Dr. John Edward Bradshaw

Dr. John E. Bradshaw spent his 34-year career (1975–2009) as a plant breeder and geneticist at what is now the James Hutton Institute in Dundee, Scotland. In recent years, he has written two books, one entitled Plant Breeding: Past, Present and Future (2016), and the other entitled Potato Breeding: Theory and Practice (2021). He is an honorary fellow of the Indian Potato Association and an honorary member of the European Association for Research on Plant Breeding (EUCARPIA), having served as chairperson of their Section Potatoes from 2000 to 2009. He is a member of the Genetical Society of Great Britain and served as the Plant Breeding Subject Editor on their journal Heredity from 2010 to 2017. He is also a member of the European Association for Potato Research (EAPR) and served as the Co-ordinating Editor of their journal Potato Research from 2017 to 2021. He studied Genetics and Applied Genetics in England at the Universities of Cambridge (MA), Birmingham (MSc), and East Anglia (PhD). His research interests are the applications of genetics to plant-breeding problems, particularly quantitative genetics to the breeding of tetraploid potatoes. In 2010, he received the British Potato Industry Award in recognition of his contribution to potato research and knowledge transfer.