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Edward S. Buckler, honored as Outstanding Early
Career Scientist
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Research
Agency Announces Top Scientists for 2004
By Alfredo
Flores
February 9, 2005 WASHINGTON, Feb. 9Plant
physiologist
Timothy
R. Gottwald of Fort Pierce, Fla., has been named by the Agricultural
Research Service (ARS) as the agency's
"Distinguished Senior Research Scientist of 2004." ARS is the chief
scientific research agency of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture.
Gottwald and seven other outstanding senior ARS scientists will be
recognized at an awards ceremony today at the Jamie L. Whitten Federal Building
here. Each winner will receive a plaque, a cash award and additional research
funding.
Gottwald, who works at the ARS
Subtropical
Plant Pathology Research Unit in Fort Pierce, is being honored for
exemplary scientific leadership in developing principles of epidemiology that
served as the basis for controlling or eradicating serious foreign and domestic
plant diseases, in particular citrus canker, plum pox, citrus tristeza and
pecan scab. Since joining ARS in 1979, Gottwald has published 172 articles and
book chapters and 123 abstracts, and has made more than 200 research
presentations at national and international scientific and industry
conferences.
Gottwald and his colleagues conducted epidemiology research that served as
the scientific and operational basis for the Citrus Canker Eradication Program
in Florida. The program was established to curb the spread of citrus canker in
both commercial and residential citrus trees in the state. The team's research
showed that the previous practice of removing all citrus trees growing within a
125-foot radius around canker-infected trees was inadequate to curtail the
infection's spread. In January 2000, based on the group's research findings,
this distance was increased to 1,900 feet to better protect Florida's
multibillion-dollar citrus industry.
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ARS is also honoring seven
"Area Senior Research Scientists of 2004." They are:
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More about Williams:
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![Photo: Michael Russelle](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090514181747im_/http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/2005/050209.russell-1x.jpg)
More about Russelle:
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More about Grubman:
Award
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- Pacific West Area --
Raymond
I. Carruthers, ARS
Exotic
and Invasive Weeds Research Unit, Albany, Calif., for establishing the
first successful consortium for the control of saltcedar; leading projects to
manage saltcedar, yellow starthistle and giant reed; and conducting
groundbreaking research in the areas of integrated pest management and
biological control of invasive pests.
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More about George:
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ARS also will present awards to eight "Early Career Scientists of
the Year" who have earned their doctorates within the past decade and
have been with the agency for seven years or less. The highest of these honors
is the Herbert L. Rothbart Outstanding Early Career Research Scientist of the
Year.
The 2004 Rothbart Award winner is
Edward
S. Buckler, a plant geneticist at the agency's U.S.
Plant,
Soil and Nutrition Laboratory in Ithaca, N.Y. He is being honored for
pioneering genetic approaches that let researchers identify individual genes
that control complex agronomic traits in plants. This could help breeders
develop improved agricultural crops.
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The seven other ARS Area Early
Career Scientists for 2004 being honored today are:
- Beltsville Area --
Yan
Zhao, ARS
Molecular
Plant Pathology Unit, Beltsville, Md., for exceptional advances in research
on viroids, virus-based gene vectors, plant transformation and spiroplasma and
phytoplasma genomics.
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More about Papiernik:
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![Photo: James Campbell](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090514181747im_/http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/2005/050209.campbell-x.jpg)
More about Campbell:
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![Charlene Jackson](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090514181747im_/http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/2005/050209.jackson-x.jpg)
More about Jackson:
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![Photo: Clint Hoffman](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090514181747im_/http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/2005/050209.hoffman-x.jpg)
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