Holtum, Joe (2023) Klaus Winter – the indefatigable CAM experimentalist. Annals of Botany, 132 (4). pp. 563-575.

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Background: In January 1972, Klaus Winter submitted his first paper on crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) whilst still an undergraduate student in Darmstadt. During the subsequent half a century, he passed his Staatsexamensarbeit, obtained his Dr. rer. nat. summa cum laude and Dr. rer. nat. habil., won a Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize and a Heisenberg Fellowship, and has occupied positions in Germany, Australia, USA and Panama. Now a doyen in CAM circles, and a Senior Staff Scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), he has published over 300 articles of which about 44 % are about CAM.

Scope: I document Winter’s career, attempting to place his CAM-related scientific output and evolution in context of factors that have influenced him as he and his science progressed from the 1970s to the 2020s.

Item ID:	79165
Item Type:	Article (Research - C1)
ISSN:	1095-8290
Keywords:	Biography, crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM), facultative CAM, inducible CAM, Klaus Winter, Mesembryanthemum crystallinum, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)
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Projects and Grants:	Long-term CAM research
Date Deposited:	25 Jul 2023 05:54
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