John Bowman grew up in Montana and later during secondary school Illinois, obtaining a BS degree in biochemistry from the University of Illinois in 1986. During his PhD studies with Elliot Meyerowitz at the California Institute of Technology (1986–1991), he studied the genetic basis of flower development in the model flowering plant Arabidopsis. He continued to study aspects of flower
When it comes to macadamia research, we often expect the science to be the complicated part. What is becoming increasingly clear, however, is that macadamia research – similar to a number of other crops – suffers from a variety of challenges which tend to surface before anyone steps into a lab or gets near an orchard. This is because macadamia,
A team of scientists from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture at Monash University has identified a single gene in a land plant that could help explain how plants first evolved the ability to grow continuously, a key trait that allowed them to colonise dry land and shape life on Earth. Published in Current Biology,
