Plant Lipid Biosynthesis as Target for Biocides

Honoring Hartmut Karl Lichtenthaler, innovative pioneer of photosynthesis, on his 90^th birthday

“…Further collaboration of Hartmut with the Czech Republic included invitations to young scientists, Jiří Šantrůček and Pavel Šiffel, from České Budějovice for a research stay in Karlsruhe (see Šantrůček et al 1992, Šiffel et al 1993). In addition, Hartmut organized a one-year-stay for Roman Hák (from Lubomir Nátrꞌs group of the Charles University of Prague) as a postdoctoral fellow in his laboratory in Karlsruhe (see Hák et al 1993) Historical reporter: Hartmut Lichtenthaler has described wonderfully well the history and the development of co-operation and the international symposia series, such as the FESPP (Lichtenthaler 2004a), as well as that of the International Symposia on Plant Lipids, the ISPLs, being held every two years, which he had organized in 1976, in Karlsruhe, and transformed them to international meetings (Lichtenthaler 2004b). In addition, Hartmut has also authored several obituaries/tributes, or historical notes on Andy Benson (Lichtenthaler et al 2015), Roland Douce (Joyard and Lichtenthaler 2019), Melvin Calvin (Govindjee et al 2020), and Zdeněk Šesták (Lichtenthaler 2018).…”