![]() Taylor found that the scarlet sage bore flowers ideally under 10 hours, while 16 hours stunted its rate of growth at a similar rate to that of the six-hour trial. became the first woman to ever receive a science doctorate from GSAS. Taylor used the species Salvia splendens (scarlet sage), Cosmos bipinnatus (garden cosmos) and Cosmos sulphureus (orange cosmos) for her experiment.Ĭurious about the different effects that artificial light may have on plants as opposed to natural sunlight, Taylor subjected each of the plants to three different “photoperiods” where the plants received natural sunlight, supplemented in the last six hours of the 16-hour experiment with artificial light. Taylor exposed different flowering plants to varying durations of light to test light’s influence on the plants’ flower growth rate. Taylor designed a series of experiments using three different flower species in order to “discover the influence of definite photoperiods of six, ten, and sixteen hours upon the inflorescences that develop from floral primordia exposed to these photoperiods.” Her doctoral dissertation, titled “The Influence of Definitive Photoperiods Upon the Growth and Development of Initiated Floral Primordia,” involved the study of varying periods of light and its effects on the primordium, the buds from which flowers grow from the stem. Light and Flowersįascinated by photosynthesis cycles and their effects on budding flowers, Taylor wrote her dissertation for her Ph.D. Desiring to expand her knowledge while continuing to teach at Cardozo, she enrolled at Fordham to earn her Ph.D. She became a high school science teacher at Cardozo High School, where she incorporated her knowledge of botany into her biology classes. for a few years after graduating from Howard. Taylor’s passion and curiosity for botany earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in the subject in 19, respectively. After graduating from Dunbar High School in 1929, Taylor enrolled at Howard University, a historically Black college in Washington, D.C. ![]() She became the first woman of color to ever hold such a degree in the field of botany. in botany at the university’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) in 1941. Taylor became the first Black woman to ever earn a science degree at Fordham, receiving her Ph.D. Pua and M.R.Among the countless alumni who have earned a degree at Fordham University in its long history, Marie Clark Taylor stands out for a variety of reasons. In Plant Developmental Biology – Biotechnological Perspectives (eds. In Methods in Molecular Biology: Plant Embryogenesis (ed. Isolation of embryo-specific mutants in Arabidopsis: Plant transformation. Isolation of embryo-specific mutants in Arabidopsis: Genetic and phenotypic analysis. Female gametophyte development, In Handbook of Seed Science and Technology (ed. In Molecular Mechanisms of Plant Development (ed. Molecular mechanism of root nodule formation. In Biological Fixation of Nitrogen for Ecology and Sustainable Agriculture/NATO ASI series, Series G, Ecological Sciences Cell cycle regulation during nodule development. ![]() In Current Developments in Soybean-Rhizobium Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation (ed. Nodulin gene expression during pea nodule development. Plant Signals in Interactions with Other Organisms (Penn.State Symposium in Plant Physiology: Current Topics in Plant Physiology) Nodulin genes as molecular markers to study Rhizobium nod factor activity. In New Horizons in Nitrogen Fixation, book series Curr Plant Sci Biotechnol Agric Characterization of GmENOD40, a gene expressed in soybean nodule primordia. In Nitrogen Fixation: Achievements and Objectives (ed.
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