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JAMES FREDERICK BONNER
JAMES FREDERICK BONNER
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philosophical inquiry, not to mention over 300 graduate students, postcloctoral fellows, visiting professors, ant! others who worker!
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in a semi-rural environment including, for much of {ames's early years, a "minifarm/ orchard" or "farmlet," as James called it, on the outskirts of Salt Lake City. These surroundings were chosen by the parents so the children could have ample opportunity for physical work in an agricultural setting.
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trips, specifically to Corona clef Mar with Dobzhansky to trap Drosophila (fruit flies) in half-pint milk bottles with yeast suspension on paper towels.
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James had quite a bit of writing experience, particularly under Professor Crabtree at the University of Utah, so he corrected Dobzhanskv's language in his eariv research naners. At the - -J ~ -- a -- -- a - -- - -- -- - - -- - -J r -- r end of the summer, lames hitchhiked home to Salt Lake City to finish his bachelor's degree in chemistry and mathematics at the University of Utah in 1931.
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JAMES FREDERICK BONNER 105 hormone, which he hac! namer!
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James Bonner and Samuel Wildman became convinced in the late 1940s that the compounds as described had never existed. Indeed, they concluded that Erxleben, who was carrying out the actual experiments and reporting the data to Kogl, had somewhere gone astray and continued to report faulty or even fraudulent data to Kogl, who, using the data, de
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Fre~Wyssling was for many years the world authority on cellulose and cell walls. In the autumn of 1935 James attended a botanical congress in Amsterdam, where he made a lifelong friend of Hiroshi Tamiya, who at that time, in common with most of his Japanese colleagues, wrote papers in German.
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various topics, inclucling plant growth substances en c! relater!
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above that seem to bear at least some relationship to each other, there were studies in physiological ecology, the biology of plant growth and cell chemistry, many exotic travel logs, examination of a lunar sample (2 papers) , the geochemistry of biomolecuTes, en c!
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This discovery of "acid growth" was not pursued at the time, but it generated much interest in the early 1970s. A leader in the study of acid growth was Robert Cleland, one of James's former graduate students (and my office mate at Caltech)
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String beans can be cut lengthwise, the semis removed, en c! a cirop of juice from ground-up pods added to the exposed inner part of the pocI, causing cell division.
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grown tomato roots through repeater! transfers by Milling yeast extract to a meclium that containec!
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flowering, en c! Hamner with graduate student Eclith NeicIle was stucling the effects of nitrogen on flowering of Xanthium pensylvanicum (now X
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Phytochrome accounts for literally clozens of plant responses to light.
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until the early 1960s. Graduate student John ThurIow worker!
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James came to the Dolk Greenhouse en c! spent a full clay and a half reviewing my results, experiment by experiment.
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is the one plant in the western worIc! that has been a serious rubber producer.
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the soluble leaf proteins. Furthermore, over half of the soluble leaf proteins consistec!
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with lames and by 1956 was a postdoctoral fellow, convinced James that they should study the most fundamental problem of biologyhow chromosomes control cellular metabolism. Much was already known following the discovery of the DNA double helix in 1953, lames thought that it might be too late to begin such work.
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Various workers had estimated that the number of histones varied from a dozen to thousands, no pure histones had been prepared ~1 1 1 up to that fume, and nothing was known about the relation of different histones in different species. Douglas Fambrough, a new graduate student, was sent to Stanford University for a month to learn from Kenneth Murray how to isolate histones using amberlite CG-50 chromatography and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis to monitor the purity of individual histone fractions.
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. one of those things that's best to turn over to others." As part of this work, the stoichiometry of the five species of histone molecules emerged.
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Dark CO2 fixation by succulents, chemical plant ecology, the path of carbon from CO2 to rubber, plant taxonomy i!
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In The Annual Reviews of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology 45: 1-23, 1994. My life as a chromosomologist.
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Protoplasma 21:406-23. 1935 Zum Mechanismus der Zellstreckung auf Grund der Micellanlehre.
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Principles of Plant Physiology. San Francisco: W
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III. Complete amino acid sequence of pea seedling histone IV; comparison with the homologous calf thymus histone.
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