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56 SEEDWORLD.COM DECEMBER 2015 WHEREON THE WEB We have too many names to list in such a short space. Check out the full list of Founders online at SeedWorld.com100Founders. Inc. Newlin served as a cham- pion for the industry and gave farmers a voice helping to establish checkoff programs in eight key-corn producing states. He served on numer- ous boards and raised infinite amounts of money for various agricultural projects. Eda Reinot Pioneer of Inoculants Reinot and her team are responsible for the creation of products such as Vault HP Integral and Flo Rite that are available in the United States. Bernice Slutsky Leader in Biotech Policy Shes been influencing policy and how biotech events are handled from the time they receive regulatory approval for commercial use to how regulatory approvals are to be handled andor maintained once an events patent expires. O.J. Sommer Founder of Sommer Brothers Seed Company An innovative seedsman who tested new selection and drying methods through his company he was selected to be the first president of the newly formed Illinois Crop Improvement Association in 1922. He led the group that has played for nearly a century a significant role in preserving the purity of seed and certifying seed through- out the state. Harry Stine Owner Stine Seed Company Stine started one of the first soybean breeding programs outside of the university and was one of the first to patent the genetics of soybean seeds in the industry. As a businessman he negotiated deals licensing the genetics to companies such as Monsanto and DuPont. Its reported that more than 80 percent of the soybeans planted in the U.S. can be traced back to Stines germplasm. Today the company employs nearly 400 people in 16 states with a focus on corn and soybean genetics. M.S. Swaminathan Facilitated Adoption of Improved Wheat Varieties He converted a generation of farmers in India to new plant technology and high-yielding crop varieties. Having learned of Norman Borlaugs new dwarf Mexican wheat varie- ties Swaminathan invited him to India to help develop varie- ties that would work there. He set up test plots to bring farmers up to speed. After four crop seasons wheat pro- duction grew from 12 million to 23 million tons ending the need for grain imports. Surinder Vasal Co-Creator for Quality Protein Maize Combining cereal chemistry and plant breeding tech- niques Vasal worked with Evangelina Villegas to com- bine conventional maize with genetic modifiers. Throughout the 1970s they produced and analyzed germplasm at an astonishing rate sometimes processing up to 25000 sam- ples a year. By the mid-1980s the team had produced a QPM germplasm with hard kernel characteristics and taste similar to the traditional grain and with much higher nutritional content. Evangelina Villegas Co-Creator for Quality Protein Maize Along with Vasal Villegas was charged with developing a quality protein maize germ- plasm with much higher nutritional value than conven- tional maize. In the 1990s the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center gained the international support and funding to promote the QPM maize variety in Africa. Since then QPM has also saved lives in China Mexico and Central America. Henry Wallace Introduced the Concept of Hybrid Vigor He developed the first com- mercial hybrid corn in 1923. Confident that hybrid seed corn was the future Wallace went on to form the Hi-Bred Corn Company in Des Moines Iowa in 1926. By the early 1930s farmers were taking notice about 1 percent of the corn planted in Iowa came from Wallaces hybrid seed. By the mid 1960s almost the entire U.S. corn crop came from hybrid seed corn. The company is what we know today as DuPont Pioneer. James Watson and Francis Crick Determined the Structure of DNA The discover did not immedi- ately revolutionize agriculture but it did eventually lead to modern methods of selecting desirable traits. SW Bernice Slutsky