Loren H. Rieseberg

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Loren Henry Rieseberg (* 1961 in Alberta ) is a Canadian botanist , evolutionary biologist and geneticist .

Rieseberg studied biology at Southern College in Chattanooga (Bachelor 1981), botany at the University of Tennessee (Master 1984) and received his doctorate in 1987 from Washington State University in botany. 1987 to 1993 he was Assistant Professor at the Claremont Graduate School and 1993 Associate Professor and 1997 Professor at Indiana University (from 2004 Distinguished Professor). In 2006 he also became a professor at the University of British Columbia , where he was Killam Professor and Director of the Biodiversity Research Center from 2016. In 2005 he received the Canada Research Chair in Plant Evolutionary Genetics.

He deals with the genetics of speciation in plants, with particular focus on sunflowers as an object of study and, for example, the role of polyploidy , hybridization and ecological diversification. He further investigated the genetics of the spread of weeds (including transgenes with evidence of a gene flow between domesticated and wild varieties of sunflowers) and the genetics of the domestication of sunflowers. He was able to prove that the domestication of the sunflower took place in the eastern United States and not, as previously assumed, in Mexico. He is also involved in a program of research into the genetics of aster flowers.

Since 1998 he has been editor of Molecular Ecology.

In 2012 he received the Darwin Wallace Medal and in 2003 he was a MacArthur Fellow . He is a Fellow of the Royal Society (2010) and the Royal Society of Canada (2010), the American Association for the Advancement of Science , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2003) and the National Academy of Sciences (2020). In 2004 he was a Guggenheim Fellow. In 2006 he was President of the American Genetics Association and in 2016/17 of the Botanical Society of America.

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  • LH Rieseberg, O. Raymond, DM Rosenthal, Z. Lai, K. Livingstone, T. Nakazato, JL Durphy, AE Schwarzbach, LA Donovan, C. Lexer: Major ecological transitions in annual sunflowers facilitated by hybridization. In: Science. Volume 301, 2003, pp. 1211-1216.
  • JM Burke, LH Rieseberg: The fitness effects of transgenic disease resistance in wild sunflowers. In: Science. Volume 300, 2003, p. 1250.
  • AV Harter, KA Gardner, D. Falush, DL Lentz, R. Bye, LH Rieseberg: Origin of extant domesticated sunflowers in eastern North America. In: Nature. Volume 430, 2004, pp. 201-205.
  • HH Grundt, S. Kjølner, L. Borgen, LH Rieseberg, C. Brochmann: High biological species diversity in arctic flora. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. Volume 103, 2006, pp. 972-975.
  • LH Rieseberg, TE Wood, E. Baack: The nature of plant species. In: Nature. Volume 440, 2006, pp. 524-527.
  • LH Rieseberg, JH Willis: Plant speciation. In: Science. Volume 317, 2007, pp. 910-914.
  • TE Wood, N. Takebayashi, MS Barker, I. Mayrose, PB Greenspoon, LH Rieseberg: The frequency of polyploid speciation in vascular plants. In: PNAS. Volume 106, 2009, pp. 13875-13879.
  • BK Blackman, JL Strasburg, SD Michaels, LH Rieseberg: The role of recently derived FT paralogs in sunflower domestication. In: Current Biology. Volume 20, 2010, pp. 629-635.
  • LH Rieseberg, BK Blackman: Speciation genes in plants. In: Annals of Botany. Volume 106, 2010, pp. 439-455.
  • BK Blackman, M. Scascitelli, NC Kane, H. Lutton, DA Rasmussen, RA Bye, DL Lentz, LH Rieseberg: Sunflower domestication alleles support single domestication center in eastern North America. In: PNAS. Volume 108, 2011, pp. 14360-14365.
  • I. Mayrose, SH Zhan, CJ Rothfels, K. Magnuson-Ford, MS Barker, LH Rieseberg, SP Otto: Recently-formed polyploids diversify more slowly than their diploid relatives. In: Science. Volume 333, 2011, p. 1257.
  • H. Dempewolf, KA Hodgins, SE Rummell, NC Ellstrand, LH Rieseberg: Reproductive isolation during domestication. In: The Plant Cell. Volume 24, 2012, pp. 2710-2717.
  • S. Renaut, CJ Grassa, S. Yeaman, BT Moyers, Z. Lai, NC Kane, JE Bowers, JM Burke, LH Rieseberg: Genomic islands of divergence are not affected by geography of speciation in sunflowers. In: Nature Communications. Volume 4, 1827, p. 2013.
  • S. McCouch et al. a :: Agriculture: Feeding the future. In: Nature. Volume 499, 2013, pp. 23-24.
  • CK Khoury, AD Bjorkman, H. Dempewolf, J. Ramirez-Villegasa, L. Guarino, A. Jarvis, LH Rieseberg, PC Struik: The crops that feed the world: increasing homogeneity in global food supplies. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. Volume 111, 2014, pp. 4001-4006.
  • DG Bock, NC Kane, DP Ebert, LH Rieseberg: Genome skimming reveals the origin of the Jerusalem Artichoke tuber crop species: neither from Jerusalem nor an Artichoke. In: New Phytologist. Volume 201, 2014, pp. 1021-1030.
  • S. Renaut, LH Rieseberg: The accumulation of deleterious mutations as a consequence of domestication and improvement in sunflowers and other Compositae crops. In: Molecular Biology and Evolution. Volume 32, 2015, pp. 2273-2283.
  • Z. Li, AE Baniaga, EB Sessa, M. Scascitelli, SW Graham, LH Rieseberg, MS Barker: Early genome duplications in conifers and other seed plants. In: Science Advances. Volume 1, 2015, p. E1501084.
  • KM Dlugosch, FA Cang, BS Barker, K. Andonian, SM Swope, LH Rieseberg: Evolution of invasiveness through increased resource use in a vacant niche. In: Nature Plant. 2015, item 15066.
  • S. Yeaman, KA Hodgins, KE Lotterhos, H. Suren, S. Nadeau, JC Degner, KA Nurkowski, P. Smets, T. Wang, LK Gray, KJ Liepe, A. Hamann, JA Holliday, MC Whitlock, LH Rieseberg , SN Aitken: Convergent local adaptation to climate in distantly related conifers. In: Science. Volume 353, 2016, pp. 1431-1433.
  • BT Moyers, LH Rieseberg: Remarkable life history polymorphism may be evolving under divergent selection in the silverleaf sunflower. In: Molecular Ecology. Volume 25, 2016, pp. 3817-3830.
  • KL Ostevik, RL Andrew, SP Otto, LH Rieseberg: Multiple reproductive barriers separate recently diverged sunflower ecotypes. In: Evolution Evolution. Volume 70, 2016, pp. 2322-2335.
  • BA Payseur, LH Rieseberg: A genomic perspective on hybridization and speciation. In: Molecular Ecology. Volume 25, 2016, pp. 2337-2360.
  • SCH Barrett, RI Colautti, KM Dlugosch, LH Rieseberg (Eds.): Invasion Genetics: The Baker and Stebbins Legacy. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford 2017, ISBN 978-1-118-92216-3 .

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SURNAME Rieseberg, Loren H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rieseberg, Loren Henry (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian botanist, evolutionary biologist and geneticist
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Alberta