Shahrokh Khanizadeh

	Education	Honors	Publications / Books / Reviews
	Patent, Breeder’Rights, TradeMark	International collaborations	Graduate students

Shahrokh Khanizadeh obtained his B.Sc. in agricultural engineering from Tehran University in Iran and his M.Sc. in small fruit culture from McGill University (Montreal). He graduated with a Ph.D. in plant physiology and biochemistry in 1989 from McGill and continued his postdoctoral research in the area of genetics and fruit breeding. He was Assistant Professor at McGill University from 1992 to 1995 and then joined the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Horticultural Research and Development Centre in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu (Quebec), as a plant breeder, physiologist and statistician. He is presently responsible for developing cold hardy disease resistant fruit varieties through the use of conventional and newer techniques in plant breeding. He is also involved in several other projects such as the cultivation of Ginseng under natural tree canopy, the evaluation of hardy grape cultivars for wine production, and the evaluation of strawberry and apple selections for processing (wine and beer). He has maintained his affiliation with McGill University's Department of Plant Science as an Adjunct Professor.
Shahrokh is a member of Sustainable Production Systems involves in cultivar development/genetic enhancement.
Since 2003, he developed a wide variety of product from unique strawberries, apple and raspberry cultivars to software, databases, books and new method to accelerate the breeding program using CF and bioactive compound as markers. His new cultivars also passed the Canadian border and got popular in Northern Europe where they were granted for European plant breeder’s Rights. Shahrokh released a unique apple that never turns brown or fall from the tree after maturity being frozen in the field (in January) answering to an apple-slice and Ice-cider industry’s important demand, eliminating the need for chemical to keep the whiteness and a new raspberry with 2 fold richer in ellagic acid. Shahrokh released 17 winter hardy dwarf rootstocks, a new scab resistant apple ‘SuperMac’ for fresh market and ‘Diva’ specifically for cider and ice cider production. He created attractive and effective web sites for scientific societies, and promoting AAFC and (since 2003) published over 54 refereed papers, 6 chapters, 8 feature/ J. cover story articles, 40 presentations at national and international meetings, 24 articles in national/international newspaper/periodicals and 20 fully or partially paid invited speaker and lecturer. He was invited by Chinese National Foreign Expert Bureau to lecture on his methods and technology used in fruit breeding. He added a new book entitled “Our Strawberries” to his Fruit series books (Our Apples, Our Plums), which are used internationally as a reference. He is well respected and known locally, nationally and internationally and made a major contribution in training of 15 graduate students and supervised 10 visiting and scholar fellows and received a high level of industry support. As an Assistant/Adjunct Professor at Laval and McGill universities, he collaborates effectively with scientists nationally and internationally and his leadership is appreciated by management and his colleagues for his high value of excellence and collaboration and his availability and open mind to new challenges. He was the president of Canadian Society for Horticultural Science (CSHS) and presently is the president of Plant Canada. Shahrokh received the 1st Gold Harvest Awards from the Deputy Minister of agriculture for recognition of exceptional commitment to the qualities of excellence and innovation, partnering and team building, leadership, client-Centre work, and inclusiveness, particularly with regard to genetic enhancement and cultivar development, collaboration with universities and non-governmental organizations and the important work that foster inclusiveness and equity.

Education:

Written manual for IBM PC and PC compatible system:

 

1.	USING SAS® ON MICROCOMPUTER. © Copyright 1989. Khanizadeh, S. and M. A. Fanous. 63 pp., Registration No. 392001, September 25, 1989, File number 305153, Consumer and Corporate Affairs Canada, Copyright Office.

Written software's for IBM PC and PC compatible system:

Release of new hardy disease resistant cultivars:

