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Appendix D Biographical Sketches of Panel Members WILLIAM L. BROWN, retired president and chairman of Pioneer Hi- Bred International, received his Ph.D. from Washington University (St. Louis) in 1942. He joined Pioneer in 1945 as a cytogeneticist and did research in maize genetics and breeding until 1965, when he was appointed director of corporate research. He was elected executive vice president in 1973 and president in 1975. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and currently serves as chairman of the Board on Agriculture, National Research Council-National Acad- emy of Sciences. Dr. Brown's research has centered around maize genetics and breeding, racial relationships in maize, evolution of North American maize, and conservation and utilization of genetic resources. RICARDO BRESSANI, head of the Divison of Food and Agricultural Science and research coordinator of the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP), Guatemala, received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Purdue University in 1956; an M.S. from Iowa State University, and a B.S. from the University of Dayton. He has been a member of the professional staff of INCAP since 1956 and visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Rutgers University in nutrition and food science. His work has dealt with the nutritional quality of basic food crops and human nutrition research. After the discovery of opaque-2 at Purdue, he evaluated samples for nutritional quality, using children and demonstrating the exceptional qualities of this type of maize. During his career at INCAP, Dr. Bressani has been involved in the development of high-quality foods such as INCAPARINA, MAISOY, and others; in studying new sources of nutritents; in food processing and evaluation; in human and animal nutrition; and in nutrition-intervention studies. His current work is on amaranth grain and food grain legumes, particularly common beans. He has published many scientific articles and chapters and has edited a number of proceedings of conferences. He is editor of Archives Latinoamericanos de Nutricion and of the Amaranth Newsletter. He 89
90 QUALITY-PROTEIN MAIZE is a foreign associate of the U. S. National Academy of Sciences, founding member of the Third World Academy of Sciences, and Doctor Honoris causa in Agriculture from Purdue University. Recently he was granted the World Prize "Albert Einstein Award," by the World Cultural Council. DAVID v. GLOVER, professor of plant genetics and breeding, Department of Agronomy, Purdue University, received a B.S. in Agronomy in 1954 and an M.S. in Plant Breeding in 1959 from Utah State University. He received a Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of California, Davis, in 1962, and has served on the faculty at Purdue since that time. His research has centered around the genetics, cytogenetics, physiological genetics, and breeding of maize germplasm with major emphasis on improvement of carbohydrate, protein, and nutritional quality factors. He served as principal investigator and coordinator of the Purdue-U.S. Agency for International Development project on the inheritance and improvement of protein quality and content in maize. He was involved in consultancy activities on protein and nutritional- quality improvement in cereals. ARNEL R. HALLAUER, research geneticist, USDA/ARS and professor of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, received his Ph.D. from Iowa State University in 1960 and has been stationed at Ames since 1962. His research interests have emphasized basic research of maize relative to quantitative genetics and recurrent selection and the eval- uation and adaptation of exotic germplasm for the U.S. Corn Belt. He has written one book, Quantitative Genetics in Maize Breeding, serves as an editor for four journals, and has written numerous articles for scientific journals. VIRGIL A. JOHNSON is leader of wheat research, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He re- ceived his Ph.D. degree in plant breeding and genetics from the University of Nebraska in 1952. He coordinates the cooperative state- federal hard red winter wheat program in central United States and supervises an international winter wheat evaluation network in 38 countries. He has been active in numerous international wheat activ- ities. His research has involved the development of improved wheat varieties for the hard red winter wheat regions of the United States and the genetics and physiology of high protein in wheat. CALVIN o. QUALSET, director of the California Genetic Resources Conservation Program and professor of agronomy at the University of California, received a Ph.D. in Genetics from that institution in 1964. He has served on the faculty at the University of Tennessee and
APPENDIX D 91 was a department chairman and later associate dean at U.C. Davis during the period 1975-1986. His research area is on the genetics, breeding, and genetic resources of cereal crops, especially focusing on wheat and triticale. He leads a team that has introduced numerous wheat and triticale varieties to California agriculture and has published extensively on the genetics of characters important in adaptation of wheat to specific environments. He has served on several consultancies in developing countries and was a Fulbright Scholar to Australia in 1976 and Yugoslavia in 1984. NOEL D. VIETMEYER, staff officer and technical writer for this study, is a senior program officer of the Board on Science and Technology for International Development. A New Zealander with a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, he now works on innovations in science and technology that are important for the future of developing countries.
