SHORT CV – Randolph M. Beaudry
Dr. Randolph Beaudry is a researcher/extension postharvest specialist at Michigan State
University. He began his career in horticulture with a BS degree from Ohio State University
and received his graduate education from the University of Georgia under Dr. Stanley Kays,
where he worked on ethylene release kinetics for ethylene-releasing compounds (MS) and
primary metabolism associated with banana ripening (PhD). He attended his first ASHS
meeting in McAllen Texas in 1983 while an MS candidate and has been a member of ASHS
since 1984. He has published 34 articles in ASHS journals (18:12:3 for JASHS:HSci:HTech),
reflecting roughly 30% of his publications. He is responsible for over 90 presentations at
ASHS meetings since 1987. In total, he has 112 peer-reviewed articles (2 additional accepted
for publication), 10 book chapters, and 4 patents to his credit. Grant funding is
approximately $5 million over his career. This funding was derived from a variety of sources
including horticulture industries, chemical companies, packaging companies, polymer
manufacturers, and federal grants on thematic areas of modified atmosphere packaging,
packaging design, fresh cut product safety, fruit and vegetable aroma biology, apple, mango,
sugarbeet, potato, and blueberry storage, plant growth regulator evaluation, 1-MCP utility,
breeding of stevia, and mechanical harvesting. Dr. Beaudry has served regularly as a
consultant for firms regarding the storage of fruits and vegetables, legal opinions and film and
package design. He has been an invited or keynote speaker in a number of international
venues in Brazil, Malaysia, Chile, Dominican Republic, Argentina, Germany, Belgium, Spain,
India, New Zealand, and several other countries and was twice an invited speaker and once a
session leader for the Gordon Conference for Postharvest Physiology. He has delivered
more than 150 presentations to lay audiences and developed 70 outreach articles, primarily
for the Michigan apple and blueberry industries. He is the coordinator of the bi-annual MSU
Controlled Atmosphere Storage Clinic and, in 2005, organized the 9th International
Controlled Atmosphere and Modified Atmosphere Packaging Conference upon its return to
its first venue in East Lansing, MI and seved as editor for the proceedings, which were
published as an Acta Horticulturae volume. He has served ASHS as an associate editor
(HortScience) and is active in a number of working groups, most notably, the Postharvest
Working Group (since 1990), for which he is a past chair and is currently secretary. He has
served on the ASHS Graduate Student Program Committee and is currently a member of
the ASHS Fruit Publication Award Team.
Current Appointment
50% Extension
50% Research
Education And Experience
B.S.
M.S.
Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Postharvest Specialist for Fruits and Vegetables
Postharvest physiology of quality maintenance
Horticulture
Horticulture
Horticulture
Horticulture
The Ohio State University
University of Georgia
University of Georgia
Michigan State University
1981
1985
1989
3/1989
Associate Professor Horticulture Michigan State University
Professor
Horticulture Michigan State University
Acting Chairperson Horticulture Michigan State University
7/1995
7/2001
7/2007-7/2009
Specialization and Areas of Professional Experience
Optimizing storage and harvesting techniques for preserving product quality and
reducing energy inputs
Application of modified atmosphere packaging techniques in postharvest physiology
Physical and physiological factors affecting the O2 tolerance of stored horticultural
commodities
Maturity assessment of horticultural commodities
Harvest indices for optimizing postharvest quality retention
Development and evaluation of non-destructive quality assessment techniques
Use of natural volatiles for prevention of decay of packaged produce
Glycolytic regulation of carbon flux during storage of fruits and vegetables
Aroma biochemistry and molecular regulation
Honors And Awards
2002 USDA Group Honor Award for Excellence for 2001
2006 ASHS Fruit Publication Award for 2005
2010 Gold Award for Poster, International Horticulture Congress, Lisbon
2010 Distinguished Service Award, Michigan State Horticultural Society
2012 Fruit Man of the Year, Michigan Pomesters
Relevant Publications
Beaudry, R.M., R. Severson, C.C. Black and S.J. Kays. 1989. Banana Ripening: Implications
of changes in the concentration of critical glycolytic intermediates and fructose 2,6bisphosphate. Plant Physiol. 91: 1436-1444.
