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Suggested Citation:"D Biographical Sketches of Panel Members." National Research Council. 1989. Lost Crops of the Incas: Little-Known Plants of the Andes with Promise for Worldwide Cultivation. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/1398.
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Suggested Citation:"D Biographical Sketches of Panel Members." National Research Council. 1989. Lost Crops of the Incas: Little-Known Plants of the Andes with Promise for Worldwide Cultivation. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/1398.
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Appendix D Biographical Sketches of Pane! Members HUGH L. POPENOE (Chairman) is professor of soils, agronomy, botany, and geography and director of the Center for Tropical Agriculture and International Programs (Agriculture) at the University of Florida, Gainesville. His principal research interest has been tropical agri- culture and land use. His early work in shifting cultivation is one of the few contributions to knowledge of this system. He was born in Guatemala and has traveled and worked in most of the countries in the tropical areas of Latin America, Asia, and Africa. He is chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Escuela Agr~cola Pana- mericana in Honduras, visiting lecturer on tropical public health at the Harvard School of Public Health, and is a fellow of the American Society of Agronomy, the American Geographical Society, and the International Soils Science Society. His father, Wilson Popenoe (1892-1975), was a plant explorer who traveled extensively through the Andes and was a pioneer in the promotion of the more extensive use of Andean fruits and other crops. STEVEN R. KING iS currently chief botanist for Latin America for The Nature Conservancy's Latin America Science Program. Prior to 1989, Dr. King was a research associate with the Committee on Managing Global Genetic Resources of the National Research Council's Board on Agriculture. He received his B.A. from the College of the Atlantic in 1980, and his M. S. from the City University of New York in 1986. In 1988, he received his Ph.D. from the City University of New York, where he worked with the Andean tuber crop complex (potatoes, oca, mashua, ulluco, and mace) and searched for the wild ancestors of modern cultigens. He has done field work throughout Latin America as well as in Southeast Asia. From 1986-1988 he was a fellow of The New York Botanical Garden's Institute of Economic Botany. 399

400 LOST CROPS OF THE INCAS JORGE LEON iS one of the world's foremost experts on Andean agriculture. A native of Costa Rica, he received his Ph.D. in botany from Washington University (under the famed economic botanist Edgar Anderson). He became botanist and head of the Plant Industry Department at IICA in Turrialba, Costa Rica, and then spent seven years heading the Andean Zone Research Program at IICA in Lima, Peru. Subsequently, he was with the FAO in Rome and was for many years chief of FAO's Crop Ecology and Genetic Resources Unit. After leaving FAO he was chief of the Genetic Resource Unit, Centro Agronomica Tropical de Investigacion y Ensenanza (CATIE) until his retirement. Dr. Leon is a fellow of the Linnean Society and author of some 60 technical articles, 5 bulletins, 2 books, and 40 technical missions and consultations. His book Plantas Alimen- ticias Andinas is a classic survey of the native crops of the Andes. LUIS SUMAR KALINOWSKI, Centro de Investigaciones de Cultivos Andinos, Universidad Nacional Tecnica del Altiplano, Cuzco, Peru, received his degree of agricultural engineering from the University of Cuzco in 1961. Postgraduate studies were in phytogenics at the National University of Cuzco. From 1964 to 1975, he was associate professor of vegetative therapeutics at the University of Cuzco, while also serving with the Department of Agricultural Development of Cuzco Corporation (a quasi-governmental institution). He was concurrently an instructor at the University of Lima and the National Agricultural University at La Molina during 1974. Since 1975, Dr. Sumar has been a principal professor in the Agriculture Department of the University of Cuzco. He was made head of the department in 1981. Dr. Sumar has been involved with nutrition, pathology, genetic conservation, and plant improvement for many years, and has traveled worldwide as a plant collector and as a consultant. In 1982 he became the only civilian recipient of Peru's Gold Medal of the Order of the Sun, in recognition of his contributions to the nutritional well-being of the poor. NOEL D. VIETMEYER, staff officer and technical writer for this study, is a senior program officer of the Board on Science and Technology for International Development. A New Zealander with a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, he now works on innovations in science and technology that are important for the future of developing countries.

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This fascinating, readable volume is filled with enticing, detailed information about more than 30 different Incan crops that promise to follow the potato's lead and become important contributors to the world's food supply. Some of these overlooked foods offer special advantages for developing nations, such as high nutritional quality and excellent yields. Many are adaptable to areas of the United States.

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