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Expert NameMr. Peter, Magnus, Alexander Tigerstedt
TitleProfessor
DivisionPlant Biology
InstitutionUniversity of Helsinki
CityHelsinki
CountryFinland
Telephone358 9 7085380
Emailpeter.tigerstedt(at)helsinki.fi
Work Experience1970- : Holder of full professor's chair in Plant- and Tree Breeding at the Univ. of Helsinki, Finland. 1972-1990: Chairman of the Finnish Gene Bank Committee. 1974-1980: Board member European Association for Research in Plant Breeding (EUCARPIA). Vice Chairman of board 1989-1992, President 1993-1995. 1983- : Editor for the international journal "Theoretical and Applied Genetics" (Springer Verlag, Germany). 1985-1987: Board of Trustees of ICRISAT (International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics). 1987-1991: Chairman Program Committee, member of executive committee. 1993: Member of the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) to the CGIAR (Consultative Group of International Agricultural Research).
QualificationsM. For. Silviculture, Univ. of Helsinki, 1959 Ph.D., genetics, Univ. of Helsinki, 1969.
Number of Publications200
Awards1. 1995: Doctor honoris causa, Estonian Agricultural University. 2. 1996: Conferer (promotor) centennial jubilee Faculty of Agriculture & Forestry, Univ. of Helsinki, Finland.
Other Activities1. 1983: Invited speaker at the XV International Congress of Genetics, New Delhi, India. 2. 1961: Research Fellow, Harvard Univ., Arnold Arboretum (plant propagation) 3. 1972-1973: Visiting professor, Univ. of Wisconsin, USA. 4. 1978: Visiting researcher, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Beijing, China. 5. 1979-1980: Visiting professor, Univ. of California, Davis, Dept of Genetics (plant population genetics).
Publications1. Tigerstedt, PMA, 1969, Experiments on Selection of Developmental Rate in Drosophila melanogaster (Ph.D. diss.). Ann. Acad. Sci. Fenn., 148, 1-48. 2. Tigerstedt, PMA & Velling, P., 1986, The Genetic Anatomy of Harvest Index in Scots Pine and some Suggestions for Application in Breeding and Silviculture, In: Crown and Canopy structure in Relation to Productivity, 49-69, Ibaraki, Japan. 3. Tigerstedt, PMA, 1994, Adaptation, variation and selection in marginal areas, Euphytica, 77, 171-174. 4. Veteläinen, M., Nissilä, E., Tigerstedt, PMA and von Bothmer, R., 1996, Utilization of exotic germplasm in Nordic Barley breeding and its consequences for adaptation, Euphytica, 92, 267-273. 5. Tigerstedt, PMA (editor and author), 1997, Adaptation in Plant Breeding, 308 pp., Kluwer Academic Publishers, Amsterdam, Holland.
DisciplineNatural Resource Management
Last updated09/05/2007 11:16:00
 

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