Guranda Gvaladze 455332 218621584 2008-06-11T13:21:58Z Tec15 1269086 /* External links */ <!--[[Image:GurandaGvaladze4.gif|thumb|200px|Guranda Gvaladze]]--> '''Guranda E. Gvaladze''' ([[Georgian alphabet|Georgian:]] გურანდა ღვალაძე) (born [[June 23]], [[1932]], in [[Tbilisi]]) is a distinguished [[Georgia (country)|Georgian]] [[botanist]], one of the founders of the Georgian scientific school of [[Plant Embryology]], Doctor of Biological Sciences ([[1973]]),and Professor ([[1991]]). She was born in [[Tbilisi]], to the family of a famous Georgian jurist and public benefactor [[Evgen Gvaladze]] (1900-1937). In [[1956]] she graduated from the Faculty of Biology of the [[Tbilisi State University]] (TSU). From [[1956]]-[[1959]] Gvaladze was a Post-Graduate Student of the [[N.Ketskhoveli Institute of Botany]] of the [[Georgian Academy of Sciences]] (GAS), from [[1959]]-[[2003]]: Research Fellow (1959-1966); Senior Research Fellow (1966-1982); Head of the Department of Cultural Plants (1982-1990); Founder and Head of the Department of Plant Embryology (now Laboratory of Plant Reproduction) (1990-2003) of this Institute. Since [[2003]] she has been Chief Research Fellow of the Department of Plant Reproduction. In [[1962]] she received a PhD degree in Biology; in [[1973]] a degree of the Doctor of Biological Sciences; and in [[1991]] the scientific title of Professor. In [[1998]] Guranda Gvaladze was elected as [[Academician]] of the [[Abkhazian Regional Academy of Sciences]] (based in [[Tbilisi]]). In [[1990]] she received the [[International S. Navashin Medal]] "For outstanding contribution in Plant Embryology". She is listed in the Encyclopedic work "Embryology of Flowering Plants: Terminology and Concepts" (in 3 volumes, [[St.Petersburg]], 1994-2000) as a Classic of Plant Embryology. Gvaladze is a member of: the International Association of Sexual Plant Reproduction Research/IASPRR ([[The Netherlands]]), the International Organization of Plant Information/IOPI ([[United States|U.S.]]), the European Association on Promotion of Science and Technologies/EUROSCIENCE ([[France]]), the Scientific Council of the Georgian Botanical Society (Tbilisi). Guranda Gvaladze's main fields of scientific activity are: Double Fertilization of Angiosperms and other important questions of Plant Embryology, Plant Cytology and Apomixis, etc. She is the author of the well-known hypothesis about the role of the Chalazal Polar Nucleus in the Double Fertilization and Consideration about the biological nature of polarization of the Embryo Sac ([[1976]]). She is author of more than 180 scientific-research publications (among them 3 monographs and 1 textbook). === '''Some''' of ''main'' scientific works of Guranda Gvaladze === * "Forms of Apomixis in the genus ''Allium L.''"- In: S.S. Khokhlov (Ed.), "Apomixis and Breeding", Amerind Pub., New Delhi-Bombay-Calcutta-New York, 1976, pp. 160-165 * "The Chalazal Polar Nucleus of the Central Cell of Angiosperm Embryo Sac" (a monograph), Publishing House "Metsniereba", Tbilisi, 1976, 138 pp. (in Russian, English summary) * "Asynchronous Division in Embryo and Endosperm in ''Liliaceae''".- Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy, Delhi, B45, No 6, 1979, pp. 596-604 * "Gamets, Fertilization and Reproduction of Plants", Publishing House "Znanie", Moscow, 1981, 65 pp. (in Russian) * "Ultrastructural study of Embryo Sac of ''Galanthus Nivalis L.''"- "Fertilization and Embryogenesis in Ovalated Plants", VEDA, Bratislava, 1983, pp. 203-205 * "Is the Poligonum-type Embryo Sac primitive?" - J. Phytomorphology, Delhi (India), 40 (3&4), 1990, pp. 331-337 (Co-author: M.Sh. Akhalkatsi) * "Double Fertilization in ''Peperomia Pellucida''".- J. Phytomorphology, 48 (4), 1998, pp. 405-409 (Co-author: M.Sh. Akhalkatsi) * "Chromatin Diminution during Endosperm Development in ''Allium atroviolaceum Boiss. (Alliaceae)''".- Bulletin of the Georgian Academy of Sciences, 166, No 3, 2002, pp. 537-540 (Co-authors: N. Nadirashvili and M. Akhalkatsi. In English) * "Embryology of ''Gentiana angulosa'' and ''G.Pontica (Gentianaceae)''".- Proc. Georgian Acad. Sci., Biol. Ser. B, vol. 2, No 1-2, 2004, pp. 29-34 (Co-authors: M. Akhalkatsi, M. Gachechiladze and N. Taralashvili. In English). === See also === * [[List of Georgians]] * [[List of botanists]] === External links === *[http://www.acnet.ge/botany.htm N.Ketskhoveli Institute of Botany] {{DEFAULTSORT:Gvaladze, Guranda}} [[Category:1932 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Georgian botanists]] [[Category:Soviet biologists]] [[Category:Georgian scientists]] [[Category:botanists]] [[Category:People from Tbilisi]] [[ka:გურანდა ღვალაძე]]