{{Short description|Filipino agriculturist}} {{More citations needed|date=February 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Dioscoro L. Umali | order = 7th Dean of | office = University of the Philippines Los Baños College of Agriculture and Food Science | term_start = 1959 | term_end = 1969 | predecessor = Leopoldo B. Uichanco | successor = Faustino T. Orillo | order1 = 1st Director of the | office1 = Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture | term_start1 = 1967 | term_end1 = 1971 | predecessor1 = ''Position established'' | successor1 = Jose D. Drilon | birth_name = Dioscoro L. Umali | birth_place = Biñan, Laguna, Insular Government of the Philippine Islands | birth_date = {{birth date|1917|11|17}} | death_date = {{Death date and age|1992|07|01|1917|10|17|mf=yes}}<ref>{{cite news |title=Nat'l Scientist dies |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-pYVAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA6 |access-date=1 February 2022 |publisher=Manila Standard |date=3 July 1992 |language=en}}</ref> | death_place = Makati, Philippines | alma_mater = | spouse = Zenaida Lopez-Umali<ref name = "IRRI1"/> | occupation = Agriculturist | known_for = Plant breeding | awards = National Scientist of the Philippines }} '''Dioscoro Lopez Umali''' (November 17, 1917 – July 1, 1992) was a Filipino agriculturalist and National Scientist of the Philippines awardee, known as "the Father of Philippine Plant Breeding."<ref name="CAFSNatScientists">{{Cite web |last=cafs_web_admin |title=CAFS National Scientists of the Philippines |url=https://cafs.uplb.edu.ph/about/about-cafs/national-scientist/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030052117/https://cafs.uplb.edu.ph/about/about-cafs/national-scientist/ |archive-date=2020-10-30 |access-date=2021-11-12 |website=CAFS |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="NASTList">{{Cite web |title=List of National Scientists: Umali, Dioscoro L. |url=https://members.nast.ph/index.php/list-of-national-scientist/details/3/37 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180705195847/https://members.nast.ph/index.php/list-of-national-scientist/details/3/37 |archive-date=2018-07-05 |access-date=2021-11-12 |website=National Academy of Science and Technology}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title= Academics & Scientists: Raising Perception of Credibility |url=https://www.isaaa.org/Resources/publications/briefs/40/download/isaaa-brief-40-2009-academics_scientists.pdf}}</ref> He was awarded several international honors and distinctions for his outstanding achievements and improvements of rice, corn and other economic plants. The International Rice Research Institute named a laboratory in his honor.<ref name = "IRRI1">{{cite news |title=IRRI dedicates Umali lab |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s2YVAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA30 |access-date=1 February 2022 |publisher=Manila Standard |date=28 September 1993}}</ref>
Umali died on July 1, 1992, at the Makati Medical Center in Makati.
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