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INSIDE IOWA STATE
February 15, 2002
Investing in People
Pioneer endows maize breeding chair
Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. has made a gift to endow a faculty chair
in corn breeding in the College of Agriculture. The Pioneer Hi-Bred
International Endowed Chair in Maize Breeding will enable the college to
recruit a world-class faculty member to lead the university's maize breeding
program. The chair holder also is likely to play a significant role in, or
hold the position of director of the Raymond F. Baker Center for Plant
Breeding in the Plant Sciences Institute.
The gift is part of Iowa State's Investing in People initiative, a two-year
effort to raise private funds for undergraduate scholarships, graduate
fellowships and faculty support.
The holder of the Pioneer maize breeding chair will have experience in
multidisciplinary and field-oriented research and the ability to develop
germplasm for regional agricultural systems. He or she will lead a research
program that emphasizes quantitative and population genetics, selection
theory and breeding methodology.
Iowa State's maize breeding program was initiated by Merrill Jenkins in 1922
and came to prominence under George Sprague, considered one of the fathers
of modern maize breeding. In 1959, Arnel Hallauer succeeded Sprague in
directing ISU's maize breeding program. Hallauer, who recently retired, was
part of a team of USDA and Iowa State scientists who developed the B73 line
of hybrid corn, one of six lines that are the basis for much of the
seed-parent lines of corn used in the United States and in temperate regions
worldwide.
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