Robert H. Burris

Research.com Recognitions

• 2009 - Fellow of the American Society of Plant Biologists
• 1984 - Wolf Prize in Agriculture for his pioneering fundamental research on the mechanisms of biological nitrogen fixation and its application in crop production.
• 1979 - US President's National Medal of Science "For numerous original contributions leading to an understanding of the physiology and biochemistry of the process of biological nitrogen fixation.", Presented by President Carter at a White House Ceremony on January 14, 1980.
• 1978 - Edward W. Browning Award, American Society of Agronomy
• 1961 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 1955 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• 1954 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Best Publications

• Biological Nitrogen Fixation

  Robert H. Burris;Gary P. Roberts

  1846
  Citations

• In situ studies on N2 fixation using the acetylene reduction technique.

  W. D. P. Stewart;G. P. Fitzgerald;R. H. Burris

  1335
  Citations

• Methods for Growing Spirillum lipoferum and for Counting It in Pure Culture and in Association with Plants.

  Yaacov Okon;Stephan L. Albrecht;R. H. Burris

  557
  Citations

• A nitrogen pressure of 50 atmospheres does not prevent evolution of hydrogen by nitrogenase

  Frank B. Simpson;Robert H. Burris

  474
  Citations

• Acetylene reduction by nitrogen-fixing blue-green algae.

  W. D. P. Stewart;W. D. P. Stewart;G. P. Fitzgerald;R. H. Burris

  466
  Citations

• Nitrogenase and nitrogenase reductase associate and dissociate with each catalytic cycle.

  Robert V. Hageman;R. H. Burris

  362
  Citations

• Direct demonstration of ammonia as an intermediate in nitrogen fixation by Azotobacter.

  Jack W. Newton;P.W. Wilson;R.H. Burris

  296
  Citations

• Inhibition of nitrogenase-catalyzed reductions

  J.C. Hwang;C.H. Chen;R.H. Burris

  235
  Citations

• [37] Nitrogen fixation—Assay methods and techniques

  Unknown

  227
  Citations

• Activating factor for the iron protein of nitrogenase from Rhodospirillum rubrum

  Paul W. Ludden;R. H. Burris

  225
  Citations

• Interactions among substrates and inhibitors of nitrogenase

  Unknown

  224
  Citations

• Electron Paramagnetic Resonance of Nitrogenase and Nitrogenase Components from Clostridium pasteurianum W5 and Azotobacter vinelandii OP

  W. H. Orme-Johnson;W. D. Hamilton;T. L. Jones;M.-Y. W. Tso

  200
  Citations

• Oxidation-reduction properties of several low potential iron-sulfur proteins and of methylviologen.

  N A Stombaugh;J E Sundquist;R H Burris;W H Orme-Johnson

  171
  Citations

• REDUCTION OF ACETYLENE AND NITROGEN BY FIELD-GROWN SOYBEANS

  T. H. Mague;R. H. Burris

  166
  Citations

• Genetic engineering for nitrogen fixation

  Alexander Hollaender;R. H. Burris;P. R. Day;R. W. F. Hardy

  164
  Citations

• Transamination reactions in plants.

  D.G. Wilson;K.W. King;R.H. Burris

  161
  Citations

• Nitrogenase: the reaction between the Fe protein and bathophenanthrolinedisulfonate as a probe for interactions with MgATP.

  Torbjorn Ljones;R. H. Burris

  154
  Citations

• Mutations in the draT and draG genes of Rhodospirillum rubrum result in loss of regulation of nitrogenase by reversible ADP-ribosylation.

  Jihong Liang;G. M. Nielsen;D. P. Lies;R. H. Burris

  151
  Citations

• Hydrogen evolution and exchange, and conversion of N2O to N2 by soybean root nodules.

  G.E. Hoch;K.C. Schneider;R.H. Burris

  151
  Citations

• Hydrogen metabolism in isolated heterocysts of Anabaena 7120

  R. B. Peterson;R. H. Burris

  147
  Citations

• OXIDATION OF α-HYDROXY ACIDS BY ENZYMES FROM PLANTS

  C.O. Clagett;N.E. Tolbert;R.H. Burris

  145
  Citations

• Products of the oxidation of glycolic acid and L-lactic acid by enzymes from tobacco leaves.

  N.E. Tolbert;C.O. Clagett;R.H. Burris

  143
  Citations

• IN SITU STUDIES ON N2 FIXATION USING THE ACETYLENE

  Reduction Technique;W. D. P. Stewart;G. P. Fitzgerald;R. H. Burris

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