Agriculture and Farming Atlas

How The World Is Fed
Sign In
Text size
100%
Theme

Switch Atlas

Figure

Nazareno Strampelli

Plant Sciences

Nazareno Strampelli (1866 to 1942) was an Italian agronomist and plant breeder regarded as a forerunner of the Green Revolution of the late 1960s. Through the hybridization of wheat into high-yield varieties, his work helped move Italy toward self-sufficiency in bread wheat, raising the country's average wheat yield from about 1.0 tonnes per hectare in the early 19th century to about 1.5 tonnes per hectare by the 1930s.

Facts
Birth Year
1866 1
Death Year
1942 1
Nationality
Italian 1
Defining Contribution
Regarded as a forerunner of the Green Revolution of the late 1960s; his hybridization of wheat into high yield varieties helped Italy move toward self sufficiency in bread wheat production. 1
FAQs

Are Nazareno Strampelli's wheat varieties still in use today?

Yes, as parental material in the ancestry of many wheats grown worldwide.

Indirectly. The Italian national biographical dictionary notes that more than fifty of his varieties were patented over his career, and that Strampelli varieties can still be found in the ancestry of many wheats grown around the world, at least as parental material. It says this holds even though the later Green Revolution was begun by Norman Borlaug in Mexico in the 1950s and 1960s, under the Rockefeller Foundation and CIMMYT.
Connections

Works In

Agronomy, Disciplines
Source Nazareno Strampelli (Wikipedia)
Plant Breeding, Disciplines
Source Nazareno Strampelli (Wikipedia)
In the Other Atlases

Nationality

Italy

Also in Geography Atlas: the nationality of this subject.

Source Nazareno Strampelli (Wikipedia)Lead sentence 1tier 2
Quote, Lead sentence 1
Nazareno Strampelli (May 29, 1866, in Castelraimondo, Italy – January 23, 1942) was an Italian agronomist and plant breeder.
Sources
1. Nazareno Strampelli (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Lead section
    Nazareno Strampelli (May 29, 1866, in Castelraimondo, Italy - January 23, 1942) was an Italian agronomist and plant breeder.
  • Lead section, second sentence
    He was the forerunner of what became known as the Green Revolution of the late 1960s. Strampelli's work allowed Italy to become almost self-sufficient in bread wheat production, relative to Italy's contemporaneous population and consumption patterns, increasing area-based agricultural intensity from an average yield of 1.0 t/ha at the beginning of the 19th century to about 1.5 t/ha in the 1930s, through the hybridization of wheat into high-yield varietals.
  • Works In: Agronomy, Lead paragraph, field of work
    Nazareno Strampelli (May 29, 1866, in Castelraimondo, Italy, January 23, 1942) was an Italian agronomist and plant breeder.
  • Works In: Plant Breeding, Lead paragraph, field of work
    Nazareno Strampelli (May 29, 1866, in Castelraimondo, Italy, January 23, 1942) was an Italian agronomist and plant breeder.
View the Source
Wikidata: Nazareno Strampelli
Wikidata Q1224426, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
Comments (0)
No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.
Reader Challenges (0)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.