Steven D. Tanksley

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Steven D. Tanksley

Steven Dale Tanksley (born April 7, 1954 ) is an American biologist and Liberty Hyde Bailey professor of plant breeding and biometrics and chairman of the Genomics Initiative Task Force at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University .

Studies and academic positions

Tanksley received a bachelor's degree in agricultural science from Colorado State University in 1976 and a PhD in genetics from the University of California, Davis in 1979 . In 1985 he took up a position as associate professor of plant breeding at Cornell University and was promoted to full professor there in 1991. In 1993, Tanksley headed a Cornell research group that isolated and then cloned a disease resistance gene in tomato plants. Research suggests that this was the first successful card-based cloning of DNA. Tanksley has been Professor Emeritus at Cornell University since 2010.

Awards

  • 1998 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Award
  • 1999 Martin Gibbs Medal of the American Society of Plant Biologists
  • 2004 Wolf Prize in Agricultural Sciences
  • 2005 Kumho International Science Award Korea
  • 2008 Rank Prize
  • 2016 Japan Prize

Tanksley has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1995 and a Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London since 2009.

Publications

  • Paterson, AH, Lander, ES, Hewitt, JD, Peterson, S., Lincoln, SE, Tanksley, SD, Resolution of quantitative traits into Mendelian factors by using a complete RFLP linkage map. Nature. 335: 721-726. 1988
  • Martin, GB, Brommonschenkel, SH, Chunwongse, J., Frary, A., Ganal, MW, Spivey, R., Wu, T., Earle, ED, Tanksley, SD, Map-based cloning of a protein kinase gene conferring disease resistance in tomato. Science. 262: 1432-1436. 1993
  • Tanksley, SD and McCouch, SR, Seed banks and molecular maps: unlocking genetic potential from the wild. Science. 277: 1063-1066. 1997
  • Frary, A., Nesbitt, TC, Grandillo, S., Knaap, E., Cong, B., Lin, J., Meller, J., Elber, R., Alpert, KB, Tanksley, SD, fw2.2 : A quantitative trait locus key to the evolution of tomato fruit size. Science, 289: 85-22. 2000
  • Tanksley, S., Mapping polygenes. Annual Review of Genetics, vol. 27, pp205-233. 1993

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolf Prize
  2. ↑ Japan Prize 2016
personal data
SURNAME Tanksley, Steven D.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tanksley, Steven Dale (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American biologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1954