John Doebley

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John Doebley
Education
West Chester State College, Eastern New Mexico University, University of Wisconsin–Madison (Ph.D.)
Known forFinding that maize had been domesticated only once
AwardsNational Academy of Sciences
Scientific career
FieldsBotanical genetics
InstitutionsNorth Carolina State University, Texas A&M University, University of Minnesota, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Doctoral advisorHugh Iltis

John F. Doebley is an American botanical

teosinte and maize and has cloned the major genes that cause the visible differences between these two very different plants.[1]

He was part of the team that is credited with first finding, in 2002, that maize had been domesticated only once, about 9000 years ago, and then spread throughout the Americas.[2][3]

John Doebley began his undergraduate education as a

West Chester State College (now West Chester University) in West Chester, Pennsylvania. However, after taking a class by a particularly interesting lecturer, he decided to switch his major to anthropology
.

After he graduated with a degree in anthropology in 1974, he entered a master's programme in anthropology at

doctoral thesis
and completed his degree in 1980.

Doebley then held two

postdoctoral positions successively at North Carolina State University under the mentorship of Major Goodman and Ronald Sederoff, and began a research group at Texas A&M University
.

In 1987, Doebley took up the position of professor at the University of Minnesota, St. Paul, where his group focused on pinpointing and cloning the principal genes involved in the evolution of maize, such as teosinte branched1,[4] which controls branch number,[5] and teosinte glume architecture, which controls the (lack of) casing on kernels.[6]

In 1999, Doebley returned to the University of Wisconsin–Madison as a professor. There he has continued his work on teosinte and maize. From 2015 he is serving as the chair of the Laboratory of Genetics, which includes the School of Medicine and Public Health’s Department of Medical Genetics and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences' Department of Genetics.[7][8]

Doebley’s work has earned him widespread recognition in the field of complex trait genetics, and he was elected to the

National Academy of Sciences
in 2002.

References

  1. PMID 14718662
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  2. ^ Michael Balter, Corn: It's Not for Cocktails. 23 March 2009 news.sciencemag.org
  3. PMID 11983901
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  4. PMID 8536981
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  5. S2CID 4360859
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  6. PMID 16079849
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  7. ^ "News and Events".
  8. ^ "John Doebley named new chair of Genetics – eCALS".
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