Sue Gardiner

Susan Elizabeth Gardiner is a New Zealand horticultural scientist, who works on using genetics and genomics for fruit breeding. Gardiner has received multiple awards. Gardiner has been a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi since 2020 and is a Fellow of the International Society for Horticultural Science. She is an Honorary Fellow of Plant & Food Research.

This article is about the New Zealand horticultural scientist. For the Canadian water polo player, see Susan Gardiner.

Sue Gardiner
Born
Susan Elizabeth Gardiner
NationalityNew Zealand
Alma materUniversity of Otago
AwardsFRSNZ
FISHS
Outstanding International Horticulturist Award
Science New Zealand Plant & Food Research Lifetime Achievement Award
Prime Minister’s Science Prize
Scientific career
FieldsFruit breeding, genetics
ThesisStudies on the biochemical basis for the photoperiodic control of flowering. (1977)

Early life and education

Gardiner grew up on a family farm in Waiau, North Canterbury, and was homeschooled until the age of ten.[1] She was later educated at St Margaret's College in Christchurch, and earned a PhD in biochemistry at the University of Otago.[1][2] Her thesis, submitted in 1977, was titled Studies on the biochemical basis for the photoperiodic control of flowering.[3]

Career

Gardiner worked at Plant and Food Research from 1980 until her retirement in 1991.[2] She founded the Mapping & Markers Team.[2] Gardiner is known for her work using genetic markers to assist fruit breeding. She developed a high-throughput platform to create new varieties of apple and kiwifruit in a more precise way, so that growers could target specific qualities to advantage growers and consumers. For instance, by specifying desired colour, texture or pest resistance.[4] Gardiner's research is credited with leading to New Zealand's status as an international leader in the breeding and genomics of apple and kiwifruit.[4] In her retirement, Gardiner is an Honorary Fellow of Plant & Food Research and continues to work.[1] Gardiner is involved in molecular genetics of Rhododendron for conservation purposes.[4]

Awards and honours

Gardiner won the Outstanding International Horticulturist Award of the American Society for Horticultural Science in 2009.[2][5]

Gardiner received a Science New Zealand Plant & Food Research Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017. She was a member of the PSA Response Team, that won the Prime Minister’s Science Prize in 2017.[2]

Gardiner was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi in 2020.[4] Her new fellows seminar was titled "Better Cultivars Faster".[6] She is also a Fellow of the International Society for Horticultural Science.[4][2][7]

Selected works
  • Riccardo Velasco; Andrey Zharkikh; Jason Affourtit; et al. (29 August 2010). "The genome of the domesticated apple (Malus × domestica Borkh.)". Nature Genetics. 42 (10): 833–839. doi:10.1038/NG.654. ISSN 1061-4036. PMID 20802477. Wikidata Q22122060.

References
  1. "Plant molecular geneticist Dr Susan Gardiner honoured by Royal Society Te Apārangi and ISHS · Plant & Food Research". Plant & Food Research. Archived from the original on 11 October 2021. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  2. "Plant Molecular Geneticist Dr Susan Gardiner Honoured - Food + Beverage Technology". 12 March 2021. Archived from the original on 12 March 2021. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  3. Gardiner, Susan Elizabeth (1977). "Studies on the biochemical basis for the photoperiodic control of flowering. PhD thesis". otago.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  4. "View our current Fellows". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Archived from the original on 7 October 2021. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  5. "Susan E. Gardiner receives ASHS Outstanding International Horticulturist Award". springer.com. Archived from the original on 12 October 2021. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  6. "2020 Dr Susan Gardiner FRSNZ". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  7. "ISHS Awards | International Society for Horticultural Science". www.ishs.org. Archived from the original on 18 May 2021. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
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