          Strawberry

13.	"La Clé des Champs", (‘SJ89244-6E’ x ‘SJ8518-11’), A new june bearing strawberry cultivar for Eastern Central Canada and climates similar to Quebec conditions.
12.	"Harmonie", (Yamaska x Joliette), A new June bearing strawberry cultivar for Eastern Central Canada and climates similar to Quebec conditions.
11.	"Saint-Laurent d'Orléans", (L'Acadie x (SJ8916-1 x P. Panda) ), A new June bearing strawberry cultivar for Eastern Central Canada and climates similar to Quebec conditions.
10.	"St-Jean d'Orléans", (L'Acadie x Joliette), A new June bearing strawberry cultivar for Eastern Central Canada and climates similar to Quebec conditions.
9.	"Rosalyne", The 1st winter hardy day neutral red flowering strawberry cultivars for home gardeners.
8.	"Saint-Pierre", (Chandler and Jewel), A new june bearing strawberry cultivar for the eastern central Canada and climate similar to Quebec condition.
7.	"Orléans", (L'Acadie x Joliette), A mid-season strawberry cultivar with high level of Antioxidants.
6.	"AC-Yamaska", (Pandora x Bogota), Late season strawberry cultivar with long excellent shelf life released to extends the strawberry market.
5.	"AC-L'Acadie", (Glooscap x Guardian), a large firm fruit cultivars moderately resistant to leaf diseases and the principal eastern races of red stele with excellent shelf life.
4.	"Joliette" (SJ85189 (Redcheif x Surecrop) x Jewel) a red stele, leaf disease resistant June bearing strawberry cultivar bred for Eastern Central Canada. HortScience 31(6):1036-1037. Patent pending.
3.	"Oka" (K75-13 x Honeoye) a June bearing strawberry cultivar bred for Québec conditions, suitable for fresh market. HortScience 1992. 374-375.
2.	"Chambly" (Sparkle x Honeoye, Patent #: 8853USA, 0129Can) the first June bearing strawberry cultivar bred for Québec conditions, suitable for mechanical dehulling and fresh market. HortScience 1990. 984-985. Patented in 1994, Plant Varieties Journal 1994, 13:45-46). (Year:#Plant Sold:Royalty; 1993:1,334,750:4004.00$; 1994:1,416,991:4251.00; 1995:1,244,650:3734.00$).
1.	Advanced selections & multiple petal red flowering, day neutral, disease resistant selections

Apple

Books, book chapters

 

12.	Khanizadeh, S., and J.R. DeEll. 2003. The potential of chlorophyll fluorescence in fruit breeding, p. 243-256. In: J.R. DeEll and P.M.A. Toivonen (eds.), Practical Application of Chlorophyll Fluorescence in Plant Biology. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, Massachusetts.
11.	Khanizadeh, S. and J. DeEll, J. 2005. Our Strawberies/ Les fraisiers de chez nous, A description of over 170 strawberry cultivars along with regional evaluation and details information used for Plant breeder’s right office , PWGSC, Publishing and Depository Services, Ottawa, Ont . 551p. ISBN 0-660-62338-2
10.	Khanizadeh, S., H. Daubeny and  J. A. Sullivan, 2005. Canadian strawberry breeders. pp. 14-29,  In: S. Khanizadeh and J. DeEll (Eds.), Our Strawberries / Les fraisiers de chez nous.. PWGSC, Publishing and Depository Services, Ottawa , Ont., 551p.
9.	Khanizadeh, S. 2005. History of the strawberry breeding program of Agriculture and Agri-food Canada in quebec , pp. 30-39,  In: S. Khanizadeh and J. DeEll (Eds.), Our Strawberries / Les fraisiers de chez nous. PWGSC, Publishing and Depository Services, Ottawa , Ont., 551p.
8.	Khanizadeh, S. and S. Khanizadeh, 2005. Strawberry decifiency: an artist´s view, pp. 141-145,  In: S. Khanizadeh and J. DeEll (Eds.), Our Strawberries / Les fraisiers de chez nous. PWGSC, Publishing and Depository Services, Ottawa , Ont., 551p.
7.	Khanizadeh, S.  and J. Cousineau, 2005. Strawberry descriptions-Description des cultivars, pp. 154-515,  In: S. Khanizadeh and J. DeEll (Eds.), Our Strawberries / Les fraisiers de chez nous.. PWGSC, Publishing and Depository Services, Ottawa , Ont., 551p
6.	Khanizadeh, S., Cousineau, J. and A. Levasseur, 2005. Qualitative and quantitative description of selected strawberry cultivars, pp. 516-549, In: S. Khanizadeh and J. DeEll (Eds.), Our Strawberries / Les fraisiers de chez nous.. PWGSC, Publishing and Depository Services, Ottawa, Ont., 551p
5.	Khanizadeh, S. and Cousineau, J. 2000. A fully bilingual book entitled "Our Plums/ Les Pruniers de chez nous", A description of over 60 plum cultivars evaluated in Quebec along with along with over 150 colored images. Editor and publisher Shahrokh Khanizadeh for the Department of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, ISBN 0-660-61568-1.
4.	Khanizadeh, S. and Cousineau, J. 1998. A fully bilingual book entitled "Our Apples/ Les Pommiers de chez nous", A description of over 250 apple cultivars grown in Eastern and Central Canada including 400 colored photographs of the fruits, flowers and leaves. Editor and publisher Shahrokh Khanizadeh for the Department of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 260 pages, ISBN 0-660-60543-0.
3.	Khanizadeh, S., Fortin, J., Lareau, J. M. and Buszard, D. 1994. Sensory evaluation of six strawberry cultivars after machine harvest. In: Progress in Temperate Fruit Breeding (eds.) H. Schmidt and M. Kellerhals, Kluwer Academic Publisher, Netherlands 249-254.
2.	Khanizadeh, S. 1994. Breeding strawberries for Eastern Central Canada. In: Progress in Temperate Fruit Breeding (eds.) H. Schmidt and M. Kellerhals, Kluwer Academic Publisher, Netherlands 183-187.
1.	Buszard, D. and Khanizadeh, S. 1992. The Québec strawberry breeding program in The Strawberry into the 21st Century, (eds.) A. Dale and J. J. Luby, Timber press, Portland, Oregon, 98-99.

