Abstract
Following the proposal of Academic Council of Horticulture Faculty, the Senate of University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca accepted nominee Professor Jules Janick for Doctor Honoris Causa award. The title was awarded in festive ceremony on September 30, 2010. Jules Janick, Professor at Purdue University has a long and distinguished career devoted to horticulture in all its facets. In horticultural research, he has made important advances including the genetics of sex determination including the synthesis of heteromorphic sex chromosomes, fireblight resistance, cleistogamy, cucurbitacins, artemisisin production, anthocyanin pigmentation, as well as in vitro metabolite production from somatic embryos and the production of synthetic seed. In crop improvement, he has been associated with the release of 21 scab-resistant apple cultivars, three pear cultivars with tolerance to fireblight, delayed-bolting arugula, crack resistant tomato, and the first release of a pelargonium cultivar from somaclonal variation. Professor Janick has made contributions to the historical aspects of horticulture and explored the relation of art and horticultural technology with special studies on the iconography of Rubus, Cucurbitaceae, and Solanaceae, opening up a new approach to the study of plant diversity, origins, cultivar evolution, and diversity. Professor Janick has been a prolific author and editor in horticulture. He was the editor of HortScience and editor of the Journal of ASHS. He is the founder and editor of both Horticultural Reviews and Plant Breeding Reviews. Since 2002 he has been the science editor of Chronica Horticulturae (ISHS). Janick has edited and produced six proceedings of New Crops symposia since 1990 that have had a deep impact on new crop information. The development of a new crop website has become a major world resource for information on crops. He is the author of the texts Horticultural Science, Plant Science: An Introduction to World Crops, and the co-editor of a series of monographs on fruit breeding. So far in his career Janick has written or edited 140 volumes, a truly prodigious achievement; he has taught numerous courses in genetics, plant breeding, and horticulture. Professor Janick has become one of the best known personalities of world horticulture. His credo has been that advances in horticulture throughout the centuries represent some of the greatest human accomplishments for the betterment of humanity.
Highlights
In Romania, the title of “Doctor Honoris Causa” is the highest academic distinction given to personalities with exceptional achievements in scientific and academic plan, or who have unique contributions to the development of science
Professor Jules JANICK was nominated for the title of “Doctor Honoris Causa” following a four step process: September 7, 2009
Jay AKRIDGE, Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture at Purdue University, said: “Dr Jules JANICK, Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, has been named to the American Society for Horticultural Science Hall of Fame - the society’s highest honor. During his 58 years of service to Purdue, Dr JANICK has distinguished himself as a teacher of horticulture and researcher in genetics and breeding
Summary
Following the proposal of Academic Council of Horticulture Faculty, the Senate of University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca accepted nominee Professor Jules Janick for “Doctor Honoris Causa” award. The grant by the Senate University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca of Doctor Honoris Causa title to Professor Jules JANICK is an important academic recognition, and a moment of historic significance, the homage of a scientific personality who has dedicated his life work in one of the finest and beautiful agricultural and biological sciences – Horticulture!. Jay AKRIDGE, Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture at Purdue University, said: “Dr Jules JANICK, Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, has been named to the American Society for Horticultural Science Hall of Fame - the society’s highest honor During his 58 years of service to Purdue, Dr JANICK has distinguished himself as a teacher of horticulture and researcher in genetics and breeding. In the front of “Aula Magna” building with Senators, Professors, and Honoree Professor Janick and his wife, Shirley, Rector Pamfil (right) and Dean Sestras (left)
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