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Martin Steer MRIA is Professor Emeritus in the School of Biology and Environmental Science at University College Dublin. His research interests are genetic mechanisms involved in the formation of the Arabidopsis root hair and the selection and breeding of birch to develop commercial timber quality birch for Irish forestry. He is the co-editor of Darwin Praeger and the Clare Island Surveys (2009).