Folke Karl Skoog

[John Preece <jpreece@SIU.EDU>]

Hello,

I just received the following sad news from Sigma Xi - Science In The News
Service.

It is a sad day for plant tissue culturists and plant physiologists.


FOLKE KARL SKOOG, 92, WHO HELPED TRANSFORM UNDERSTANDING OF PLANTS, DIES
from The New York Times

Dr. Folke Karl Skoog, a biochemist who helped identify the hormonal forces
that prompt plants to sprout and flourish, died on Thursday in Madison,
Wis., where he was a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin. He
was 92.

Dr. Skoog was in the forefront of the research that transformed the field of
plant physiology over the past half century and had profound implications
for farming and horticulture.

He established his reputation early in his career with his investigations of
an organic substance called auxin that promotes and directs the growth of
plant cells in roots and buds. It had been isolated by a fellow
physiologist, Dr. Kenneth V. Thimann, and at the time was the only
recognized plant growth hormone.

<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/21/national/21SKOO.html>

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