Agriculture Archives - Page 2 of 8

Dr Angeline Achariya

Dr Angeline Achariya is an innovative leader in Australia’s agriculture and sustainable food industries.

Peggy Ozais-Akins, a professor of horticulture at UGA’s Coastal Plain Experiment Station, developed a system to make a transgenic pearl millet cell that can be quickly improved using genetic-engineering techniques and then coaxed to grow into a full, fertile plant.

Naomi Chapman Woodroof

Naomi Chapman Woodroof was the first woman student and first woman graduate of the University of Idaho College of Agriculture, and one of the first two women in the United States to hold a degree in agriculture. She was the first woman scientist at the Georgia Experiment Station and the first state-employed plant pathologist at the Coastal Plain Experiment Station (later University of Georgia Tifton campus).

Dr Nancy Millis

Professor Nancy Millis made significant contributions to agriculture, protection of the environment, science, medicine and engineering.

Harriet Williams Russell Strong

In 1883, Harriet Williams Russell Strong—a graduate of Miss Mary Atkin’s Young Ladies Seminary, mother of four, and recent widow—became the sole owner of a California ranch on the brink of financial ruin. Her will to learn saved her ranch and led to several patents. Later, her advocacy to Congress would forever change how water is managed in the western United States.

Rose Talbot

Irish chatelaine, farmer and philanthropist

Eva M Clayton

In 1992, Eva M. Clayton won election to the U.S. House of Representatives to become the first African-American woman to represent North Carolina in Congress and the state’s first Black Representative since 1901.

Dr Anna M G Koltunow

Anna Koltunow is a plant physiologist whose contributions to understanding plant reproduction by uncovering mechanisms regulating fruit and seed formation via sexual and asexual (apomictic) pathways are being used in developing countries to improve crop production.