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Professor. em. University of Bern Born:6 December 1940 in Bern, Thesis: vegetation and glacier history, summa cum laude in 1972 Bern University. Assisting to Swiss Atlas of Plant Distribution, first Swiss research department. lichenology (chemosystematics and bio-monitoring air pollution). Lectures in plant biodiversity and vegetation ecology, director of the Bern Botanic Garden 1996-2006 and Professor h.c. 2000. Sabbatical stays: Bergen, Norway, Duke University in North Carolina, University of the West Indies in Jamaica and Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis. Emeritus 2006, guest prof. Delft University of Technology, Sabanci University in Istanbul. Moderating ‘Berne Debates’, early blog on plant biotechnology, presently—ASK-FORCE at PRRI (Public Research and Regulation Initiative) http://pubresreg.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=70&Itemid=71,-FORUM at European Federation of Biotechnology http://www.efb-central.org/index.php/forums/,—KLAUSBLOG at Black Sea Biotechnology Association, http://www.bsbanet.org/klausblog/. Numerous committees: Chair European expert committee on plant conservation, Council of Europe, founding member Planta Europa, Swiss Biosafety Committee Biodiversity Section of EFB. Several Swiss and European research projects on gene flow, plant conservation, lichen chemosystematics and monitoring air pollution. Publications on biogeography, vegetation history, vegetation ecology, plant systematics (monography on Bromus), gene flow of crops and their wild relatives and agricultural biodiversity. He also has a special interest in Pythagorean Harmonics science and holistic questions in evolution.
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An introduction to modern plant breeding trends |
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About Innovation, I am presently finishing the probably most extensive review on future regulation and Gene Editing methods, it will reach by finishing some 140pp. Here a draft which still needs a few additions, but it provides a good insight on the character of the paper: It includes a section on Gene editing with a methodological review, the discovery history going back to 2009 and 2002, etc. Ammann Klaus. (20150615). Towards a Product-based Regulation of GMOs, a Follow-up for 2015, last amendment August 28, 2015. Klaus Ammann, Neuchâtel, Switzerland. http://www.ask-force.org/web/Genomic-Misconception/Ammann-Towards-Product-Oriented-Regulation-a-Followup-20150615.pdf. On another, not less important topic, I know of an initiative of Ingo Potrykus and Rob Richards, Nobel Prize Winner, who both know Alexandria from events, that they start an initiative against Greenpeace on the Golden Rice, an urgent humanitarian problem. I have prepared for months a broad review on the Golden Rice, as the text above soon to be published online, again the largest literature review existing, only a few things to be added Ammann Klaus. (20150615). The Debate on the Golden Rice and its Background, a Literature Review. name citations with full-text links, additions until July 20, 2015. ASK-FORCE 19. Neuchâtel, Switzerland. pp. 201 Retrieved from http://www.ask-force.org/web/AF-19--Golden-Rice-Review/Ammann-Debate-GR-Background-AF-19-names-fulltext-20150615a.pdf It is written because I believe that the time of the tennis match on facts with eternal tiebreaks get boring and we need to analyze the backgrounds of the ideological wars. What happened to the wonderful review of Ismail on the fights between the religions, is it published, we think this kind of analysis is very important and could also help to appease the situation. If we can help with Biljana and her philosophical views to foster the peace process: a comparison with the eternal GMO fights and the growing religious wars have lots of parallels, see chapter two in the Golden Rice review. Kind regards, yours Klaus. |
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