Honours, scholarships, fellowships, awards and burseries

 

20.	'AAFC-Employee Profile'
19.	2006. Inventor Awards. Received from McGill Office of technology transfer for development of Chambly Strawberry.
18.	2005. Awards to inventors: Royalty received for the sale of the Pedigree software.This software is now Replace by Unibase.
17.	2005. Cash award received from the Deputy of Agriculture Canada for the 1st place "Gold Harvest Award"
16.	2005. Received "Gold Harvest Award" from Leonard Edward Deputy Minister in recognition of exceptional commitment to the qualities of excellence and innovation, partnering and team building. Leadership, client-Centre work, and inclusiveness.  The "Gold Harvest Award" recognized the research in the field of sustainable development, particularly with regard to genetic enhancement and cultivar development, collaboration with universities and non-governmental organizations and the important work that foster inclusiveness and equity. AAFC news - PDF version
15.	2004. Inventor Awards. Received from McGill Office of technology transfer for development of Chambly Strawberry.
14.	2003. Inventor Awards. Received from McGill Office of technology transfer for development of Chambly Strawberry.
13.	2003. Candidate and selected by the APFFQ for the Prix Frederick Trudel given by Fed. des Prod. Maraichers du Quebec.
12.	2001. In collaboration with Fraise d’Ile d’Orleans, obtained the “Prix Partenariat d’Excelence de recherche (2nd finalist)" from the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (Mr. Vanclief) for development of two new unique strawberry cultivars. (Sainte Pierre & L’Authentique Orléans).
11.	1999. Invited to visit the Ministry of the Islamic Republic of Iran through UNDP (United Nations Development Program) to assist in house training of the Ministry employees.
10.	1995. Citation of Appreciation in gratitude for distinguished services rendered to the American Society for Horticultural Science as a technical program committee member for the 1995 annual meeting.
9.	1992. Le Conseil des Productions végétales du Québec (CPVQ), est heureux de reconnaître la collaboration apportée par S. Khanizadeh pour l'année 1991-1992 dans les Comités des Petits Fruits.
8.	1992. Best poster Award, CSHS, 37TH Annual meeting, Guelph, Ontario, April 30 to May 2, 1992.
7.	1991. Physalia, Décerné par l'Association du Personnel d'Agriculture Canada, pour aide continuelle en statistique, Agriculture Canada, St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC. Canada.
6.	1987 Plant Science Post Graduate Awards, Plant Science Department, MacDonald College of McGill University, QC, Canada
5.	1986 Plant Science post graduate award, Plant Science Department, MacDonald College of McGill University, QC, Canada
4.	1985-1986 Quebec fellowship, Government of Quebec, Quebec, Canada.
3.	1985 Graduate faculty summer research fellowship, faculty of graduate studies and research, McGill University, QC, Canada.
2.	1984 Graduate faculty summer research fellowship, faculty of graduate studies and research, McGill University, QC, Canada.
1.	1983 Graduate faculty summer research fellowship, faculty of graduate studies and research, McGill University, QC, Canada.

