor of plant breeding, and became full professor in 1994. In 1993, Tanksley was the head of a Cornell research group that isolated and subsequently cloned a disease-resistance gene in tomato plants. The research is believed to be the first successful DNA map-based cloning.[2]

Tanksley argued that small tomatoes fare better in the wild because small animals can disperse them more easily.[4]

Awards and honors

He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences since 1995. Tanksley has received the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Award, the Martin Gibbs Medal of the American Society of Plant Biologists,[5] and the Wolf Prize in Agriculture.[3] Tanksley was also awarded the Kumho International Science Award in 2005 for his work in molecular genetics.[6] In 2016, he won the Japan Prize.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Steven D. Tanksley, Ph.D. Archived March 10, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. japanprize.jp
  2. 1 2 Fisher, Lawrence M. (November 26, 1993). "Tomato Gene That Resists Disease Is Cloned". The New York Times. Retrieved October 22, 2009.
  3. 1 2 "CU's Steven Tanksley is a co-recipient of the prestigious Wolf Prize". Cornell Chronicle. January 22, 2004. Archived from the original on March 26, 2004. Retrieved October 22, 2009.
  4. ↑ Tanksley, S. D. (12 March 2004). "The Genetic, Developmental, and Molecular Bases of Fruit Size and Shape Variation in Tomato". The Plant Cell Online. 16 (suppl_1): S181–S189. doi:10.1105/tpc.018119. PMC 2643388.
  5. ↑ "Steven Tanksley – Lecture Series Biography". Archived from the original on September 8, 2006. Retrieved October 22, 2009.
  6. ↑ "Cornell geneticist to be honored by foundation". JoongAng Daily. May 29, 2005. Retrieved October 22, 2009.
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