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American plant molecular geneticist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Barbara Baker is an American plant molecular geneticist working at the University of California, Berkeley and the United States Department of Agriculture She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.[1]
Barbara Joan Baker | |
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Alma mater | University of California, San Francisco |
Awards | Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2021)[1] |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Plant Gene Expression Center, USDA Agricultural Research Service and University of California, Berkeley |
Thesis | Analysis of endogenous avian retrovirus DNA and RNA: viral and cellular determinants of retrovirus gene expression (1981) |
Website | bakerlab |
Baker graduated from Los Alamitos High School in 1970[2] and completed her undergraduate studies at UC San Diego in 1974. She went on to earn her PhD at UC San Francisco with J. Michael Bishop and Harold E. Varmus in 1981, and did postdoctoral research in Germany.[2][3] As of 2021, Baker is an adjunct professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a senior scientist at the United States Department of Agriculture.[4]
Baker is a plant geneticist working on plant innate immunity, the mechanism by which plants protect themself from diseases.[5] Baker's research includes cloning the N gene for resistance to Tobacco mosaic virus,[6][7] which was one of the first plant disease resistance genes cloned.[8] She is also known for her research on R-genes and their role as a defense system against plant pathogens.[9][10] Baker has also examined the genetic conditions behind the susceptibility to disease in tomatoes,[11] potatoes,[12] and the flowering plants in the genus Solanum.[13]
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