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Science

Prof. Malcolm Hawkesford

Delivering Sustainable Wheat (ISP) Leader

Sustainable Soils and Crops

PUBLICATIONS
Location
Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, AL5 2JQ
Tel
+44 (0) 1582 938 597
Email
malcolm.hawkesford@rothamsted.ac.uk
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Biography

Malcolm leads the Institute Strategic Programme, Designing Future Wheat. He has published widely on the biochemistry and molecular biology of plant nutrition and is internationally recognised for contributions in the field of plant nutrition, particularly with regard to nitrogen and sulphur. He also leads the field phenotyping project at Rothamsted Research.

Strategic Programme

  • Designing Future Wheat (DFW)

Science Projects

  • Wheat Improvement Strategic Programme (WISP) Prebreeding extension
  • Wheat Genetic Improvement Network (WGIN)
  • IWYP Realising increased photosynthetic efficiency to increase wheat yields
  • CP 3.1 – Phenotyping and genotyping photosynthetic traits of the Hereford x Player mapping population
  • NUCLEUS: a virtual joint centre to deliver enhanced Nitrogen Use effiCiency via an integrated soiL-plant systEms approach for the Uk & BraSil (NEWTON FUND)
  • Indo-UK Centre for the improvement of Nitrogen use Efficiency in Wheat (NEWTON FUND)

PhD Projects

  • The relationships between genotype, yield and environmental factors on protein distribution in the wheat endosperm

Awards

  • 1982 - PhD in Science, Dundee University, UK
  • 1979 - BSc (Hons) University of Liverpool, UK

Measures of Esteem

  • International committee member for Plant Sulfur workshop series
  • Chair of Wheat initiative EWG-NUE
  • Editorial board Plant Biology Journal and BMC Plant Biology
  • Advisory board Journal Experimental Botany, member of DFG (Germany) grants panel on nutrient ecophysiology