Nicholas Harberd
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| fields = Plant biology{{Google scholar id}}
| alma_mater = University of Cambridge (MA, PhD)
| thesis_title = A genetical investigation of the alcohol dehydrogenase in barley
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| thesis_year = 1981
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| known_for = Seed to Seed: The Secret Life of Plants
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Nicholas Paul Harberd {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRS}} (born 15 July 1956){{Who's Who | author=Anon| title=Harberd, Prof. Nicholas Paul | id = U245781 | year = 2017 | doi =10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U245781 | edition = online Oxford University Press|location=Oxford}} is Sibthorpian Professor of Plant Science and former head of the Department of Plant Sciences (since 2022 part of the Department of Biology) at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of St John's College, Oxford.{{cite web|url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/research/mathematical_physical_life_sciences/people/prof_nicholas.html |title=Prof Nicholas Harberd, Sibthorpian Professor of Plant Science and Fellow of St. John's College |publisher=University of Oxford |date=24 September 2009 |access-date=2012-02-27 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100829221846/http://www.ox.ac.uk/research/mathematical_physical_life_sciences/people/prof_nicholas.html |archive-date=2010-08-29 }}{{Scopus id}}{{EuropePMC}}
Education
Harberd earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honours, a Master of Arts, and PhD in 1981, from the University of Cambridge where he was a student of Christ's College, Cambridge.
Career and research
He was a scientist at the Plant Breeding Institute, Trumpington, Cambridge from 1982 to 1986, and the University of California, Berkeley, from 1986 to 1988.
He is head of the Harberd group, which was located at John Innes Centre, and has been at the University of Oxford{{cite web | url=http://dps.plants.ox.ac.uk/plants/Staff/NicholasHarberd.aspx | title=Plant Sciences Staff: Prof. NP Harberd | publisher=University of Oxford | date=December 2011 | access-date=2012-02-27}} since his appointment as Sibthorpian Professor of Plant Sciences in 2007.{{cite book| last = Harberd| first = Nicholas| title = Seed to Seed: The Secret Life of Plants| year = 2006| publisher = Bloomsbury Publishing| isbn = 978-0-7475-7039-4| url-access = registration| url = https://archive.org/details/seedtoseedsecret00harb}}{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/mar/25/featuresreviews.guardianreview6| title=Genes by the wayside| author=Colin Tudge|work=The Guardian| date=24 March 2006}}{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1038/22307| pmid = 10421366| year = 1999| last1 = Harberd | first1 = N. P. | title = 'Green revolution' genes encode mutant gibberellin response modulators| journal = Nature| volume = 400| issue = 6741| pages = 256–61| last2 = Peng | first2 = J. | last3 = Richards | first3 = D. E. | last4 = Hartley | first4 = N. M. | last5 = Murphy | first5 = G. P. | last6 = Devos | first6 = K. M. | last7 = Flintham | first7 = J. E. | last8 = Beales | first8 = J. | last9 = Fish | first9 = L. J. | last10 = Worland | first10 = A. J. | last11 = Pelica | first11 = F. | last12 = Sudhakar | first12 = D. | last13 = Christou | first13 = P. | last14 = Snape | first14 = J. W. | last15 = Gale | first15 = M. D. | bibcode = 1999Natur.400..256P| s2cid = 4363793}}{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1038/nature01387| pmid = 12610625| title = Auxin promotes Arabidopsis root growth by modulating gibberellin response| journal = Nature| volume = 421| issue = 6924| pages = 740–3| year = 2003| last1 = Fu | first1 = X. | last2 = Harberd | first2 = N. P. | bibcode = 2003Natur.421..740F| s2cid = 2719281}}{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1101/gad.11.23.3194| title = The Arabidopsis GAI gene defines a signaling pathway that negatively regulates gibberellin responses | journal = Genes & Development| volume = 11| issue = 23| pages = 3194–205| year = 1997| last1 = Peng | first1 = J.| last2 = Carol | first2 = P.| last3 = Richards | first3 = D. E.| last4 = King | first4 = K. E.| last5 = Cowling | first5 = R. J.| last6 = Murphy | first6 = G. P.| last7 = Harberd | first7 = N. P. | pmid=9389651 | pmc=316750}}{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1126/science.1118642| pmid = 16400150| title = Integration of Plant Responses to Environmentally Activated Phytohormonal Signals| journal = Science| volume = 311| issue = 5757| pages = 91–4| year = 2006| last1 = Achard | first1 = P.| last2 = Cheng| first2 = H| last3 = De Grauwe| first3 = L| last4 = Decat| first4 = J| last5 = Schoutteten| first5 = H| last6 = Moritz| first6 = T| last7 = Van Der Straeten| first7 = D| last8 = Peng| first8 = J| last9 = Harberd| first9 = N. P.
| bibcode = 2006Sci...311...91A| s2cid = 32781916}}{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1242/dev.01206| pmid = 15226253| title = Modulation of floral development by a gibberellin-regulated microRNA| journal = Development| volume = 131| issue = 14| pages = 3357–65| year = 2004| last1 = Achard | first1 = P.| last2 = Herr| first2 = A| last3 = Baulcombe| first3 = D. C.| author-link3 = David Baulcombe| last4 = Harberd| first4 = N. P.| author-link4 =Nicholas Harberd| doi-access = }}{{cite web|url=https://www.jic.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2009/05/professor-nick-harberd-elected-fellow-of-the-royal-society/#|title=Professor Nick Harberd elected Fellow of the Royal Society|publisher=jic.ac.uk|access-date=26 September 2018}}
With George Coupland, Liam Dolan, Alison Smith, Jonathan Jones, Cathie Martin, Robert Sablowski and Abigail Amey he is a co-author of the textbook Plant Biology.{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=Alison Mary |author-link1=Alison Mary Smith |last2=Coupand |first2=George |author-link2=George Coupland |last3=Dolan |first3=Liam |author-link3=Liam Dolan |last4=Harberd |first4=Nicholas |author-link4=Nicholas Harberd |last5=Jones |first5=Jonathan |author-link5=Jonathan D. G. Jones |last6=Martin |first6=Cathie |author-link6=Cathie Martin |last7=Sablowski |first7=Robert |last8=Amey |first8=Abigail |date=2009 |title=Plant Biology |url=https://archive.org/details/plantbiology0000unse |publisher=Garland Science |isbn=978-0815340256 |url-access=registration }}
=Awards and honours=
Harberd was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2009.{{cite web|url = http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2009/090515_1.html|title = New Royal Society Fellows|publisher = University of Oxford|access-date = 2012-03-09|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121202162640/http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2009/090515_1.html|archive-date = 2 December 2012|url-status = dead}} His nomination reads: {{centred pull quote|Nick Harberd has made pioneering contributions to the solution of a fundamental problem in biology – the molecular mechanisms via which plant hormones control growth. He showed that the hormone gibberellin promotes growth by counteracting a family of nuclear growth-repressing proteins, and that this provides a key mechanism for adaptive regulation of growth in response to environmental change. He also showed how this mechanism underlies the action of genes responsible for the increase in yield of wheat varieties during the 'green revolution'. His discoveries have thus provided many important and original contributions to developmental, evolutionary and agricultural science.{{cite web |url=https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=show.tcl&dsqSearch=(RefNo==%27EC%2F2009%2F16%27) |title = EC/2009/16: Harberd, Nicholas Paul |publisher=The Royal Society |archive-date=2014-06-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140620195601/https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=show.tcl&dsqSearch=(RefNo=='EC/2009/16') |location=London}}}}
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Category:Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge
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