Daphne Osborne, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetDaphne Osborne
botanist
Date of Birth: 07-Mar-1930
Date of Death: 16-Jun-2006
Profession: botanist
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Daphne Osborne
- Daphne J.
- Osborne (7 March 1930 – 16 June 2006) was a British botanist.
- Her research in the field of plant physiology spanned five decades and resulted in over two hundred papers, twenty of which were published in Nature.
- Her obituary in The Times described her scientific achievements as "legendary"; that from the Botanical Society of America attributed her success to "her wonderful intellectual style, combined with her proclivity for remarkable and perceptive experimental findings".Her research focused on plant hormones, seed biology and plant DNA repair.
- She is best known for her work on the gas ethylene, in particular for demonstrating that ethylene is a natural plant hormone, and that it is the major regulator of ageing and the shedding of leaves and fruits.
- She also originated the concept of the target cell as a model for understanding plant hormone action.
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