Franklin Professor of Biochemistry
B.A., M.A., University of Virginia
Ph.D. (1960) University of Texas
Member of The Plant Center

Dr. Dure's research interests center on molecular biology of higher plant development, specifically, regulation of expression of genes during seed embryogenesis, sequence analysis of developmentally regulated genes and structure and function of proteins involved in desiccation tolerance. Dr. Dure was an NIH Career Development Awardee, has served as president of the International Society for Plant Molecular Biology, and has been a member of the NSF panel for Developmental Biology. He was Co-Director, NATO Advanced Study Institute on Structure and Function of the Plant Genomes (Porte Portese, Italy, 1982), organizer of the First International Congress of Plant Molecular Biology (Savannah, 1985), and has had research support from NIH, NSF, DOE and industry. Dr. Dure has also served on the editorial boards of Plant Physiology and Planta and as North American editor of Plant Molecular Biology.

Full Publications: 88