Christine Foyer

Christine Helen Foyer
FLS FRSB
Born(1952-10-03)3 October 1952
Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England
Alma materKing's College London
University of Portsmouth
Known forredox, glutathione, ascorbate, photosynthesis
AwardsRedox Pioneer
Scientific career
FieldsBiochemistry
InstitutionsUniversity of Leeds
Academic advisorsBarry Halliwell[1]

Christine Helen Foyer (born 3 October 1952) is professor of plant science at the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. She is President Elect of the Association of Applied Biologists, the General Secretary of the Federation of European Societies of Plant Biologists, an elected Board Member of the American Society of Plant Biologists and a Member of the French Academy of Agriculture.[2] She has published and co-authored many papers on related subjects.

Foyer's name is included in the "Foyer–Halliwell–Asada" pathway, a cellular process of hydrogen peroxide metabolism in plants and animals and named for the three principal discoverers.[3]

  1. ^ Donald R. Ort; Aleel K. Grennan (2011), "Founders Review 2011", Plant Physiology, 155 (1): 1, doi:10.1104/pp.110.900401, JSTOR 41433973, PMC 3075777, PMID 21205629
  2. ^ Christine Foyer, University of Leeds, 2014, archived from the original on 6 July 2015, retrieved 26 November 2014
  3. ^ Del Rio, L A (24 June 2011), "Christine H Foyer", Antioxid. Redox Signal., 15 (8): 2383–91, doi:10.1089/ars.2011.4007, PMID 21534879