Guo Sandui

Guo Sandui ( Chinese 郭 三 堆 , Pinyin Guō Sānduī; * July 1950 in Zezhou County , Shanxi ) is a Chinese molecular biologist at the Biotechnology Research Institute in Beijing who grew a Bt cotton independently of Western researchers .

After graduating in 1975, he studied botulinum toxins . In 1984 he turned to Bt toxins together with Fan Yunliu . From 1986 to 1988 he went to the Pasteur Institute . After his return he worked on Bt cotton. In 1992 he first synthesized a Bt gene in China . In 1994 he finished a monovalent Bt cotton variety. Later he also developed a bivalent variety (with Cry1A / CpTI ).

In 1998, a year after Monsanto launched its Bt cotton on the Chinese market, Guo's cotton received approval. The company Biocentury Transgene was founded for commercial use .

Web links

• Website at the CAAS

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biotechnology Research Institute, CAAS ( Memento from September 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ ^{a b} Tian Zhang: GUO SANDUI: Biotechnology Promotes Human Progress and Development , ISAA Brief 50, p. 14
3. ^ Valerie J. Karplus, Xing Wang Deng: Agricultural Biotechnology in China . Springer, 2008, ISBN 978-0-387-71139-3 , pp. 70-72 .
4. ↑ Hepeng Jia: Newsmaker: Biocentury Transgene . In: Nature Biotechnology . tape 29 , no. 1 , January 2011, p. 12 , doi : 10.1038 / nbt0111-12 .

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Guo is the family name here, Sandui is the first name.