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56 SEEDWORLD.COM SEPTEMBER 2015 Responsible for writing much of Title V of the Plant Variety Protection Act of 1970 Walter O. Scott and his wife Elizabeth attended many meetings of the American Seed Trade Association of which they are pictured here in Washington D.C. In that time Scott became a force in the world of crop improvement. He was tireless in his work to show farmers how improved varieties could create higher-quality seeds. He became president of the International Crop Improvement Association in the late 1960s later renamed the Association of Official Seed Certifying Agencies. When Congress was writing the Plant Variety Protection Act of 1970 giving breeders exclusive control over new plant varieties for a certain period of time Scott was sought out as an expert on certified seed and wrote much of the laws Title V which allowed protected seed varieties to be sold as certified seed. That helped breeders retain the purity and high quality of their seeds. Scott co-authored Modern Soybean Production 1970 and Modern Corn Production 1982 bringing together science- based modern farming techniques for growers. When China opened its borders in the 1970s Scott was in a delegation sent to help the Chinese better grow soybeans. Scott was an elected fellow for the American Society of Agronomy the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Crop Science Society of America and he was active in the American Seed Trade Association. He received the University of Illinois College of Agricultures Funk Award the American Society of Agronomy Education Award the American Soybean Association Extension Education Award and was added to the Illinois Extension Advisers Association Hall of Fame. Scott died in 2001 at the age of 86. SW PHOTOJIMSHEARL.