Jorge Dubcovsky
Jorge Dubcovsky | |
|---|---|
| Awards | Wolf Prize in Agriculture |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of Buenos Aires |
| Influences | Jan Dvorak |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of California, Davis |
Main interests | biologist |
Notable ideas | plant genetics, wheat genetics |
Jorge Dubcovsky is a plant geneticist and biologist at the University of California, Davis. He is an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Dubcovsky's research focuses on wheat genomics. In 2013, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. In 2014, Dubcovsky won the Wolf Prize in Agriculture alongside Leif Andersson.
Early life
Dubcovsky graduated from the University of Buenos Aires in 1984 with a degree in biological sciences. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Buenos Aires and began studying wheat genetics at the University of California, Davis in 1992. In 2004, research led by Dubcovsky culminated in the identification and cloning of the VRN2 gene in winter wheat.
References
- ↑ Viegas, J (2014). "Profile of Jorge Dubcovsky". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111 (28): 10027–10028. Bibcode:2014PNAS..11110027V. doi:10.1073/pnas.1410244111. PMC 4104914. PMID 24982176.
- 1 2 "Plant science investigator and wheat geneticist Jorge Dubcovsky receives Wolf Prize in Agriculture". University of California, Davis. 17 January 2014. Retrieved 2 November 2015.
- 1 2 3 4 Bailey, Pat (3 May 2013). "Wheat Geneticist Elected to Academy of Sciences". Western Farm Press. Online Exclusive. Archived from the original on 17 November 2018. Retrieved 2 November 2015 – via HighBeam Research.
- ↑ Marx, Jean (12 March 2004). "Remembrance of winter past: many crops keep track of the cold weather they've experienced and then bloom rapidly in springtime. A spate of new gene discoveries hints at how they stay on schedule". Science. Archived from the original on 16 November 2018. Retrieved 2 November 2015 – via HighBeam Research.
