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Cornell scientists honored
ITHACA, NY - Three Cornell
University scientists lave been
elected Fellows of the drop Science
Society of America (GSSA).
They are William D. Pardee,
professor of plant breeding; Royse
R. Murphy, professor emeritus of
plant breeding; and Neal F.
Jensen, the Liberty Hyde Bailey
Professor of plant breeding,
emeritus, all in the New York State
College of Agriculture and Life
Sciences at Cornell. They were
honored at the CSSA’s annual
meeting in Chicago for their
professional accomplishments in
the field of crop science and for
their services to the national
organization.
Pardee, chairman of Cornell’s
Department of Plant Breeding and
Biometry, is a specialist in field
crops and is recognized as an
authority on production and usage
of field crop seeds. A member of
the Cornell faculty since 1966,
Pardee was a faculty member at
the University of Illinois for five
years before he joined Cornell.
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several superior varieties of
alfalfa and other forage crops; his
varieties have greatly benefited
agriculture in the Northeast.
Alfalfa varieties developed under
his leadership are Mohawk (1965),
Honeoye (1974), Saranac-AR
(1974), Oneida (I 960), Iroquois
(1967), Saranac (1965), Mark II
(1965), and Cayuga (1960). In
addition, he developed the smooth
brqmegrass variety Saratoga in
1958. He was president of CSSA in
1961-1962, and served as Dean of
the Faculty at Cornell from 1964 to
1967 and as head of the Department
of Plant Breeding and Biometry
from 1953 to 1964.
Jensen is recognized in
ternationally as one of the leading
plant geneticists and a pioneer in
the methodology of plant breeding.
He has developed 20 new varieties
of wheat, oats, and barley, which
have helped New York and other
states in the Northeast boost their
grain productivity over the past
four decades. His honors include
the 1977 DeKalb Crop Science
Distinguished Career Award from
theCSSA.
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produced more than 150,000 pounds of milk to date and is classified 2E. Her son, Bur-
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PA. Mr. Covert has a son and a nephew currently enrolled in Alfred State's animal
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