Summary:
Jack R. Harlan was one of the founders of the modern plant genetic resources
movement. His life work was dedicated to plant breeding, genetics and
systematics of domestication of cultivated plants, and collection of genetic
resources of many species from throughout the world. His collections work
rivaled that of Nicolai Vavilov and his insights on centers of crop
diversity clarified, corrected, and extended Vavilov's concepts. He was
greatly interested in archeobotany and anthropology and participated in
several field studies.
Jack was a former president of the Crop Science Society of America, a Frank
Meyer Medal winner, member of the US National Academy Sciences, and received
many other recognitions. He died in August 1998 at the age of 81. His fellow
crop scientists have organized a symposium that will highlight fields of
study that were favorite topics for Jack's research and show recent advances
since his work.
The title of the symposium was stolen from his last book, The Living Fields,
published in 1995.
* Tom Stalker <tom_stalker@ncsu.edu>, Calvin O. Qualset
<coqualset@ucdavis.edu>
"Living Fields": A Celebration of Jack Harlan's Crop Science
A Symposium
Crop Science Society of America
November 4, 1999
Salt Lake City, Utah
Co-organizers: T. Stalker, C. Qualset*
Speaker Topic
Ted Hymowitz Personal history of Jack Harlan
Ledyard Stebbins An Appreciation of Jack Harlan: My
First
Graduate Student [video interview]
Bruce Smith Archeobotany and Evolution of
Agriculture
Tom Stalker Origins of Crop Plants
Jan Valkoun & Adi Damania Collecting Plant Genetic Resources:
Principles
learned from H.V. Harlan,
N.I. Vavilov, and Jack
Harlan
Jan M.J. de Wet Crop Systematics: Lessons from Harlan's Work
John Doebley Genetic Architecture of Maize
Jan Dvorak Genetics of Domestication: Example
of Wheat
Hugo Perales In situ Conservation: Why Do Farmers
Grow
Maize Landraces in Mexico?
Masa Iwanaga Ex situ Conservation: A Global View
Cal Qualset What we have learned from large
genetic resource
collections
Wayne Hanna Breeding Forage Grasses: Harlan's
Contributions and Future
Opportunities, Including
Apomixis
Paula Bramel-Cox Strategies for Using Genetic
Resource Collection
in Crop Breeding: Example from Sorghum
Henry Shands Concluding Comments
****************************************
*Planning Committee: Cal Qualset, Tom Stalker, Jeff Dahlberg, Ted Hymowitz,
Henry Shands, Peter Bretting, Masa Iwanaga
Full day symposium: 20 minutes average per speaker. 13 speakers with 5
minutes for discussion
Convener: AM Tom Stalker; PM Cal Qualset
Session Chair: AM Jeff Dahlberg, PM Peter Bretting
Publication: To be determined
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