Boguslav Kurlovich

Boguslav Stanislavovich Kurlovich (born 1948) is a Russian-Finnish scientific agronomist of Polish descent who specializes in plant genetic resources, botany and plant and fish breeding. From 1973 to 1997 he worked at the Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry in Saint Petersburg and from 1997 to 2011 at International North Express in Finland, collecting and studying plant genetic resources as starting material for plant breeding. He took part in 15 plant collecting missions across the former USSR and in countries including Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Ecuador, Algeria, Portugal, Germany, Poland and Finland to collect leguminous plants and their wild relatives. He authored numerous taxa in the genus Lupinus and several lupin cultivars, divided the genus into two subgenera on a geographical principle, and developed Vavilov's doctrines for lupins, placing the center of origin of white lupin in the Balkans. He is the author of about 100 scientific publications.