Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Roger N. Beachy, Ph.D


Picture credit National Science Foundation
Roger N. Beachy, Ph.D., WUSTL professor of biology in Arts & Sciences and president of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, and Danforth Center research scientist Shunhong Dai, Ph.D., demonstrated that transgenic rice plants that overexpress either of two rice proteins are tolerant to infection caused by the rice tungro bacilliform virus (RTVB), which is largely responsible for the symptoms associated with Rice Tungro disease. Click to read the complete article in the News from Washington University in St. Louis - Saint Louis, MO, USA