Current Status

• Dean
  College of Agriculture
  College of Engineering
  College of Sciences & Mathematics
• Director of Agricultural Research
• Editor-in-Chief, In Vitro Plant Journal
• Professor of Plant Biotechnology
  
  

Education

• PhD - Crop Science: Plant Breeding and Genetics, Plant Physiology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
• BA - Philosophy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
  
  

Research Focus Areas:

• Agrobacterium and Biolisitics mediated gene transfer into crop plants
• Nutritional enhancement of crops
• Metabolic engineering of plant biosynthetic pathways
• Genetic engineering of crops to improve resistance to stresses