Jeffrey Harborne: Difference between revisions

Between 1965 and 1968 Harborne worked as a research assistant at the [[University of Liverpool]]. After this, he workedwas withReader [http://www.reading.ac.uk/biologicalsciences/about/staff/v-h-heywood.aspxin Vernonthe Heywood]Department atof Botany, the University of Reading, England. HarborneIn was1976 associatehe professor and researchbecame assistantProfessor in the Department of Botany., Inthe 1976University heof became professorReading. Between 1987 and 1993 he was head of the [http://www.reading.ac.uk/biologicalsciences/museums-facilities/biosci-harrisgarden.aspx Department of Botany] at the University of Reading. In 1993 he retired. He had induring his tenure at the [http://www.herbarium.reading.ac.uk/index.php University of Reading] also positions as visiting professor at the University Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1973), the University of Texas at Austin (1976), the University of California at Santa Barbara (1977) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1981).

Harborne investigated the role of flavonoids in interactions between plants and insects. He also investigated the relationship between [[anthocyanins]]<ref>{{citeCite pmid|11243449}}</ref> and the ecology of pollination. He also studied the role of phytoalexins in members of the Fabaceae family (Leguminosae), the rose family (Rosaceae) and the display of flowers family (Umbelliferae). He has published on chemotaxonomy as in his research articles on the prevention of anthocyanins, flavones and auron in the primrose family (Primulaceae) in snapdragons (Antirrhinum) and a number of other plants. He also published on isoflavones and chemical ecology.journal

In his book, [http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0412572702 Phytochemicals Methods: A Guide to Modern Techniques of Plant Analysis] Prof. Harborne described a number of analytical methods in plant chemistry that he developed for the system of distribution of anthocyanins in major plant groups. In Comparative Biochemistry of the Flavonoids he described the biochemistry of flavonoids in various plant groups. In the scientific journal Natural Product Reports he wrote a series of review articles about the discovery of anthocyanins and other flavonoids. In his book Introduction to Ecological Biochemistry he described the ecological role of natural substances. The publication of this book is seen as the starting point of the study of environmental chemistry. Developments in the chemical ecology he described in a series of review articles in Natural Product Reports. He was (co) author of about 270 research and review articles. He was also author or editor of some forty books.

Harborne had a number of awards during his lifetime. In 1985 he received the [http://www.linnean-online.org/ Linnean Society of London], the Linnean Medal for his services to botany. He also received medals from the Phytochemical Society of Europe (PSE Medal) (1986) and the [http://www.springerlink.com/content/lr47505572613158/ International Society of Chemical Ecology] (1993). In 1993 he was awarded the Pergamon Phytochemistry Prize. In 1995 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 2010 the University of Reading's Plant Science Laboratories, where he was Professor, were named the [http://www.reading.ac.uk/biologicalsciences/contact/biosci-contact.aspx Harborne Building] in his honorhonour.

==WorkCareer==

He was editor-in-chief of the journal Phytochemistry, 1972-981972–98.

=== Honours ===

* [[Linnean Medal|Gold Medal in Botany]], [[Linnean Society]], 1985<ref>{{Cite journal|date=January 1986|title=Linnean Medal for Botany|journal=The Linnean|volume=2|issue=1|pages=21–22}}</ref>

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