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ICAC names cotton researcher of the year

27/08/2019
The International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) has named Dr John Zhihong Yu, Research Geneticist with USDA-ARS in College Station, Texas, ias the 2019 ICAC Cotton Researcher of the Year. 

ICAC honours a leading cotton researcher each year by awarding a certificate of recognition, a shield and $1,000. 

Dr Yu was selected by an independent panel of five eminent experts from five countries.

Dr Yu has been working with the USDA-ARS since 1995.  He developed the world’s first integrated genetic, physical and transcript maps of cultivated tetraploid cotton chromosomes with large insert DNA clones, molecular markers, and EST genes; and high-density cotton genetic maps of portable SSR and SNP markers. 

He has received several national and international awards and published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers.

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