Harrison G. Hughes

Education

Bachelor of Science in Botany, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, 1969. Doctor of Philosophy in Plant Genetics and Breeding, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 1974.

Career

Instructor, department horticulture Purdue University, 1973—1974. Teaching faculty, department plant science State University of New York, Cobleskill, 1974—1976, University Rhode Island, 1976—1977. Teaching/research faculty, department horticulture Colorado State University, Fort Collins, since 1977.

Visiting professor, department agronomy research University Kentucky, 1975. Sabbatical leave, research, Fruit and Nut Clonal Repository University California, Davis, 1984. Summer cooperative research SERI, 1991.

Sabbatical leave, research, plant molecular biology. lab United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland, 1992, sabbatical leave, research, plant germoplasm preservation research laboratory, National Seed Storage Laboratory, Fort Collins, Colorado, 98. Invited speaker in field.

Works

• Other Work

  • Contributor articles to professional journals. Co-author: Glossary of Plant Biotechnology and Tissue Culture, 1999.

Membership

Member of American Genetic Association, International Horticultural Society, International Plant Tissue Culture Association, American Society for Horticultural Science (president, Western regions 1991, candidate for vice president for education 1994, Outstanding Graduate Educator award 1994), Beta Beta Beta, Gamma Sigma Delta, Alpha Zeta, Phi Alpha Xi, Sigma Xi.