SCIENTIST RETURNS
Crop Control Research
Research which may ultimately have important practical implications for farmers and plant breeders is being carried out by Dr. A. O. Taylor, of the plant physiology division of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, who has returned to Palmerston North from the United States.
Dr. Taylor has been away for 18 months on a Sir Walter Mulholland fellowship sponsored by the New Zealand Meat Producers' Board. He worked mainly at the University of California at Davis with American scientists investigating the structure and activity of phytochrome—a recently-discovered, lightsensitive protein. As the mechanisms involved in the various phenomena studied by Dr. Taylor become fully understood it will be possible to control crop maturity, flowering, seed set, seed germination and stem elongation by chemical means. Dr. Taylor will continue his studies in this field in New Zealand, including the use of unicellular algae in which phytochrome responses occur very quickly and are, therefore, more readily studied.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31001, 5 March 1966, Page 7
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160SCIENTIST RETURNS Press, Volume CV, Issue 31001, 5 March 1966, Page 7
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