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ASPB Pioneer Members
Pioneer Members of ASPB provided the education and research training for many members of our community, and in some cases the leadership of the Society and its journals. Their recognition as a Pioneer comes from former graduate students, postdocs, colleagues, family members, and friends who collectively contributed $5,000 or more to honor them. Names of the contributors are listed beneath each Pioneer’s name, as well as links to available biographical information about the Pioneer and their contributions to plant biology.
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Peter Albersheim*
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Richard Amasino
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Frederick Ausubel
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Julia Bailey-Serres
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Robert Bandurski*
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Harry Beevers*
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Philip Benfey*
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J. Derek Bewley*
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Peter Beyer
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Anthony Bleecker*
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Lawrence Bogorad*
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Hans Bohnert
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Wendy Boss
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John Boyer
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Raymond Bressan
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Winslow Briggs*
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John Browse
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Bob Buchanan
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Robert Burris*
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Daniel Bush
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Judy Callis
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Nicholas Carpita
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Alice Cheung
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Mary-Dell Chilton
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Joanne Chory*
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Maarten Chrispeels
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Nam-Hai Chua
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Robert Cleland
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Mary Clutter*
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Jerry Cohen
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Marc Alan Cohn*
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Eric Conn*
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Gloria Coruzzi
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Daniel Cosgrove
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John Davidson
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Jeff Dangl and Sarah Grant
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Katayoon Dehesh
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Dean DellaPenna
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Debby Delmer
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Alessandra Devoto
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Machi Dilworth
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Richard Dixon
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Xinnian Dong
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Hugo Dooner
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Natalia Dudareva
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Joseph Ecker
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Katherine Esau
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Mark Estelle
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Gerry Fink
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Robert Fischer
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Petra Fromme
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Gadi Galili
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Arthur Galston*
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Elisabeth Gantt
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Martin Gibbs*
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Robert Goldberg*
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Mary Helen Goldsmith
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Howard Goodman
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Solon Gordon*
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Pamela Green
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Mary Lou Guerinot
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Thomas Guilfoyle* and Gretchen Hagen
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Richard Hageman*
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L. Curtis (Curt) Hannah
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John Hanson*
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Maureen Hanson
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John Harada
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Ralph Hardy*
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Karl H. Hasenstein
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Eliot Herman
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Tuan-hua David Ho
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Thomas Hodges
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Stephen Howell
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André Jagendorf*
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Ernest Jaworski*
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Russell Jones*
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Richard Jorgensen
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Yuji Kamiya
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Kenneth Keegstra
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Hans Kende*
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Joe Key*
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Anthony Kinney
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Karen Koch
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J. Clark Lagarias
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Chris Lamb*
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Anton Lang*
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Brian Larkins*
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Robert Last
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Peggy Lemaux
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Charles Sam Levings III
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Chu-Yung Lin*
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Sharon Long
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Stephen Long
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Fiorella Lo Schiavo
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William Lucas
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Sally Mackenzie
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Enid MacRobbie
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Barbara Mazur
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Maureen McCann
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Donald McCarty
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Barbara McClintock
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C. Robertson McClung
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Sabeeha Merchant
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Joachim Messing*
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Elliot Meyerowitz
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Michael Mishkind
(pictured with his colleague Nicole Donofrio)
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Beronda Montgomery
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Thomas Moore
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Carolyn Napoli
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DeLill Nasser*
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Niels Nielsen*
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Ann Oaks*
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William Ogren
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John Ohlrogge
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Donald Ort
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Bernard Phinney*
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Peter Quail
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Ralph Quatrano
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Natasha Raikhel
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Douglas Randall
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Carolyn Rasmussen
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Pon (Jayakumar Pon Samuel)
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Eberhard Schäfer
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Anne Holiday (Holly) Schauer*
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Julian Schroeder
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Tom Sharkey
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Jen Sheen
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Ming-Che Shih
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Kazuo Shinozaki
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James Siedow*
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Jane Silverthorne*
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Janet Slovin
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Chris Somerville
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L. Andrew Staehelin
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Helen Stafford*
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Paul Stumpf*
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Masahiro Sugiura
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Zinmay Renee Sung
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Ian Sussex*
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Heven Sze
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Mechthild Tegeder
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William Thompson
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Elaine Tobin
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Ed Tolbert*
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Richard Trelease
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Larry Vanderhoef*
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Marguerite Varagona
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Joseph Varner*
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Elizabeth Vierling
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Alessandro Vitale
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Virginia Walbot
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Ruth Welti
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Terry Wright
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Ray Wu*
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Shang Fa Yang*
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ZhenBiao Yang
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Patricia Zambryski
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MariaElena Zavala
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Jan Zeevaart*
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Jian-Kang Zhu
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