Jörg Fromm

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Jörg Fromm is a German forest scientist and professor of general wood biology at the University of Hamburg .

Career

Fromm studied forest sciences from 1979 to 1984 at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . In 1986 he received his doctorate at the Forest Botanical Institute there, where he worked as a research assistant until 1991 . In 1991 he completed his habilitation in forest botany , which was followed by a research stay at Cornell University (USA) in 1992 . From 1992 to 1996 Fromm was a scholarship holder of the Heisenberg Program of the German Research Foundation, which supports promising scientists on their way to a long-term professorship. From 1996 to 2007 Fromm taught as a professor for applied wood biology at the Technical University of Munich , until he accepted the call to Hamburg in 2007 and has held the professorship for general wood biology there ever since.

Research priorities

Jörg Fromm researches the influence of climate change on tree growth and wood formation as well as stress reactions in plants. He is also interested in palm research with a focus on palm leaf manuscripts. Fromm is involved in the following clusters of excellence at Universität Hamburg :

Selected publications

  1. Fromm, J. & S. Lautner. 2007. Electrical signals and their physiological significance in plants. Plant, Cell and Environment 30: 249-257
  2. Fromm, J. 2010. Wood formation of trees in relation to potassium and calcium nutrition. Tree Physiology 30: 1140-1147
  3. Matyssek, R., Fromm, J., Rennenberg, H., Roloff, A .: Biology of trees - from the cell to the global level . Ulmer Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8252-8450-3 .
  4. Fromm, J. (ed.) 2013. Cellular aspects of wood formation. Plant Cell Monographs Series Vol. 20. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, ISBN 978-3-642-36490-7 , 260 pages
  5. Scherzer, S., Shabala, L., Hedrich, B., Fromm, J., Bauer, H., Munz, E., Jakob, P., Al-Rasheid, K., Kreuzer, I., Becker, D ., Eiblmeier, M., Rennenberg, H., Shabala, S., Bennett, M., Neher, E. & R. Hedrich: Insect haptoelectrical stimulation of Venus flytrap triggers exocytosis in gland cells . In: PNAS . tape 114 , no. 18 , 2017, doi : 10.1073 / pnas.1701860114 .

Individual proof

  1. ↑ Jörg Fromm. In: Employee profile Prof. Dr. Jörg Fromm. University of Hamburg, accessed on May 25, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Jörg Fromm. In: Research priorities. University of Hamburg, accessed on May 25, 2020 .
  3. ^ Professor Dr Jörg Fromm: Understanding Written Artefacts (UWA): University of Hamburg. Retrieved July 10, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Prof. Dr. Jörg Fromm: CLICCS: University of Hamburg. Retrieved July 10, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Fromm, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forest scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century