Mark Brick Email & Phone Number

I am a Professor Emeritus of Crop Breeding and Genetics of Soil and Crop Sciences at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO. I have been involved in breeding dry beans at the university level for 35 years and former project leader for one of five public sector dry edible bean breeding projects in the US. I developed improved dry edible bean varieties for growers and the bean industry throughout the western region and High Plains of the US. I am recognized as an expert in health beneficial properties of grain legumes and their nutritional value. In collaboration with Dr. Henry Thompson we published the first documentation that beans in the diet of mammals reduces the incidence and severity of mammary cancer and the reduction in cancer is dose dependent. My research includes crop genetic diversity as it relates to health beneficial aspects of dry edible beans and fiber content in bean germplasm. I have served as major professor for 29 M.S. and 7 Ph.D. students, authored or co-authored more than 100 refereed publications and over 200 non-refereed bulletins, extension reports and papers. My work experience includes projects in Bolivia, Colombia, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Mexico, Zambia, and Russia.

Listed skills include Genetics And Plant Breeding, Genetics, Research, Statistics, and 1 others.

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  University Of Minnesota-Twin Cities

  Plant Breeding And Genetics