Raoul A. Robinson

{{Short description|Canadian plant scientist}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

Raoul A. Robinson (September 25, 1928 in Saint Helier, Jersey - 25 July 2014) was 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 known 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.{{cite web|title=Raoul Arthur Robinson Plant Pathologist and Horizontal Resistance Breeder 1928-2014|url=https://www.apsnet.org/PUBLICATIONS/PHYTOPATHOLOGYNEWS/OBITUARIES/Pages/RobinsonRaoul.aspx|publisher=The American Phytopathological Society|access-date=21 February 2018}}

Education

He was educated at Victoria College, Jersey,Victoria College Register 1929-56 and graduated from the University of Reading in 1951.

Career

Over the course of his adventurous and productive career, Robinson concentrated most intensively 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

| year = 1987

| pages = 184pp

| no-pp = yes

}}

  • {{cite book

| last = Robinson

| first = R.A.

| author-mask=7

| title = Host Management in Crop Pathosystems

| publisher = Macmillan, New York (now McGraw-Hill), Collier-Macmillan, London

| year = 1987

| pages = 263pp

| no-pp = yes

}}

  • {{cite book

| last = Robinson

| first = R.A.

| author-mask=7

| title = Amateur Plant Breeder's Handbook 2004

| publisher = Sharebooks

| year = 2004

| url = http://www.sharebookspublishing.com/content/plant-breeding-ebooks-raoul-robinson

| isbn = 0-9731816-2-1

}}

  • {{cite book

| last = Robinson

| first = R.A.

| author-mask=7

| title = Amateur Potato Breeder's Manual

| publisher = Sharebooks

| url = http://www.sharebookspublishing.com/content/plant-breeding-ebooks-raoul-robinson

}}

  • {{cite book

| last = Robinson

| first = R.A.

| author-mask=7

| title = Crop Histories

| publisher = Sharebooks

| url = http://www.sharebookspublishing.com/content/plant-breeding-ebooks-raoul-robinson

| isbn = 0-9731816-4-8 }}

  • {{cite book

| last = Robinson

| first = R.A.

| author-mask=7

| title = Farming And Us: The Influence of Agriculture on Human Behaviour

| publisher = Sharebooks

| url = http://www.sharebookspublishing.com/content/plant-breeding-ebooks-raoul-robinson

| isbn = 0-9731816-1-3 }}

  • {{cite book

| last = Robinson

| first = R.A.

| author-mask=7

| title = Return to Resistance: Breeding Crops to Reduce Pesticide Dependency

| publisher = Sharebooks

| url = http://www.sharebookspublishing.com/content/plant-breeding-ebooks-raoul-robinson

| isbn = 0-9731816-0-5 }}

  • {{cite book

| last = Robinson

| first = R.A.

| author-mask=7

| title = Self-Organising Agro-Ecosystems

| publisher = Sharebooks

| url = http://www.sharebookspublishing.com/content/plant-breeding-ebooks-raoul-robinson

| isbn = 0-9731816-3-X

}}

Articles

  • {{cite journal

| last = Roberto

| first = Garcia

| author2 = Raoul A. Robinson| author3= J. Alejandro Aguilar-P| author4= Sergio Sandoval| author5= 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

| year = 2003

| url = http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=14637324/

| doi = 10.1023/A:1022824708377

| issue = 2

| url-access = subscription

}}

  • {{cite journal

| last = Robinson

| first = R.A.

| title = Disease resistance terminology

| journal = Rev. Appl. Mycol.

| volume = 48

| pages = 593–606

| year = 1969

}}

  • {{cite journal

| last = Robinson

| first = R.A.

| title = Vertical resistance

| journal = Rev. Plant. Pathol.

| volume = 50

| pages = 233–239

| year = 1971

}}

  • {{cite conference

| last = Robinson

| first = R.A.

| title = Potato development. Rept. to the Govt. of Kenya

| book-title = TA3208, FAO, Rome

| year = 1973

| pages = 30pp

| no-pp = yes

}}

  • {{cite journal

| last = Robinson

| first = R.A.

| title = Horizontal resistance

| journal = Rev. Appl. Mycol.

| volume = 52

| pages = 483–501

| year = 1973

}}

  • {{cite conference

| last = Robinson

| first = R.A.

| title = Terminal report of the FAO Coffee Pathologist to the Government of Ethiopia

| book-title = FAO, Rome, AGO/74/443

| year = 1974

| pages = 16pp

| no-pp = yes

}}

  • {{cite journal

| last = Robinson

| first = R.A.

| 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

| year = 1979

}}

  • {{cite conference

| last = Robinson

| first = R.A.

| title = Theoretical resistance models

| book-title = Durable Resistance in Crops

| year = 1982

| pages = 45–55

| publisher = Plenum Press, New York and London

}}

  • {{cite conference

| last = Robinson

| first = R.A.

| title = Pathosystem management

| book-title = Durable Resistance in Crops

| year = 1982

| pages = 237–247

| publisher = Plenum Press, New York and London

}}

  • {{cite journal

| last = Robinson

| first = R.A.

| author2 = L. Chiarappa

| title = Host resistance to crop parasites

| journal = Integrated Pest Management Reviews

| volume = 2

| pages = 103–107

| year = 1997

| doi = 10.1023/A:1018492732432

| issue = 3

}}

  • {{cite journal

| last = Robinson

| first = R.A.

| author2 = L. Chiarappa

| title = The international program on horizontal resistance

| journal = FAO plant protection bulletin

| volume = 25

| pages = 197–200

| year = 1977

}}

  • {{cite journal

| last = Robinson

| first = R.A.

| author2 = A.H. Ramos

| title = Bacterial wilt of potatoes in Kenya

| journal = E. Afric. Agric. For. J.

| volume = 30

| pages = 59–64

| year = 1964

}}

References