That led a plant geneticist named Dr . William L . Ackerman to take a close look at one of the survivors, a Camellia oleifera.
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He worked as a plant geneticist for the U . S . Department of Agriculture for seven years before serving in the Navy in World War II.
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Eigsti, a botanist and plant geneticist, had found that colchicine, a chemical derived from crocus, could induce a plant to double its chromosomes.
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An American plant geneticist was named Thursday as one of four winners of the Right Livelihood awards, known as the " alternative Nobels ."
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"Arabidopsis now is the reference plant for all others, " said Jeff Dangl, a plant geneticist at the University of North Carolina.
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Terri Lomax, an Oregon State University plant geneticist, said the ethics and safety of genetically modifying organisms are going to get more and more attention.
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By the 1880s these included botany professor William J . Beal, an early plant geneticist who invented a hardier strain of hybrid corn through cross-fertilization.
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Commercially, plant geneticists are sometimes employed to develop methods of making produce more nutritious, or altering plant pigments to make the food more enticing to consumers.
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"It's very, very important, " said Dr . Bernie Phinney, a plant geneticist at the University of California at Los Angeles.
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Now, though, the company follows a plan that includes a nationwide media tour to educate consumers about organic food and hires plant geneticists to increase crop performance.
