John S. Boyer, Ph.D.

Address:
213 Cannon Laboratory,
University of Delaware
College of Marine Studies
700 Pilottown Rd., Lewes,
Delaware 19958, USA
Phone: (302) 645-4014
Fax: (302) 645-4007
E-mail: boyer@udel.edu

• A.B. Biology Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA 1959
• M.S. Plant Physiology University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 1961
• Ph.D. Plant Physiology Duke University, Durham, NC 1964

POSITIONS

• Assistant Scientist, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, 1965-1966
• Assistant Professor (1966-70); Associate Professor (1970-73); Professor (1973-78),
• Department of Botany and Department of Agronomy, University of Illinois
• Plant Physiologist, USDA/ARS, University of Illinois, 1978-1984
• Professor, Department of Soil and Plant Sciences and Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, 1984-1987
• DuPont Professor of Marine Plant Biochemistry/Biophysics, College of Marine Studies and College of Agriculture, University of Delaware, 1987-present
  
• Director, Marine Biology/Biochemistry Program, College of Marine Studies, University of Delaware. 1998-present

• Member, American Society of Plant Physiologists; Recipient (1977) of the ASPP Shull Award for Outstanding Contributions to Plant Physiology; President (1982)
• Member, Sigma Xi
• Fellow (elected 1985), Crop Science Society of America
• Fellow (elected, 1986), American Society of Agronomy
• Fellow (elected 1988), Japan Society for Promotion of Science
• Member (elected 1990), National Academy of Sciences
• 1972: Climate Laboratory Fellow, DSIR, Palmerston North, New Zealand
• 1983: Senior Scientist Award, von Humboldt Foundation
• 1987: Distinguished Lecturer, National Science Council, Taiwan
• First Walker Lecturer, University of Washington, Seattle
• 1988: International Lecturer, Japan Crop Science Society
• 1989: Tansley Lecturer, University of Edinburgh, University of Bangor, and University of Lancaster, United Kingdom
• 1993: First Kramer Lecturer, Duke University
• 1995: Fellow, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University
• 1997: Bullard Fellow, Harvard University
• 1999: Alison Award, University of Delaware
  

Books

• Kramer, P.J. and Boyer, J.S. 1995. Water Relations of Plants and Soils. Academic Press: San Diego. 495 pp.
• Boyer, J. S. 1995. Measuring the Water Status of Plants and Soils. Academic Press, San Diego. 178 pp.
  

STUDENTS SUPERVISED

Graduate: Total: 10 M.S.; 10 Ph.D.

OTHER ASSOCIATES SUPERVISED

• Postdoctoral: Total: 23
• Senior Visiting Scientists: Total 12
• Technical Associates: Total 8
  

PUBLICATIONS (1997-2001)

• McCully, M. E. and Boyer, J. S. (1997). The expansion of maize root-cap mucilage during hydration. 3. Changes in water potential and water content. Physiol. Plant. 99:169-177
• Boyer, J. S., Wong, S. C., and Farquhar, G. D. (1997). CO2 and water vapor exchange across leaf cuticle (epidermis) at various water potentials. Plant Physiol. 114:185-191
• Nonami, H., Wu, Y., and Boyer, J. S. (1997). Decreased growth-induced water potential: a primary cause of growth inhibition at low water potentials. Plant Physiol. 114:501-509
• Proseus, T. E., Ortega, J. K. E., and Boyer, J. S. (1999). Separating growth from elastic deformation during cell enlargement. Plant Physiol. 119:775-784
• Kawamitsu, Y. and Boyer, J. S. (1999). Photosynthesis and carbon storage between tides in a brown alga, Fucus vesiculosus. Mar. Biol. 133:361-369
• Zinselmeier, C., Jeong, B-R., and Boyer, J.S. (1999) Starch and the control of kernel number in maize at low water potentials. Plant Physiol. 121:25-35
• Kawamitsu, Y. and Boyer, J. S. (2000). Photosynthesis during dessication in an intertidal alga and a land plant. Plant Cell Physiol. 41:344-353
• Zinselmeier, C., Habben, J. E., Westgate, M. E., and Boyer, J. S. Carbohydrate metabolism in setting and aborting maize ovaries. In: Physiology and Modeling
• Kernel Set in Maize. Ed. by Westgate, M. E., Boote, K., Knievel, D., Kiniry, J., Volenec, J., Kral, D. CSSA Special Publication No. 29, CSSA, 677 South Segoe Road, Madison, WI 53711
• Proseus, T. E., Zhu, G-l., and Boyer, J. S. (2000) Turgor, temperature, and the growth of plant cells: using Chara corallina as a model system. J. Exp. Bot. 51:1481-1494.
• Boyer, J. S. (2001). Growth-induced water potentials originate from wall yielding during growth. J. Exp. Bot. 52:1483-1488
• Tang, A.-C., Kawamitsu, Y., Kanechi, M. and Boyer, J. S. 2002. Photosynthetic oxygen evolution at low water potential in leaf disks lacking an epidermis. Ann. Bot. 89: 871-885.
• Tang, A.-C. and Boyer, J. S. 2002. Growth-induced water potentials and the growth of maize leaves. J. Exp. Bot. 53: 489-503