Roger N. Beachy

Roger Neil Beachy (born October 4, 1944 in Plain City , Ohio ) is an American phytopathologist .

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Roger Beachy studied biology at Goshen College and received his Ph.D. in Phytopathology from Michigan State University . From 1978 to 1991 he was a professor at Washington University . From 1991 to 1998, Beachy was Head of the Plant Biology Department at the Scripps Research Institute , where he was Professor of Cell Biology and Head of Tropical Biotechnology. In 1987 he became a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 1997, Beachy was elected to the National Academy of Sciences . He is the founding president of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, founded in 1998 . Beachy was the first director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture from October 2009 to May 2011 . He was also a senior scientist at the US Department of Agriculture from January to October 2010 .

During his time at Washington University, Beachy worked with Monsanto to develop the first genetically modified food plant , a virus-resistant tomato . The coat protein- mediated resistance method he discovered was then used by researchers around the world to produce virus-resistant plants. In 2001 he was awarded the Wolf Prize in Agriculture together with James E. Womack . The Michigan State University awarded him the same year an honorary doctorate .

Web links

• Beachy at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
• Beachy Presentation on Public Agricultural Research, March 2011, UC Davis
• Beachy Lecture on Green Genetic Engineering, Oct. 22, 2007, Oregon State University

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fellows of the AAAS: Roger Beachy. American Association for the Advancement of Science, accessed February 6, 2018 . 
2. ↑ THE 2001 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN AGRICULTURE. ( Memento from February 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ List of Honorary Doctorates from Michigan State University