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Year of election: | 2002 |
Section: | Organismic and Evolutionary Biology |
City: | Bochum |
Country: | Germany |
Elmar Weiler is internationally recognized for his contributions to the field of plant growth regulation. He introduced immunoassay to the field of plant science, which led to breakthroughs in the analysis and physiology of phytohormones long before ultrasensitive physicochemical methods became available. His many contributions to the biosynthesis and physiology of octadecanoids and auxins, to the elucidation of the first plant membrane receptor (the FC-receptor) and to the process of mechanotransduction in plants were largely made from the Chair of Plant Physiology of the Ruhr University which he led for 20 years.