Honours for two legume scientists
Jean Denarie is awarded the Grand Prix Charles-Léopold MayerJean Dénarié (INRA, Toulouse), has been awarded the Grand Prix Charles-Léopold Mayer and is very happy to see his work on Rhizobium–legume symbiosis recognised this way.
Since 1960 the Grand Prix Charles-Léopold Mayer has been awarded each year in the field of cellular and molecular biology, and recently also in the field of genomics. It was awarded 20 times to researchers working in foreign labs (especially in the USA and in the UK) and 24 times to researchers working in France. It is the fourth time this prize has been awarded for work in the field of plant biology, and this time it is for legumes. It is also the first time to a researcher from INRA.
The prize, an amount of €38,000, was presented on 15 November 2005 at the Institut de France. Marion Guillou and Guy Riba were invited to attend the ceremony.
Source: AEP, Paris, France.
Professional body in Australia picks a pulse fellowKadambot Siddique, Director of the Centre for Legumes in Mediterranean Agriculture (CLIMA) and Professor of Crop Science at the University of Western Australia (UWA), has been elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE). The citation recognised his outstanding contribution to Australian and international agriculture, particularly his innovative research and leadership in production agronomy, crop physiology, germplasm development and breeding of grain legumes (pulses) and cereal crops of benefit to the grains industry in Australia and overseas. Professor Siddique, has developed and commercially released nine pulse varieties during the past eight years in Australia.
Source: CLIMA, Crawley, Western Australia (
www.clima.uwa.edu.au)
