| Expert Name | Mr. Peter, Magnus, Alexander Tigerstedt |
| Title | Professor |
| Division | Plant Biology |
| Institution | University of Helsinki |
| City | Helsinki |
| Country | Finland |
| Telephone | 358 9 7085380 |
| Email | peter.tigerstedt(at)helsinki.fi |
| Work Experience | 1970- : 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). |
| Qualifications | M. For. Silviculture, Univ. of Helsinki, 1959
Ph.D., genetics, Univ. of Helsinki, 1969. |
| Number of Publications | 200 |
| Awards | 1. 1995: Doctor honoris causa, Estonian Agricultural University.
2. 1996: Conferer (promotor) centennial jubilee Faculty of Agriculture & Forestry, Univ. of Helsinki, Finland. |
| Other Activities | 1. 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). |
| Publications | 1. 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. |
| Discipline | Natural Resource Management |
| Last updated | 09/05/2007 11:16:00 |
|
|