Michael Thomas Jackson OBE. (born 1948). Plant taxonomist, appointed as an OBE in the New Year's Honours List (2012)[1] for services to international food science.[2][3]
Studied Environmental Botany and Geography at the University of Southampton (1970), at Birmingham University on the M.Sc. course in the 'Conservation and Utilization of Plant Genetic Resources' (1971) followed by a Ph.D. on researching the evolution of the potato, much of it based in Peru.[4] Then at the International Potato Center (CIP), Lima, Peru, until 1981. He taught plant taxonomy and crop plant evolution at the University of Birmingham (1981 - 1991). Next he was at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in the Philippines (1991 - 2010). He was Head of the Genetic Resources Center at IRRI (1991 - 2001), which included responsibility for managing the International Rice Genebank Collection (IRGC), and from 2001 until he retired in 2010 he was IRRI's Director for Program Planning and Communications.[3][2] He has published over 100 articles.[5][6]
Elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1972.[7]
References
edit- ^ "Honours". Times. 31 December 2011 – via The Times Digital Archive.
- ^ a b "Michael T. Jackson". Researchgate.
- ^ a b "A little background . . ". mikejackson1948.blog.
- ^ "The evolutionary significance of the triploid cultivated potato, Solanum X chaucha Juz. et Buk". University of Birmingham.
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- ^ "Record of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London for the Session 1971-72". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 4 (4): 323–362. December 1972. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1972.tb00699.x – via Oxford University Press.
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