last updated: June 1, 2001

Barlaan, Edward A.

Edward A. Barlaan is a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Crop Science (NICS), formerly called National Agriculture Research Center (NARC) at Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. He is working on molecular mapping of traits in rice related to lodging resistance, morphological and agronomic characters, and grain quality.

He took his PhD at Ehime University, Japan; MS at University of the Philippines at Los Banos and Kagawa University, Japan; and BS at University of Southern Mindanao, Philippines (cum laude). He had been affiliated as a researcher with the following establishments: National Institute for Vegetables, Ornamentals and Tea, Japan (nitrate and ammonia assimilation in tea); Kagawa University, Japan (genetic and molecular studies on genes involved in nitrate assimilation in rice); International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Philippines (rice breeding, soybean and cowpea breeding for rice-based cropping systems) and as an instructor at University of Southern Mindanao.

His present and past professional society memberships include Crop Science Society of America, American Society of Agronomy, Soil Science Society of America, Japanese Society of Breeding, and Crop Science Society of the Philippines.