Gebisa Ejeta

Gebisa Ejeta (kelahiran 1950) adalah pakar pemuliaan tanaman, genetika, dan profesor Universitas Purdue yang berdarah Ethiopia. Pada tahun 2009 ia memenangkan Penghargaan Pangan Dunia karena kontribusinya di produksi sorghum. Pada tahun 2011, Presiden Amerika Serikat Barrack Obama menunjuk Gebisa Ejeta sebagai anggota Board for International Food and Agricultural Development.

 Publikasi 
Saballos, A., G. Ejeta, E. Sanchez, C. Kang, and W. Vermerris. 2009. A genome-wide analysis of the cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase family in sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) identifies SbCAD2 as the brown midrib6 gene. Genetics 181:783-795.

Vogler, R., T. Tesso, K. Johnson, and G. Ejeta. 2009. Effect of allelic variation on forage quality of brown midrib sorghum mutants. African J. of Biochem. 3(3):70-76.

Peters, P., M. Jenks, P. Rich, J, Axtell, and G. Ejeta. 2009. Mutagenesis, selection, and allelic analysis of epicuticular wax mutants in sorghum. Crop Sci. 49:1249-1258.

Saballos, A., W. Vermerris, L. Rivera, and G. Ejeta. 2009. Allelic association, chemical characterization and sacharification properties of brown midrib mutants of sorghum (S. bicolor (L.) Moench). Bioenerg. Res. 1:193-204.

Rich, P. J. and G. Ejeta. 2008. Towards effective resistance to Striga in African maize. Plant Signaling & Behavior 3:9, 618-621.

Amusan, I. O., P. J. Rich, A. Menkir, T. Housley, and G. Ejeta. 2008. Resistance to Striga hermonthica in a maize inbred line derived from Zea diploperennis. New Phytologist 178:157-166.

Knoll, J. E. and G. Ejeta. 2008. Marker-assisted selection for early season cold tolerance in sorghum: QTL validation across populations and environments. Theor. Appl. Genet.116:541-553.

 Referensi 

 Ethiopian American Wins 2009 World Food Prize Gebisa Ejeta developed drought-tolerant, parasite-resistant sorghum
 Dr. Gebisa Ejeta - Purdue University Department of Agronomy 
 Purdue plant breeder, geneticist receives 2009 World Food Prize 
 Sorghum researcher wins World Food Prize 

Kategori:Kelahiran 1950
Kategori:Ilmuwan Amerika Serikat
Kategori:Ilmuwan Etiopia
Kategori:Penerima penghargaan pertanian dan pangan