George Lowe Sutton was an Australia

Australia

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n agricultural scientist and breeder of wheat.

Sutton was born in Lancashire

Lancashire

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, England

England

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. In 1882 his widowed mother took him to New South Wales

New South Wales

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 where he studied at Sydney Boys High School

Sydney Boys High School

Sydney Boys High School is an academically selective public secondary school for boys, located in the City of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, with 1,180 students, from years 7 to 12...

. After dairy-farming and working in Queensland

Queensland

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, he was appointed experimentalist at Hawkesbury Agricultural College

Hawkesbury Agricultural College

Hawkesbury Agricultural College was the first agricultural college of New South Wales, Australia. Established by Sydney Smith in Richmond, New South Wales in 1891, the college was incorporated into the University of Western Sydney in 1989....

, later becoming a lecturer. There he became a friend of William Farrer

William Farrer

William James Farrer was a leading Australian agronomist and plant breeder. Farrer is best remembered as the originator of the "Federation" strain of wheat, distributed in 1903...

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Sutton opened an experimental farm at Cowra, New South Wales

Cowra, New South Wales

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 doing wheat-breeding work for the Department of Agriculture. After Farrer died in 1906, Sutton was head of wheat-breeding in New South Wales.

In 1911, Sutton was appointed agricultural commissioner for the Western Australia

Western Australia

Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...

n wheat belt. Drought affected wheat yields in the years after Sutton's appointment, he cross-bred varieties to produce the wheat leaf rust

Wheat leaf rust

Wheat leaf rust, is fungal disease that effects wheat, barley and rye stems, leaves and grains. In temperate zones it is destructive on winter wheat because the pathogen overwinters. Infections can lead up to 20% yield loss - exacerbated by dying leaves which fertilize the fungus. The pathogen is...

-resistant, Nabawa.
From 1 July 1921 until 31 October 1937, Sutton was Director of Agriculture in Western Australia — the first to hold this role.
Sutton produced a new standard for wheat, 'W.A. Standard White' which went further than the previous 'Fair Average Quality' standard which had been in use in Australia.

In 1937, Sutton was awarded the Farrer Memorial Medal. He died in Mount Lawley

Mount Lawley, Western Australia

Mount Lawley is an inner suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Most of the suburb lies within the Local Government Area of the City of Stirling and small portions are in the City of Vincent and City of Bayswater...

 on 11 January 1964, and was buried in Karrakatta Cemetery

Karrakatta Cemetery

Karrakatta Cemetery is a metropolitan cemetery in the suburb of Karrakatta in Perth, Western Australia. Karrakatta Cemetery first opened for burials in 1899, with Robert Creighton. Currently managed by the Metropolitan Cemeteries Board, the cemetery attracts more than one million visitors each...

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In 2005 he was elected to the Royal Agricultural Society of Western Australia Hall of Fame.