Trevor Alleyne Thorpe: His academic life and scientific legacy
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INVITED REVIEW
Trevor Alleyne Thorpe: His academic life and scientific legacy Prakash P. Kumar 1
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Stephen F. Chandler 2 & Indra S. Harry 3 & Chin-yi Lu 4 & Claudio Stasolla 5 & Edward C. Yeung 6
Received: 24 July 2020 / Accepted: 19 August 2020 / Editor: Gregory Phillips # The Society for In Vitro Biology 2020
Abstract This special review is written to commemorate the life and contributions of Dr. Trevor Alleyne Thorpe, who passed away on May 18, 2020, at the age of 83 yr (https://www.sivb.org/InVitroReport/issue-54-2-april-june-2020/in-memoriam-4/). As part of his academic legacy, Trevor had trained an impressive number of laboratory members—15 PhD students, 14 Master’s students, 25 postdoctoral fellows, and many visiting scientists—who collectively identify themselves as proud members of “Team Thorpe.” This executive summary version of his major scientific contributions was prepared by the team. Keywords Trevor Thorpe . Scientific contributions . Plant tissue culture . Conifer biotechnology . Developmental plant physiology . Micropropagation . Salinity tolerance
His Academic Life After completing his early education in Barbados, Trevor started his undergraduate studies in 1956 with a full scholarship at the Allahabad Agricultural Institute, Allahabad, India (presently known as Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology, and Sciences). Trevor was proud of his training as an “Aggie” from this institute, which was established in 1910 as the first agricultural institute of India, and Southeast Asia. After graduation, he returned to Barbados and married his wife Yvonne in 1963. Subsequently, he received a Fulbright Scholarship to attend the University of California at Riverside, where he received
* Prakash P. Kumar [email protected] 1
Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117543, Singapore
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School of Applied Sciences, RMIT University, Bundoora, VIC 3083, Australia
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Biosphere Solutions, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Melbourne, Australia
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Department of Plant Science, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T-2N2, Canada
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Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, 2500 University Dr. NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada
his Master’s and Doctorate degrees. His PhD thesis advisor was Professor Toshio Murashige, well known for the Murashige and Skoog medium (Fig. 1). Professor Murashige was a student of Professor Folke Karl Skoog, famous for his discovery of cytokinins. Trevor carried out postdoctoral research work at the US Department of Agriculture research facility in Pasadena, CA. With such a stellar academic lineage, Trevor built a research career that was focused on physiological aspects of plant morphogenesis using explants cultured in vitro. His work contributed to our fundamental understanding of organized plant development in vivo and in vitro. Trevor began his independent research after accepting an assistant professorship in 1969, at the Department of Biol
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