Klaus Winter – the indefatigable CAM experimentalist
Holtum, Joe (2023) Klaus Winter – the indefatigable CAM experimentalist. Annals of Botany, 132 (4). pp. 563-575.
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Abstract
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 |
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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) |
Copyright Information: | © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Annals of Botany Company. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com. |
Projects and Grants: | Long-term CAM research |
Date Deposited: | 25 Jul 2023 05:54 |
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