Aureliano Brandolini
Aureliano Brandolini (August 8, 1927 – September 5, 2008) was an Italian
Born in Calolziocorte, Italy, after studying at Liceo Alessandro Manzoni high school in Lecco with Giovanni Ticozzi, he graduated in agriculture at the University of Milan in 1950 and specialized in plant breeding and microtechnique at the Department of Botany and Agronomy at Iowa State University, in the United States, graduating in 1955.
Brandolini was the research director of the "Istituto di ricerche orticole" (Horticultural research institute)
Under the supervision of his teacher
With Jean Aimé Baumann and Gonzalo Avila of the Geneva-based "Fundación Simón I. Patiño", he established the Centre ecofitogenetico and the "Seed Center" in Pairumani, Bolivia, in order to study agricultural genetic resources and the production of improved varieties of Andes ridge and tropical crops. In collaboration with Adolfo Pons and Giovanni C. Vandoni, he studied the agronomic, morphological, and cytological traits of maize from Ecuador, they later classified in 6 sections, 18 race complexes and 34 races.[8] With Gonzalo Avila, A. Rodríguez, A.G. Brandolini, and other researchers he studied Bolivian traditional maize varieties, classifying 7 race complexes, 28 races and 108 agro-ecotypes.[9][10]
He studied the history of maize in Italy during 2005 and 2006, and characterized the traditional Italian varieties of the crop, by establishing the
See also
References
- ^ La Condecoracion al Merito de La Agricultura y Ganaderia Boliviana.
- ^ Istituto di ricerce orticole 1973. "Annali 1965-1970". Calderini, Bolonia, 52 p.
- CIMMYT (1987). The Future Development of Maize and Wheat in the Third World. Mexico, D.F.
- ^ Harvey, N. (1983). Agricultural Research Centres: A World Directory of Organizations and Programmes. Harlow, England: Longman.
- ^ Bianca, M. (1989). La Scienza a Firenze: Itinerari scientifici a Firenze e provincia. Firenze, Italy: Provincia di Firenze.
- ^ IILA (1987). Investigaciones sobre el mejoramiento genético y cultural de trigo duro, girasol, maíz, fríjol, lupino y haba en Bolivia. Rome, Italy: Instituto Italo-Latinoamericano.
- EUCARPIA, Weihenstephan, Bavaria, 57-94, 1971
- ^ Desarrollo de los cereales: maíz. (With Adolfo Pons and Giovanni C. Vandoni), Italconsult-OEA. Rome, 1963
- FAO, Rome, 1968
- ^ Razze di mais in Bolivia. G. Avila G., A.G. Brandolini, IAO, Florence, 1990
- ^ Il mais in Italia: storia naturale e agricola. (With A.G. Brandolini), CRF Press, Bergamo, 2005 [1] Archived 2009-05-31 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Il mais in Italia: storia naturale e agricola. II. Caratteristiche morfologiche. (With A.G. Brandolini), CRF Press, Bergamo, 2006
External links
- (in English and Italian) Consiglio per la Ricerca e la sperimentazione in Agricoltura Archived 2010-03-11 at the Wayback Machine
- (in English) European association on plant breeding (EUCARPIA) Archived 2021-06-15 at the Wayback Machine
- (in Spanish) Fundacion Simón I. Patiño
- (in English) Istituto agronomico per l'oltremare
- (in Italian and Spanish) Istituto Italo-Latinoamericano
- (in Italian) Fondazione Minoprio