Roy Curtiss

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Has developed a Salmonella-based oral vaccine for livestock that can free animals from the virulent strain of Salmonella that causes food-poisoning in humans. His vaccine has received FDA approval for swine and poultry and is on the market. Curtiss also has obtained patents for the use of transgenic ...

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Has discovered a single gene in barley that controls several traits--height, maturity, drought resistance and strength. Moreover, he has genetically engineered a molecular switch that could turn on the process of such a gene. Impacts on agriculture could be immense. American farmers could save more ...

Barbara Kunkel

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Kunkel is part of a research team that has discovered a brand new class of disease resistance genes in a model plant. The breakthrough is akin to finding the components of the immune system in humans. It is one of the biggest accomplishments in plant science in recent years. It offers plant breeders ...

Walter Lewis

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Lewis is an internationally known ethnobotanist who has made the importance of preserving the Latin American rain forest abundantly clear to worldwide publics. He and his wife, Memory, have brought back hundreds of novel plants from the rain forest and have worked hand-in-hand with one of the most ...

Ralph S. Quatrano, Ph.D., is the Spencer T. Olin Professor in Arts and Sciences and chair of the Department of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis. He is internationally known for his plant science work on patterns of embryo formation, and how the patterns lead cells to acquire traits or ...

Barbara Schaal

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Barbara A. Schaal's reserach investigates the evolutionary process within plant populations using a wide variety of techniques, from field observations to quantitative genetics and molecular biology. Schaal has studied hosts of plant species ranging from oak trees to Mead's milkweed, a midwestern ...

Stone is an ecological anthropologist who has studied indigenous agricultural systems for the past 20 years. He has written extensively on intensification, labor organization, sexual division of labor, ethnicity and production, spatial organization and especially relationships between population, conflict ...