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Annals of Botany 2008 101(2):199-201; doi:10.1093/aob/mcm281
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Annals of Botany Company. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Daphne J. Osborne (1925–2006)

Irene Ridge and Michael Jackson

E-mail: irene_ridge@btinternet.com

E-mail: mike.jackson@bristol.ac.uk

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There has been a plethora of tributes and obituaries for Daphne Osborne, who died in Oxford, UK on June 16th 2006 and in whose honour this Special Issue is produced. A collection of papers covering her areas of interest is probably the best tribute we can pay to someone who was an active researcher for over 50 years and one of the leading plant physiologists of her generation.

Daphne Osborne had a passionate interest in how plants grow and survive. She was an acute observer with a truly enquiring mind, so that chance observations often led to new projects, such as why do the juvenile leaves of oak and beech not fall off in autumn and how do the flower stems of daffodils (Narcissus) bend down at the tips before flowers open? What prevents certain seeds from germinating? What initiates the explosive dehiscence of Ecballium elaterium? Daphne . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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