It is with great pleasure that I can share the news that Kevin Davies has been elected a Fellow of Te Apārangi Royal Society, New Zealand.
Kevin Davies has made a distinguished contribution to advancing understanding of plant pigmentation and the stress-tolerance mechanisms of plants, including the discovery of a new class of plant pigments. Based at Plant & Food Research, Kevin is the international authority on how plants control the production of specialised metabolites to provide colour to flowers and fruit and to withstand environmental challenges such as UV-B light. His work has explained the induction of red colour in leaves to protect against environmental stress and how flowers produce complex colour patterning to attract pollinators. The impact of the knowledge he has generated ranges from aiding selection of new horticultural varieties, to theorising how specialised metabolites may have helped plants to first emerge on land around five hundred million years ago.
Latest cohort of Ngā Ahurei a Te Apārangi Fellows announced (royalsociety.org.nz)
