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John Thompson
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Latest papers
Tipping toward sustainability: emerging pathways of transformation.
Ambio · 2011
Latest funding
- $190,000
Physiological and molecular mechanisms underlying the transition from vegetative growth to senescence and the execution of senescence
NSERC · 2009 · Principal investigator
- $275,310
Physiological and molecular mechanisms underlying senescence and programmed cell death
NSERC · 2006 · Principal investigator
- $591,500
Physiological and molecular mechanisms of plant senesence
NSERC · 2001 · Principal investigator
1 publications.
Tipping toward sustainability: emerging pathways of transformation.
Westley F, Olsson P, Folke C, Homer-Dixon T, Vredenburg H, Loorbach D, Thompson J, Nilsson M, Lambin E, Sendzimir J, Banerjee B, Galaz V, van der Leeuw S
Physiological and molecular mechanisms underlying the transition from vegetative growth to senescence and the execution of senescence
Principal investigators: Thompson, John
Physiological and molecular mechanisms underlying senescence and programmed cell death
Principal investigators: Thompson, John
Physiological and molecular mechanisms of plant senesence
Principal investigators: Thompson, John
Quadrupole/time of flight (Q-tof) mass spectrometer
Principal investigators: Lajoie, Gilles
Instrumentation for the application of high-throughput molecular biology and biotechnology to environmental problems.
Principal investigators: Dixon, Brian
Keywords: environment, molecular biology, toxicology, pollution, gene expression, biotechnology, bioremediation,
Particle size analyzer
Principal investigators: Thompson, John
Membrane dysfunction in senescing tissues -- maintenance of integrity by blebbing of lipid-protein particles
Principal investigators: Thompson, John
Ultracentrifuge rotor
Principal investigators: Thompson, John
Immobilized subcellular fractions for scaled-up production and retrieval of fruit flavour
Principal investigators: Thompson, John
Fundamental effects of UV-B radiation on plants: biochemistry, physiology and molecular biology of adaptation and stress
Principal investigators: Greenberg, Bruce
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
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