Sue Gardiner

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Sue Gardiner
Born
Susan Elizabeth Gardiner
NationalityNew Zealand
Alma materUniversity of Otago
AwardsFRSNZ
FISHS
Outstanding International Horticulturist Award
Science New Zealand Plant & Food Research Lifetime Achievement Award
Prime Minister’s Science Prize
Scientific career
FieldsFruit breeding, genetics
ThesisStudies on the biochemical basis for the photoperiodic control of flowering. (1977)

Susan Elizabeth Gardiner is a New Zealand horticultural scientist, who works on using genetics and genomics for fruit breeding. Gardiner has received multiple awards. Gardiner has been a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi since 2020 and is a Fellow of the International Society for Horticultural Science. She is an Honorary Fellow of Plant & Food Research.

Early life and education[]

Gardiner grew up on a family farm in Waiau, North Canterbury, and was homeschooled until the age of ten.[1] She was later educated at St Margaret's College in Christchurch, and earned a PhD in biochemistry at the University of Otago.[1][2] Her thesis, submitted in 1977, was titled Studies on the biochemical basis for the photoperiodic control of flowering.[3]

Career[]

Gardiner worked at Plant and Food Research from 1980 until her retirement in 1991.[2] She founded the Mapping & Markers Team.[2] Gardiner is known for her work using genetic markers to assist fruit breeding. She developed a high-throughput platform to create new varieties of apple and kiwifruit in a more precise way, so that growers could target specific qualities to advantage growers and consumers. For instance, by specifying desired colour, texture or pest resistance.[4] Gardiner's research is credited with leading to New Zealand's status as an international leader in the breeding and genomics of apple and kiwifruit.[4] In her retirement, Gardiner is an Honorary Fellow of Plant & Food Research and continues to work.[1] Gardiner is involved in molecular genetics of Rhododendron for conservation purposes.[4]

Awards and honours[]

Gardiner won the Outstanding International Horticulturist Award of the American Society for Horticultural Science in 2009.[2][5]

Gardiner received a Science New Zealand Plant & Food Research Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017. She was a member of the PSA Response Team, that won the Prime Minister’s Science Prize in 2017.[2]

Gardiner was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi in 2020.[4] Her new fellows seminar was titled "Better Cultivars Faster".[6] She is also a Fellow of the International Society for Horticultural Science.[4][2][7]

Selected works[]

  • Riccardo Velasco; Andrey Zharkikh; Jason Affourtit; et al. (29 August 2010). "The genome of the domesticated apple (Malus × domestica Borkh.)". Nature Genetics. 42 (10): 833–839. doi:10.1038/NG.654. ISSN 1061-4036. PMID 20802477. Wikidata Q22122060.

References[]

  1. ^ a b c "Plant molecular geneticist Dr Susan Gardiner honoured by Royal Society Te Apārangi and ISHS · Plant & Food Research". Plant & Food Research. Archived from the original on 11 October 2021. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Plant Molecular Geneticist Dr Susan Gardiner Honoured - Food + Beverage Technology". 12 March 2021. Archived from the original on 12 March 2021. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  3. ^ Gardiner, Susan Elizabeth (1977). "Studies on the biochemical basis for the photoperiodic control of flowering. PhD thesis". otago.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com. Retrieved 12 October 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ^ a b c d e "View our current Fellows". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Archived from the original on 7 October 2021. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  5. ^ "Susan E. Gardiner receives ASHS Outstanding International Horticulturist Award". springer.com. Archived from the original on 12 October 2021. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  6. ^ "2020 Dr Susan Gardiner FRSNZ". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  7. ^ "ISHS Awards | International Society for Horticultural Science". www.ishs.org. Archived from the original on 18 May 2021. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
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