Flashcards: Plant breeding

Plant breeding started with sedentary agriculture, particularly the domestication of the first agricultural plants, a practice which is estimated to date back 9,000 to 11,000 years.

Yüksel Tohumculuk (Yuksel Seeds) is a Turkish plant breeding company, based in Antalya.

Neelamraju Ganga Prasada Rao (1927–2016) was an Indian geneticist and plant breeder, known for his efforts in developing hybrid varieties of sorghum, which earned him the moniker, the father of hybrid sorghum.

Hari Krishan Jain (born 1930) is an Indian cytogeneticist and plant breeder, known for his contributions to the field of genetic recombination and the control of interchromosome level.

Yin T. Hsieh (Traditional Chinese: 謝英鐸) (Taiwan, 14 April 1929) is a Taiwanese scientist based in Dominican Republic.

The breeding of strawberries is a long story that starts with the selection and cultivation of European strawberry species in western Europe in the 15th century while a similar discovery and cultivation occurred in Chile.

Sant Singh Virmani is a US-based Indian plant breeder, rice scientist and a former Principal Scientist at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).

Enza Zaden is a plant breeding company from Enkhuizen in North Holland, which produces vegetable seeds for the professional market.

Manmohan Attavar is an Indian horticulturist, plant breeder, writer and the founder of Indo American Hybrid Seeds (IAHS), an organization engaged in scientific plant breeding and horticulture.

Jan Lužný, CSc. (4 February 1926, Liptovský Mikuláš – 29 January 2013, Olomouc) was a Czech plant-breeder and expert on the gardening.

Madappa Mahadevappa(born 4 August 1937), popularly known as Rice Mahadevappa is an Indian agricultural scientist and plant breeder, renowned for developing high yielding hybrid varieties of rice.

Khem Singh Gill (born 1930) is an Indian academic, geneticist, plant breeder and a former vice-chancellor of the Punjab Agricultural University.

Dilbagh Singh Athwal (born 1928) is an Indian geneticist, plant breeder and agriculturist, known to have conducted pioneering research in plant breeding.

The Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research was originally founded in Müncheberg, Germany in 1928 as part of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft.

The Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS) is a department of Aberystwyth University, and is located in Aberystwyth, Wales.