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Irwin L. Goldman

Irwin Goldman is an American horticulturist and plant breeder at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is Professor in the Department of Horticulture and a trainer in the Plant Breeding and Plant Genetics program.

Career

Goldman attended college at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he learned about plant science. Through the help of Darrell Miller, he got a job in a soybean breeding program that was run by Cecil Nickell. It was in that program that he was exposed to plant breeding as a scientific field and became fascinated with the subject. Goldman completed a M.S. at North Carolina State University’s Department of Crop Science with Tommy Carter, and a Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin Department under the direction of Earl Gritton. Returning to the University of Illinois to do postdoctoral work with Torbert Rocheford, Goldman worked on the Illinois Long Term Selection strains and then began a faculty position at Wisconsin in 1992. Around that time he completed a BARD fellowship on tomato genetics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Rehovot, Israel, working with Dani Zamir and Ilan Paran.

Goldman assumed a faculty role that had been developed by Warren H. "Buck" Gabelman, who served as a faculty member at Wisconsin from 1949-1990. Gabelman was a pioneer

Plant Breeding

His program focuses on breeding and genetics of table beet, carrot, and onion. He teaches courses in plant breeding, vegetable crops, plants and human wellbeing, food and seed sovereignty, and evolutionary biology.