- Author: Mary E. Reed
Four Postharvest Specialists from the UC Davis Postharvest Technology Center traveled to Sarajevo, October 24-28, to present a week-long Postharvest Technology training. Drs. Beth Mitcham, Marita Cantwell, Mary Lu Arpaia and Michael Reid presented 39 instructional sessions over a three-and-a-half day period. Zdenec Svec from the Czech Republic also presented a talk focusing on regional marketing and trade issues. The training session was followed by a 1-1/2 day field tour visiting a number of postharvest processing facilities. The training was the result of a herculean effort led by Filip Stoyanovic, Director of a USAID Regional Competitiveness Initiative, and supported by eleven USAID projects as well as funding from the governments...
- Posted By: Mary E. Reed
- Written by: Pamela Kan-Rice, Pamela Devine
From the "ANR Report" March 2011, Vol. 24, No. 9.
Born and raised in New Zealand, Michael Reid never anticipated a career in California, but he retired from a 32-year career as a UC Davis environmental horticulture professor and specialist in June 2010. Reid’s research has spanned the spectrum from basic biology of flower senescence to practical means of improving postharvest quality and life of ornamentals.
He earned a B.Sc. in botany, an M.Sc. in microbiology and a Ph.D. in cell biology at the University of Auckland.
As a Fulbright fellow, Reid spent a year at UC Davis studying postharvest physiology of melons and other crops. After further post-doctoral studies in England, he returned to...
