Akos Mesterhazy
Cereal Research non-profit Ltd.,
Hungary
Biography
Akos Mesterhazy is the member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He works since 1972 in the Cereal Research Institute. He has 46 years background in resistance research and breeding of cereals. He found that the most important toxin regulation agent is the resistance level, therefore the increase of the resistance is the key. Besides breeding, the elaboration of a more effective fungicide technology and methodology was also developed. The increase of the food and feed safety has been the centrum of his activity for decades and become an internationally acknowledged research centrum.