Source: Nature Biotechnology January 2010
Volume 28 No 1
doi:10.1038/nbt0110-11

Roger Beachy - pp11 - 12
by Emily Waltz

Plant scientist Roger Beachy has joined the Obama administration to lead the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), the new research funding arm of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). Beachy, whose research led to the first transgenic crop, was previously the long-time head of the not-for-profit Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis. Emily Waltz talks to Beachy about his plans for the new agency.

Interview

Website: http://www.nature.com/nbt/index.html

Published: January 29, 2010