Beaudry, R.M. and S.J. Kays. 1988. Flux of ethylene from leaves treated with a polar or
non-polar ethylene releasing compound. J. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci. 113: 784-789.
Cameron, A.C., R.M. Beaudry, N.H. Banks and M. Yelanich. 1994 Modified atmosphere
packaging of blueberry fruit: Modeling respiration and package oxygen partial
pressures at different temperatures. J. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci. 119:534-539.
Beaudry, R.M. 2000. Responses of horticultural commodities to low oxygen: limits to the
expanded use of modified atmosphere packaging. HortTechnology 10:491-500.
Mir*, N.A, E. Curell*, N. Khan†, M. Whitaker*, and R.M. Beaudry. 2001. Harvest maturity,
storage temperature, and 1-MCP application frequency alter firmness retention and
chlorophyll fluorescence of ‘Redchief Delicious’ apple fruit. J. Amer. Soc. Hortic. Sci.
125:618-624.
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Mir , N., M. Canoles*, R. Beaudry, E. Baldwin and C. Mehla†. 2004. Inhibition of tomato
ripening by 1-methylcyclopropene. J. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci. 129:112-120.
Vallejo†, F., and R.M. Beaudry. 2006. Depletion of 1-MCP by ‘non-target’ materials from
fruit storage facilities. Postharvest Biol. Tech. 40:177-182.
Park, S., N. Sugimoto*, M.D. Larson, R. Beaudry, and S. van Nocker. 2006. Identification
of genes with potential roles in apple fruit development and biochemistry through
large-scale statistical analysis of ESTs. Plant Physiol. 140:811-824.
Sozzi, G. and R.M. Beaudry 2007.
Current perspectives on the use of 1methylcyclopropene in tree fruit crops: An international survey.
Stewart
Postharvest Reviews (on-line publication). 10.2212/spr.2007.2.8.
Nanthachai*, N., Ratanachinakorn, B., Kosittrakun†, M., and R. Beaudry. 2007. Absorption
of 1-MCP by fresh produce. Postharvest Biol. Technol. 43:291-297.
Beaudry, R.M. and Vallejo†, F. 2010. Comparing the function of perforated and nonperforated film in MAP: Impact on the quality of broccoli. Proc. 9th Int’l Controlled
and Modified Atmosphere Conference. Acta Hort. 857:503-512.
Sugimoto*, N., D. Jones, and R.M. Beaudry. 2011. Changes in free amino acid content in
‘Jonagold’ apple fruit as related to branched-chain ester production, ripening, and
senescence. J. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci., 136:429-440.
Contreras*, C., N. Alsmairat†, and R. Beaudry. 2014. Prestorage conditioning and
diphenylamine improve resistance to controlled-atmosphere-related injury in
‘Honeycrisp’ apples. HortScience 49:76-81.
Sugimoto*, N., P. Forsline, and R. Beaudry. 2015. Volatile profiles of members of the
USDA Geneva Malus core collection: Utility in evaluation of a hypothesized
biosynthetic pathway for esters derived from 2-methylbutanoate and 2methylbutanol. Accepted, J. Ag. Food Chem.
Schwab, W., D. Schiller, C. Contreras, J. Vogt, F. Dunemann, B. Defilippi, and R. Beaudry.
2015. A dual positional specific lipoxygenase functions in the generation of flavor
compounds during climacteric ripening of apple Accepted, Hort. Research (Nature).
(This study is the first to directly implicate a specific lipoxygenase (see Park et al., 2006
above) in ester formation based on something more than gene expression and included,
protein, substrate, active site, subcellular localization, and volatile profile analyses)