Plant Breeder To Head Colorado State's Soil And Crop Sciences
Monday, June 15, 1998
FORT COLLINS--Local resident James S. Quick will become head
of the soil and crop sciences department in Colorado State
University's College of Agricultural Sciences July 1.
Quick, a full professor who joined Colorado State in 1981,
has served as acting department head for the past year. He has
also taught and conducted research and extension at North Dakota
State University in Fargo; the Wheat Research Institute in
Queensland, Australia; and the Plant Breeding Institute in
Cambridge, England; and has worked as a geneticist for the
Rockefeller Foundation in Hyderabad, India and at the
International Center for the Improvement of Wheat and Maize
(CIMMYT) in Mexico.
A specialist in wheat, Quick has led the development of
breeding improved strains of hard red winter wheat and durum
wheat and has edited the Annual Wheat Newsletter from 1983 to
1994. He recently helped develop and release a wheat cultivar for
the western Great Plains that is resistant to the Russian wheat
aphid, an insect that caused $110 million in losses to Colorado
wheat crops alone.
A member of the board of the Colorado Seed Growers
Association for 15 years, Quick has taught extensively and has
served as major advisor to 23 master's- and doctoral-level
students at Colorado State. A member of Sigma Xi and other
honorary and professional organizations, Quick has written or
edited 12 books and magazines and numerous papers. He earned a
bachelor of science in agronomy from North Dakota State in 1962
and master's (1965) and doctoral (1966) degrees in plant breeding
and genetics from Purdue University.
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