Problem Solver

Mark Laing

Areas Mark Laing is Knowledgeable in:

agricultural issues, especially crop production, and solving problems the reduce yields or quality. I have started to engage with animal production also vi afeed formulation, and biocontrol of animal pests.

Techniques Mark Laing Uses:

cognitive mapping, captured as a mind map, then translated into a linear Word document.

Mark Laing's Problem Solving Skills:

  1. biological control
  2. biofuels

Mark Laing's Problem Solving Experience:

  1. 25 years in biological control, research & commercialization, with a successful spin-off comapny
    15 years in plant breeding: vegetables, flowers, African food crops, biofuel crops
    7 years in biofuels, molecular markers
    30 years in plant disease control: epidemiology, and applied disease control: chemicals, biocontrol, cultural practices, resistance breeding