Biography:
Antonova Galina Feodosievna, born 31 October, 1936. Graduated from the Siberian Institute of Technology (at the present time – M. F. Reshetnev Siberian State Aerospace University), Faculty of Chemical Technology (1959). Leading Research Scientist for the Laboratory on Physical and Chemical Biology of Timber Plants, Department on Physical and Chemical Biology and Biotechnology of Forest Ecosystems' Components at V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Doctor of Biological Sciences (1995). Expert in forest biology, biochemistry and physiology ofwoody plants. PI and CoPI for research projects, directed to study of biochemical and physiological processes of cell growth and development during wood formation. Member of the Russian Coordinating Council on Contemporary Problems of Wood Science (2004). Author (and co-author) of more than 180 papers, including 3 books. Some of them: "Cell Growth in Coniferous", Novosibirsk, 1999 (in Russian with summary and contents in English), "Physiology of Common Pine”, Novosibirsk, 1990 (in Russian with summary and contents in English), "Oxidative Stress in Plants: Causes, Consequences and Tolerance", New Delhi-Bangalore, 2012. Veteran of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. For a creative scientific activity of many years, outstanding contribution to the development of science, and in connection with 50-year jubilee of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, awarded by the "Silver Sigma" Honorary Sign of the Presidium of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2007), Honorary Notes, Diplomas and Letters of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Title : Annual ring formation in Scots pine stems as the reaction on seasonal changes in photosynthesis and respiration