Dr Richard Gibson
Plant Pathologist
Agriculture, Health & Environment Department
Natural Resources Institute
United Kingdom
Biography
Richard Gibson has worked at the University of Greenwich for 18 years. Since 1991, he has been a Plant Pathologist at the Natural Resources Institute. Prior to that he was, the principal scientific officer at the Rothamsted Experimental Station.
Research Interest
Richard Gibson's key interest is development of sustainable means of controlling plant viruses, mainly through plant breeding. He has worked mainly with root crops and has also been associated with breeding new resistant varieties of sweet potato, cassava and potato, mainly through participatory plant breeding. Richard believes his work on reversion will prove critical in developing virus resistant sweet potato.
Publications
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Gibson RW. A review of perceptual distinctiveness in landraces including an analysis of how its roles have been overlooked in plant breeding for low-input farming systems. Economic Botany. 2009 Sep 1;63(3):242-55.
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Gibson RW, Byamukama E, Mpembe I, Kayongo J, Mwanga RO. Working with farmer groups in Uganda to develop new sweet potato cultivars: decentralisation and building on traditional approaches. Euphytica. 2008 Jan 1;159(1-2):217-28.
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Manu-Aduening JA, Lamboll RI, Mensah GA, Lamptey JN, Moses E, Dankyi AA, Gibson RW. Development of superior cassava cultivars in Ghana by farmers and scientists: the process adopted, outcomes and contributions and changed roles of different stakeholders. Euphytica. 2006 Jul 1;150(1-2):47-61.