International collaboration

 

2.	Canada China Agricultural Development Projects -  Canadian experts (english)
1.	Canada China Agricultural Development Projects -  Canadian experts (chinese)

Reviews and feature articles

 

11.	Wang Q. L., S. Khanizadeh and C. Vigneault. 2007. Preharvest ways of enhancing the phytochemical content of fruits and vegetables. Stewart Postharvest Review 3:1-3.
10.	Tsao, R., Khanizadeh, S. and Dale, A. 2006. Designer fruits and vegetables with enriched phytochemicals for human health. Can. J. Plant Sci. 86: 773–786.
9.	Khanizadeh, S. A review of the Strawberry Breeding program. Red Flowering Strawbery cultivars for Home gardeners. Advances in Strawberry production, Vol. 21, 2002 and vol 22, 2003. The photo of unique Orleans Strawberry (disease resistant, high in specific antioxidant) and the day neutral red flowering strawberries used for the front and back cover of the journal by editor.
8.	Didier Muamba, F., Chantal, H., Yolande, D. and Khanizadeh, S. 2002. Diversity of Native Endomycorrhizal Fungi in Selected Strawberry Field Soils of Southern Quebec. Small Fruit Review 61-71.
7.	Khanizadeh, S. and J. DeEll, 2001, Chlorophyll fluorescence: a new technique to screen for tolerance of strawberry flowers to spring frost, Small Fruit Review 1(3):61-67.
6.	DeEll, J, Khanizadeh, S, F. Saad and D. Ferree. 2001. Factors Affecting fruit firmness-A review. Journal of American Pomological Society 55(1):8-27.
5.	Khanizadeh, S., Buszard, D. and Zarkadas, C. G. 1995. Misuse of the Kjeldahl method for estimating protein content in plant tissue. HortScience 30(7): 2 pp.
4.	Khanizadeh, S., and Wees, D. 1995. Horticultural education in Québec. HortScience 30(4):668-672.
3.	Khanizadeh, S. 1994. Breeding strawberries for Eastern Central Canada. In: Progress in Temperate Fruit Breeding (eds.) H. Schmidt and M. Kellerhals, Kluwer Academic Publ., Netherlands 183-187.
2.	Khanizadeh, S. and Buszard, D. 1993. Red stele resistant strawberries and their role in epidemiology of Phytophthora fragariea. Acta Horticulturae 348:516.
1.	Khanizadeh, S. and Buszard, D. 1992. Caution required in distribution of plants of red stele (Phytophthora fragaria Hick.) resistant strawberries. HortScience 27(8):870-871.

Educational and Commercial Posters

 

7.	Bilingual poster, Our Strawberries, Size 36" X 48" Cat. No. A22-399/2005.
6.	Bilingual poster, Our Root Vegetables, Disponibility of the 25 commonly growing root vegetables in Quebec along with information on the latin name, pest & diseases susceptibility, usage and nutritional value. CAT: A22-256/2002, ISBN : 0-662-66556-2, ®Copyright 2002.
5.	Bilingual poster, Our Leaf Vegetables, Disponibility of the 28 commonly growing leaf vegetables in Quebec along with information on the latin name, pest & diseases susceptibility, usage and nutritional value. CAT: A22-254/2002, ISBN : 0-662-66554-6, ®Copyright 2002.
4.	Bilingual poster, Our Flower-Fruit Vegetables, Disponibility of the 29 commonly growing flower-fruit vegetables in Quebec along with information on the latin name, pest & diseases susceptibility, usage and nutritional value. CAT: A22-253/2002, ISBN : 0-662-66553-8, ®Copyright 2002.
3.	Bilingual poster, Our Fruits, Disponibility of the 25 commonly growing fruits in Quebec along with information on the latin name, pest & diseases susceptibility, usage and nutritional value. CAT: A22-255/2002, ISBN : 0-662-66555-4, ®Copyright 2002.
2.	Bilingual poster, Our Plums, Magnificent, high quality images of 80 plum cultivars along with the images of their leaf and flower grown in North-Eastern America along with selected symbols to quickly identify those which are Japanese, American or Japanese-American hybrid plum, Self-fruitful, Prune type plum, stone free; European plum or hardy. CAT: A22-217/2000-1, ISBN : 0-660-61570-3, ®Copyright 2001.
1.	Bilingual poster, Apples of North-Eastern America, Magnificent, high quality images of 265 apple cultivars grown in North-Eastern America along with selected symbols to quickly cultivars that are winter hardy, scab resistant, useful for processing or that have McIntosh type fruit. CAT: A22-198/1999-1, ISBN : 0-660-61128-7, ®Copyright 2000.

Scientific publication (peer-reviewed & refereed) SINCE 1987

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