Postharvest Expert Adel Kader Passes Away

By Growing Produce Staff|December 18, 2012

The produce industry is mourning the loss of Adel Kader, a postharvest specialist who worked on behalf of the fruit and vegetable industry for many years at the University of California (UC)-Davis’ Postharvest Technology Center.

Adel was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1941. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Horticulture in 1959 from the Ain Shams University in Cairo, and then enrolled at UC-Davis where he earned his Masters in Vegetable Crops in 1962, and Ph.D. in Plant Physiology in 1966. He then returned to Egypt where he served as an Assistant Professor at Ain Shams University for five years, followed by work as a lecturer and consultant at the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research for two years. In 1972 he was hired by UC-Davis as an Assistant Researcher.

Kader’s colleagues at UC-Davis have written a tribute to life’s work, which can be read at http://postharvest.ucdavis.edu/Postharvest_Blog/?blogpost=8901&blogasset=37576.