What did DrRicardo Lantican invented?

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DR. RICARDO M. LANTICAN's pioneering scientific works in plant breeding have had worldwide significance, impact and applications. His works on field legumes, started in the 1950's, resulted in the development and release of more than 20 improved varieties of mungbean, soybean, and peanut. Outstanding mungbean varieties characterized by the combination of a novel plant architecture, elevated yield levels, and better resistance to important pests, have become the varieties of choice by farmers, not only of the Philippines but also of farmers throughout Asia, including Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam, Indonesia, Myanmar, South Korea, Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh and China. A work with a colleague and a graduate student was the first in the world to show the extra-nuclear inheritance of susceptibility to Southern leaf blight in maize. Agricultural scientists in the USA acknowledged that attention to such work could have averted the millions of dollars loss in their corn industry in 1969. Subsequent hybrid seed production worldwide relied on the Philippine experience. It also created a renewed worldwide awareness of the vulnerability of genetically uniform crops to pests and diseases, thus working interest in conserving genetic diversity. He was also involved in strengthening the R&D capability in the Philippines and to some extent in Southeast Asia by being one of the founders to two national research and development centers, as director of research of UPLB and of the Institute of Plant Breeding, UPLB and as Undersecretary for R&D of the Department of Science and Technology. As a professor of agronomy and plant breeding, he has trained many of the leaders in crop science and plant breeding in the Philippines and other Asian countries.http://www.nast.dost.gov.ph/press%20release%20rml%20conferment.htm