title: Ten years with Peter I. Steponkus (our collaboration on plant cold hardiness and membrane cryostability).
abstract: Immediately after starting my graduate study at the Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, in 1979, my supervisors began mentioning to me the name of a renowned cryobiologist who had published many important papers over a number of years. That name was Peter L. Steponkus. I met Pete for the first time in 1981 and following from that, I had fortunately had a long collaboration with Pete until his death, including my stay of more than 10 years in his laboratory at Cornell University. I learned from Pete a lot about the way to carry out scientific research. I would like to share my thoughts about Pete's contribution to the areas of plant and membrane cryobiology, for which he will long be remembered.
authors.affiliation: Division of Biosystem and Bioresource Technology, Cryobiosystem Research Center, Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University, Morioka 020-8550, Japan.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Uemura
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D015925:Cryopreservation / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D018521:Plant Physiological Phenomena; D014481:United States