Maryke Labuschagne is Professor in Plant Breeding and NRF SARChI Chair in Disease Resistance and Quality in Field Crops at the University of the Free State. Her research interest lies in cereal proteins and the nutritional value of crops. She has received the following awards, Continental Lifetime Achiever from CEO’s Africa’s most influential women in business and government, 2015/2016, Scientist of the Year Award from Grain South Africa, October 2012; the African Union Kwame Nkrumah Continental Scientific Award for life and earth sciences 2011; National Agriculturalist of the year for 2008 (as decided by the Agricultural Writers’ Association of South Africa); winner of Cereal Science and Technology, South Africa, 2008 prize for research and development; winner of the National Science and Technology Forum Award in the category of research capacity development in the last 5-10 years, 2008, and was in the third place for Excellence Awards awarded by THRIP in 2007. She currently is and has been the South African representative to the American Association of Cereal Chemists International from 2007.
