W. Dennis Clark

Dennis has published scientific articles on the chemistry, classification, ecology, and evolution of plants. His specialties are flavonoids, especially their functions in plants and their roles in medicinal plants, and the molecular evolution of genes that control their biosynthesis.

Dr. Clark has been an educator for the past 25 years. During that time he has co-authored a best-selling college-level textbook on botany and taught courses in general botany, medical botany, plant chemistry, plant evolution, and the pharmacology of natural drugs.

Dennis Clark earned his bachelor's degree in biological sciences at Sacramento State College, emphasizing plant classification and ecology, and his Ph.D. in botany at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in plant chemistry. Dr. Clark has been on the faculty of Plant Biology at Arizona State University since 1976. He has also been a Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the National Science Foundation and has held research appointments as Visiting Professor at the Institute für Pharmazeutische Biologie, Universität Heidelberg, Germany, and at the Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside.

He has published numerous scientific articles on the chemistry, classification, ecology, and evolution of plants. His specialties are flavonoids, especially their functions in plants and their roles in medicinal plants, and the molecular evolution of genes that control their biosynthesis. Dr. Clark has been an educator for the past 25 years. During that time he has co-authored a best-selling college-level textbook on botany and taught courses in general botany, medical botany, plant chemistry, plant evolution, and the pharmacology of natural drugs.

wdclark@usbotanicals.net
Arizona State University, Department of Plant Biology.
More information about Dr. Clark's work is available at: http://ls.la.asu.edu/plantbiology/faculty/clark.htm

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