Background
Gutschick, Vincent Peter was born on July 24, 1945 in Berwyn, Illinois, United States. Son of Vincent William and Frances Genevieve (Stonich) Gutschick.
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There have recently been a number of advances in the subject of physiological plant ecology, but most of this work has concentrated on wild growth, where the success of the plant is judged by 'goals' considerably different from those of maximal yield in agriculture. This book presents a highly original approach that expands the 'functional biology' viewpoint to include crop plants. Cost-benefit trade offs in plant strategies of resource use are quantified, using a comprehensive, uniform set of four principles to construct objective functions or goals. Physiology, morphology, phenology and ecology are integrated in the approach, which is proposed for crop design as well as for ecological and evolutionary studies. With agriculture plants the issues are shown to be complicated by the crops' embodying genes for wild, competitive strategies that sacrifice yield, as also genes from mixed environments of diverse ancestral stocks. While the primary focus is on herbaceous annual crops, orchard and timber crops are also covered. Temperate and tropical environments are considered, as are wet and arid environments. The book therefore represents a major work for agricultural plant physiologists This book should be of interest to those interested in general biology, agriculture and plant physiology.
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Gutschick, Vincent Peter was born on July 24, 1945 in Berwyn, Illinois, United States. Son of Vincent William and Frances Genevieve (Stonich) Gutschick.
Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, University Notre Dame, 1966. Doctor of Philosophy, California Institute of Technology, 1972.
National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow, University of California, Berkeley, 1971-1972;
J.W. Gibbs Instructor, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1972-1975;
director's postdoctoral fellow, Los Alamos (New Mexico) National Laboratory, 1975-1977;
consultant, Los Alamos (New Mexico) National Laboratory, 1977-1978;
staff member, Los Alamos (New Mexico) National Laboratory, 1978-1985;
associate professor, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, 1985-1991;
professor, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, since 1991. Visiting fellow Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Canberra, Australia, 1991, Carnegie Institute Plant Biology, Stanford, California, Australian National U, Canberra, 1994. Program officer National Science Foundation, Washington, 1992-1993.
Distinguished visiting fellow Latrobe U., Melbourne, Australia.
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Member American Society Plant Physiologists, American Institute Biological Sciences, Ecological Society of America.
Married; 1 child, David Duncanson.