Frank Ordon

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Frank Ordon (born May 17, 1963 in Hildesheim ) is a German agricultural scientist specializing in plant cultivation and plant breeding . He is a professor at the Martin Luther University in Halle , took over the management of the Institute for Epidemiology and Resistance Resources in Aschersleben and the Institute for Resistance Research and Stress Tolerance in 2002 and has been President of the Julius Kühn Institute (JKI) with headquarters in Quedlinburg since January 2019 .

Live and act

Ordon studied agricultural science at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen (1983–1989). As a doctoral student of Wolfgang Friedt , he wrote his dissertation on the genetic analysis of the resistance of exotic barley to soil-borne, mosaic-inducing viruses, with which he obtained his doctorate at the Institute for Plant Cultivation and Plant Breeding in Giessen. With his habilitation thesis ː marker-assisted selection in resistance breeding in cereals - with special consideration of the barley pathosystem (Hordeum vulgare L.) - bymoviruses (BaMMV, BaYMV, BaYMV-2) in 1998, the habilitation and the award of the "venia legendi" for plant breeding and special Plant cultivation in Giessen.

In 2002 Ordon moved to the Federal Institute for Breeding Research on Cultivated Plants in Aschersleben to take over the management of the Institute for Epidemiology and Resistance Resources. With the establishment of the Julius Kühn Institute in 2008, he became head of the new specialist institute for resistance research and stress tolerance, which is located in Quedlinburg and at the test site in Groß Lüsewitz in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Ordon has been a professor at the Martin Luther University in Halle since 2012 .

In 2016 Ordon was also appointed Vice President of the JKI and thus Deputy to Georg F. Backhaus , whose successor as President of the JKI he became at the beginning of 2019.

Ordon is married and has two daughters.

Engagements and honors

The scientific achievement of Ordon lies in the elucidation of the genetic basis of the reaction of different cultivated plant species to biotic and abiotic stress and their utilization by means of molecular methods to improve the resistance and tolerance properties. This work thus makes an important contribution to environmentally and consumer-friendly plant production and to the adaptation of our cultivated plants to climate change.

Ordon is involved nationally and internationally. a. as executive vice president of the Society for Plant Breeding eV (GPZ). Ordon was a member of the Genebank Advisory Board of the Leibniz Institute for Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) in Gatersleben from 2008 to 2015 and its chairman from 2012 to 2015. He is also active on the advisory board of the State Plant Breeding Institute of the University of Hohenheim and chairman of the scientific advisory board of the Association for the Promotion of Plant Innovation (GFPi).

He is the editor of four renowned specialist journals and editor of the “Plant Breeding” magazine. Ordon is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Crop Research Institute in Prague and Chairman of the Research Committee of the Wheat Initiative, an international research initiative to improve the bread grain wheat.

In 1995 Ordon was awarded the " Kurt von Rümker " Prize from the Society for Plant Breeding (GPZ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ IDW on the appointment of Frank Ordon as Vice President of the JKI
  2. ↑ UPOV International on the curriculum vitae of Frank Ordon pdf accessed on November 9, 2018
  3. ↑ New JKI President Prof. Dr. Frank Ordon
personal data
SURNAME Ordon, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural scientist for plant breeding and Vice President of the JKI
DATE OF BIRTH 17th May 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildesheim