Robert Allan

Robert E. Allan (L)(’52 farm op) received the 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association of Plant Breeders. He served as a wheat breeder and geneticist in Pullman, Wash., for 40 years. He developed numerous genetic stocks and a number of wheat varieties, as well as identified and named the two semidwarf plant height genes that facilitated the “Wheat Green Revolution.”