ANDRÉ LÄUCHLI
TITLE: Professor of Plant Nutrition and Associate Vice Chancellor for Research
BIRTHPLACE: Basel, Switzerland
NATIONALITY: Swiss
EDUCATION:
1960 University of Basel, Switzerland Ph.D. (Botany)
1968-1970 University of California, Davis (with E. Epstein) Postdoctoral
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
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1998-Present |
Professor and Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, University of California, Davis |
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1997 |
Sabbatical Leave, University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany |
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1992-1998 |
Professor and Associate Dean, University of California, Davis |
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1992 |
Sabbatical Leave, University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany |
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1979-1991 |
Professor, University of California, Davis |
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1986 |
Visiting Professor, University of Zürich, Switzerland |
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1977-1979 |
Professor, Veterinary University, Hannover, Germany |
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1972-1977 |
Associate Professor, University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany |
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1975-1976 |
Visiting Research Fellow, Research School of Biological Science, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia |
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1970-1972 |
Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas |
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1968-1970 |
Postdoctoral, University of California, Davis |
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1961-1968 |
Botanist and Lecturer, University of Basel, Switzerland |
HONORS AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
▪ Visiting Research Fellow, Australian National University Canberra (1975-1976) ▪ Visiting Lecturer, DSIR, Auckland, New Zealand (1976) ▪ Director, Institute of Botany, Veterinary University, Hannover, Germany (1977-1979) ▪ Chair, Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, University of California, Davis (1984-1991) ▪ Visiting Professor of Botany, University of Zürich, Switzerland (1986) ▪ Associate Editor, Plant Physiology (1987-1992) ▪ Member, Editorial Board, Botanica Acta (1988-1998) ▪ Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Bonn, Germany (1992) ▪ Associate Dean, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of California, Davis (1992-1998) ▪ Member, German Research Foundation Panel on Plant Nutrition (1995-Present) ▪ Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, University of California, Davis (1998-Present) ▪ Member Editorial Board, Planta (1998-Present) ▪ Section Editor, Plant Biology (1999-Present) ▪ Member, Editorial Board of Journal of Plant Physiology (2000-Present).
MEMBERSHIPS:
▪ AAAS ▪ American Society of Plant Physiologists ▪ American Institute of Biological Sciences
▪ European Society of Plant Physiology ▪ American Society of Agronomy ▪ Crop Science Society of
America ▪ Soil Science Society of America
CONSULTING:
▪ Nuclear Research Center, Julich, Germany (1975-1979) ▪ The Rockefeller Foundation - International Agriculture (1994-1995) ▪ Institute of Biotechnology, Würberg, Germany (1998-Present)
MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
▪ Environmental stress physiology in plants ▪ Physiology of salt tolerance in plants ▪ Structure-
function relationships and ion transport ▪ Ion compartmentation
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Zhong, H. and A. Läuchli. 1993. Spatial and temporal aspects of growth in the primary root of cotton seedlings: effects of NaCl and CaCl2. Journal of Experimental Botany 44:763-771.
Bernstein, N., A. Läuchli, and W.K. Silk. 1993. Kinematics and dynamics of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.) leaf development at various Na/Ca salinites. I. Elongation growth. Plant Physiology 103:1107-1114.
Colmer, T.D., T.W.-M. Fan, R.M. Higashi and A. Läuchli. 1994. Interactions of Ca2+ and NaCl stress on the ion relations and intracellular pH of Sorghum bicolor root tips: An in vivo 31P-NMR study. Journal of Exp. Botany Vol. 45:1037-1044.
Zhong, H. and A. Läuchli. 1994. Spatial distribution of solutes, K, Na, Ca and their deposition rates in the growth zone of primary cotton roots: Effects of NaCl and CaCl2. Planta 194:34-41.
Bernstein, N., W.K. Silk and A. Läuchli. 1995. Growth and development of sorghum leaves under conditions of NaCl stress: possible role of some mineral elements in growth inhibition. Planta 196:699-705.
Colmer, T.D., T.W.-M. Fan, R.M. Higashi and A. Läuchli. 1996. Interactive effects of Ca2+ and NaCl salinity on the ionic relations and proline accumulation in the primary root tip of Sorghum bicolor. Physiologia Plantarum 97:421-424.
Colmer, T.D., T.W.-M. Fan, A. Läuchli and R.M. Higashi. 1996. Interactive effects of salinity, nitrogen and sulphur on the organic solutes in Spartina alterniflora leaf blades. Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol. 47: 369-375.
Läuchli, A. 1999. Salinity-potassium interactions in crop plants. In: D. Oosterhuis and G. Berkovitz (eds.), Frontiers in Potassium Nutrition. Potash and Phosphate Institute, Norcross, GA, pp. 71-76.
Läuchli, A. 1999. Physiological markers for salinity tolerance in plants. In: A. Altman (ed.), Plant biotechnology and in vitro biology in the 21st Century. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, pp. 517-520.
Goyal, S.S., S.K. Sharma, D.W. Rains, and A. Läuchli. 1999. Long term reuse of drainage waters of varying salinities for crop irrigation in a cotton-safflower rotation system in the San Joaquin Valley of California - a nine year study: I. Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.). J. Crop Production 2:181-213.
Wegner, L.H., B. Sattelmacher, A. Läuchli, and U. Zimmermann. 1999. Trans-root potential, xylem pressure, and root cortical membrane potential of "low-salt" maize plants as influenced by nitrate and ammonium. Plant, Cell and Environment 22:1549-1558.
Eleftheriou, E.P., S. Hillmer, A. Läuchli, U. Lüttge, E. Fischer-Schliebs, R. Ratajczak, C. Ullrich-Eberius and D.G. Robinson. 2000. V-ATPase and V-PPase localize to plasma membrane, plasmalemmasomes and multivesicular bodies in young stem and Agrobacterium tumefaciens-transformed tumor cells of Ricinus communis. Eur. J. Cell Biol. (submitted)