Robert Phillip Upchurch Collection 1941-2012

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Robert Phillip Upchurch Collection 1941-2012

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The Robert Phillip Upchurch Collection contains personal and professional papers of plant scientist Robert Phillip Upchurch. This collection contains annual reports, 1953-1965, written by Upchurch for a project at the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, as well as class notes, 1941-1949, from Upchurch's years as a student in crop science and plant physiology. Robert P. Upchurch's personal military records, 1948-1967, are included in the collection, as are the 1980-2006, and 1996-1999, family history quarterlies edited and published by Robert Phillip Upchurch. Also included are publications and other materials of the Plant Growth Regulation Society of America. Also included are the records of the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST), an organization of which Upchurch was a prominent member. The Development of Principles and Practices for the Control of Weeds in Cotton, Peanuts, Soybeans, Forage Crops, Turf and for the Control of Nutsedge, Johnson Grass and Woody Plants, Upchurch Bulletin, Englandia, Born in Wake County, North Carolina, on February 9, 1928, Robert Phillip Upchurch graduated from the North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering (later North Carolina State University) with a B.S. in crop science in 1948. He received a master's degree in 1949 and in 1953 was awarded a Ph.D. in plant physiology from the University of California, Davis. Upchurch was a member of the faculty at North Carolina State College from 1949 to 1965. From 1955 to 1957 Upchurch served in the United States Air Force with the rank of second lieutenant. From 1965 through 1975 he worked for the Monsanto Corporation in St. Louis, Missouri. From 1975 to 1990 Upchurch was a professor and head of the Plant Sciences Department at the University of Arizona.

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Plant growth regulator society of America

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The Society, created in 1973, is a nonprofit, educational and scientific organization that promotes knowledge about plant growth regulation in the form of meetings and published papers. Members of the Society are interested in the use of chemicals to beneficially modify the growth and development of plants. The organization's name was originally the Plant Growth Regulator Working Group and has since been changed to Plant Growth Regulation Society of America (1995). From the descripti...

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Upchurch, Michael, 1954-

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Upchurch, Robert Phillip

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Born in Wake County, North Carolina, on February 9, 1928, Robert Phillip Upchurch graduated from the North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering (later North Carolina State University) with a B.S. in crop science in 1948. He received a master's degree in 1949 and in 1953 was awarded a Ph.D. in plant physiology from the University of California, Davis. Upchurch was a member of the faculty at North Carolina State College from 1949 to 1965. From 1955 to 1957 Upchurch served in the U...

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Upchurch Family

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