Bernard R. Glick

Bernard R. Glick
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Adjunct Professor
Status: Emeritus

Biography

Bernard Glick carries out research in plant-microbial interactions. His findings include discovering how certain bacteria can help plants grow, even under stressful conditions, such as drought. He's shown that growth-promoting bacteria can be successfully applied to several food crops as a more sustainable alternative to using chemicals.

With over 72,000 citations and an h-index of 113, Professor Glick has one of the highest citation records at the University of Waterloo.

- Top 0.1% of the world’s most cited researchers, 2010-2022; according to the “Web of Science”.

- Ranked #181 among the world’s Microbiologists and #5 in Canada; according to: Research.com, 2023.

Research Areas:

- Isolation, characterization and manipulation of microbial genes which encode products that are involved in the microbial stimulation of plant growth.

- Use of bacteria as biocontrol agents to control fungal diseases.

- Biochemical and physiological consequences of the genetic transformation of plant growth-promoting bacteria.

- Microbial phytohormone biosynthesis.

- Use of plant-microbial combinations to remediate contaminated soils.

- Ethylene modulated gene expression.

Research Interests

  • Molecular genetics

  • Microbiology

  • Plant physiology, growth and development

Education

  • 1974 Ph.D. Biochemistry, University of Waterloo, Canada

  • 1972 M.Sc. Biochemistry, University of Waterloo, Canada

  • 1969 B.Sc. Chemistry, The City College of New York, United States

Awards

  • 2011 Lady Davis Fellowship, The Technion, Haifa, Israel

  • 2010 Career Achievement Award, Canadian Council of University Biology Chairs

  • 2009 Salamanca University Fellowship, Salamanca, Spain

  • 2001 Université Claude Bernard Fellowship, Lyon, France

  • 1992 Lady Davis Fellowship, The Technion, Haifa, Israel (1992-93, 1994-95)

Selected/Recent Publications

  • Duca, D.R. and Glick, B.R. 2020. Indole-3-acetic acid biosynthesis and its regulation in plant-associated bacteria. Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 104:8607-8619.

  • Ali, S., and Glick, B.R. 2021. The biochemistry and molecular biology of the enzyme ACC deaminase. In: Microbes: The Foundation Stone of the Biosphere. C. Hurst (Ed.). Chapter 19, pp. 365-390, Springer, Switzerland.

  • Glick, B.R. and Gamalero, E. 2021. Recent developments in the study of plant microbiomes. Microorg. 9:1533.

  • Glick, B.R. and Nascimento, F.X. 2021. Pseudomonas 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate (ACC) deaminase and its role in beneficial plant-microbe interactions. Microorg. 9:2467.

  • Stegelmeier, A.A., Rose, D.M., Joris, B.R. and Glick, B.R. 2022. The use of PGPB to promote plant hydroponic growth. Plants 11:2783.

  • Gamalero, E., Lingua, G. and Glick, B.R. 2023. Ethylene, ACC, and the plant growth-promoting enzyme ACC deaminase. Biology 12:1043.

  • Please see Bernard Glick's Google Scholar profile for a current list of his peer-reviewed articles: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=RTUAAoUAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

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