Raoul A Robinson

Raoul A. Robinson (b. Sept 25, 1928 in Saint Helier, Jersey) is a Canadian/British plant scientist with more than forty years of wide-ranging global experience in crop improvement for both commercial and subsistence agriculture. He is best know for his application of system theory to crop pathosystems and the elucidation of the concepts of horizontal and vertical resistance and their implication on breeding for durable resistance.

Education

Graduated from Reading University in 1951.

Career

Over the course of his adventurous and productive career, Dr. Robinson has concentrated mostintensively on maize, potatoes, beans, and coffee. In addition, he has worked with cotton, tomatoes, dates, wheat, alfalfa, cocoa, cassava, coconut, tobacco, taro, sweet potato, vanilla, black pepper, and other crops.

Books

*cite book
last = Robinson
first = R.A.
title = Plant Pathosystems
publisher = Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York
date = 1987
pages = 184pp
*cite book
last = Robinson
first = R.A.
title = Host Management in Crop Pathosystems
publisher = Macmillan, New York (now McGraw-Hill), Collier-Macmillan, London
date = 1987
pages = 263pp
*cite book
last = Robinson
first = R.A.
title = Amateur Plant Breeder's Handbook 2004
publisher = [http://www.sharebooks.ca/ebooks_by_author2.php?author=Robinson%2C+Raoul+A./ Sharebooks]
date = 2004
pages =
url = http://www.sharebooks.ca/free_ebook_downloads.php?filename=Handbook.pdf
isbn = 0-9731816-2-1
*cite book
last = Robinson
first = R.A.
title = Amateur Potato Breeder's Manual
publisher = [http://www.sharebooks.ca/ebooks_by_author2.php?author=Robinson%2C+Raoul+A./ Sharebooks]
date =
pages =
url = http://www.sharebooks.ca/free_ebook_downloads.php?filename=SpudsManual.pdf
isbn =
*cite book
last = Robinson
first = R.A.
title = Crop Histories
publisher = [http://www.sharebooks.ca/ebooks_by_author2.php?author=Robinson%2C+Raoul+A./ Sharebooks]
date =
pages =
url = http://www.sharebooks.ca/free_ebook_downloads.php?filename=CropHistories.pdf
isbn = 0-9731816-4-8
*cite book
last = Robinson
first = R.A.
title = Farming And Us: The Influence of Agriculture on Human Behaviour
publisher = [http://www.sharebooks.ca/ebooks_by_author2.php?author=Robinson%2C+Raoul+A./ Sharebooks]
date =
pages =
url = http://www.sharebooks.ca/free_ebook_downloads.php?filename=FarmingAndUs.pdf
isbn = 0-9731816-1-3
*cite book
last = Robinson
first = R.A.
title = Return to Resistance: Breeding Crops to Reduce Pesiticide Depedency
publisher = [http://www.sharebooks.ca/ebooks_by_author2.php?author=Robinson%2C+Raoul+A./ Sharebooks]
date =
pages =
url = http://www.sharebooks.ca/free_ebook_downloads.php?filename=ReturnToResistance.pdf
isbn = 0-9731816-0-5
*cite book
last = Robinson
first = R.A.
title = Self-Organising Agro-Ecosystems
publisher = [http://www.sharebooks.ca/ebooks_by_author2.php?author=Robinson%2C+Raoul+A./ Sharebooks]
date =
pages =
url = http://www.sharebooks.ca/free_ebook_downloads.php?filename=AgroEcosystems.pdf
isbn = 0-9731816-3-X

Articles

*cite journal
last = Roberto
first = Garcia
authorlink =
coauthors = Raoul A. Robinson, J. Alejandro Aguilar-P, Sergio Sandoval, Remigio Guzman
title = Recurrent selection for quantitative resistance to soil-borne diseases in beans in the Mixteca region, Mexcico
journal = Euphytica
volume = 130
pages = 241–247
date = 2003
url = http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=14637324/
doi = 10.1023/A:1022824708377
*cite journal
last = Robinson
first = R.A.
authorlink = Raoul A Robinson
title = Disease resistance terminology
journal = Rev. Appl. Mycol.
volume = 48
pages = 593–606
date = 1969
*cite journal
last = Robinson
first = R.A.
authorlink = Raoul A Robinson
title = Vertical resistance
journal = Rev. Plant. Path.
volume = 50
pages = 233–239
date = 1971
*cite conference
last = Robinson
first = R.A.
title = Potato development. Rept. to the Govt. of Kenya
booktitle = TA3208, FAO, Rome
date = 1973
pages = 30pp
*cite journal
last = Robinson
first = R.A.
authorlink = Raoul A Robinson
title = Horizontal resistance
journal = Rev. Appl. Mycol.
volume = 52
pages = 483–501
date = 1973
*cite conference
last = Robinson
first = R.A.
title = Terminal report of the FAO Coffee Pathologist to the Government of Ethiopia
booktitle = FAO, Rome, AGO/74/443
date = 1974
pages = 16pp
*cite journal
last = Robinson
first = R.A.
authorlink = Raoul A Robinson
title = Permanent and impermanent resistance to crop parasites: A re-examination of the pathosystem concept with special reference to rice blast
journal = Z. Pflanzenzuchtg.
volume = 83
pages = 1–39
date = 1979
*cite conference
last = Robinson
first = R.A.
title = Theoretical resistance models
booktitle = Durable Resistance in Crops
date = 1982
pages = 45-55
publisher = Plenum Press, New York and London
*cite conference
last = Robinson
first = R.A.
title = Pathosystem management
booktitle = Durable Resistance in Crops
date = 1982
pages = 237-247
publisher = Plenum Press, New York and London
*cite journal
last = Robinson
first = R.A.
authorlink = Raoul A Robinson
coauthors = L. Chiarappa
title = Host resistance to crop parasites
journal = Integrated Pest Management Reviews
volume = 2
pages = 103–107
date = 1997
doi = 10.1023/A:1018492732432
*cite journal
last = Robinson
first = R.A.
authorlink = Raoul A Robinson
coauthors = L. Chiarappa
title = The international program on horizontal resistance
journal = FAO plant protection bulletin
volume = 25
pages = 197–200
date = 1977
*cite journal
last = Robinson
first = R.A.
authorlink = Raoul A Robinson
coauthors = A.H. Ramos
title = Bacterial wilt of potatoes in Kenya
journal = E. Afric. Agric. For. J.
volume = 30
pages = 59–64
date = 1964