Plant Biotechnology

The scientists whose defining work is a genetic engineering, tissue culture, gene transformation, gene editing or DNA sequencing technique applied to crop plants, including the discovery of Agrobacterium-mediated gene transfer that founded plant genetic engineering, the development of transgenic and gene-edited crops such as Golden Rice, and the molecular tools and sequencing methods that underlie modern crop genome work. Distinct from Plant Breeding and Genetics, which gathers figures whose defining achievement is a bred variety produced by selection or hybridization rather than a laboratory technique, even where the two fields overlap in practice.