
Perry L. Adkisson
Wolf Prize Laureate in Agriculture 1994/5

Perry L. Adkisson
Affiliation at the time of the award:
Texas A&M University, USA
Award citation:
“for their contributions to the development and implementation of environmentally beneficial integrated pest management systems for the protection of agricultural crops”.
Prize share:
Perry L. Adkisson
Carl B. Huffaker
Perry L. Adkisson (born in 1929, USA) is Chancellor Emeritus of Texas A&M University, and Regents Professor of Entomology. He recently served as Executive Director of the George Bush Presidential Library Center. He received his M.Sc. degree from the University of Arkansas and Ph.D. from Kansas State Univeristy.
Professors Carl B. Huffaker and Perry L. Adkisson performed basic research on crop pests, and subsequently broadened their work to develop biologically-based systems for pest control. Both were major contributors to the development and implementation of integrated pest anagement, or IPM, systems for crop production. Huffaker successfully demonstrated the efficacy of biological control agents for the control of weeds and insects. Adkisson studied the life cycles and seasonal dormancy of cotton insect pests.
Both Huffaker and Adkisson were leaders in large-scale programs that demonstrated the effectiveness of IPM systems for crop protection, and that led to the establishment of IPM as an environmentally beneficial and economically favorable system for crop production that is today used throughout the world.
