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He has been married since , and has three children and eight grandchildren.

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From on his research focussed on plant-science-based contributions to food security in developing countries. Development and application of genetic engineering technology for and to "food security" crops such as rice Oryza sativa , wheat Triticum aestivum , sorghum Sorghum bicolor , and cassava Manihot esculenta. Focusing on problems difficult to solve with traditional techniques and in the areas of disease and pest resistance, improved food quality, improved yield, improved exploitation of natural resources, and improved biosafety.

This work was performed by an international team of in average 60 coworkers financed from competitive grants and core funding. The Golden Rice project, initiated in with a PhD project was possible only because of that core funding situation. Detals of the science can be found in ca publications in refereed journals and ca 30 international patents.

Teaching activities included lectures and courses in basic and advanced plant biology and plant biotechnology in the faculties of Biology, Agronomy, Pharmacy, Forestry, Environmental Sciences as well as International Training Courses, eg EMBO.

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About Contact Site map Links. Together with Peter Beyer he was one of the inventors of the Golden Rice technology. Since his retirement as a professor in , and far from settling down and quietly enjoying his pension, he has devoted enormous and selfless efforts to bring biofortified Golden Rice to those who need it. Prof Potrykus was born in Hirschberg, Silesia, Germany.

Member of the Pontifical Academy of Science of the Vatican. Novartis Found Symp ; discussion Plant J Plant Physiology PNAS