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We regret to inform you about the recent death of some well know scientists : Professor Nezamaddin Daneshvar from the Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Tabriz , Tabriz , Iran . Professor Fikrat Abdullaev, Instituto Nacional de Pediatria Avenida Iman # 1, Colonia Insurgentes Cuiculco, Torre de InvestigaciónLab.de Oncologia Experimental 6.Piso,C.P. 04530,04530 Mexico. Professor Yolanta Sacs, from the University in Israel.

Nomination

This is to inform you that Mr. Gamal Hassan Rabie is nomitaed as a Professor in the Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Zagazig University, Egyp.

Top price in horticultural science

FYI all Media Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NSW researcher wins horticulture's top prize Internationally recognised leader in horticultural postharvest research, Dr Barry McGlasson was last night announced the 2008 Graham Gregory Award winner at the Horticulture Australia Limited (HAL) Awards held in Sydney. Dr McGlasson, who currently holds a position as Adjunct Professor at the University of Western Sydney, has been an enthusiastic and tireless supporter of Australian horticulture for more than 50 years and is co-author of the first textbook on postharvest, ' Postharvest. An Introduction to the Physiology and Handling of Fruit, Vegetables and Ornamentals ', now in its fifth edition (2007). Despite his long and illustrious career, first with the South Australian Department of Agriculture, later the CSIRO and now the University of Western Sydney, Dr McGlasson was surprised to be given the Graham Gregory Award. "'It was very much out of the blue - I am extremely pleased to be so recognised - I thought I was past getting awards like this!" Dr McGlasson said. On the contrary, Dr McGlasson's impressive body of work, carried out over a lifetime, is precisely what the Graham Gregory Award recognises. Named in honour of the inaugural Chair the Horticultural Research and Development Corporation (HAL's predecessor), Graham Gregory, the award is Australian horticulture's highest accolade and carries with it a $10,000 prize. The major outcome from Dr McGlasson's long research career has been his work around the understanding and management of fruit ripening. Dr McGlasson was the co-author of a classic paper in Nature in 1972 in which the System 1/System 2 concept of the control of fruit ripening was proposed. This concept has shaped thinking in this field to the present and has been affirmed by more recent research at the molecular level. Across his career Dr McGlasson has worked with the summerfruit, apple and pear, citrus, table grape, banana, fresh tomato and vegetable industries. "The work I'm most proud of is establishing horticulture postharvest as a discipline in its own right and seeing that knowledge applied throughout the whole supply chain," he said. Dr McGlasson has also been at the forefront of Australian and international agricultural and horticultural education. In 1989, he took a teaching and mentoring role at the University of Western Sydney (UWS) where he continues to have significant input into Australian postharvest horticulture. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at UWS and is collaborating on three HALfunded projects as well as supervising two PhD students and mentoring three students from Thailand's King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi. The HAL Awards also recognised three Young Leaders, South Australian cherry grower John Jeffs, general manager, national category management for Moraitis, Jenny Mercer, and Victorian summerfruit grower Gaethan Cutri. The Young Leader Award is open to nominees under 35 who are able to demonstrate leadership in any discipline related to the horticulture industry. - ends - Media contact: Dzintra Horder T 02 8295 2334 M 0418 287 974 E dzintra.horder@horticulture.com.au