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Peggy Ozias-Akins | |
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| Alma mater | University of |
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| Thesis | Cell proliferation and morphogenesis in tissue cultures of Triticum aestivum l. (1981) |
Peggy Ozias-Akins is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Georgia known for her work on plant breeding, especially in peanuts. She was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2009.
Ozias-Akins received a B.S. in from Florida State University in 1975. She earned her Ph.D. in botany from the University of Florida in 1981. [1]
In 1986 Ozias-Akins moved to the University of Georgia as a faculty member, and in 2017 she was named a distinguished research professor at the University of Georgia. [2]
Ozias-Akin is known for her work using molecular tools to change how crop plants such as peanuts or millet are grown. Her early research examined how wheat plants [3] and peanuts [4] reproduce using somatic embryogenesis, a process where a plant is formed from a single cell, a somatic embryo. Her early work on peanuts sought to use genetic techniques to reduce a peanut plants susceptibility to diseases. [5] She has used a species of grass, pearl millet, to examine how plant cells produce a seed that is an exact copy, [6] a process known as apomixis. [7] Ozias-Akin began research on genetically modified peanuts in 2009. [8] She sought to eliminate allergens in peanuts, but ultimately determined that was not a viable path to reducing peanut allergies. [9] [10]
Ozias-Akins was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2009. [11]
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