Nina Fedoroff
Nina Fedoroff
Nina Vsevolod Fedoroffis an American molecular biologist known for her research in life sciences and biotechnology, especially transposable elements or jumping genes. and plant stress response. In 2007, President George W. Bush awarded her the National Medal of Science, she is also a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the European Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Microbiology...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
CountryUnited States of America
thinking doctors people
We wouldn't think of going to our doctor and saying 'Treat me the way doctors treated people in the 19th Century', and yet that's what we're demanding in food production.
country opportunity engineering
India has the opportunity to be a leader in genetic engineering, It has institutions that no other country has.
fall jumping stripes
Jumping genes are fundamental because they're agents of change. Everybody knows that organisms evolve. What makes them evolve is that their genes are dynamic and in motion. A familiar example is the stripe-y corn - called Indian corn - that you buy in the fall.
add pests disease
New molecular methods that add or modify genes can protect plants from diseases and pests and improve crops in ways that are both more environmentally benign and beyond the capability of older methods.
animal yield people
As people around the world become more affluent, they are demanding diets richer in animal protein, which will require ever more robust feed crop yields to sustain.
race agriculture three
Even as the population doubled from three to six billion, we managed to race ahead with all kinds of technological and scientific events in agriculture - from using more fertilizers to mechanization to advanced plant breeding.
unexpected environment benign
Myths about the dire effects of genetically modified foods on health and the environment abound, but they have not held up to scientific scrutiny. And, although many concerns have been expressed about the potential for unexpected consequences, the unexpected effects that have been observed so far have been benign.
art details different
For me science is not different from art, except in the one small, crucial detail that experiments speak their own truths, not ours.
people climate-change planets
There are probably already too many people on the planet.
weed needs multiple
Weeds do become resistant to herbicides, and it needs to be managed with multiple herbicides.
advice ears influence
The influence of a science adviser is only as good as ears open to that science advice.
dark issues littles
We are sliding back into a dark era, and there seems little we can do about it. I am profoundly depressed at just how difficult it has become merely to get a realistic conversation started on issues such as climate change or genetically modified organisms.