Marijan Jošt

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Marijan Jošt (born May 9, 1940 in Ptuj , Yugoslavia ; † December 21, 2021 in Koprivnica , Croatia ) was a Yugoslav or Croatian agricultural scientist and geneticist .

Life

Marijan Jošt first studied at the Agricultural Institute of the University of Zagreb in Križevci , which has continued to exist since its spin-off as Visoko gospodarsko učilište in 1998 , then agronomy , genetics and plant breeding at the Agricultural Faculty of the University of Zagreb, where he received his doctorate in 1973 and then worked as a scientist until 1984 was. In 1976/77 he had a research stay at the seed company Pioneer Hi-Bred in Hutchinson (Kansas) .

From 1985 he was Professor of Plant Breeding and Seed Production at the Agricultural Institute in Križevci. He bred several high quality varieties of winter wheat . In the 1990s he founded the seed research company Jost Seed Research in Križevci . He was a proponent of organic agriculture , advocated a ban on glyphosate and wrote two books in which he dealt critically with " green genetic engineering ". He was a member of the Bioethics Commission of the Government of the Republic of Croatia.

Marijan Jošt died at the age of 81 in the Koprivnica hospital as a result of a COVID-19 infection.

Publications (selection)

  • (with Ferdo Bašić and others): Pšenica. Put do visokih prinosa (Wheat. The way to high yields), 1988
  • (with Thomas Stan Cox): Relative genetic contributions of ancestral genotypes to Yugoslavian winter wheat cultivars , in: Euphytica , Jg. 45.1990, pp 169–177
  • (with Thomas Stan Cox): Intelektualni izazov tehnologije samouništenja - Intellectual challenge of self-destruction technology , 2003, ISBN 978-9536298181 (Croatian / English)
    • Serbian edition: Tehnologija samouništenja - Kakve su posljedice proizvodnje genetski modifikovane hrane? (Technology of self-destruction - What are the consequences of the production of genetically modified food?), 2005, ISBN 86-84091-50-7
  • The Ethics of Science and Technology , in: Ante Čović and Thomas Sören Hoffmann (Eds.), Integrative Bioethics. Contributions from the 1st Southeast European Bioethics Forum, Mali Lošinj 2005 , 2007, ISBN 978-3-89665-372-7 , pp. 143–153
  • GMO (iz) um bez (raz) uma (genetic engineering, invention without reason), 2016, ISBN 978-953-7764-14-2

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Povijest Učilišta. In: vguk.hr. Retrieved December 25, 2021 (Croatian).
  2. ↑ Zlatko Šimić: Umro je istaknuti agronom Marijan Jošt: bio je naš najveći oplemenjivač bilja i protivnik GMO-a i glifosata. In: jutarnji.hr . December 23, 2021, accessed December 25, 2021 (Croatian).
personal data
SURNAME Jošt, Marijan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav or Croatian agricultural scientist and geneticist
BIRTH DATE May 9, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Ptuj
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 2021
PLACE OF DEATH Koprivnica