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Aprium, anyone? The pick of hybrid fruit and vegetables

The Guardian

Row 7, a collaboration between a chef, a plant breeder and a seedsman, aims to sell seeds for vegetables that might not otherwise reach a broad market, reported the New York Times last month. One of its offerings is the Badger Flame, a beetroot of brilliant orange that a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison bred to produce a sweet and mild variety his children would enjoy.

McCubbin, Marilyn Ann

Madison.com

Marilyn served as a professor at Gustavus Aldophus College. She earned her tenure and then became a full professor University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing, from which she retired Emeritus She then assumed a position as a professor at the University of Hawaii.

Dott, Robert H. Jr.

Madison.com

In 1958 he accepted a faculty position at the University of Wisconsin from which he retired in 1994. Bob’s academic career focused primarily on sedimentology, tectonics, and the evolution of the Earth.