Alison Mary Smith
Alison Smith OBE FRS | |
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Born | 1954 (age 69–70)[4] |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge (PhD) |
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Scientific career | |
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Thesis | Effect of anaerobiosis on plant metabolism (1978) |
Website | www |
Alison Mary Smith
Education
Smith was educated at the
Research
Smith studies the metabolism in plants of
Current research on starch synthesis in cereal grains has the potential to increase crop yield, and to change important functional and nutritional properties of flour.[2] Her lab is also investigating the genetic, biochemical and molecular control of starch degradation in leaves and storage organs, and how this is coordinated with plant growth, germination and sprouting.[8]
With George Coupland, Liam Dolan, Nicholas Harberd, Jonathan D. G. Jones, Cathie Martin, Robert Sablowski and Abigail Amey, Alison is a co-author of the textbook Plant Biology.[3]
Awards and honours
Smith was appointed an
Personal life
Alison Smith is the daughter of conservation pioneer Ted Smith (1920-2015)[9] and the sister of arachnologist Dr Helen Smith.[10]
References
- ^ a b "No. 58014". The London Gazette (Supplement). 17 June 2006. p. 12.
- ^ a b c d Anon (2016). "Professor Alison M. Smith OBE FRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 29 April 2016. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
"All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." --"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ ISBN 978-0815340256.
- ^ a b Alison Mary Smith at Library of Congress
- OCLC 500566304.
- ^ Alison Mary Smith's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
- S2CID 44192448.
- ^ "Professor Alison Smith". John Innes Centre. 21 November 2018. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
- ^ "Ted Smith | Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust". www.lincstrust.org.uk. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
- ^ "Little Ouse headquarters project profile" (PDF).