Obituary Notice
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obituary notice ... dean of the world’s living hemp breeders. ... the world's foremost expert on hemp. ... elder statesman of the exploding hemp movement. ... world-renowned expert on hemp breeding and cultivation. ... the eldest, and one of the most successful, active hemp breeders of Europe. ... hemp guru. Dr Bócsa Iván Born: Arad, July 09, 1926 Died: Budapest, May 04, 2007 1948 Fleischmann Rudolf Kompolt Institute 1970 February 15, 1949 February 15, 1949 57 years Alfalfa – Medicago sativa L. Sainfoin – Onobrychis viciifolia Scop. Crown wetch – Coronilla varia L. Hemp – Cannabis sativa L. “Energy grass” Italian hemp Fleischmann = = F-kender (1923) Fleischmann Rudolf 1920 • biology of flowering • photoperiodism • heterosis (F-kender x Kymington (USA) Italian hemp Fleischmann = = F-kender (1923) Reconstruction (1951) Bócsa (1951-): fiber content increase Fleischmann Rudolf 1920 Kompolti by Bredemann method • biology of flowering (1954) • photoperiodism • heterosis (F-kender x Kymington (USA) preservation breeding Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia ... 1995- : Holland, Austria England, Germany, Switzerland Kompolti Kínai B-7 F1 + 23% straw yield 1954 + 18% fiber yield Breeding of F1 cultivar-hybrid hemp (Bócsa, 1950-) Ukrainian monoecious CENTRAL SOUTHERN ASIATIC RUSSIAN dioecious monoiecious dioecious and unisexual TRANSITIONAL French monoecious an hybrids Hemp ecological form groups Kínai Fibrimon 21 (dioecious) F1 Kinai Backcross BC1 Kínai Kínai (monoecious) Breeding of monoecious hemp (Bócsa, 1953-1960) Dioecious (SE Europe) “Hemp evolved as a dioecious form over thousands of years....” “... The superiority of dioecious hemp ... is a biological axiom” I. Bócsa inbreeding depression Monoecious (France, Ukraina...) “Monoecious hemp is ... an artificial construct that cannot exist without the aid of humans” I. Bócsa dioecious monoecious female unisex + 70-90 % higher seed yield 60-70% female + 10-20% monoecious + 5-10% male Breeding of unisexual hemp (Bócsa, 1955-) Kompolti Fibrimon 21 dioecious (French) female Uniko-B F1 seed production (unisex) 60-70% female + 10-20% monoecious + 5-10% male Uniko-B F2 fiber production (1965) 50% male : 50% female) Breeding of unisexual hemp (Bócsa, 1955-) Kinai Kínai dioecious monoecious Kinai Kompolti unisex Kompolti hibrid TC (1983) THC: 0.4-0.5% Breeding of B-7 F1 hybrid hemp using unisexuality (Bócsa, 1970-) Finnish early Italian late Helle Stengel Kompolti (Hoffmann) spontaneous yellow-stemmed mutant BC1 Kompolti Backcross Kompolti sárgaszárú (1971) Breeding of yellow stemmed hemp (Bócsa, 1970-) Kinai Kínai dioecious monoecious Kinai Kompolti unisex sárgaszárú Fibriko (1989) THC: 0.3-0.4% & finest and strongest fiber Breeding F1 hybrid hemp using unisexuality (Bócsa, 1970-) Ornamental hemp cultivar ‘Panorama’ seed crop fibre crop Company “Fibro-Seed” (Bócsa Iván & Bata Sándor) Application of Bredemann’s method for increasing the fiber content (Bócsa, 1950-) Breeding for low THC “Kompolt method” (Bócsa, 1980’s-) ... the production of hemp that contains absolutely no THC is biologically inconceivable because THC plays an important, though not well understand, role in plant development”. I. Bócsa Resistancy to Psilloides attenuata (Bócsa, 1954) Selection for high seed oil content in hemp (Bócsa, 1996-) Törjék, O., Bucherna1, N., Kiss, E., Homoki, H., Finta-Korpelová, Z., Bócsa, I., Nagy, I., Heszky, L.: Novel male-specific molecular markers (MADC5, MADC6) in hemp. EUPHYTICA, 127(2): 209-218, 2002. International Hemp Conference, Kompolt, 28-31. July 1970. M. Arnoux, J.P. Mathieu, W. Hoffmann, G. Venturi, V. G. Virovets BIORESOURCE HEMP 97 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, February 27-March 02, 1997 Publications: 200+ publications 13 books 1962 1962 1997 1962 1997 1998 19621997 1998 2005 Hungarian Academy of Sciences Corresponding member: 1990 Full menber: 1995 Section of Agraricultural Sciences genetics, breeding and seed production of field crops Committee on Plant Breeding President/Honorary president Orders and Medals 1. Fleischmann Rudolf Award (1973) 2. Academy Award (1977) 3. Eötvös Loránd Award (1991) 4. Order of Merit - Member Cross (1996) 5. Széchenyi-Award (1997) Back to Awards Fleischmann Rudolf Back to Awards Academy Award (1977) Back to Awards Vásárosnaményi Báró Eötvös Lóránd Back to Awards Order of Merit - Member Cross (1996) The Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest Count István Széchenyi (1791-1860) Széchenyi Award (1997) Dr Bócsa Iván.