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Harborne investigated the role of flavonoids in interactions between plants and insects. He also investigated the relationship between anthocyanins 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 chemo taxonomy 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.
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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 phytochemicals 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. The Plant Science Laboratories where he was Professor have been named the [http://www.reading.ac.uk/biologicalsciences/contact/biosci-contact.aspx Harborne Building] in his honor in 2010.
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