Rod Bieleski
His work had practical relevance to farmers and orchardists in building their understanding of these factors and taking account of them while making a living from growing and harvesting plants.[7] In 2000, Bieleski published an article that highlighted the importance of understanding how phloem transports are manipulated to achieve good yields in horticulture and noted that examination of the plants' behaviour, provides insight into senescence and cell death.The study concluded that more research could establish further the contribution "[that] greater relative abundance of pinitol leaves makes to dryland habitat survival.A further conclusion was that studying the senescence of flowers offers a model that has much in common with fruit ripening because the process often happens quickly and in naturally occurring well-defined climacteric stages that are not too affected by ageing behaviour from storage of waste materials or exposure to weather."[20] He was awarded a DSc by thesis by the University of Sydney in 1990,[4][21] and he was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to horticultural science in the 2010 New Year Honours.
AucklandTakapunaUniversity of SydneyHector MedalMember of the New Zealand Order of MeritThesisplant physiologistOrakeiPrimary SchoolAuckland GrammarAuckland University CollegechemistrybotanyDepartment of Scientific and Industrial ResearchhorticulturalphysiologysorbitolsucrosecarbohydratesphloemphosphatesulfateinorganiccyclitolpinitolosmoprotectantdrylandhabitatsenescenceDaylilyephemeralmembraneethyleneclimactericFellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand2010 New Year HonoursAgathis australisAuckland UniversityNew Zealand. Department of Scientific and Industrial ResearchLeonard CockayneThomas EasterfieldElsdon BestPatrick MarshallErnest RutherfordCharles ChiltonThomas CheesemanPhilip RobertsonPercy SmithRobert SpeightColeridge FarrGeorge HudsonDonald PetrieBernard AstonHarry SkinnerCharles CottonDuncan SommervilleGeorge ThomsonJohn HollowayWilliam Percival EvansTe Rangi Hiroa (Peter H. Buck)John MarwickNoel BensonCharles Ernest WeatherburnWilliam BenhamWalter OliverJohn Reader HoskingHerbert WilliamsArthur BartrumDonald MacleodHarold FinlayHarry AllanBob BriggsJohannes C. AndersenJohn HendersonHenry ForderBaden PowellG. H. CunninghamRobert Anthony RobinsonErnest BeagleholeFrancis John TurnerKeith BullenLance RichdaleLucy CranwellBrian ShorlandRoger DuffHarold WellmanAlister McLellanBarry FellTed ChamberlainRalph PiddingtonCharles FlemingDerek LawdenRichard DellJack HollowayCon CambieGilbert ArcheyDoug CoombsBrian WybourneIra CunninghamTed BollardMichael HartshornHerbert PurvesRobert HayesJack DoddRichard MatthewsLeon PhillipsGraham LigginsTrevor HathertonRoy KerrRay ForsterPeter de la MareRobin CarrellDan WallsPatricia BergquistPeter WardleWarren RoperRoger GreenDick WalcottGeoff StedmanBob JollyJohn C. ButcherTed BakerPaul CallaghanJeff TallonGeorge SeberPeter Schwerdtfeger