Draft:Rainer Schultze-Kraft

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Rainer Schultze-Kraft (8 November 1941 in Freiburg im Breisgau – 16 February 2024 in Freiburg im Breisgau) was a German agricultural scientist. He was particularly committed to the preservation and sustainable use of genetic resources of forage plants in the tropics and subtropics.

Education and professional life

After graduating from high school in

Justus Liebig University Giessen. He received his doctorate (PhD) at the same university in 1976 with a topic on the suitability of species and ecotypes of the legume genus Stylosanthes (Dalbergieae) for pasture improvement in tropical savannas of South America, by the example of the Colombian Llanos Orientales, supervised by the German plant scientist Jochen Alkämper. During his doctoral research, from 1973 onwards, he worked at the international agricultural research institute International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) in Palmira, Colombia, first as a Visiting Research Associate, guided by the Australian agronomist Bela "Bert" Grof. From 1976, he headed the Forage Germplasm Section of CIAT's Tropical Pastures Program as a senior scientist.[1]
From 1991 to 2007, Schultze-Kraft was a full professor for grassland and pasture sciences] in the tropics and subtropics at the Institute for Plant Production and Agroecology in the Tropics and Subtropics at University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart.[2] After retiring in 2007, he lived alternately in Ginebra, Valle del Cauca, Colombia and the Black Forest. He was married to the Colombian María Cecilia Tascón, with whom he had two sons and a daughter. Rainer Schultze-Kraft was the younger brother of the translator and editor of Latin American literature Peter Schultze-Kraft (*1937).

Achievements

Schultze-Kraft's main scientific interest was the identification of forage

genebank. During the evaluation of large collections of potential forage legumes, previously botanically undescribed plant types or even new plant species were often discovered, which Schultze-Kraft published in collaboration with various plant systematics
specialists. Even after retirement, he continued to work on this.

Rainer Schultze-Kraft also distinguished himself by

Honors and awards

  • 1997 Fellow of the Tropical Grassland Society of Australia[1]
  • 2009 CIAT Emeritus Status[1]
  • 2016 Friendship Award by the Chinese Government [1]
  • 2022 International Science and Technology Cooperation Award of the Chinese Province Hainan[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Rainer Schultze-Kraft". Alliance Bioversity International - CIAT.
  2. ^ "Die Universität Hohenheim trauert um Herrn Professor Dr. Rainer Schultze-Kraft". Universität Hohenheim (in German).
  3. ^ "Tropical Grasslands-Forrajes Tropicales". www.tropicalgrasslands.info.
  4. ^ "Rainer und Peter Schultze-Kraft". www.mare.de.
  5. ^ "S. Fischer Verlage". S. Fischer Verlage.

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