Walter Schuster (plant breeder)

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Walter Heinrich Schuster (born November 7, 1918 in Wetzlar ; † May 20, 2010 ibid) was a German agricultural scientist in the field of plant breeding .

Walter Schuster (1998)

Life

Schuster was an important plant breeder in Germany and was a student of Eduard von Boguslawski in Giessen, where he received his doctorate in 1951 with the dissertation "Investigations into the flowering and fertilization conditions of the sunflower (Helianthus annus L.)" agr. received his doctorate. After many years as a scientific clerk at the Federal Plant Variety Office , he went to the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . There he took over the management of the plant breeding department at the Institute for Plant Cultivation and Plant Breeding in the 1960s, where he completed his habilitation on the subject of "Inbreeding and heterosis in sunflowers", received the " venia legendi " on February 24, 1965 January 1971 appointed professor.

Schuster's activity extended to the cultivation of numerous conventional agricultural crops and those with a special cultural character: winter and summer rape , white and black mustard , oil radish , flax , sunflowers , soybeans , sorghum , phacelia , oil pumpkin and later maize. Since it was partly about the introduction of new plants, Schuster and his colleagues carried out extensive studies to clarify the flowering and fertilization biology as well as the growth physiology, which were reflected in numerous publications. Above all, he was concerned with crops that were in danger of being forgotten as objects of popular cultivation. The diversity of the species he breeds, probably more so than his most successful varieties, has also made him internationally known.

Most important work

Schuster achieved great merits as co-editor of the two-part work "Textbook of the Breeding of Agricultural Crops" , which was published in several editions, together with Mudra, Fischbeck and Plarre,

In total, at least 116 cultivars of 20 different species were made from material from Schuster, including the erucic acid-free rapeseed varieties that were the leading erucic acid-free varieties in Germany in the 1970s and 1980s. As an academic teacher, he supervised one post-doctoral student, 35 doctoral students and a large number of diploma students. He has published more than 240 scientific articles in journals and proceedings, eight specialist books and 16 articles in handbooks and textbooks. In addition, he published countless photos, not just scientific ones, that he himself took with the Leica.

Works (selection)

  • Textbook on the breeding of agricultural crops together with Mudra, Fischbeck and Plarre, 2nd edition 1985, ISBN 3-489-70910-1
  • Appendix and evaluation of field tests (with J. v. Lochow), 3rd edition 1992, ISBN 3-7690-0300-4
  • The agricultural technical assistant (with H. Geidel), 1977, ISBN 3-8001-2116-6
  • Breeding the Sunflower , 1993, ISBN 3-489-53310-0
  • Oil plants in Europe (with RA Marquard) DLG-Verlag Frankfurt am Main, 1992, ISBN 3-7690-0501-5
  • The oil pumpkin (Curcurbita pepo L.) , advances in arable and crop production, Paul Paray Verlag, Berlin and Hamburg, 1977
  • Legumes for grain use Prof. Dr. Walter H. Schuster with contributions by. Prof. Dr. Joachim Alkämper Prof. Dr. Richard Marquard ... www.genres.de/leguminosen/
  • Carbohydrates in seeds of cereals and pseudograins as well as in tubers, roots and whole plants of various species (together with Richard A. Marquard), online at uni-giessen.de

lectures

  • Introduction to Plant Breeding
  • Methods of plant breeding
  • Special plant breeding
  • Plant breeding exercises
  • Plant cultivation and plant breeding seminar
  • Plant cultivation internship including seed and variety studies
  • Temporary representation in plant cultivation , as well as courses in photography .

Memberships in scientific societies and committees

  • Society for Crop Science , 1972 to 1978 managing director of this society
  • International Biometric Society, German Region
  • German Society for Fat Science , 1980 to 1985 second chairman of the oil plants department
  • DLG Committee for Biometrics and Experiments , 1979 to 1981 chairman of this committee
  • Member of the DLG Plant Breeding Committee until 1984
  • German Maiskommitee , 1979 to 1993
  • Working group applied botany
  • Chairman of the Scientific Committee for the 4th International Rapeseed Congress in Giessen 1974
  • Member of the Group Consultatif International de Recherche sur le Colza
  • Member of the FAO working group for soybeans and sunflowers, 1979 to 1985
  • Cooperation in the university partnership Gießen-Gödöllő / Hungary (corn and sunflowers), 1982 to 1985 partnership officer of the University of Gießen
  • Member of the Federal Association of German Plant Breeders and the Southwest German Plant Breeders Association, and participation in the community for the promotion of German plant breeding
  • Cooperation in the field of oil plants in the partnership Gießen-Izmir / Turkey
  • Elected expert reviewer for the German Research Foundation (DFG) from 1976 to 1982 and reviewer for two priority programs

Awards

  • Plaque of honor from the Zagreb Faculty of Agriculture by the Institute of Plant Cultivation and Plant Breeding, 1983
  • Awarded the "Gold Medal of Honor for Special Merits" on November 1, 1983 by the Hessian Minister for State Development, Environment, Agriculture and Forests
  • Honorary member of the Society for Crop Science, 1993

swell

  • Theophil Gerber: personalities from agriculture, forestry, horticulture and veterinary medicine ; Biographical lexicon, NORA publishing group Dyck & Westerheide, Berlin, ISBN 3-936735-67-0
  • Walter Habel (Author), Norbert Beleke (Ed.): Who is who? , Federal Republic of Germany 2004/2005; ISBN 978-3795020293
  • Manfred Raupp: Problems of the agricultural market in Germany , in: Landbaumann Ackerbauschule at the University of Hohenheim , 1971
  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2005, 20th Edition, Volume III, KG Saur Verlag, Munich; ISBN 3-598-23612-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oil from the sunflower , article in Spiegel der Forschung , 1984, on geb.uni-giessen.de (PDF; 1.98 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Schuster, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schuster, Walter Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German plant breeder
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Wetzlar
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 2010
Place of death Wetzlar