Pamela Ronald
Pamela Ronald is Professor of Plant Pathology at the University of California, Davis. She who wrote a book with her organic farmer husband, Raoul Adamchak, suggesting that organic and GM farming could co-exist. The book is called Tomorrow's Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food. Ronald runs a blog called Tomorrow's Table.[1]
Ronald has her own laboratory at UC Davis, called the Ronald Laboratory. According to her biography on the UC Davis website:
- Her laboratory has genetically engineered rice for resistance to diseases and flooding, both of which are serious problems of rice crops in Asia and Africa.[2]
History
Ronald cloned the disease- and flood-resistant gene from a wild rice variety found in Mali and, according to an article in the Sacramento Bee, "encouraged the university to create a benefit-sharing fund" for the people of Mali.[3]
Affiliations
The University of California, Davis College of Biological Sciences runs a Monsanto Fellowship Program. It says, "These fellowships are made possible through an endowed student fellowship fund created by a gift from the Monsanto Corporation."[4]
Notes
- ↑ home page, Tomorrow's Table blog, accessed 23 May 2010
- ↑ Ronald Biography, Ronald Laboratory website, accessed 23 May 2010
- ↑ Tom Knudson, [Seeds of Doubt: Mali's people reap no reward from cloned wild-rice gene], Sacramento Bee, 6 Jun 2004, acc 23 May 2010
- ↑ Monsanto Fellowship Program, UC Davis College of Biological Sciences website, acc 23 May 2010
