Prof. Dr. Barry Osmond
- Section Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
- Location Weston Creek, Australia
- Election year 2001
Research
Barry Osmond is a well-known Australian researcher in plant sciences; a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences (1978), the Royal Society of London (1984) and the German National Academy of Sciences (2001). He studies photosynthesis, the miracle in which plants turn sunlight, air and water into bread and wine, fuel and fibre, and was chairman of Photosynthesis 2001, the first international congress in this field to be held in Australia, in Brisbane in August 2001.
His best-known contributions in about 250 research papers and 14 books deal with environmental plant physiology and ecology, especially in desert plants. His recent research dealing with the interaction of light with high temperature, water and nutritional stresses, and the underlying physiological and biochemical mechanisms responses to excess light, has been supported by a Forschungspreis from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and by grants from the US DOE. In retirement he is continuing research into photosynthetic processes in old leaves within the deeply shaded canopies of woody plants and development of new noninvasive remote sensing instruments.
His best-known contributions in about 250 research papers and 14 books deal with environmental plant physiology and ecology, especially in desert plants. His recent research dealing with the interaction of light with high temperature, water and nutritional stresses, and the underlying physiological and biochemical mechanisms responses to excess light, has been supported by a Forschungspreis from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and by grants from the US DOE. In retirement he is continuing research into photosynthetic processes in old leaves within the deeply shaded canopies of woody plants and development of new noninvasive remote sensing instruments.