The person Michael Striem
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With Professor Bruce Reisch
Bruce and I (with our families) became best friends. The Reisch Family spent a Sabbatical here in Israel, and few years later the Striem family spent a Postdoctoral stay in Geneva, NY.
At Sun World's R&D center we had many visitors interested in the renowned 'embryo rescue' procedure.
Serving as the company's grape breeder, in the picture I describe the process of extracting small embryos from seed traces, to germinate and grow into seedlings.
At Sun World's tissue-culture lab
My job was to select among thousands of seedlings the candidates for new seedless table grape varieties.
As Sun World's grape breeder
Sun World International has representatives around the globe
With Johan Jooste from South Africa, at an outstanding new table grape selection
My personal life
Since my childhood the family is an important unit. My parents and grand mothers showed us the way to see the full part of the cup.
My journey wasn't easy. Creativity and imagination helped me thrive. My dedication to work and motivation to enjoy what I am doing led me to exceptional projects and experiences.
Take a moment to explore my portfolio below, which includes a combination of collaborations and side projects. Don’t hesitate to reach out if you’d like to learn more.
At the original seedling of Sugrathirtyfive
It is a great pleasure to present to you the original seedling vine, becoming Sutrathirtyfive, and marketed under the trademark of AUTUMNCRISP®.
At the Sugrathirtyfive test block
This new seedless table grape selection which I crossed and selected became a great success world wide.
Grape breeding table grapes
At Sun World's Sugrathirtyfive test block we showed the productivity and quality of this exciting grape variety.
Agriculture, environment teaching
As a certified science teacher I had a lot of fun to work with the kids in the school's vegetable garden. Here I demonstrated to the students how to make a simple rain-gauge
Grape breeding lecture
Presenting to College students a bottle of Argaman, a wine grape variety developed in Israel.