50 years ago K.H. started his scientific carrier at the famous Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung, IPK) in Gatersleben (E Germany) founded by the geneticist Hans Stubbe in 1943. He joined the Taxonomy department which had been established and lead for many years by the taxonomist Rudolf Mansfeld, who produced and initiated globally acknowledged milestones regarding the taxonomic cataloguing of cultivated plants (Mansfeld 1959; Schultze-Motel 1986; Hanelt and IPK 2001, with participation of K.H. for the last two editions). R. Mansfeld had also built up a collection of plant genetic resources, at that time called "Sortiment" (assortment). K.H. had the privilege to work with Christian O. Lehmann, one of the key players in the upcoming global "plant genetic resources movement" of the 1980s and 1990s. In those years K.H. performed up to six collecting missions per year, totally numbering more than 70, covering countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America, and since 1993 K.H. headed the genebank (the former assortment) at IPK.
Karl Hammer resigns from being EiC for Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution (GRACE)
Laghetti G
2019
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50 years ago K.H. started his scientific carrier at the famous Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung, IPK) in Gatersleben (E Germany) founded by the geneticist Hans Stubbe in 1943. He joined the Taxonomy department which had been established and lead for many years by the taxonomist Rudolf Mansfeld, who produced and initiated globally acknowledged milestones regarding the taxonomic cataloguing of cultivated plants (Mansfeld 1959; Schultze-Motel 1986; Hanelt and IPK 2001, with participation of K.H. for the last two editions). R. Mansfeld had also built up a collection of plant genetic resources, at that time called "Sortiment" (assortment). K.H. had the privilege to work with Christian O. Lehmann, one of the key players in the upcoming global "plant genetic resources movement" of the 1980s and 1990s. In those years K.H. performed up to six collecting missions per year, totally numbering more than 70, covering countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America, and since 1993 K.H. headed the genebank (the former assortment) at IPK.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
